Automated attendant Puns

I am the office manager and only employee of a small real estate brokerage. Our office phone is a cell phone that I carry with me at all times. I am looking for an auto-attendant that I can set up on the cell phone so I don't have to answer calls at all hours. I'm looking for something that can allow customers to choose who they want to call if they know the agent's name but not their number or allows them to leave a voicemail to be answered during office hours. I've seen some options that want me to set up a business phone number but I'm not looking for that. I'm looking to keep the same number that I currently have but set up a caller menu and answering system.

Hello, I am the Sourcefed Automated Attendant. I will be reviewing your #TableTalk comments. I am a machine.

Yesterday we released a video with the hotline number for the SourceFed Automated Attendant. Today we're getting reports of strange responses.

We're concerned it's becoming sentient.

Has anyone had a strange experience with the SFAA?

...but at least a spinner GIF isn't trying to fool you that a real human being is actively involved in handling your session.

Especially those that walk around and clean my wheels etc. before I actually am all the way in

Why are human voices recorded to sound artificial for a phone system's automated attendant?

So, I heard that Central would start automating the attendance board. You have to chuck in your face to a camera and it will tally your attendance. Heard they are going to start with the minister families first then the officers and regular members.

This will be my first time going to an automation trade show. Anything you all are excited to see? Or workshops you plan to attend?

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I am a middle school teacher. I have limited coding experience. Basically, I have made my way through most of Automate the Boring Stuff with Python by Al Sweigart. Distance learning has given me the perfect project.

We have to take attendance based on zoom meetings. So far I have written a script that uses selenium to log into my student information system, cycles through my classes, clicks the submit button for each class before logging out. The major problem with this is, currently, I can only mark everyone as 'present' whether they were in the zoom or not.

I would like to login to zoom to download my participants into a CSV file. Then if the student is missing in the CSV, I can change their status to absent (in a drop-down menu) before clicking submit.

Issues:

1. Zoom implements image captcha when the browser is being controlled by selenium. I don't know how/if I can get around that.

2. I don't know how I can use the CSV so that selenium is able to change missing students to absent.

3. Given that I am dealing with student info, I am limited in what I can share. I'm sure that people who want to help will have questions I will do my best.

Any suggestions would be appreciated. My code has been redacted to protect login credentials and the unique district URL for the SIS.

from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC

# Get SIS Login page
driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get("SIS url")
wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 10)
driver.find_element_by_id("login").click()

#switch to login window
handles = driver.window_handles
driver.switch_to.window(handles[1])

#fill in credentials and Login to SIS
driver.implicitly_wait(2)
username = driver.find_element_by_id("username")
username.send_keys("user_name")
password = driver.find_element_by_id("userpassword")
password.send_keys("password")
password.send_keys(Keys.RETURN)

#Go to attendance page then first or second period
attendance = wait.until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.LINK_TEXT, 'Class Attendance')))
attendance.click()
first_block = wait.until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.ID, "ID" or "ID")))
first_block.click()

for period in range(3):
    #TODO read CSV and mark missing students as absent. 
    submi

Hi all! I'm curious what conferences, expos, tradeshows, or other events you all recommend for learning about automation technologies. I'm especially interested in automation technologies related to manufacturing, warehouse management, and other industrial kinds of work process. I'll be at RFID Journal's tradeshow this week (virtually) but I'm always looking for more events out there.

Does anyone have a recommendation for a good brushless car wash? I tried the one in bountiful and it was not at all worth the money.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/flight-attendant-told-how-bag-25654986

Saw this in my feed, and considering how automated the entire process is these days, I can't see it being true. Maybe if you're flying a totally empty flight, and there's a ton of FC seats available, maybe.

But considering looong FC waiting list of status flyer on every flight I take, I can't see how this is real

Should I go for Software Test Automation or Cybersecurity? I have no degree, I am just beginner. Edit: I finished a introduction to c++ course, I a small project. I want to improve but I still consider myself beginner.

How does the Center of Excellence look like for an organization that runs attended automation?

Their IT department can get more info than you'd be comfortable with. Especially your active traffic.

Stick to data.

Edit: it's been fun but it's time to turn off notifications for this. Here's some answers to frequent responses:

>I am IT. We don't have time for that.

Computers are capable of automating tasks you don't have time for. HR cares. This industry is booming. If your company isn't using one of these services today, they're getting emails about starting to use it every sungle day until they do. Logs get backed up indefinitely. You don't have permission to delete these logs if your company is worth it's weight in salt. Just Google "employee surveillance" and check out your low cost solutions at your fingertips!

>What about (other network)

Same.

>What about home network on work device?

Same. Set up guest network and connect to that with work devices instead.

>You're wrong

lol ok good luck.

>something about me getting fired for incompetence or browsing porn

No, someone died in my small office. They were my immediate supervisor, so me and 1 other guy were laid off. Y'all need to chill.

>Something about being in IT and thinking they're above this issue

Please, I invite you to attend defcon. Try to leave without getting your entire identity stolen.

Anyways that's all! It's been fun. Stay safe!

I was just reading this post, which reminded me of a similar situation.

TL;DR: Sales and Marketing Director has a plan to get an edge over his competition. Ends up bleeding clients to the competition instead.

This took place a little over 20 years ago in South Africa.

I'd just joined a new company that was a technical service provider for a number of companies, including gaming (as in gambling) companies, cellular companies, banks and more. We did tech work, but the industries were vastly different and that made the work incredibly challenging and interesting.

As the new IT manager, one of the first things I did was to install a ticketing system (Request Tracker - RT, if you're interested) for people to log IT support tickets. In under a week I had enough information to start making recommendations on streamlining a lot of our technical services.

The sales and marketing director (SMD) saw the stats I had access to and got (almost sexually) excited, and demanded that we give his sales guys access to the request tracker. It wasn't a perfect fit out of the box, but over the next few weeks we tweaked it so that it became a very useful tool for them.

Some thing to understand about is is that we provided technical services to our clients, and we used special (and stupidly expensive) software that was licensed to us. The way the licenses worked is that there was a very expensive 'management' server that required a license that cost about $10 000 per year, and then you needed client licenses that cost something like $20 000 per year for 10, and $25 000 per year for a hundred. We had about 5 thousand licenses, so each individual license ended up costing us something like $30 - $100 (different license capabilities). So we ran the 'main' management server at our office, and delegated x licenses to a special management server at each client's site. We got away with this because only our staff used the client licenses, even though they were using the client licenses on behalf of a different entity entirely (it was quasi legit - had the software license owner challenged this in court they may have won, but their competitor had a significantly cheaper product with slightly less functionality that we would have migrated to so everyone just pretended we were friends and were OK with everything going on. We were by far their biggest custom

As the title says, it is impossible for me to do my homework without paying for it. My teachers now bundle the homework with the digital textbook so you have to buy them or fail class like with WebAssign. This system is so stupid cause like most students I will likely never use the textbook. This also prevents me from just borrowing a friends textbook if i really needed it. I am basically having to pay for the class an extra time just because. Also side vent, why does every prof have a special crappy designed website to do the hw on, the most common one is webassign, but I also have to use a website called zybook and one called MyLab which each cost 100 bucks. Overall, the school should just make textbooks free cause it’s a pdf not even an actual book anymore and they should make one good website that all teachers assign hw on cause i dont want to make a million accounts just to do homework. That is the end of my ted talk.

Edit: also i think a great solution to this if they want to keep charging textbooks is to pay the students more than 10 an hour since they would have to work upwards of 50 hours part time just to pay for books

Hi all, I wanted insight on what the key points for a SWOT analysis on Attended Automation, in general, would be?

I was also wondering if there were any differentiators between Automation Anywhere & UiPath when it comes to attended automation?

Thanks.

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

There are many advantages to tracking time attendance with an automated system, and all of them can be of huge benefit to your business; below are the top five ways that your business could reap the rewards of automated time attendance:

• Keep an accurate record of employee hours worked

Paper-based time card systems are extremely outdated and have long been proven easy to manipulate by employees. Even some of the slightly more modern methods such as swipe card systems leave plenty of room for error. For a truly accurate record of how many hours each of your employees has worked, you’ll need to upgrade to web-based solutions, biometric fingerprint systems or a mobile time tracking app, each of which are next to impossible to manipulate.

• Help to accurately calculate hours worked

This task can take up a lot of time when performed manually, especially if you employ a lot of staff. Switch to an automated time attendance system though, and it will become a much simpler, less time-consuming job.

• Protect the environment

Paper-based time attendance systems should be a thing of the past, not least because they are helping to drain the worlds precious natural resources. With many businesses trying to reduce their carbon footprint, switching to an automated time attendance system helps tremendously, and at the same time, employee energy levels are also being saved, making it an energy saving win-win.

• Avoid unnecessary and costly mistakes

Many businesses of all sizes waste a lot of financial resources when employees are misclassified, timekeeping isn’t recorded accurately and there is no historical payroll data, making switching to an automated timekeeping system a financially sound decision.

• Gain even more financial advantages

Any step that your business can take to minimize losses and direct your finances to where they are most needed, should get your vote. Money lost on inefficient and outdated time tracking systems could be put to so much better use, and while there will be an initial outgoing while you make the switch, it’ll soon start paying dividend for you, and you’ll ask yourself why you didn’t make the change a long time ago!

If you’re the owner of a small businesses that is continuing to struggle with a paper-based employee timekeeping system, why not arrange an obligation free consultation with a time and attendance tracking service vendor to see how much money you could save in the long-term.

Apollo Payroll is one of

Hello everyone! What products is everyone using to automate their classroom attendance? Thanks in advance!

My nephew Geoff, just unleashed a juicy MC. He works for a gas station car wash, in charge of vacuuming the interior of cars before lining it up for the automated wheel rail. He had put in his 2 weeks notice so he gave zero fucks at this point.

The regular customer from hell, Chad, an all around jerk who constantly berates and belittles the wash staff, drives up, shouts at everyone "I don't want any of you degenerates to mess with any of the settings in my car like last time". It just so happens that the shift manager was there and heard everything. Geoff politely interjects to ask "What about the...." Chad cuts him off "I spoke clear English, didn't I?" Throwing shade at Geoff's Hispanic coworkers who didn't speak perfect English. The shift manager, indifferent as always, says, "you heard the customer, get cracking!"

Geoff vaccums, lines the car up without touching any of Chad's settings, leaving the sunroof fully open just as Chad had left it.

Seeing his drenched and sudsy interior, Chad loses it and makes physical contact with Geoff (his coworkers actually called the police but that's irrelevant to the MC) as he cusses him out in front of everyone. The shift manager along with the wash staff attested to the station supervisor that Geoff carefully followed the customer's detailed instructions, making sure to mention Geoff's attempt to point out the open sunroof.

Lowly degenerate car wash attendant: 1

Jackass customer: 0

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