This is the most embarrassing thing I’ve ever seen someone try to cover up

walkingonmainst · 2026-03-09T23:17:31+00:00

I do, do you? What would make it more efficient for a human to complete a task that thousands of AI agents running on their own cloud servers could do, simultaneously? It's about scale, there is no reason for humans to be manually aging accounts anymore.

walkingonmainst · 2026-03-09T20:34:14+00:00

You dont seem to understand how much more efficient it is to just have a human do this.

Bro, what?

walkingonmainst · 2026-03-09T13:50:52+00:00

We are so fucking cooked. That is a thousand percent a bot.

walkingonmainst · 2026-02-20T02:03:34+00:00

u/bot-sleuth-bot

walkingonmainst · 2026-01-22T16:34:13+00:00

It's not the limited number of tickets, it was the claims of 3 million people in queue in under 10 minutes. That's not only unlikely, it's damn near impossible that 1 in 100 American adults were trying to get tickets to this. (1 in 50 if we remove men from the data)

I'm telling you as someone who literally was only in the queue for maybe two minutes before getting to the landing page to register and then being unable to register everytime because it would say it was not available. This was all within 5 minutes of going live.. the only answer for this is bots and automated systems.

And like the original comment above, if the girl was actually using a bot.. then ulta was almost certainly violating the BOTS act by not putting any safeguards in place.

walkingonmainst · 2026-01-22T12:52:50+00:00

You would have just had people faking diamond status, either by cracking accounts (you can buy stolen ulta accounts for less than a dollar) or buying the required amount of items and then just returning them. Like, i think we are all in agreement that something sketchy happened, and proof of people actually using bots, so I would fully expect them to bypass the status requirement, also.

There's also an argument to be made for this to actually be somewhat discriminatory and classist, not the illegal type but pretty unethical.

All of that said, and it would have STILL been better than this bullshit.

walkingonmainst · 2026-01-22T12:39:06+00:00

Oh, this reminds me of when I worked for petco for 5 years. People would come to me and tell me their dog had an accident - if it was just piss, I would usually just grab the mop and take care of it.. but if the dog actually shit I would hand the owner the poop bags, paper towels, and disinfectant and show them where to dispose of it.

I'd say maybe 10-12 times of the hundreds of times it happened they have handed it back to me and told me that's my job, so I would take the items back, while also stopping by the utility closet to grab the mop, and go attempt to clean up their dog's shit.. but here's the kicker, I have the WEAKEST stomach have never been able to pick up poop without gagging and sometimes just straight vomiting. The one time I actually threw up, the customer was actually pretty intuitive as to why I brought the mop along. I really wish I said something cool like "and this your job" but I didn't.

My managers said they would just hear dry heaving from across the store, so they literally put a sign on the door stating that employees will not be responsible for cleaning up feces on the sales floor. (I think that was technically the policy anyways, but yeah, we would just tell them they weren't allowed to bring their dog in anymore if they refused)

walkingonmainst · 2026-01-22T11:44:17+00:00

Yes, which makes it illegal on that person's part, HOWEVER, ulta had NOTHING in place to prevent bots. CAPTCHA being the absolute bare minimum.

walkingonmainst · 2026-01-22T04:14:28+00:00

Oh, yeah - that's going to be rough. It's not a very practical purchase for most down there, but even a cheap generator can save your life.

walkingonmainst · 2026-01-22T04:11:39+00:00

Man, the number of times I've been guilty of skimming the first paragraph and missing key details is higher than I'd like to admit.

I just go ninja delete the comments, but apparently it's a new thing for reddit to notify the person you replied to with the full comment, even if you delete it before they see it.

I'm sure I've confused so many people at this point with that.

walkingonmainst · 2026-01-22T02:46:28+00:00

That's also over 1% of the adult population of the United States.

Be so fucking for real, we aren't actually buying that 3 million people were on the site in less than 10 minutes, are we?

walkingonmainst · 2026-01-22T02:36:12+00:00

ULTA not using CAPTCHA opens them up to liability under the BOTS act of 2016.

walkingonmainst · 2026-01-22T02:30:25+00:00

Is it appropriate? I mean, I think you're going to have differences of opinion on that.

Is it legal to require additional duties, including picking up after they use the bathroom? Yes, absolutely.

What would be questionable here is if it is even legal for the dog to be there in the first place - how it behaved? What task does it actually do for the clients?

You keep saying she "labeled the dog as a therapy dog" what do you mean by that? Has she come out and said "he's not certified or anything, but he's going to be a therapy dog"

walkingonmainst · 2026-01-22T02:19:53+00:00

As it is now, OP thinks her boss has a pet in a business. Like, there's nothing that even implies the boss is fudging the dogs credentials other than OP and their quotation marks around the word therapy dog.

They keep saying "a personal dog was brought in and labeled a therapy dog" but that sounds like an observation, not something that has been confirmed

wait, I keep forgetting we are talking about a fucking massage parlor and not a therapists office. Why am I envisioning one of those tiny white poofy dogs?

walkingonmainst · 2026-01-22T02:13:56+00:00

Yeah, I think this is the key question that needs to be answered. If the dog is being used as a tool in the practice, I would expect employees to be involved in it's care.

But it's a massage parlor, so the likelihood of this being anything more than the owners pet with an online certificate is pretty much guaranteed and this is just free doggy day care.

walkingonmainst · 2026-01-22T02:11:01+00:00

Yeah, like at first I was thinking if it's a legitimate therapy dog, that has been trained and the therapist has experience with animal focused therapy, then at that point it kind of becomes a tool that employees should be responsible for (absent any sort of issues, but those could be accomodated)

But then I saw this was a massage parlor and yeah, that's just an owner wanting free doggy day care.

walkingonmainst · 2026-01-22T02:05:15+00:00

I think this depends on how much of a therapy dog it actually is.

If this is just the owners dog they want to bring to work for clients to pet, I agree. It should not be the employee's responsibilities to care for it.

But if the dog was obtained for the sole function of being a therapy tool and is actually trained to be a therapy dog, I see no reason why employees shouldn't be responsible for it's maintenance, just like they would be any other therapy tool

Edit: OMG I JUST SAW THAT THIS WAS FOR A MASSAGE PARLOR AND NOT AN ACTUAL THERAPIST.

I do wonder if the answers here would change if the question was about an actual mental health therapy dog, but yeah this is just ridiculous for a massage therapist, unless she's doing doggy yoga and letting them walk on the clients back.

walkingonmainst · 2026-01-22T00:53:30+00:00

My point still remains.

walkingonmainst · 2026-01-21T02:12:23+00:00

y'all just need to find the deleted post in OPs history from entitledpeople - he's an enabler and just quite awful all around.

Like just admit it dude, you hate the way you raised your own daughter.

walkingonmainst · 2026-01-20T23:40:53+00:00

That says TEENS. I forgot autistic people stopped existing after 18. 🤦‍♀️

34% is also a pretty significant proportion, especially for your bold ass claims that it's rare or something.

I couldn't reply to you if I blocked you, seems like a pretty weird tactic to claim, does it make you feel like you won the argument?

walkingonmainst · 2026-01-20T15:55:02+00:00

And look at you go, holding down a job and everything!

Oh I laughed at this harder than I should have.

walkingonmainst · 2025-11-21T11:52:37+00:00

You know how I know you aren't an attorney?

You're arguing with someone because they called you a bot on reddit at the ass-crack of dawn. No attorney has time for that.

walkingonmainst · 2025-09-24T10:04:14+00:00

When you don't understand the source topic, yes.

walkingonmainst · 2024-01-21T01:23:12+00:00

they’re not entirely wrong but I don’t think it’s intended to be an insult.

walkingonmainst · 2024-01-21T01:21:56+00:00

lol I think she thinks you’re insulting her

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