I'm a little bit curious why the operator wanted his contact info, and repeatedly asked for it, knowing full well that it was a ridiculous call. It makes me wonder if taxpayer dollars would have actually been spent investigating him.
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#32While a funny premise, it comes off a bit like someone yelling at a customer service rep at a retail store. They didn't make the rules; they're just underpaid to smile and take it.
If you're working as a company representative, either in retail or customer service or answering the NSA hotline, then listening to questions and complaints is exactly what you were hired to do. If you take those complaints personal then you should find another line of work.
There's a difference between calling a hotline and lodging a complaint, and generally being a dick for giggles.
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#33Dumpert is one hell of a crazy online community. One more reason to learn Dutch :)
It is mostly a bunch of reposts with a green crown watermark slapped on it. Also, the -not so sophisticated- discussions going on underneath each video... I wouldn't exactly call that a reason to learn Dutch =]
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#34I'm a little bit curious why the operator wanted his contact info, and repeatedly asked for it, knowing full well that it was a ridiculous call. It makes me wonder if taxpayer dollars would have actually been spent investigating him.
I wondered the same thing - my conclusion is that it's an intimidation tactic.
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#35Not sure if we should be joking about what could easily be (or become) the thing that ends democracy.
Even in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe there was democracy. There were election held, with very little fraud. I remember my father taking me to the voting booths when I was a kid - there were only red and orange ballots inside (the orange were the Communist party subsidiaries the Farmers Party). Communists won 80% of the votes the farmers 20. We had elections, we had democracy, we could vote. We lacked freedom and choice.
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
I doubt anyone working at the NSA is underpaid...if not overpaid.
You are joking, right? Government jobs seriously underpay. On the NSA careers website looks like "Computer Scientists" make between $42,209 to $97,333. I'm sure most of the pay is in the lower range. http://www.nsa.gov/careers/opportunities_4_u/professionals/i...
You're missing the biggest point of having a government job. It's all the benefits, deductions and discounts you can have.
Re: Calling the NSA: "I accidentally deleted an e-mail, can you help me recover it?"
#37When one of my friends in college landed a math-related internship with the NSA years ago, I was very impressed and proud of her. If a friend were to land a similar job or internship now, my gut reaction would be vert different. As illustrated by this video, the agency's prestige among the public seems to have degraded considerably. I wonder how this has affected its ability to recruit bright young people.
You are obviously saying that because you are pissed. And deep down inside you are hoping that they won't be able to recruit bright young people. But the truth is, economy is a bitch, unemployment rate is high, if they actually pays well, I'm pretty sure bright people will still join them, whether they are young or old.
Young people who earn jobs or internships with the NSA are generally in the tops of their classes. While they aren't immune to the recession, they have more prospects than the average grad, and employers sometimes compete for them.
I couldn't find any publicly available data about NSA recruitment, but there are some interesting anecdotes to show that the NSA is having a harder time recruiting top-notch students:
http://reason.com/blog/2013/07/09/nsa-recruiters-peppered-wi...
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130704/12162223721/nsa-re...
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#38Re: Calling the NSA: "I accidentally deleted an e-mail, can you help me recover it?"
#39It would be very worrying if someone on a random phone call managed to recover any information on public email from the NSA. At least now we know that the NSA seems to be safe against very poorly executed social engineering.
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#40Does the NSA have a fax number? I have a flatbed fax-machine that's easy to sit on and a couple of things I want to fax them...
Just fax them to a random number, NSA will get them :D