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fifilura | on: HP trialed mandatory 15-minute support call wait times (2025)
> made someone look bad

That, or that it DoS-ed the database.

MBCook | parent
And making each click trigger a 20 second DB query doesn’t?

How much you want to bet that’s why it was 20 seconds?

fifilura | root | parent
If you prefetch all those options in the background, I bet the DB would be unhappy.