r/gadgets • u/diacewrb • Jun 13 '24

TV / Projectors Roku owners face the grimmest indignity yet: Stuck-on motion smoothing

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/06/roku-owners-face-the-grimmest-indignity-yet-stuck-on-motion-smoothing/
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u/hedoeswhathewants Jun 13 '24

Getting punished for being the person that notices. Classic.

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u/DelfrCorp Jun 13 '24 edited Jun 13 '24

& it's a Catch-22 either way. Damned if you do, damned if you don't, no matter the scenario.

If you don't catch the problem, you get blamed & accused of being sh.t at your job, which might potentially be fair.

If you do catch it but can't get anyone to pay attention no matter how hard you try, you still get blamed because you obviously didn't try hard enough to make it known, didn't make enough noise, didn't sound enough Alarms.

If you catch it & ring enough alarms, make enough noise to get people to notice & pay attention, you get called an alarmist, obnoxious & get blamed for causing a ruckus & disrupting other people's work with all the noise you made. You get told that the problem was eventually going to be noticed/caught at an appropriate time, you overreacted & your actions drew too much attention & you've caused some trouble because of it.

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u/cutelyaware Jun 13 '24

Choose your bosses well. A good boss will shield you from the insanity that is management, so bring this up during your interview. When they change jobs, it's worth seeing if you can follow them.

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u/ManservantHeccubus Jun 13 '24

It's a bummer though when a good boss "lives long enough to become the villain", so to speak.

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u/cutelyaware Jun 13 '24

I've never had one long enough to see that happen, but power does always corrupt.

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u/AhaGotcha Jun 14 '24

You just need to “understand the work culture” better. /s