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Mar. 31st, 2020 02:48 pm
branchandroot: Hatsuharu looking pissed (Haru black)
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You know, I can kind of understand the sudden flood of invitations to virtual events from retail outlets. It's a little slimy, because impulse buying is probably at an all-time and alarming high right now, but it's also true that retail is losing /normal/ sales and traffic right now. And they don't know that I'm hella busy. I mean, a lot of people aren't! So I don't mind them as much.

But the ed-tech companies who are circling in like vultures who see a tasty corpse, filling my inbox with breathless "opportunities"... them I'm keeping a shit list of. Those are the companies that I will cold-shoulder so very hard, when we're done with this, because I DO NOT HAVE TIME FOR THIS SHIT RIGHT NOW, FUCK OFF, I'M TRYING TO EXPLAIN TO 4000 INSTRUCTORS THAT CANVAS WILL GRADE QUIZ QUESTIONS AUTOMATICALLY, DIE IN A FIRE MEDIASITE. They know exactly how busy instructional design and ed-tech support is right now. They are on the Fiber 500 Platinum shit list.

Date: 2020-03-31 08:15 pm (UTC)
ephemera: celtic knotwork style sitting fox (Default)
From: [personal profile] ephemera
Also - these people presumably work with large educational organisations, like, for a living - we don't just drop for a new product sight-unseen to roll out in two days. That's now how this works, even now - now is an exercise in "make it work with what you have" a(nd maybe don't get yourself on everyone's blacklist for spamming them for later?)

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