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“What’s Something Obvious Within Your Profession That The General Public Is Unaware Of?” (40 Answers)
There are tons of misunderstandings about what professionals actually do at their jobs. For one, a lot of people have a lot of these wildly incorrect assumptions due to the media they consume. But when you take a peek behind the curtain, you realize that the reality of any position can be incredibly different from what you think you know.
Some seasoned job veterans shared the (not so) obvious truth about their work in an interesting discussion on AskReddit. In it, they opened up about the most common things that the general public gets wrong about their professions. We’ve collected their most intriguing insights to share with you. Keep scrolling to check them out.
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#1
When you're food shopping and you change your mind about a chilled/frozen product, but you put it back into an *ambient* product shelf, it will go straight into the waste when a member of staff finds it. Please don't do that.
We can't leave chilled foods out of the chillers for longer than 20 minutes due to food safety laws(in the UK, ymmv), and we have no idea how long that steak or chicken has been sitting with those cans of soup, so it gets binned.
F**k food waste. Ask a member of staff to put it back for you.
Barong 8 months ago
This is infuriating. How could someone justify this behavior as ok. Leaving frozen food out is destructive and rude. Creating a mess and destroying food because they are too lazy to put it away is incomprehensible to me.
Offbeat Quinoa 8 months ago
100%. I worked at a grocery store in my teens and it was shocking the amount of food we had to throw away. Just because someone got to the canned food aisle and decided to leave their roast on the shelf - even if it still feels cold to the touch, it’s instantly thrown in the bin. It should be considered theft.
Load More Replies... ABC NrTen FCK CENSORISM 8 months ago (edited)
"F**k food waste. Ask a member of staff to put it back for you." - or just DO SO YOURSELF. You know exactly where it came from, and those 30 steps won't kíll (for fúck's sake BP, cut me some slack with your stupid censorism) you.
Lee Gilliland 8 months ago
I've lost track of the times I've found good raw meat left on shelves leaking juices into stuff on the shelf. Something DIE*D to give you that meat, have a little respect. Take it to the danm cashier, you won't have a single step more than if you hadn't.
Alex Schneider 8 months ago
something died for this food..and enough people die without food..should be common sense to have this respect..
Load More Replies... Alex Schneider 8 months ago
I would put a fine for this behaviour and tell people there will be cameras and watchmen to find out.. Won't stop all but maybe a few
MalayDragon 8 months ago
Add to that the Staff won't immediately notice something that has been left out and/or don't care enough to bother doing anything about it. Example: I was at the grocery store the other day, when I was at the checkout I noticed someone had put a 2L bottle of milk in where the paper shopping bags are instead of taking it back. There were TWO staff members manning the self checkout, I had to tell both of them that it was there because the first guy I told just smiled, nodded, then did absolutely nothing about it.
Rick Seiden 8 months ago
I can't tell you how many times I say, "People suck!" at Walmart when I find a frozen dinner in the electronics section.
Fabulous chocolate cookie 8 months ago
As a supermarket employee Ive seen this almost every shift. cooled/frozen products laying in a shelf. Or even snacks like a croissant or borek being dumped in the freezer.
Definitely a Human 8 months ago
But if I ask a staff member to put it back, how do you know it wasn't in my trolley for more than 20 minutes?
Lyone Fein 8 months ago
YOU should put it back as soon as you change your mind.
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#2
You may not remember me, but I hold your hand while you are being intubated before surgery. You are not alone. OR RN.
Offbeat Quinoa 8 months ago
I had a painful surgery at a women’s hospital where I could only be put “half out” - meaning I was mostly unconscious, eyes closed and 75% asleep, but still had a vague sense of what was happening around me. At one point it started to REALLY hurt and I guess I tensed up or something. Suddenly both my hands were being held and rubbed, someone else was rubbing my shoulders and saying “it’s okay sweetie”, and someone else said something about giving me more anesthetic. It made me feel really safe :) nurses are amazing.
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Justme 8 months ago
To the OR RN who held my hand as I got the epidural for my emergency c-section- I remember you. I was in shock, my husband didn’t make it to the hospital in time to be with me, the day was a blur, and soon turned into a nightmare, but I remember you and your calming presence. Thank you.
JK 8 months ago
A few years ago I was in the ER, after the boss sent out my emergency contact. It was sever electrolyte imbalance from cyclical vomiting for days. Couldn't keep water down, no clear cause. Anyway, the ER nurse checked back in on me a couple days later and told me she was really scared that I wouldn't make it. I was green and barely had a pulse, about 36 hours unconscious in the ICU and three IVs. Lots of lactated ringer bags. It really was so sweet of her to check back in on me. Yeah, I learned a lot from her and profusely thanked her during tears. Hospital staff, especially nurses, are so underappreciated.
Uncle Panda 8 months ago
The last thing I saw before I conked out for a colonoscopy was a woman wearing a neck to toe vinyl gown, muck boots, heavy gloves, a disposable hat, and a face shield. My two last thoughts were "RememberThisRememberThisRememberThis!" and "I hope she gets paid extra."
Huddo's sister 8 months ago
I wish the RN after my wisdom teeth surgery before the intubation was removed had done that or been reassuring at all when I woke up because just saying 'stop gagging' didn't help and caused anxiety before subsequent surgeries. I am so thankful for the nurse that saw me looking nervous before my eye surgery and asked why, called my mum back in to wait with me, and suggested I get mild sedation instead of general anaesthetic.
whiterabbit 8 months ago
A lot of the gagging is caused by the gauze moving around in your mouth, which is why we tell you to stay closed so the gauze stays in the proper place instead of traveling to your airway and making you gag. So when a patient is repeatedly told to stay closed but refuses and continuously moves their gauze around making them gag it becomes irritating. A lot of issues can be solved if people just listen, and that goes for people on both sides of the situation.
Load More Replies... Anony Mouse 8 months ago
Are you part of the crowd that laughed at me when I said I didn’t want a chest tube because I knew it would hurt because I’d seen it on TV? Oh how they all laughed. And it hurt so much. A$$holes.
Jenny 7 months ago
They hurt like hell! I get spontaneous pneumothoraces, so I have had a few inserted. The part where they stick their finger in the incision and tear open the pleura makes me pass out. Having the tube in place is also painful because every time you move, the tube moves about in your chest cavity.
Load More Replies... Samantha H 7 months ago
That is heartening to read. I had a brain surgery and the Anaesthetist only said three words 'give me a second' I still remember feeling terrified and no one reassured me, none of the Surgeons came out to talk to me. A few kind words can make a huge difference.
#3
Librarian aka information professional here.
The scholarly publishing industry is a massively profitable industry (check out Elsevier’s profit margins).
They are holding academic research hostage with paywalls.
We are trying to push for a sustainable model of open access publishing where everyone can access the information they need.
Information is important and shouldn’t be hid behind paywalls especially when these companies are not the ones securing the grant money, doing the research and writing the d**n paper.
Michelle C 8 months ago
The academic community will often tell you to contact professors and other researchers directly. You’re more likely to get their papers for free or at a lower price than you would on other sites, I’ve heard.
PunnyPanda 8 months ago
In grad school, I would just email the author directly if I could find the address, which is usually easy because they're in a university directory. 9/10 times they were overjoyed to share their work with me directly, often providing original research, sources or media otherwise unavailable, without even asking.
JK 8 months ago
Also good for getting drafts that have been accepted for publication but haven't been printed in a journal. Nobody in the US, AU, UK or Canada said no.
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Offbeat Quinoa 8 months ago
And universities who do the actual studies and publish the research papers
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Rick Seiden 8 months ago
If you want a free copy of a paper you know exists, email the lead author. Most likely they'll be happy to send you a free PDF copy of it.
The truth is that the media and entertainment you consume can have a major impact on how you perceive the world.
Pop culture—movies, shows, books, music, etc.—shapes how you see certain things. For instance, if you watch a lot of medical or crime investigation TV shows, you might make assumptions about the jobs of doctors, police officers, and other experts without even realizing it.
Even the shows that get most of the technical details right have to take some liberties to make the narrative more dramatic and engaging.
#4
IT professional here. As dumb as it sounds and as much as everyone hates hearing it, "turn it off and turn it back on again" works roughly 65% of the time. MOST computer problems (including phones!) are caused by a temporary glitch or memory error. Restarting eliminates most common problems. Seriously, before you panic that something is broken, always try this first. 😁.
Susie Elle 8 months ago
Whenever my laptop starts to behave strangely, it's usually because there's an update waiting to be installed with the next startup
marcelo D. 8 months ago
that sounds like you have the windows 7 / 10 100% disk problem, which is a very common windows bug
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BeesEelsAndPups 8 months ago
This is true for all computers. Internet slow? Yep your modem is a computer. Unplug it, wait thirty seconds and plug it back in
Lowrider 56 8 months ago
I know that with my phone, if something is wonky, I can shut it off and restart it. It's solved 100% of issues I've had with it.
Hippopotamuses 8 months ago
A retailer told me a few years ago that it is a good idea to restart your phone once a month. It cleans the cache and temporary files out.
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Geoffrey Scott 8 months ago
Did that with my phone the other day. Usually 'wakes up' if I pick it up, it didn't, restarted, works fine.
Jake Bertz 4 months ago
That percentage seems criminally low. I'd say closer to 95% of the time if I'm being conservative.
#5
Diamonds are a complete, idiotic f*****g waste of money. They're not rare, valuable, or traditional. Diamonds being associated with marriage comes from a 30's ad campaign
That 2000 dollar rock you bought could have started your kids college fund, could have done literally any good in this world.
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 8 months ago
There are shinier gems in the world now.
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quentariel 8 months ago
The more absurd is who people nowadays rate the rings by their price alone. Some people deem a ring under certain price almost like insult to them, no matter how beautiful the design is or how skilled the craftmanship is.
winterwidow87 8 months ago
They'd hate my fiancée and i who spent roughly 100 euros for both our engagement rings. We spent a bit more on our wedding rings but not too much. They are just symbols of commitment to us, they don't need to cost a fortune.
Load More Replies... Gg 8 months ago
So don't buy one and leave other people alone. Most things people buy are a "waste of money" to someone.
Roxy222uk 8 months ago
If people like what they look like (and ethics isn't a worry) why shouldn't they buy them?
Lady Eowyn 8 months ago
Lab grown diamonds look the same, and are cheaper and more ethical.
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Corvus 8 months ago
A diamond is literally a lump of carbon. If it wasn't for its hardness (useful for cutting tools), it would have been quite worthless.
Francois 8 months ago
Everything can be reduced to that level. Humans are also mostly a lump of carbon with some hydrogen and oxygen mixed in it.
Load More Replies... Lee Gilliland 8 months ago
Not to mention people - especially kids - are killed or mutilated for the danm thing.
Michelle C 8 months ago
I’ve known a lot of people who go for silicone rings for daily wear simply because they are more comfortable then harder bands would be.
Alyce 8 months ago
Also safer in a lot of jobs, they'll just tear instead of removing your finger. And you can get a 6pk for about $8 so you don't care if it's lost or destroyed.
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Lowrider 56 8 months ago
Iirc, there is just a couple of diamond suppliers, less than 5, who control 100% of the diamond trade. Diamonds are the biggest ripoff there .
#6
UTIs in seniors cause dementia like symptoms.
Huddo's sister 8 months ago
My mum had to fight the doctors a few times to get a test done because they thought my grandad just had dementia.
Roxy222uk 8 months ago
There are **so** many conditions that should be ruled out before dementia is considered
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Gingersnap In Iowa 8 months ago
The first time this happened to my Mom it really freaked me out.
Mason Kronol 8 months ago
And you don't have to be a senior! I was misdiagnosed when I went to the ER hallucinating. They saw a disheveled 51 year old woman (i hadn't slept for 2 days) and assumed I was having a d**g withdrawal/o******e. I told them i had a UTI and i hadn't drank or smoked pot in over 2 months. I have never done anything stronger than weed and even after my surgeries never finished my pain pills because i hate them. from what we can gather they gave me narcan after my husband left and i flipped out, had to be restrained because i fought off 4 nurses. they sedated me and i was out for 3 days. when i finally went to a step down unit a nurse showed me my tox screen. negative for everything. she said it was probably the UTI causing the hallucinations. When the dr probably in his 60s came in and i told him all this he left for a while and i was released a few hours later. i still have nightmares about what i remember and am scared about what i dont.
Tom De Paul 8 months ago
And depression is often misdiagnosed as dementia. I put my 81 year old mother on an antidepressant and she turned into Einstein!
Beth Wheeler 8 months ago
If you notice a sudden mental status change in an older person they need to be seen ASAP. A UTI in older people can get really bad really fast and you can literally die from it. I worked in a Urology office for 6 years and we had a few people not make it because they didn't call for an appt, ended up in the ER but it was to late.
According to US News, vet technicians, construction workers, dental hygienists, carpenters, and medical assistants have the top five most stressful jobs.
Other majorly stressful professions include being diagnostic medical sonographers, solar photovoltaic installers, bakers, electricians, and pilots, followed by flight attendants, nurse practitioners, delivery truck drivers, registered nurses, and medical records technicians.
#7
The Oxford Comma is literally never optional.
FlagCityDiva 8 months ago
I wish more people would know that the Oxford Comma exists.
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Jumping Jellyfishes 8 months ago
I'll give up my Oxford comma when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.
Dragons Exist 8 months ago
"the strippers, Stalin and Hitler" versus "the strippers, Stalin, and Hitler"
Otto Katz 8 months ago
I like to chew on them, usually they are coated in dark chocolate. Maybe some people like them w/o the chocolate.
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Michael Largey 8 months ago
I don't care for the terms "Oxford comma". What is called an Oxford comma is merely proper use of the comma in that situation. It needs no special name.
Sue 8 months ago
I was told the comma is in place of the "and," and you already have an "and." Now we can debate where the comma and period go before or after the ".
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arthbach 8 months ago
I like the Oxford comma a great deal. It can bring much needed clarity. However, it most definitely is optional in a great many cases.
Dragons Exist 8 months ago
Which cases? The ones where you don't technically *need* the clarity, or the cases where it changes the meaning to something you didn't mean?
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Kat Alison 8 months ago
I agree 100%! As an editor, I’m always asking people, “What do you have against commas?”
#8
CPR and resuscitation is a lot less effective and a lot more violent than medical movies and TV shows depict. You usually break ribs.
And if you do get a person to "come back" they don't sit up in the bed coughing, gasping and thanking you...they're usually still unconscious. You just see through machines that they have a stable heart rhythm.
You then intubate them, move them to an ICU and hope that you didn't give them brain damage.
Alexia 8 months ago
Actually, what we see in the movies as "CPR" looks more like a chest massage.
Definitely a Human 8 months ago
Believe it or not, breaking an actors ribcage is somewhat frowned upon
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Nancy Bania 8 months ago
I had CPR, done by a retired Fire Fighter. I had three broken ribs but survived the heart attack. The best broken bones I'll ever have!
Clown fish 8 months ago
And you will break ribs! And please don't get upset if they won't do it on your 80 year old frail Grandparents because they will do more damage than good!
Marianne 8 months ago
They did it to my 81 yo father. However, a family member started doing it until the ambulance arrived and (at least here in Germany) they are legally bound to keep going life-sustaining measures, once they are begun.
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Mabelbabel 8 months ago
A related issue is when a patient in hospital is designated "not for CPR." That doesn't mean they aren't going to be treated-the condition that they were admitted with will still be treated, but if you're dying of sepsis, stroke, disseminated cancer etc, CPR isn't going to be effective.
Beth Wheeler 8 months ago
If you don't crack ribs you aren't doing it right is what I was taught.
Eric Brown 8 months ago
Realistically, if you aren't cracking their ribs, you aren't doing CPR right.
fzhwn4fjwn 8 months ago
My daughter is a cardiac nurse. I’ve heard lots of her stories about breaking ribs. One was a very elderly woman in her 80’s. She broke 4 of her ribs and the woman actually thanked her after she recovered for saving her life.
Lorrie Rothstein 8 months ago
I’ve had cpr training and the teacher said if you break ribs you’re doing right
pete rosenberg 8 months ago
and getting shocked is also a lot different. Think getting hit by a truck doing 40mph
#9
L&D nurse here. While I could go with the obvious "labor is nothing like the movies" I'm gonna switch it up. Pregnant women need to drink an ungodly amount of water. Think 16 16 oz glasses. Crampy? Drink some f*****g water. Baby not moving? Go drink that water. Contractions? Before you rush to the hospital chug a bunch of water and see if they stop. Literally half of my triage patients are just dehydrated.
ABC NrTen FCK CENSORISM 8 months ago
For anyone interested in real units, that's about 7.5 litres.
sfgothgirl 8 months ago
So many triage patients discharged home after receiving fluids. L&D in Vegas in summer is no joke!
StrangeOne 8 months ago
When I first went into labour it was early morning, usually a time when drinking water, milk or eating something that caused more gas, gave me unbearable stomachaches, even before I was pregnant. Sometimes I would wake up so insatiably hungry that anything I ate or drank exasperated the hunger pangs. But if I waited a half hour to an hour the feeling would subside and I could eat. So, I thought that's what was going on. I went to the washroom and avoided any drink or food. When it didn't go away I ate something. I knew it was contractions a bit later when it was pattern of coming and going and coming back. Once I got to the hospital I was banned from eating and drinking. I was in labour for 34 hours and was only allowed sugarless jello. That's it. Until after and I was craving water like I never had water in my life.
WubiDubi 8 months ago
The whole birth process is ridiculous (look at the size of a baby), risky and therefore very painful. Gas does very little. Think epidural and spinal blocks but it is harder to push. If not be glad the brain regards it as major trauma and not much goes from short term to long term memory.
Dolly_of TheCowboy 8 months ago
oooh hyponatremia is fun. I have seen some amazing "nut jobs" brought in completely troppo and once they can get bloods done they find the sodium levels are out of whack, fix that up, and suddenly grandpa does not think he is the new UFC champion defending his title
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Jake Bertz 4 months ago
Not just plain water. Electrolytes! Too much plain water can be bad for you.
Jane Hower 7 months ago
People have NO idea how important it is to drink LOTS of water a day. The correct formula is take your body weight in half and that's how many ounces of water you should drink a day. Even trying will mean you cut out crappy stuff like too much coffee, soda's, etc. So even if you can't manage the amt suggested, the effort will put you far ahead in seeking the goal and you WILL see results in short order. Like less pain of ANY kind, better sleep, alertness, etc.
Meanwhile, Business News Daily argues that the most stressful professions involve working as military personnel, police officers, firefighters, social workers, broadcasters, newspaper reporters, emergency dispatchers, mental health counselors, anesthesiologists, and emergency room nurses.
On the flip side, some of the most zen and least stressful jobs include people working as massage therapists, hairstylists, librarians, landscapers, orthodontists, art directors, occupational therapists, medical records technicians, web developers, and data entry specialists.
#10
Many/most teachers get to a point in their careers where they no longer like kids.
Huddo's sister 8 months ago (edited)
Not necessarily disliking kids, but being burnt out and sick of the parents and lack of support, definitely! There are always some kids in the class that you love and often that is what keeps you turning up.
Huddo's sister 8 months ago
You do decide never to call your own kids certain names though!
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Enuya 8 months ago (edited)
To be fair, children nowadays do behave far, far worse than even 10-20 years ago. I'm not talking about standing for yourself or speaking up in face of unfairness. I'm talking about basic human decency and politeness. I've a brother 13 years younger than me and the s**t his class supposedly pulls during lessons (like i.e. vaping in classes or being blatantly rude to teachers "for fun") would *never* fly during my school years.
Tom De Paul 8 months ago (edited)
I graduated from a small public high school on the Gulf Coast of Texas in 1980. Among the things that were forbidden: leaving campus for lunch, wearing shorts outside of PE, facial hair, smoking, not wearing a belt, and hair that touched your collar. We still had corporal punishment. Jails were more lenient.
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Broccoli 8 months ago
Even though I’m not a teacher…I really know this. I have literally seen teachers trying their best to prevent themselves from punching all of their students
Broccoli 8 months ago
Tbh when I was a student, another student was continuously disrupting the class and screaming, so I just shouted freakin yappucino needs to shut up. The teacher literally looked at me with relief and gratefulness.
Load More Replies... katiekat0214 8 months ago
Retired teacher here, and this is only somewhat true, some of the time, and only for some kids. There were a handful over 26 years that I absolutely loathed: inevitably, they all had some major issues that weren't being dealt with, and the acting out was super disruptive, rude, and just ongoing. They were pains, and nothing helped. When there is backup, aka good admin that supports teachers, things get handled. When there is incompetent admin, behavior problems persist and always worsen. Overworked parents who don't have much in the way of parenting skills do not help. And if these kids are lonely, outcast, hungry, or have who knows what other problems, it all compounds into a big ugly mess. The kids in need of the most love ask for it in the most unloving ways!
L. Frijole 8 months ago
Stopped teaching after 25 years. It wasn't the kids. It was the system. I tell people I didn't quit teaching, I quit Education.
Cydney Golden 8 months ago
It's more like we grow to hate the bureaucracy and petty c**p we are expected to do that take time away from actual teaching. Also so many who have no clue about teaching making decisions about how we should teach.
Michael Largey 8 months ago
Through my forty years of teaching, I came to love my students more and more as I went along. I missed them during summer vacation and when they graduated. It was administrators I grew to hate.
#11
The cloud is really just someone else's computer.
Petra Peitsch 8 months ago
A good point why I never use cloud. I'm late genX, who remembers still building her own Pentiums.
JK 8 months ago
I turn mine off and it still keeps connecting! However, I had a laptop suddenly die and when I got a new one cloud populated with my resumes, transcripts, former job apps....yeah, it is a little scary that some rouge fiend could just hack right in and have my life history.
Load More Replies... Michael D Bresnahan 8 months ago
When I started on the Internet back in the 90's there were 50 servers connected. Now there are 20 billion devices connected.
Igor914624 8 months ago
The cloud is a way for Microsoft, amazon or any of the other cloud providers to setup a model where you no longer own the product. You just lease it. Makes them a metric $hitload of money off the license fees. It's like leasing a new car instead of buying. In the end you paid a lot of money and you have nothing, not even the data.
Glenn Cuneo 8 months ago
Everything you say to alexa now gets sent to amazon so they can train their AI.... "Alexa, lick my hairy ball sack"--- Alexa is hearing some wild s**t in my house.
Colleen Glim 8 months ago
Alexa is a glorified kitchen timer/weather alert in my house. That’s literally all she gets used for
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Catherine Spencer-Mills 8 months ago
Exactly so. But that doesn't mean you can skip backing up to said cloud (server/computer). Back up to more than one internet cloud. Back up your home computer / phone. Back up again! Nothing like a thunderstorm rolling through, lightning strikes and there goes your hours of work. Happened to me one time. Never again.
#12
I work for local government. yes, taxpayers pay my salary (which also means i’m contributing to my own salary), but that doesn’t justify why i should give a person extra attention or service. people who come to my office and say “i pay your salary” right after asking for something completely ridiculous have no respect for me and assume i do nothing all day.
Barbara Burns 8 months ago
As a retired government worker, this is right on. But unfortunately there is also a large percentage of government workers who are astoundingly lazy and inefficient and nearly impossible to fire.
Cyndielouwhoo 8 months ago
There are a lot of lazy workers everywhere, I'm talking about non-union workplaces, it's not always easy to get rid of them. Sometimes I work with such incompetent people I don't know why they haven't been fired and then you find out it's nepotism or just someone's bff, etc
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Sara 8 months ago
When I was a reference librarian at a public library some idiot man tried to pull the "I pay your salary!" BS, I told him I need a raise if I have to deal with him.
The Darkest Timeline 8 months ago
“I pay your salary” is a thought-terminating cliche in any case. Like, so what? You pay me to do a job and I’m doing it; stop acting so self-important.
TiNaBoNiNa 8 months ago
And what are they going to do about it? Stop paying their taxes to spite you?
Load More Replies... Michael Largey 8 months ago
When an angry entitled parent told me "I pay good money to send my kid here!", I had to reply "I work here, sir. And the money is anything but good."
Auntriarch 8 months ago
Yes I remember hearing that too. Most dispiriting, as I wasn't allowed to give a snappy answer
Huddo's sister 8 months ago
My dad used to be a public servant, but was in a section of the mental healthcare system where he didn't actually have to interact with the general public each day. He said some (probably more) of the psychiatrists were incredibly condescending though.
JK 8 months ago
Yeah, as a former state employed grant manager, I authorized their salaries, so I never got that push bacj. One job I was paid out of federal funds. The other one I was paid by liquor excise tax, so essentially every time I bought booze, I was paying my own salary, and so was everyone else who bought booze. The $ was huge and went to counties for treatment, prevention, and law enforcement.
Toothless Feline 8 months ago
“Yes, you and every other taxpayer in the area collectively pay my salary. What makes you more deserving than everyone else?”
Hippopotamuses 8 months ago
The bottom line, is that in all economies, everyone is paying everyone else's salary. That is the nature of business. Both civil and private, and is the basis of the distribution of wealth (A relative term in this day and age!).
What are some of the wrongest assumptions you’ve ever had about someone else’s jobs, dear Pandas? On the other hand, what do people tend to usually get wrong about your own profession? How stressful is your work? What do you see as the ideal job for you personally? We’d love to hear your thoughts!
#13
Don’t yell or be rude at the person who anwsers the phone for the company you are calling. It will not make us help you better or faster. It will do exactly the opposite.
Geoffrey Scott 8 months ago
Or.."I am incredibly frustrated right now, so if I get snarky please understand it's not with you".
Johnnynatfan 8 months ago
I have had to check myself and apologize and let them know Its not them Im just frustrated at the situation and most of the time they are gracious and helpful
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Uncle Panda 8 months ago
I usually start those calls with a cheery, "I bet you don't get a lot of happy people calling. How's your day going so far?" I'd do that anyway, but the calls tend go very well.
JK 8 months ago
Back when offshore call centers were the norm, I had some amazing conversations. Such as guessing the country by accent and getting food/recipe tips. Used to be a raving B and I guess something changed and now if you are nice, clearly describe your issues, and ask what they recommend for solutions, they appreciate that you aren't wasting their time. I always sum up when necessary, thank them, and always tell them I will do the survey because I know that their raises are dependent on it.
Load More Replies... Fabulous chocolate cookie 8 months ago
Yep. The service desk are always the victim of rude/aggresive customers while they never caused the issue or can't help to fix the issue. Sometimes it feels like people think we especially caused the issue to annoy that one customer for fun.
Tom De Paul 8 months ago
Then connect me with your CEO, CFO, or CTO and I'll yell at the person responsible for my problem. Oh, not gonna do that? Well then: too bad, you're IT.
Load More Replies... Mason Kronol 8 months ago
i was a customer service rep. Most people were pretty cool. My favorites were the people who ranted and then told me they were calling their lawyer. Always happy to hear that because it meant I couldn't talk to them anymore😂 Then i would give them a legal spell and hang up. They usually tried to backtrack or get a hold of the manager like i try to facilitate in the first place. Over several years none contacted lawyers.🙄
Charles McChristy 8 months ago
Also, don't call my line 25 times in a row only to leave a message on the 25th time or none at all.
Beth Wheeler 8 months ago
Exactly. I had some jerk yell at me Monday. For most calls we can handle it instead of sending people to the nurse line. What he needed was to reschedule his appt. If you're a jerk and ask me to send a message that you can send yourself in MyChart I'm not doing it especially if you keep going on and on We don't have time for that when we have 50 practices between primary care, pediatrics and urgent care.
Definitely a Human 8 months ago
I dunno, there's been several times where I was only able to get a result after yelling at someone. I hated doing it, but it was the only way I could get results.
Anne Young 8 months ago
I don't have patience. And I hate repeating myself. It's why I'm not a phone person.
#14
I'm an accountant and people think I'm some type of math wizard. Excel, literally, does all the math for me.
Huddo's sister 8 months ago
I wish they had taught us more excel in school, I'm sure it would have been useful
Rosecrucian Roeth 8 months ago
When I went to school, Bill Gates wasn't even a twinkle in his parents eyes :)
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Khavrinen 8 months ago
The tricky part is knowing how to put the numbers into Excel to get it to do the math correctly.
Admiralu 8 months ago
Excel is really a complex financial data analysis program. Does a lot more than just Math. vLookup, Pivot tables and more for those who love to crunch numbers.
Load More Replies... K Barnes 8 months ago
My friend is an accountant and I joined their company sports team. I was the only one on the team able to do mental math (t-shirts are x per person, x teammates, total will be x price type of thing or dividing up the bill for beers after). It surprised me at first but they all explained it's not necessary for their job.
Beth Wheeler 8 months ago
But you still have to put in the correct formulas to get the correct answers.
keyboardtek 8 months ago
My daughter failed many math classes and had to retake a few in college just to get her BA degree, in finance! She also does the accounting work for a university. The software does all the arithmetic calculations.
Celtic Pirate Queen 8 months ago
I was a self employed bookkeeper most of my adult life. I remember a company owner calling me on my day off, which I didn't answer. He left a really sh*tty message, so when I got into the office again I made a few things very clear: a) you are NOT my boss, you are MY client b) I'm not asking permission for time off, I am informing you that I will be unavailable c) there is no such thing as an accounting emergency, so do NOT call me when I have time off.
Thee8thsense 8 months ago
The gentleman who invented Excel was a dear friend of mine. An amazing mind, as well as a kind hearted person.
Deep One 8 months ago
I'm one of those weirdos who loves excel and making complex formulas. One of the most simple was one I made to monitor my blood pressure. I could never remember what the proper ranges were so it would color code the boxes for me. My primary care physician was very happy to get a copy. There is a LOT excel can do for you if you learn the programming.
Catherine Spencer-Mills 8 months ago
Try not to compare computer spreadsheets, databases, calculators and / or pencil and paper math. You will get a different answer many times. Just round it off and let it go.
#15
I’m a security guard and we have standard operating procedures for bombs and mysterious packages.
A few weeks ago, someone tried to plant a bomb at the high school near my apartment. The school janitor found it and he brought it INTO THE PRINCIPAL’S OFFICE to show him.
Multa Nocte 8 months ago
From the original site: "The bomber was a white supremacist who lived three units down and I found out when helicopters quarantined the block and I couldn’t go to work because everything was on lockdown for 36 hours."
Pink kitty 8 months ago
Can you imagine the principal? Guy brings in a suspicious object, puts it in front of your face and says "I think this could be a bomb. What do you think?" 😳😱
Orysha 8 months ago
I think you're fired for not respecting standard security protocols.
Load More Replies... Mavis 8 months ago (edited)
To determine if you should call the bomb squad ask yourself these questions. Is it hidden? ie. a backpack or suitcase stuffed behind a vending machine. Does it have wires or covered in packing tape or leaking liquids or an acrid smell? If it is, dont move it, evacuate the area if you can, and call authorities.
nottheactualphoto 8 months ago
Is is a black sphere, with a burning fuse sticking out of it?
Load More Replies... Sue 8 months ago
One of our staff got an envelope with white powder after the whole anthrax thing started & brought it up to her supervisor's office with several other people. Since it was very soon after the first one, they all had to give up all of theirs clothes, purses, shoes, etc., and get scrubbed down by CDC(?) behind temporary tents. The really said thing was that the boss was told it wasn't anthrax on Friday but didn't tell the exposed employees until Monday. They had to be terrified all weekend.
#16
I am a chemist and it’s not all fun experiments with colourful solutions and explosions&flames with rainbow sparkles and m**h cooking and instant results from all our shiny fancy machines. It’s more like preparing 50 solutions a day (all of which look alike, usually like water) and waiting for instruments to complete the analyses (for hours!) and then trying to make sense from the results while cursing and having a mental breakdown.
Lotekguy 8 months ago
And then having your findings denied by some wingnut who's never made it past high school.
Khavrinen 8 months ago
Because "I saw a guy on YouTube who says you're part of a conspiracy!"
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Tara Noe 8 months ago
I went into science thinking it would be exciting. It's not. It's doing the same experiment over and over, then changing a teeny tiny thing and doing it again. And again.
TiNaBoNiNa 8 months ago
Kinda like safe cracking? Tiny movements until you find the right combination.
Load More Replies... Susie Elle 8 months ago
Meanwhile the fumehood's screeching because you put the window up too high because the f*****g handlebars are in the way of seeing things properly
Lyone Fein 8 months ago
Also lots of reading other people’s research, writing reports or proposals, etc.
Otto Katz 8 months ago
LOL I was a lab tech for 30 years. Everything in the lab beakers, tubes was either clear, or yellow. NOTHING was those pretty colors shown in the above photo. And I participated in one of those glamour shots, making pink, purple, blue, green, for the shot. All gussied up for the ad.
Kat Alison 8 months ago
Chemistry classes in school were a disappointment for me. We never got to blow things up or make poisons; we just did a lot of math problems.
#17
"Hackers" are seldom the actual problem with computer security. Insider threats and the battle against the end user's stupidity make up the vast majority of security breaches.
Multa Nocte 8 months ago
Or drunk Secretaries of Defence who accidentally add journalists to their top secret chats.
Michael Largey 8 months ago
Be fair. He's no smarter when sober. In fact, any time he drinks himself into unconscienceness the nation is that much safer.
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MalayDragon 8 months ago
All IT professionals will know these three acronyms.. PICNIC, PEBKAC and the almighty ID10T error
nottheactualphoto 8 months ago
To be fair, PEBKAC and ID10T are pretty much synonyms.
Load More Replies... Cyndielouwhoo 8 months ago
Or some idiot billionaire cosplaying as a government employee, who apparently knows next to nothing about coding or how most things work.
Fabulous chocolate cookie 8 months ago
The biggest danger to computer security are the users. Especially the lazy ones who create a very simple password like Welcome123 (yeah even companies still do this) and use it everywhere. And not to mention the amount of times people fall for the easiest phishing tricks like "you've won a Ipad, click here to claim it", "click this url to pay for your parcel!" or the "nigerian prince"
Fabulous chocolate cookie 8 months ago
It always surprises me when I see another big data breach simply because someone fell for a phishing email or a company had the weakest passwords ever.
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#18
No one is maliciously hiding a cure for cancer. It's just really f*****g hard to figure out.
Bob Jones 8 months ago (edited)
And there is no such thing as a single cure for cancer. Cancer is a collective term for a range of over a hundred diseases.
winterwidow87 8 months ago
This. When a conspiracy theorist tells you "they're hiding the cure for cancer", just ask them: "which one?" Gotta be a little more specific there pal.
Load More Replies... Broccoli 8 months ago
tbh we should just put all antivaxxers into concentration camps and give them 1 years to figure a cure out and try it out on themselves
Susie Elle 8 months ago
Preach! Also, they're not witholding the cure for cancer because If They Cure You They can't PRofit Off of you AnymOre! They most definitely can, because a live person will need medicine at some point, contrary to a dead person!
The Darkest Timeline 8 months ago
Sounds like what they’re really suspicious of is capitalism
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Annik Perrot 8 months ago
Oh. And what if the cure for cancer was a vaccine?
Load More Replies... keyboardtek 8 months ago (edited)
That perception came about because our capitalistic society often exposes greedy corporate CEOs who have zero compassion for the suffering of others. And now we have one as President of the USA.
Lowrider 56 8 months ago
They very come a long way for cancer treatments. Some cancers are very treatable and curable. I like to think its just a matter of time.
nottheactualphoto 8 months ago
Looks like a "happy pill." I'm not sure how it's relevant to the topic.
Load More Replies... Jos de Hundt 7 months ago
Does Boredpanda realize that putting asterisks in a word makes me say it out loud?
#19
Nobody gives a flying f**k about your website beyond whether it gives them the information they came to find.
99% of people just want to know where you're located, what your phone number is, and what your hours of operation are. The thousands of dollars people spend adjusting colours and logos are all done in the service of business owners' egos.
Huddo's sister 8 months ago
Honestly, most of the time I don't even click on the website. I google and read the opening hours etc from the results screen.
Kit Black 8 months ago
Yeah, most of the time, google maps has more information that I need on the specific business than their website does.
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Billo66 8 months ago
For the love of God don't put background music into it. Unless it's for a funeral home then heavy metal is completely acceptable.
nottheactualphoto 8 months ago
Anything that auto-plays is evil, but especially audio.
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Nathan Lewis 8 months ago
just saw a video about an australian government made website thats something to do with showing networked GP's and their prices. It cost $24 million and doesn't work.
Huddo's sister 8 months ago
Sounds about right for government spending on healthcare. Like many other things, they either ask what is needed and ignore it or don't bother asking.
Load More Replies... Lowrider 56 8 months ago
Yep. Three things I want to know. 1. Hours you're open. 2. Location. 3. Phone number.
#20
I'm a computer programmer and programming is no where near as glamorous as the movies make it. Code does not make digital noises when it runs.
Sue User 8 months ago
Geek here. Sometimes i will leave a " print results" statement in just to see it scroll like in the movies.
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Rick Murray 8 months ago
The main noise is "fuuuuuuuuu....." when the compiler bombs out because a single comma was forgotten.
Robert T 8 months ago
The main noise associated with programming is that of expletives being uttered. Especially when the "which ****ing idiot that wrote this" turns out to be you! ;-)
nottheactualphoto 8 months ago
While working on an upgrade: "God, who wrote this garbage? Oh..."
Load More Replies... nottheactualphoto 8 months ago
And programmers don't get offices with that kind of view. You'd be lucky to even have a window.
Tim Douglass 8 months ago
So true! I worked several years in an inside office. With early starts, working through lunch, working late, and short winter days I frequently went an entire week without seeing daylight. Probably not good for your mental health.
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Josephine Blogs 8 months ago
"Code does not make digital noises when it runs" Well not with that attitude!
The Goo King 8 months ago
Mine makes noises, typically of the "Why the **** is that giving an error? It worked two minutes ago!" variety.
Mabelbabel 8 months ago
It's like computer hackers-all you have to do is mash the keyboard really hard and really, really quickly, and then shout "I'm in!" It always works in the movies...
Rick Murray 8 months ago
Works far better if you have two people using the keyboard at the same time (NCIS, I'm looking at YOU!).
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Fats don’t make you fat they just contain more calories than carbs or proteins. Eating too much of any of them is the problem.
So don’t feel bad eating cake on your cake day!
Charles McChristy 8 months ago
There are 7 days in a week. At least one should be dedicated to cake. Heck, we have a day for tacos.
Load More Replies... The Darkest Timeline 8 months ago
If fats contain more calories than the same amount of protein or carbs then, yes, fats will make you overweight more easily
AsylumWalker 8 months ago
Carbs are not the problem either. Your brain needs carbs and sugar to function. Overconsumption of anything is the issue
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Cydney Golden 8 months ago
In the 90s they came out with all these fat free desserts loaded with sugar to make up for the lack of taste. Look how that turned out. People thought they could eat more since fat free and Americans are fatter than ever.
#22
Just because someone works in a hospital and has a hospital ID badge clipped to their shirt does not mean they're a doctor or a nurse. I've lost track of how many times I've had to explain to patients and visitors that I'm not qualified to answer their medical concerns.
Corvus 8 months ago (edited)
I've had to explain to people that working at a university doesn't mean I'm a professor (or "teacher" as some of them said, which is inaccurate). Still, when someone calls on the phone and addresses me as "Doctor" or "Professor" I would sometimes "forget" to correct them ;)
Hippopotamuses 8 months ago (edited)
In New Zealand, and I suspect quite a few other countries, a surgeon does not have the honorific Doctor. They are known as Mister. Its historical, but can still also be hilarious when some patients see their appointment cards. (Edited: Grammatical mistake).
Jenny 7 months ago
The UK is the same. Mr Naftalin, Mr Au, and Mr Zaccharias are some of the ones who have cut me open in the past.
Load More Replies... Clown fish 8 months ago
The cleaners where the same badge pay attention to the job title on the badge
Beth Wheeler 8 months ago
Same here and for God's stop using 1 office as the dang hospital operator. There are literally thousands of phone numbers for each dept, office, clinic or person. We have a list of some departments but not all of them.
Sheena Leversedge Wood 7 months ago
my husband used to be a hospital porter. her really enjoyed that job. but there is no way he could answer medical questions. on my recent stay in hospital, one porter was told to tell the desk staff in the department I was going to the amount of urine I'd passed before they emptied the bag just before they moved me. their job is literally moving things and people from one part of the hospital to another without getting lost. that was the most medical thing I've seen a porter do. remember a number to pass on to the next department. this is no criticism of porters. they're doing an important job, and the good ones help keep you cheerful. but knowing the medical details isn't part of it.
#23
I work at an airport, don't drink the coffee on commercial flights, they don't give us anything to clean the coffee pots, and the water truck is used fill the plane with potable water, isn't cleaned as much as it should be.
MCA 8 months ago
And don’t swish the lavatory water. Actually don’t wash your hands in it either.
Jane Hower 7 months ago
Only get bottles or cans of drinks on the plane, that way you know they are safe.
Wim Cossement 7 months ago
You won't taste the difference: https://www.hko.gov.hk/en/education/weather/weather-and-life/00503-why-does-food-taste-bland-on-airplanes.html
#24
No, we don't bake the cakes the same day we sell them. Chances are you've never had a "fresh" baked cake. If you want it to be iced we have to let it cool off.
Oh and you can't order a custom cake day of, I don't care what its for. It isn't our fault you can't plan things.
quentariel 8 months ago
People feed customer service incredible sob stories on daily basis. They seem to think having a explanation will do the cake decorating for them, open a closed restaurant kitchen or materialise a wanted item out of the thin air.
Rinso The Red 8 months ago
It seems like the assumption is that the only reason people aren't doing what the customer wants is because "they're lazy" or the like. Not self aware enough to realize they created the situation.
Load More Replies... Beth Wheeler 8 months ago
And grocery stores & Walmart don't bake the cakes in house, they come in frozen. I found that when 1 of my kids was little and I went to Winn-Dixie to pick up the cake. I saw the decorator take a couple out of the freezer and I asked about it.
TiNaBoNiNa 8 months ago
Nothing is made in-house at grocery stores anymore. Everything comes frozen. In the case of bread, the dough is thawed and then baked.
Load More Replies... Deep One 8 months ago
A good reason to learn to bake. If you never had home baked goods, you really don't know how good they are supposed to taste! I used to bake a lot and hate the stuff you get at the grocery store. (I don't bake anymore because I now live alone and am trying to lose weight! :/ )
TiNaBoNiNa 8 months ago
The point they were making is that they can't ice a cake that has not cooled down yet.
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Cement makes concrete, not the other way around. And it's more complicated than you think it is.
Roxy222uk 8 months ago
I've just been listening to the Rare Earth podcast about concrete, and learnt that the manufacture necessitates driving carbon dioxide off one of the ingredients (forgotten which), which is why concrete has such a big carbon foot print outside of the other factors like feeling manufacture and distribution. Thankfully they then discussed all the alternatives and it turns out that already enough is known to completely mitigate this by various means - it just requires the will to do so.
Jane Hower 7 months ago
I found a way to 'remember' which is which - alphabetically - e comes before o - therefore c'e'ment makes c'o'ncrete!!
#26
That industries spend huge amounts of money to keep people addicted to things like gambling, smoking, drinking, and sugar and work to create new addicts once their customers die. I'm looking at you Big Tobacco and Big Sugar....
Example: Coca-Cola engaged in a major campaign to spread the myth that obesity had more to do with how much you excercise than your diet, to shift the focus away from their products. It worked shockingly well. Many people still believe this.
StrangeOne 8 months ago (edited)
I recall "slim" cigarette ads in magazines in the early 90s. They were marketed as a "healthier" option for smoking. That didn't work for too long. The tobacco companies started losing new customers as the public became more and more educated on the dangers of smoking cigarettes. So they invented vapes with higher concentrations of nicotine, and who knows what else, and just told everyone they are a "safer" product because it's now vapor people are breathing in, enticing those who wouldn't have dared touch a cigarette to feel comfortable vaping. These companies are purely evil.
Roxy222uk 8 months ago
In the UK tobacco products cannot be advertised and cannot even be displayed in shops, but must be kept in drawers and got out when the customer asks for the brand they want. On the other hand any nicotine product marketed as for cessation can have colourful packaging, be promoted, and be be displayed in shops. So vapes, chewing gum, and all the other nicotine replacement products are still allowing tobacco companies to coin it in >:-(
Load More Replies... Charles McChristy 8 months ago
Obesiety absolutely has to do with diet AND exercise. Everything in moderation is okay, but we went from drinking 8oz cokes at the turn onf the last century to these giant "single serving" bottles we have now. The issue with obesity is 95% portion control. Everthing in moderation.
Jenny 7 months ago
I physically can't exercise as I have end-stage lung disease, yet I only weigh 104 lbs/47 kg.
Load More Replies... Michelle C 8 months ago
I stopped drinking soda when I was nine years old or so. I have had a can maybe thrice since then and I imagine nine-year-old me would be stunned by what thirty-something-year-old me knows about soda now!
Don't listen to me 8 months ago
This is common here in europe. Soda is not regarded as an adult drink.
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#27
Tech support needs descriptions and preferably an exact error message. We are not psychics.
The Darkest Timeline 8 months ago (edited)
But it doesn’t work; and I’m paying your salary!
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Papa 8 months ago
I agree, but I've also had my share of instances where I carefully explained the problem, along with the steps I'd taken to attempt to remedy the situation, and the response I got back from IT makes it plain that he or she never read more than the subject line of the email.
Neb 8 months ago
Sometimes they get used to the tickets with no useful information and respond by default, especially if they are busy. I do tell my team to slow down (not IT department, but software), but sometimes life happens.
Load More Replies... nottheactualphoto 8 months ago
In my experience, the error message is usually not even as helpful as the one in the stock photo. "An error occurred." Great, thanks.
MagicJacket 8 months ago
I have been in IT for over 20 years and while I know a lot more than most computer users, there is a TON of stuff I don't know. We look things up online and/or use A.I. to get solutions sometimes.
MotorcycleDoggo 8 months ago
That is significantly better than some things I get told.
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Dirk Daring 8 months ago (edited)
I've been in IT for 30 years. I've had to explain to way too many people that pointing at your screen does absolutely no good when we're talking on the phone. If I ask you a yes/no question, I can't see you nodding or shaking your head. Again, PHONE CALL.
Geoffrey Scott 8 months ago
Same thing with mechanics. If it does not 'fail' when they test it, they may have NO idea of the problem. Your car sometimes does not 'throw a code'.
nottheactualphoto 8 months ago
And there are many problems a car can have, that will not generate a code.
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The left lane isnt "the cruise lane"
Another one is if an 18 wheeler is creeping past you that doesn't mean "go faster/match their speed" you didnt have an issue when you were going 55 infront of me dont be a d**k because i want to go 60 in front of you.
SirWriteALot 8 months ago (edited)
It's illegal to speed up when you're being passed. At least in Europe.
Ubiquitous 8 months ago
Europe? Is that northern Scotland or one of the greek isles? It’s a big place with lots of different laws
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geezeronthehill 8 months ago
Many drivers seem to drive with their subconscious. Zoned out, unaware of relative speeds, just following along. I speed up my truck to overtake, they speed up without even being aware of it.
Papa 8 months ago
I'm often mildly frustrated by people who drive 10 mph faster downhill than uphill.
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Huddo's sister 8 months ago
One that people often forget is trucks need more space to brake in an emergency. You should be more than one car length in front of them. This is such a problem the Australian government produced ads waring about it about 4-5years ago. Also don't over take a turning truck, especially on a roundabout. Another thing they targeted, despite it being written on every tailgate of trucks across Australia.
Susie Elle 8 months ago
Where I live, you drive on the right as much as possible, the left lane is for overtaking or when it's really busy on the roads. It's by no means a cruise lane.
Nikole 8 months ago
I’m really surprised this post isn’t filled with people who camp in the left lane because they’re DoiNg tHe sPEeD LiMiT
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Mtn Lungta 8 months ago
Worst place to be on the road is beside a big unit. Doing 105? drop down to 95 for 15 seconds and they are gone. Often flash ty too.
Mark Buxbaum 8 months ago
One more time: four lanes? Far left lane is #1 lane, used mostly for passing slower cars. Second from the left is #2 lane, for cruising longer distances at above the speed limit (but not insanely fast). #3 lane is for cruising at/near speed limit, and all trucks. #4 lane, farthest right, is also for trucks, and for merging on and off the freeway. If you find yourself blocking traffic, safely move over one lane to the right. Don't be a problem child at 100 MPH or 55 MPH.
Vincent Bevort 8 months ago
For countries with traffic on the right, it is forbidden to pass any vehicles on the right side. Staying in the left lane too long will get you a ticket!
Marnie 8 months ago
Maybe, just maybe, they were going 55 because the car in front of them was going 55. But then the car in front had room and was able to speed, or they changed lanes, or exited, so now the car is able to get up to 60. Nothing to do with you. But yeah, I do my best to avoid driving alongside 18 wheelers, so if one is moving to creep past and things open up in front of me, I'll still hang back until the 18w is ahead of me.
#29
Therapy doesn’t work if you don’t go consistently and don’t want to go. Many people complain about their psychologists, but usually you’re not opening up to us. Also please don’t lie down on couches, that’s a freud thing and most of us dislike him.
Edit: I never meant to say it’s a person with mental illness’s fault if they don’t want to see a psychologist. I was meaning that until we find a way to make you understand how important treatment is, you won’t get the full benefit of it. It is a part of job to make you want to get better.
Magenta Blu 8 months ago
Not wanting to go and not being able to afford it are VERY different things. People always assume that the problem is not wanting to go to therapy or not completing it. But therapy is outrageous costly, it is luxury I won't be never able to afford, no matter how desperately I need it.
Pencil 8 months ago
I've found some relief on the website 7cups. They have peer-to-peer live chat groups that are free. It's not a substitute for therapy but it really has helped me at times. There have also been times that it really kinda sucked but overall it's been a net-positive. I recommend checking it out.
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Cyndielouwhoo 8 months ago
Even when you have insurance, and it's covered, it's usually limited to like 5 visits in a year!
MagicJacket 8 months ago
My family says I need therapy. They are probably right. Nothing major, but it would help to talk things out I bet. Thing is, I am bored with my own story. I am exhausted even thinking about telling it to someone else. And yeah, the cost is prohibitive in the Bad Young US of A (as opposed to the Good Ol' US of A some people would suggest.)
Just Another Karen 8 months ago
i'm a psychologist in brazil. i always tell my patients that therapy is a four hands job. i have to do my job, but they also have to do it. it won't work if you''re only there to tell people you're in therapy
Marnie 8 months ago
Therapy won't work if you're misdiagnosed. Lots of autistic people have suffered due to being misdiagnosed. I was told I was depressed and that's why I never got anything done. It was the reverse. Not getting anything done - mainly due to autism issues - was causing depression. Also, they REALLY need two different terms for depression caused by nothing, and depression caused by circumstances.
Celtic Pirate Queen 8 months ago
And be honest. My sister (who is toxic AF) was in therapy for years, but fabricated most of what she told her therapist. For some reason she thought wasting their time was funny.
#30
Don't go ahead with DIY electrical repairs or installations at home, if you're not qualified. You're going k**l your family one day! ESPECIALLY DONT GO MAKING NEW PLUG POINTS AND CONNECTING HIGH AMPAGE S**T TO SMALL CABLES. WTF GUYS!?
Geoffrey Scott 8 months ago
One thing my boss at school treated me with contempt for...if it can't be killed, I ain't working on it. I don't care if it IS a little tickle, I do NOT work on live s^^t!
Charles McChristy 8 months ago
So, he was a terrible electircan then, because I was trained how to properly work on live circuits. Basically, treat eveything like it is live. That's what the Union taught us.
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Tara L. 8 months ago
My dad does all his own home repairs except electrical lol. He jokes "electricity is magic & I'm not a wizard." 🤣
JK 8 months ago
I shut off the power and replaced all of the outlets. Not that difficult just shove the wires into the right spot, screw them back in, and restart the power. About a year later, I sold the place.
Load More Replies... Billo66 8 months ago
Yup, got a little tickle from a hot water heater several years ago. So anyway I used to have a little finger. I turned off the water but neglected to cut the power. At least 220 knocks you back.
Forrest Hobbs 8 months ago
One issue is that mains electrical work needs to be tested. On the whole, if you're not a professional, you don't have the test gear or the knowledge of how to use it.
Daniele Stewart 2 months ago
The person who owned my house before me thought he was a electrician.. I get electrtions in here to fix the mess and always get a wtf. Had to get a new furnace because he had messed with the wiring and the guy couldn't make heads or tails of it. A bunch of light switches that do nothing or the wrong thing.. Just a matter of time till a fire starts really.
Beth Wheeler 8 months ago
I replaced my hallway light fixture a couple of years ago. I turned off the breaker and made sure I was connecting the right wires. Other than that I'm not touching electrical.
Vincent Bevort 8 months ago
But putting extension cord on extension cord is OK. Like 10 of them on the same outlet is not dangerous.
Andie Day 8 months ago
Cancelled the down vote because I'm pretty sure you were being sarcastic. Rght Sparky?
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Oil well drilling is an industry full of snakes and liars. There are people, known as promoters, who put together drilling programs of one or multiple wells then go and try to get investors to buy into their project. Many of these people are straight, good businessmen. Many of them are crooked and unethical AF. All of them will make money by drilling the well whether the well makes money or not. Promoters put their fees, usually to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars, into the cost of drilling the well, then, more fees for completing it. There are many ways to trick investors by using well logs and and seismic data that have been manipulated.
Participating in a drilling program where there is no promotion (Everybody who stands to make money from the well is putting money into the drilling/completion) is the best way, although very difficult to get into.
All promoters should be looked at with a very, very skeptical eye.
StrangeOne 8 months ago
There was that one Alberta oil sands commercial that aired on TV. There was a lot of, still is, backlash and accusations the oil sands is a vast field of tar, hot mud and oil where there used to be a lush forest. Some lady in the commercial rides in a helicopter, in a very condescending tone, tells the viewers "I see lots of trees here" as they fly over some forest, likely no where near the oil sands.
Dave Taylor 8 months ago
Me pappy profited BIG TIME off these idiots selling tubing to them......
Zaach 8 months ago
**The counter-weight on those 'grasshopper' pumps miss the concrete foundation by about 6 inches - if you hold an empty beer bottle under it, it will break the bottle w/o hurting your hand** I discovered this while drinking near one of those, it was burning off some methane so we had light and it was warmish - this is mid-winter drinking in Montana
#32
Many cargo ships turn off their signal in the ocean for weeks and do a lot of shady stuff...
ॐBoyGanesh 8 months ago
Mostly to circumvent trade embargoes & tariffs. To move stuff from places, to places, they’re not supposed to be moving.
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Ace 8 months ago
"turn their signal off"? You mean the AIS? Naah, I'm pretty sure this is far from common. All else apart you'd need to physically disconnect it, they don't have on/off switches. And it would be immediately obvious if you did.
Lazy Panda 2 8 months ago
Agree Ace. I worked on merchant ships for 15 years. I'm calling BS on this one.
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Jonathan Setter 8 months ago
wow why even bother to write that? Because to most people this partial sentence has no obvious meaning. You need to actually explain the concepts you are talking about. What signal? And what are they getting up to?
SGH 2 months ago
Nonsense. Ship's Captain here. There are 2 systems at play here, AIS which operates on VHF range (line of sight) and LRIT which is satellite based. It is rare that ships switch off AIS, such as transiting high risk areas, lay-up, docking etc. It's glaringly obvious when ships switch them off, and invites questions from flag or coast state administrations if there's no sound reason for doing so.
#33
How unethical speculation artwork is and how it’s really only regulated to the artistic profession.
One of the bigger issues is that many young designers are lured into these contests.
Speculative artwork is when a company holds a contest to design or create artwork in exchange for a prize. Only the winner gets the prize, the rest of the entries who did the same work get nothing.
I cannot solicit the local pizza places to make their finest pizzas for me and then choose only one to pay.
StrangeOne 8 months ago
Well, the artist does enter these on their own accord. No one is tricked into doing free work. Some artists use the contest to get their work and abilities noticed. Some do it out of the thrill of competition. But if you're the type who will only create something for money, then a contest would not be for you. I wouldn't even say becoming an artist is the best thing for you with that mindset. I do tons more practice pieces than sellable pieces, all using my own tools and materials I pay for. It's also like saying a hobby isn't worth investing time and money in if you're not using it like a business. Not everyone shares the same sentiment.
Jerusalem Cat Syndrome 5 months ago
Yes, the artist, especially newer, more naive artists, will enter those, the same as amateur poets enter scams that offer to print their winning poem. It is the business offering the scam that has the fault, not the eager artists.
Load More Replies... Auntriarch 8 months ago
I'm guessing it's only a bad thing if they then use the losers' work at a later date
Tostones 8 months ago
This is really the issue. Contest fine print often gives the contest ownership of ALL work and they can and do steal from artists this way.
Load More Replies... Susie Elle 8 months ago
Ain't that kinda the point of a contest? You do the work with the risk of having no return on it? Nobody's getting tricked, especially if they knew up front what the rules were. It's dirty because you're essentially organizing a non-lethal battle royale, but it's still just the way a contest works.
Tom Brincefield 8 months ago
The rules for these kinds of "contests" invariably say that all entries become the property of the company running the contest. So after they payoff the winner, they can use any and all of the entries with no further compensation, plus the artists can't use their work for anything else.
Load More Replies... keyboardtek 8 months ago
In the music industry, keyboard players who compose soundtracks on their computer are offering to score low budget films for free just to break into the film scoring business and get noticed.
#34
I am a web designer. People need to lay off the center alignment. 8/10 times, stuff looks way better left aligned (if you're from a country that reads text left to right) than center aligned. This applies across websites, powerpoints, business cards, posters, everything.
You can tell right away that something has been designed by an amateur if everything is center aligned.
Sam Lombardo 8 months ago
Webdesigner here. Can approve. There are studies that show, that centered text is far less readable. Nonetheless my customers always want it and even design agencies do it all the time.
Alyce 8 months ago
It's white space balance. Center alignment has even white space, while left or right aligned tend to look 'heavy' on that side. It's just aesthetics
Load More Replies... Kat Alison 8 months ago
Editor here, and I agree. I once had a boss who insisted on justified alignment. It makes a document so ugly.
#35
That when referring to the race of a black person as a physical descriptor you do in fact default to the word “black”. African American is only used when you are certain that that person is American and their ancestry does in fact go back to Africa, rather than say Jamaica, Haiti, etc.
Mabelbabel 8 months ago
I once got abused on here for referring to the MOBO awards. In the UK, we have an annual Music Of Black Origin award ceremony-its what the award is called. Black and Black British are the commonly used descriptor if you're stating a person's origin/ethnicity. But no, "Black" is pejorative and I should have said "Music of African American Origin (even though they are British) awards.
nottheactualphoto 8 months ago
I remember an actor being interviewed. The interviewer kept referring to the actor as African American, and the actor said "I'm not any kind of American. I'm black British."
Sheena Leversedge Wood 7 months ago
that was the actor that was in the newer Star Wars films. I forget his name (I'm rubbish at actors names)
Load More Replies... BeesEelsAndPups 8 months ago
I think if you called a black person in my country African American they'd be confused, as they are Brazilian. But their ancestry likely goes back to Africa at some point, no? Although it's likely that they have European ancestors as well. Or even indigenous and Asian ancestors, Brazil being what it is.
Novlette Williams 8 months ago
I am black from Jamaica. If you called me African American I would s l a p you silly.
MagicJacket 8 months ago
I think using the word "black" is fine, as I have no problem with people referring to me as that "white dude." Neither description is hue-accurate, but people know what is meant.
Jonathan Setter 8 months ago
pmsl... dude, did you realise the blacks in Jamaica, Haiti, etc came from Africa the same way the American ones did?
Charles McChristy 8 months ago (edited)
lol, but Jamacians and Haitians have African ancestry...
Dragons Exist 8 months ago
I once witnessed someone arguing that Cleopatra was African American
DeoManus Argentem 8 months ago
It's funny, I had a white coworker tell me I knew the girl who was promoted, "she's African!" (Woman did indeed have very dark skin, was born in Ethiopia) I was like, "uhh, like Michel?" (Michel also had very dark skin, was born in Haiti) and she was like, "Michel's not African, he's black!" SMH, I told Michel and he just laughed.
Anne Young 8 months ago
Um. Usually children aren't promoted. So that's pretty offensive.
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Emilu 7 months ago
I normally go by hair colour/style. Eg: that woman over there with the dark, curly hair. Don’t care if it makes it harder to tell who I mean. Signed, an Asian who often gets called “that Chinese girl”. They usually get something to the effect of“ni hao! … I’m not Chinese.” 🤷🏻♀️
#36
The cigarette smoke and smell will stick to all the textiles in your car, its as if either people dont know or just dont care, its nasty.
Dar Mal 8 months ago
funnily enough, the people who complain about cigarette smell never mention weed
Zaach 8 months ago
Nicotine builds up on the inside of cars, little kids touch everything and then their mouths - do not smoke in the car (or at all)
Be_ Heard 8 months ago
Not everyone has kids. Geez I'll smoke if i want to
Load More Replies... Khavrinen 8 months ago (edited)
Adam Savage ( of "Mythbusters" ) said that one of his worst experiences making the show was when the car they used for the myth about how to escape when your car goes into a river/lake turned out to have been driven by a smoker. He said the water washed out years of smoke residue, so opening his eyes underwater burned like crazy, and when it got in his mouth, it tasted horrible.
BookFanatic 8 months ago
Cigarette smoke sticks to everything. I borrowed a friend's shirt for work and ended up having to wash it first because it reeked of her husband's ciggies.
Upstaged75 8 months ago
I had a friend whose parents smoked in the house. When I'd come home from spending the night there even my hair would stink!
Load More Replies... K Barnes 8 months ago
My best friend's mom smokes heavily and wouldn't let us unroll the windows when she smoked in the car when we were kids. If it was a super hot summer day (no a/c) we could open one window about an inch. I'm still salty about it, it was overwhelmingly disgusting and made me so uncomfortable that I asked my parents to not let her drive me around. I remember when we helped her repaint her place in my teens and saw how YELLOW the walls were by comparison- it was wild.
#37
That antibiotics don't do anything against viruses. Every time I hear someone say they're going to take antibiotics for their cold it seems so stupid to me.
Oh also, I heard someone say "when you have down syndrome, it's probably because your parents were relatives" which is so w r o n g.
(The only factor that affects the chances of a child suffering from down syndrome is the mother's age.)
I also heard someone say that for humans most genetic disorders are due to the lack of chromosomes. That, again, is wrong, there is only one case of people who lack a chromosome and still survive.
sfgothgirl 8 months ago
"The only factor that affects the chances of a child suffering from down syndrome is the mother's age". Sauce? Cuz I musta missed that day in midwife school. (And yes, age of father is a correlating factor.)
Roxy222uk 8 months ago (edited)
Thank you! No one cares to mention that older fathers are more likely to conceive children with difficulties/challenges. All society cares about is blaming mothers. Oh, and I think you meant 'source?' but the misspelling did amusingly confuse me for a moment.
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Multa Nocte 8 months ago
Second one - not true. Increased paternal age also correlates with Down syndrome.
MagicJacket 8 months ago
The risk of birth defects DO in fact double for mothers over 35 or 40 or something. They rise from about 1 in 1000 to 2 in 1000 (I am fudging these numbers, but when people say the risks DOUBLE, it is correct, but we are doubling very small numbers here.)
Foxglove🇮🇪 8 months ago
My son has Down syndrome - while I was 40 when he was born, I know many women who had children with DS in their 20s.
Michelle C 8 months ago
Older parents, especially older fathers, are more likely to have children who have Down syndrome, etc. That’s it; they have no control over whether their children will have Down syndrome or other disabilities otherwise, either!
Mabelbabel 8 months ago
Turner syndrome is a condition where a person (always female) is missing a whole chromosome-they only have one X instead of the usual pair. Most other genetic disorders are caused either by gaining a chromosome (like trisomy 21-Down syndrome, or trisomy 18-Edwards syndrome), or by gaining or losing variable lengths of bits of chromosomes from either the long arm or the short arm of a particular chromosome. And then there's the single gene mutations, where just one gene is abnormal. Whole genome sequencing is now becoming standard to look at genetic disorders, and we are a long way off understanding it all just yet.
Uncle Schmickle 8 months ago
Shouldn't the condition be called Down's syndrome ? If using Down syndrome it still should use the capital D, as it's named after the discoverer, Dr. Down.
#38
911 is not some magic cloud in the sky that automatically knows where you are or where the emergency is.
I need you to tell me where you are. That means YOU need to know where you are. Yes, cell phone technology is great but it doesn't always get it right or it takes a minute or more to get it.
If you call 911 because someone who is not near or with you told you to call (like your dad is having chest pain in Alabama and you are in Oklahoma) calling 911 will get you 911 where you are. I cannot transfer you out of state. You will need the 10 digit non-emergency number to the agency local to the emergency. It is always best if the person having the emergency calls 911.
Answer the questions the 911 dispatcher asks. It is not delaying help. The help is on the way as soon as we have an address. Do not hang up until you are told to do so.
GenuineJen 8 months ago
There's an app called what3words that might be helpful if you find yourself in a situation where you don't know where you are need to provide a very specific location. It will give you three specific words that mark your exact location that you can share with others and they will be able to pinpoint where you are based on those words. I've never had to use it in an emergency situation so I can't say how well it works, but I've used it with family and it's worked great.
Pencil 8 months ago
Most emergency call centers in the US have what3words integrated into their systems so they can decode the words and basically translate them into directions for first-responders. But there are still some call centers that don't have it so don't be 100% reliant that it will work wherever you go.
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Hippopotamuses 8 months ago
The surprising thing here is that an operator can't transfer you out of state. It kind of negates the point of having a universal emergency number.
winterwidow87 8 months ago (edited)
Yep i had to explain this to my dad when he called an ambulance because i fainted. He kept complaining about "those dûmb operators on the phone who kept asking dûmb questions instead of sending help". They need to know where you are and what type of emergency it is, they're not wizards. In my case they asked him questions to understand the severity of the situation because i lost consciousness, but i was still breathing and my heart was still beating. If that wasn't the case they would have sent a doctor with the ambulance, but i just fainted because i was dehydrated and had a high fever so that wasn't necessary. Always answer their questions, they are meant to get you the help you need as soon as possible.
ॐBoyGanesh 8 months ago (edited)
There was a time before mobile phones when landlines were the only ways to make a call. Even to 911. These landlines were at specific addresses which were known by most everyone, as they were published in white pages delivered to every home. 911 centers had computer access to the addresses so when someone would call, they’d know precisely from where. I think it’s a carryover from this time pre-1997 that causes some people to think 911 knows where the call is coming from.
Roxy222uk 8 months ago
Argh, I hate in dramas when all you get is someone screeching into a phone "just get here!!!" Well that'll help them know whether they need the paediatric bag, whether to get off the ambulance with the defibrillator in hand, etc. Those questions are for a reason, so that the paramedics don't need to waste time when they arrive. I know time is tight and the plot line needs to keep moving, but it does rather badly train viewers in how it all works.
StrangeOne 8 months ago
What if you find yourself in a situation where you really don't know where you are?
Huddo's sister 8 months ago (edited)
They will ask you what you can see and may get you to walk a little way to find street signs etc. If you are truly in the middle of nowhere because you were bushwalking or something, they will use your description and connect with helicopters. If you call in a car accident on a highway, you will be asked which exit or overpass you just passed which can be a problem because many drivers will zone out and not know. They will likely (hopefully) get multiple calls though and get enough info from the combined data to be more accurate.
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Binky Melnik 8 months ago (edited)
“The help is on the way as soon as we have an address”: I only learned this in December when my close friend laid dying in the floor. I’d become agitated because I didn’t have a good connection to 911 and felt a lot of the questions they were asking me were wasting time while he laid there dying as he wasn’t breathing. Thank cow 911 operators are trained in being calm and calming the caller; she told me that help was already on the way, that help wasn’t delayed because of all the questions, and that helped calm my increasing hysteria. I think it'd help callers enormously if we were told as soon as help was dispatched; this was my first time hearing this and I just turned 65. Thinking back, sooo many calls would have gone better had I known this as soon as it happened!
Marnie 8 months ago
"Answer the questions the 911 dispatcher asks. It is not delaying help." THEN THEY NEED TO SAY THAT HELP IS ON THE WAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BEFORE ASKING ANY FURTHER QUESTIONS. This pisses me off so much. It's so f*****g obvious that you need to do that.
Lazy Panda 2 8 months ago
Help might not be on the way. They need to know where to send help, if help is really needed, how urgent that help is compared to other cases and the paramedics available. Yes, having someone knocked off their bike with a broken leg is horrible. But if all paramedics are attending scenes where their presence makes a difference between someone living or dieing, they're not going to send help immediately.
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Poppy 8 months ago
In the UK for 999 calls if someone calls from London they will get through to London Ambulance but if it's for a patient in the North East in Newcastle, we have the facility to pass all the necessary information from London to North East Ambulance Service without the caller having to do anything. I agree with the rest though, help us to help you, know where you are, use What3Words if you have it, we have to ask questions to triage the call to get the most appropriate care to the patient and you arguing and complaining is just delaying that help. Kids are the best callers, they listen, answer the questions and will do what you instruct them to do.
#39
People tend to think that lawyers are expensive, so they don’t involve one in drafting contracts. When s**t inevitably hits the fan, they suddenly NEED a lawyer and have to pay 10.000s€ to fix the problem, where a measly 500€ would have gotten them an airtight deal if they hired us in the first place to draft that f*****g thing.
Plus, if we f**k up, we have insurance for that, that covers up to 100.000.000€ in damages, and we aren’t even a big firm.
Janet C 7 months ago
Have a "friend" who was too cheap to pay the €200 local lawyer fee to draft a rental contract for a tenant moving into a house she owned. Tenant turned into a squatter and stopped paying rent. With no contract my friend could do nothing. Ended up costing them THOUSANDS in lost rental fees instead of the €200 she could have paid.
Richienotsorich 8 months ago
I do believe that by being 'whatever' American, rather than just American isn't helping with racism and segregation in the country. It's almost tribal now. Why is St Patrick's day celebrated yet Republic Day (Italy) isn't? Why call yourself a particular race when you've probably never set foot in that country or continent?!
#40
Lawyers write a lot (like a LOT) of stuff down that *probably* wouldn’t actually work in court. It’s just written down to discourage people from going to court (or hiring a lawyer to start a dispute) in the first place.
Looking at you “opening this envelope binds you to all terms and conditions” and other such shenanigans.
Surly Scot 8 months ago
I've worked for 9 lawyers. They don't write much of anything down except drafting complicated pleadings or briefs. They chat about cases, dictate to staff what they want done, and on occassion write out a bunch of paragraphs on an email along with "put this into a pleading for X case and file it". Sometimes long emails are written to clients/insurance adjusters explaining case strategy or events, otherwise, they do a lot of talking and avoiding being in the office.
Upstaged75 8 months ago
Are you aware of how many different types of lawyers there are? Did you only work for one kind of law practice? Because you're talking out of your butt. What about non-profit council? Environmental lawyers? Patent lawyers? The list goes on. Sounds like you worked for Greenberg and Betterman - or other similar ambulance chasers.
Load More Replies... Multa Nocte 8 months ago
Where do they write this? I have few (well, none, actually) interactions with lawyers and I don't know what this is in reference to. Any lawyers out there?
ॐBoyGanesh 8 months ago
An example is when you buy new appliances and the documentation is in a sealed envelope. Usually there will be a legalese page telling you that opening the envelope binds you to certain agreements and that issues must be hashed out in arbitration in specific jurisdictions instead of filing a civil suit.
Load More Replies... Jonathan Setter 8 months ago
yeah the whole computer industry thing of "warranty void if opened thing", Just, NO. If you open the computer and break something, that breakage is not covered by warranty. But the unit is covered by warranty still, and once the breakage is fixed it will be back under warranty. They cannot abrogate their warranty responsibilities with a "void if removed" sticker, no matter how much they try to convince you.
Huddo's sister 8 months ago
Many lawyers have a 'no win, no fee' policy so they just don't take a case if they don't think it will win in court. I doubt that they write much down until after they have decided to take the case.
StrangeOne 8 months ago
I feel like this is the same for all those forms and policies workplaces expect employees to sign. I've checked out some of the policies of my old job and how they aligned with the employment standards laws. My my, there was a lot of legal toe of the lines and some overstepping they took.
#41
Large construction projects will be delayed, and no we can not control it. Nine times out of ten the engineering for it is not finished when we break ground, and the thought process that 20+ subcontractors can work independently but still together and hit every date that you’ve squeezed down to save every last minute is ludacris. It will be completed about one to two months after your “target” date, however, if you try to get in our way and tell us how to do the job your paying us to do I’ve seen it push projects out 6 months before.
Cee Cee 8 months ago
And it most certainly come in way over budget. Watched some contractors outside my office for months. Very noisy then one day silence. They'd forgotten to order diesel. Incompetent, missed the deadline and of course much more expensive than originally stated. Hey not to worry the local residents funded it through council tax.
nottheactualphoto 8 months ago
One of my favorites is the CEO who decides, "well, construction is scheduled to be done on Friday, so let's schedule move-in - and a board meeting! - for Monday." I've had this happen on many projects.
Johnnynatfan 8 months ago
I am in construction and this is pretty spot on. Add to it that things ALWAYS go wrong on projects that cant be planned for and you get more delays.
#42
The little toss a delivery driver does to put your package on your porch is the best it's been handled on its way to you... It's been thrown. It's been stepped on. It's been dropped. It's gone through dozens of conveyor belts. It might have fallen apart and put back in the box and taped back up. If the box is smashed but the product is fine then the box did its job. Don't get mad at us for dropping it 3 inches down to your porch. It'll be okay.
sdorph 8 months ago
And fragile stickers don't do a thing, when your loading a lot of items quickly you've already thrown the box before you see any sticker on it.
Khavrinen 8 months ago
More specifically, don't do a really half-@$$ job of packing something important and expect to make up for it by putting LOTS of "Fragile" stickers on it. Working at UPS I've seen this SO many times.
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Littlemiss 8 months ago
3 inches? I've had packages thrown 3 metres on the front step from the driveway. I'm talking boxes, not tiny packages.
Fabulous chocolate cookie 8 months ago
Well based on how damaged their busses are (especially from DHL) and the fact I see them driving with their doors open on a daily basis, it wouldn't surprise me if they still break it. Not to mention leaving boxes outside for anyone to grab when the person ain't home. But yeah the problem is on both sides. The deliverer is being underpaid a lot by their bosses, and they themselves drive like idiots thanks to the tight schedules.
Jenny Barton 8 months ago
I once had a server box delivered and it had been run over. There were track marks on the box
#43
Just because Amazon can get you something in 24 hours doesnt mean I can.
Huddo's sister 8 months ago
I'm more than happy for it to take longer if it means avoiding Amazon. With very few exceptions do I ever need next day delivery anyway.
Uncle Panda 8 months ago
I ordered something from Uline that showed up about 16 hours after I placed the order. It was so fast, I felt like it was dangerous. I need a little between delay between expectation and gratification or I'm going to want everything delivered that fast.
nottheactualphoto 8 months ago
Just FYI, Uline's founders are very large donors to election deniers and other right-wing candidates and causes.
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There is NO such thing as a GMO free food. Selective breeding by it's very nature means that everything you eat has been genetically modified to look and taste and give a better yield compared to the wild varieties. The only difference is that GMO in a lab is more precise and faster in the results than selective breeding.
Also please please be skeptical/cynical when you see organic or GMO free. Often the label is put there so the price can be hiked up.
Mark Alexander 8 months ago
Selective breeding is not the same as genetic modification. Selective breeding is grafting similar citrus trees together. Genetic modification is like having a salmon f**k an an avacado. The first could happen naturally. The latter is fraught with unintended consequences.
Cee Cee 8 months ago
I'm a retired horticulturalist and find the argument that selective breeding is GMO very annoying and erroneous.
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SirWriteALot 8 months ago
No, the label is put there when it has been certified. At least that's how it works in developed countries.
Upstaged75 8 months ago
Most people who are "against" GMOs have no idea what it even stands for. Unless you grew it yourself everything you buy to eat has been modified in some way.
Vincent Bevort 8 months ago
Clearly, the writer does not understand what GMO (genetic modification) stands for. It is changing the DNA in a LAB.
Rinso The Red 8 months ago
"The only difference is that GMO in a lab is more precise and faster in the results than selective breeding."
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#45
Most military arent taught truly how to fight. Or how to shoot great. We train them to be passable to standards, which are generally higher than the general public, but its not that much higher.
Military grade imo has more to do with swap ability and long lasting (in the heat of the moment) than longevity. I always say military trucks wont break as long as they are running. Once they turn off, they fall apart. But they are pretty standardized and parts are generally easy to swap.
Lost Panda 8 months ago
Military grade is who can give us the most for the cheapest. It doesn't matter about quality as long as it gets the job done. Don't worry, you'll be back fixing it again with more military grade replacement parts two months from now XD
BeesEelsAndPups 8 months ago
I guess I would ask what you mean about how to fight or shoot. I wasn't taught martial arts, but I was trained in several rifles. I was an officer, and I spent a LOT of time studying combat strategy and military history. And I wasn't even in a combat role.
Bi.Felicia 8 months ago
I'm not so sure about not being trained to fight or shoot great. When I was going through US Marine Corps boot camp, we were taught martial arts and had to qualify on the rifle range from 500 yards. All Marines are first and foremost rifleman and our basic training is 13 weeks long. The other branches have anywhere from 7-10 weeks of basic training. The longer training makes a difference.
#46
I work in Ad Sales/Marketing.
The amount of advertising you see every day but don't realise. There's a massive industry working to get you to buy specific things with subtle advertising that you're not gonna notice unless it's pointed out and they're getting better and better at it.
Forrest Hobbs 8 months ago
Hah. The joke's on them. I don't watch TV with adverts. I browse the Web with adblockers. There's only one radio station in my life and that's BBC Radio 4 - no commercial adverts (annoying adverts for BBC stuff, though...). Roadside billboards? Seriously, a lot of them make no sense to me at all - they seem to be referring to other advertising stuff I'm supposed to know about, only I don't. Either that, or they're selling stuff that I'm absolutely 100% not interested in.
StrangeOne 8 months ago (edited)
I'm completely numb to ads. We did advertisement analysis in English Comprehensive Focus, High School, where we broke down all the ways marketers try to manipulate people. Some brand labels are just nice to look at because of their artistry. I can appreciate an entertaining commercial, too. Doesn't mean I'm going to switch to that product. Some products I'll try just to see if it's worth the hype. Usually it's so over exaggerated in commercials, however unnecessarily, as the product is still good, but doesn't perform as magically as the advertisers make it out to be. Sometimes the product ends up being a p**s take. For ex. in Vim commercials, it makes it appear Vim cleans everything and leaves a lustrous shine. What they don't show is that the cream cleaner leaves a grit, and the pretty, turquoise Vim gel for floor cleaning needs to be rinsed. Mr. Clean, or the store brand version, doesn't need rinsing. People will be swayed to buy the product that doesn't need the extra steps.
Bartlet for world domination 8 months ago
So advertising told you that you need special products to clean specific surfaces.
Load More Replies... XenoMurph 8 months ago
All the people thinking advertising doesn't work on them. You think companies spend so many billions on advertising without any effect? Or somehow you are "special"? No, it works on you just the same as anyone else. Your subconscious works just the same as all those other people around you.
Earonn - 8 months ago
Wouldn't be the first time that whole companies fall for snake oil, though. Look, sure, if I'm thinking about buying a car, an ad may work. But in last 54 years, despite all the ads, I didn't buy one. Nor makeyp. Not even the expensive coffee (and still my cups weren't half full - hello, fellow old Germans!). I don't doubt that it can work, but one needs to have the lifestyle to be even remotely interested in these products. And with ads being such a pest, most of the time all I get is a latent anger at the company.
Load More Replies... Magenta Blu 8 months ago
Adds may work... But I still can't afford anything beyond basics and I do t care about brand.. but I take whatever it is cheaper, because rice is rice and milk is milk and as long as I'm not hungry can't care less about adds and brands and stuff
#47
Being an attorney involves tons of reading, writing, research, and very little of your time overall is spent in a courtroom.
You spend more time doing discovery (i.e. fact-finding), interviewing witnesses, preparing for and conducting depositions, and reviewing tons of documents that often have no relevance to the actual case you're working on.
Worst career choice ever.
Upstaged75 8 months ago (edited)
My father was an Intellectual Property lawyer. He only went to court a handful of times in his 50 year career. Fun fact: he wrote the original patent for Mucinex. :) Also, most IP lawyers are also scientists. My dad is a chemist.
#48
We don't care that you're picking up the heaviest weights or even don't know what you're doing, we're here to help you and we respect the effort and commitment you're putting in towards improving yourself at the gym. Besides everyone has to start somewhere.
nottheactualphoto 8 months ago
This is a point of etiquette, which nobody is born knowing.
Load More Replies... #49
1000 degree glass and room temp glass look the same. Put the hot end down facing AWAY from you.
Forrest Hobbs 8 months ago
1000°C is glowing bright orange. 1000°F (538°C) is just about visibly red hot if it's dark - but will still burn you horribly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_heat
Bartlet for world domination 8 months ago
You are correct, but the wiki page is for ferrous metal whereas glass should be considered a (slightly red-shifted) black body.
Load More Replies... Multa Nocte 8 months ago (edited)
I went to a glass factory once when I was younger. I have never had as much respect as I do for people who work with molten glass. That is so frightening to me.
#50
I'm an esthetician so I see a lot of bad things in regards to skin care.
I would say pore strips is probably the biggest thing people are unaware of.
They don't remove blackheads and even if they did they don't come with anything to keep the follicles clean. They're removing sebaceous filaments.
They do more harm than good. If you want to remove blackheads by yourself buy an ultrasonic blade for $30+ on Amazon and some sort of post extraction solution to keep the follicles clean.
Uncle Panda 8 months ago (edited)
I tried a pore strip once and was so grossed out by the resulting nose-wax porcupine that I still shudder at the thought. Ignorance was bliss!
Pencil 8 months ago
Or you can buy an ultrasonic blade NOT on Amazon. [If everyone could please just stop saying to buy things on Amazon specifically. They're not paying you to advertise for them, you don't have to do it for free.]
Upstaged75 8 months ago (edited)
Sorry, but you're not allowed to gatekeep where people shop. Live your life how you want to but you don't get to tell others where they should or shouldn't buy stuff. Or talk about it.
Load More Replies... #51
The 10's of thousands of dollars you have to spend on dirt for your home's foundation is NOT where you want to start cutting corners.
#52
I sell used car parts. There is no such thing as "the wheel that comes with my car." There are a dozen or more styles and sizes of wheels that any given vehicle can come equipped with straight off the dealerships lot. You need to know the size of the wheel and be able to describe the appearance of it if you want me to try and find you the wheel that matches your other three.
Cee Cee 8 months ago
I buy used car and motorbike parts and use owners clubs websites if I'm in doubt. I also take pictures of the part I'm going to replace.
Surly Scot 8 months ago (edited)
My education in tires came from trying to find a 9.5x16.5 load bearing D tire to restore a 1976 Ford E350 Econoline 1tonne van. They haven't made those tires in 20yrs, that was a heck of an adventure.
#53
Apparently nobody knows that you should reset your computer before calling tech support.
Huddo's sister 8 months ago
I think most people do, therefore they aren't calling tech support because it works :)
#54
A nuclear reactor going critical doesn't mean it exploded or anything bad. It simply means it is self sustaining.
SkyyCaramba 8 months ago
you need to be able to stop it, if something goes wrong (I think,not an expert)
Load More Replies... Uncle Panda 8 months ago
Technical vs common definitions. I went critical over not getting the B in a BLT once but there was no fallout. And I got bacon. Win-win!
#55
Someone’s bare hands have touched your food.
Sorry to break it to you. Restaurants ain’t all that.
Heras buddy 8 months ago
In America, people seem to think food is only safe if people wear gloves. Personally I believe that people wash their hands more when not wearing gloves. Although dumb asses who don't wash their hands after using the toilet can cause an outbreak.
Petra Peitsch 8 months ago
Those people are dumb. Wearing gloves results in more cross-contamination, than you'd imagine. Obviously .....
Load More Replies... Roxy222uk 8 months ago
Errr - this is a shock to you why? As long as they are washed, you don't get much better. I do not want my food being prepared by people wearing gloves because they don't get the sensation prompts to wash their hands in between different tasks and they sure as s.h.i.t. aren't changing their gloves that regularly.
#56
Making changes to any mass produced product takes years of planning, designing, planning, training, planning, testing, and more planning before it can be released to the public.
People that want all new (and I mean major brand new stuff, not just a slightly tweaked version of the old) cars or phones or whatever RIGHT NOW THEY'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT IT FOR 5 YEARS WHY DON'T I HAVE TWELVE IN MY POCKET FOR A DOLLAR YET have no comprehension of the massive cost in time, materials, and man-hours (yes, that's a different metric from time) that goes into new product development and has to be recovered within a certain period of time from product launch otherwise there will be no money for the next big new thing ...
Annik Perrot 8 months ago
Then stop planned obsolescence, and most of us will hang on to our old stuff for à good while.
Upstaged75 8 months ago
I've had the same cell phone for 11 years now. Of course it's not an Apple product - it's Samsung. :)
Load More Replies... iBlank 8 months ago
I spend WAY more time complaining products I can no longer get because the latest and "greatest" replaced it. Except that I thought everyone would have jetpacks by now... WHERE IS MY JETPACK?!
Upstaged75 8 months ago
No kidding! I find things I want that are no longer made on sites like Ebay or Mercari. And it's not always used stuff either. Sometimes it's surplus being sold off or an item someone bought and never used. I've had a lot of success that way.
Load More Replies... Stephanie Did It 8 months ago
Do they put the same amount of scheming--er, planning, design, training, and testing into planned obsolescence, too?
Uncle Panda 8 months ago (edited)
And yet somehow, they can still leave a typo for me to find.
#57
A software developer can't fix your d**n phone, uncle.
Uncle Panda 8 months ago
Everyone in the family has asked multiple times.
Load More Replies... Vincent Bevort 8 months ago
I now want to know what kind of phone that was. Never seen a model that will force censoring.
#58
In public auditing (where a company pays you to audit them, not an IRS personal audit), we have a 'materiality' threshold that's based on revenues, assets, etc. and if you're a very large company, that number could be say...$450M. In other words, you can be off $449M on your financial statements, and we don't care.
Michael Largey 8 months ago
Actually the same in the IRS. If auditing a given tax return wouldn't make a $500 difference in the tax, my manager would just send it back to headquarters unaudited.
#59
A*******n issues and substance abuse runs rampant in the food service industry! Especially the kitchen.
winterwidow87 8 months ago
Sorry i know this is serious but my dûmb brain couldn't figure what the censored word was and got fixated on "Australian" for some reason. The word is addictiön.
PunnyPanda 8 months ago
BP's censorship is completely ridiculous at this point.
Load More Replies... Shannanigans 8 months ago
Without a doubt. My brother's easy access to alcohol has been a big issue. It's everywhere. I also worked in a museum with cameras in an alley. I saw a beautiful young girl chug a bottle of vodka before walking in to her job at the taco place next door. I called pretending I was someone who just ate there and told her what I saw. I pray it was a wakeup call.
Upstaged75 8 months ago
In the hotel industry too - which is similar. I worked at a luxury hotel when I was younger and there was some WILD stuff going on there. I have stories for days. :)
Shannon Murdock 8 months ago
Read Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain for an uncensored view of kitchen culture.
Michelle C 8 months ago
Unfortunately, yes, I’ve known enough people who work in food service or have worked in the industry to know that this is true.
Nikki Private Citizen 8 months ago
A Head Chef I used to work with had the best pot...so I heard.
#60
Professors have NO formal training on how to teach/educate.
Vincent Bevort 8 months ago
Where do you live? Where I live, they have to attend mandatory education for being allowed to teach in whatever form the area demands. And I said “Education” not “training” there is a difference!
JJ 8 months ago
Depends on the university. While professors might not be specifically trained, their teaching abilities should be tested before. At my university a committee is formed to choose candidates, have conversations before, test their teaching abilities in a real group of students, test them again after they started teaching. Additionally students evaluate (sort of grade) every course and teacher at the end of the term. This is a standard procedure in Germany, if universities want to be accredited.
Michelle C 8 months ago
This is absolutely not true. I work in a similar capacity and we do have to have highly specialized training.
Charles McChristy 8 months ago
That's not true as most insitutions require their own training expecially with retention.
Uncle Panda 8 months ago (edited)
I believe I was present during the first wave of "all GRAs have to teach a minimum of a semester class." This was a well-planned and delivered grad course at UIUC in Champaign, USA (circa 1990). We learned instructional technique, information design, good use of media, how to design tests, etc.. FWIW, it was valuable and I've drawn on it countless times.
Uncle Panda 8 months ago
Now that I've written that, I think the class I took was designed by previous generations to address what was missing in their teachers. And so it goes.
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Michael Largey 8 months ago (edited)
American universities value professors on publication in professional journals and the ability to sucessfully apply for research grants. (Both those activities are aided by good articulation skills, so those priorities can improve teaching indirectly.)
Thorsten Massow 8 months ago
No, to become a university professor you have to be good in your field of science. And if this science is not education, you most likely won't have had any teaching skills...
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Tara Noe 8 months ago
Nearly everything people seem to think about teachers is wrong. All those holidays? Don't make me laugh. When do you think we have time to plan and prepare 30 hours a week worth of lessons? At work? Sorry, but any precious office time I've got is spent on admin and training. And there is no lesson fairy that comes to me while I sleep to leave perfectly structured resources that account for the incredible range of learning styles, personalities, disabilities, and psychological problems in a class. It takes a LOT of education and a LOT of effort to make sure your TikTok addicted, RedBull chugging teen, pays attention for more than 5 seconds and learns something. I'm sorry if you think he's an angel and we're just incompetent, but you really have no idea what we face.
Littlemiss 8 months ago
Thank you! I once had a teacher in another country attack me because I defended teachers I know that work 12 to 14 hour days. They claimed because it didn't happen to them that it never happened at all. I supply things for my classes, resources, plans, time and effort. No holidays for me, no time off with pay when you send your sick child into school and infect a class full of children and I get sick and pass it onto my family. Professional development doesn't just get put into your head, I have to pay and go to implement and teach a team about and hope they care enough to do it too.
Load More Replies... BeesEelsAndPups 8 months ago
Software engineering. You will need to constantly learn new technologies and approaches. Nobody will pay for this training, you will need to do this on your own time. Job security is a joke, if you want to work on interesting projects with high pay. Most startups fail. Until you have at least five years experience, you will have a hard time finding work. If you are a boot camp graduate, be prepared to compete with people that have their Master's in Comp Sci for entry level jobs right now. Ive been at this over 25 years, and this is the worst job market I've seen since the Dot Com bust in 2000-2001.
Grenelda Thurber 8 months ago
Yep, all the technology I worried about not being current on 5 years ago is obsolete now. And it's happening faster and faster. You haven't been involved in software development very long if you think you're all set for your career.
Load More Replies... Surly Scot 8 months ago (edited)
"What aspect of your profession do you think surprises people the most?" - The amount of babysitting I have to do for employers. IT'S 2025, LEARN HOW TO RIGHT-CLICK AND PASTE, YOU HAVE 2 DEGREES FOR GODS SAKE!
StrangeOne 8 months ago
Thrift stores, at least the company I work for, doesn't sell dirty, used underwear. Not even tried on underwear. It has to be found in sealed in the package or swifttached together and obviously unused and in pristine condition to be sold. The bras? They have to be at least be clean and decent condition. We cannot guarantee, actually it's most guaranteed that all items have been rolling around with other nasty stuff that we tossed, no matter how nice and clean what we put out on the floor. Always wash what you buy before you use it. Yes, we are sticklers for keeping an eye out for bugs. Bed bugs will have us tossing out entire cart loads of items, all employees will have their pants tucked into their socks and immediately go out to the sales floor while the managers disinfect and take care of the problem. None of us want to take any critters home with us. We are taking extra caution with that and do take it VERY seriously. What may shock you even more, people donate loaded guns.
Hassel Davidhoff 8 months ago
Tell me you're American without telling me you're American.
Load More Replies... Huddo's sister 8 months ago (edited)
Early child education, even 'just' outside of school hours care, has learning frameworks/curricula that is used for planning experiences. They can't just sit and let the kids amuse themselves without supporting documentation as to why they are doing it. Play based and child led programs are still structured programs with justification. If they can't explain why the children were doing an activity, with documentation, they can get their assessment and rating downgraded. Some of the childcare centres etc with more resources will take more staff on or create misleading documentation just to pass the assessment & rating, but parents are allowed to ask about the programming at anytime and there are certain things, like the routine and learning program that must be on display at all times. If a parent is dissatisfied they can go up the chain and question the programming and report to the education department if needed. (This is in Australia, it might be different elsewhere but is likely to be similar in most developed countries)
Littlemiss 8 months ago
Good teaching is very different from the 'child minding' of yesteryear. I read an article recently where a NZ minister let a downright awful centre get away with loads of bad practices because he thought their paperwork looked ok to him. He had absolutely no idea nor interest in actual education as long as the paperwork looked fine the owner was okay. David Seymour is now back peddling fast. The teachers council was shutting the centre down.
Load More Replies... Tim Douglass 8 months ago
If you work in a foundry, "spit before you sit". Hot steel looks exactly like cold steel!
James016 8 months ago
What aspect of your profession do you think surprises people the most? The amount of colleagues that are happy to break data protection laws and expects us in IT to just go along with it. We have a Data Protection Officer, she decides whether your request can be actioned or not so stop arguing with me.
Lost Panda 8 months ago
Just because we are not doing anything this moment does not mean we are not necessary. If your IT dept. is always running around, or alway 100% busy... there is either some major stuff going down, or they are inept.
James016 8 months ago
I'm in IT and we are 100% busy as there is a lot going on, and we are about to have 6 days of ISO audits which is going to be horrible.
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Susie Elle 8 months ago
As a biochem technician, I disagree with a lot of the 'great results!' PhDs and postdocs manage to conjure up. Your melting curves are subpar, therefore your qPCR is unreliable. Design new primers!
Tara Noe 8 months ago
Nearly everything people seem to think about teachers is wrong. All those holidays? Don't make me laugh. When do you think we have time to plan and prepare 30 hours a week worth of lessons? At work? Sorry, but any precious office time I've got is spent on admin and training. And there is no lesson fairy that comes to me while I sleep to leave perfectly structured resources that account for the incredible range of learning styles, personalities, disabilities, and psychological problems in a class. It takes a LOT of education and a LOT of effort to make sure your TikTok addicted, RedBull chugging teen, pays attention for more than 5 seconds and learns something. I'm sorry if you think he's an angel and we're just incompetent, but you really have no idea what we face.
Littlemiss 8 months ago
Thank you! I once had a teacher in another country attack me because I defended teachers I know that work 12 to 14 hour days. They claimed because it didn't happen to them that it never happened at all. I supply things for my classes, resources, plans, time and effort. No holidays for me, no time off with pay when you send your sick child into school and infect a class full of children and I get sick and pass it onto my family. Professional development doesn't just get put into your head, I have to pay and go to implement and teach a team about and hope they care enough to do it too.
Load More Replies... BeesEelsAndPups 8 months ago
Software engineering. You will need to constantly learn new technologies and approaches. Nobody will pay for this training, you will need to do this on your own time. Job security is a joke, if you want to work on interesting projects with high pay. Most startups fail. Until you have at least five years experience, you will have a hard time finding work. If you are a boot camp graduate, be prepared to compete with people that have their Master's in Comp Sci for entry level jobs right now. Ive been at this over 25 years, and this is the worst job market I've seen since the Dot Com bust in 2000-2001.
Grenelda Thurber 8 months ago
Yep, all the technology I worried about not being current on 5 years ago is obsolete now. And it's happening faster and faster. You haven't been involved in software development very long if you think you're all set for your career.
Load More Replies... Surly Scot 8 months ago (edited)
"What aspect of your profession do you think surprises people the most?" - The amount of babysitting I have to do for employers. IT'S 2025, LEARN HOW TO RIGHT-CLICK AND PASTE, YOU HAVE 2 DEGREES FOR GODS SAKE!
StrangeOne 8 months ago
Thrift stores, at least the company I work for, doesn't sell dirty, used underwear. Not even tried on underwear. It has to be found in sealed in the package or swifttached together and obviously unused and in pristine condition to be sold. The bras? They have to be at least be clean and decent condition. We cannot guarantee, actually it's most guaranteed that all items have been rolling around with other nasty stuff that we tossed, no matter how nice and clean what we put out on the floor. Always wash what you buy before you use it. Yes, we are sticklers for keeping an eye out for bugs. Bed bugs will have us tossing out entire cart loads of items, all employees will have their pants tucked into their socks and immediately go out to the sales floor while the managers disinfect and take care of the problem. None of us want to take any critters home with us. We are taking extra caution with that and do take it VERY seriously. What may shock you even more, people donate loaded guns.
Hassel Davidhoff 8 months ago
Tell me you're American without telling me you're American.
Load More Replies... Huddo's sister 8 months ago (edited)
Early child education, even 'just' outside of school hours care, has learning frameworks/curricula that is used for planning experiences. They can't just sit and let the kids amuse themselves without supporting documentation as to why they are doing it. Play based and child led programs are still structured programs with justification. If they can't explain why the children were doing an activity, with documentation, they can get their assessment and rating downgraded. Some of the childcare centres etc with more resources will take more staff on or create misleading documentation just to pass the assessment & rating, but parents are allowed to ask about the programming at anytime and there are certain things, like the routine and learning program that must be on display at all times. If a parent is dissatisfied they can go up the chain and question the programming and report to the education department if needed. (This is in Australia, it might be different elsewhere but is likely to be similar in most developed countries)
Littlemiss 8 months ago
Good teaching is very different from the 'child minding' of yesteryear. I read an article recently where a NZ minister let a downright awful centre get away with loads of bad practices because he thought their paperwork looked ok to him. He had absolutely no idea nor interest in actual education as long as the paperwork looked fine the owner was okay. David Seymour is now back peddling fast. The teachers council was shutting the centre down.
Load More Replies... Tim Douglass 8 months ago
If you work in a foundry, "spit before you sit". Hot steel looks exactly like cold steel!
James016 8 months ago
What aspect of your profession do you think surprises people the most? The amount of colleagues that are happy to break data protection laws and expects us in IT to just go along with it. We have a Data Protection Officer, she decides whether your request can be actioned or not so stop arguing with me.
Lost Panda 8 months ago
Just because we are not doing anything this moment does not mean we are not necessary. If your IT dept. is always running around, or alway 100% busy... there is either some major stuff going down, or they are inept.
James016 8 months ago
I'm in IT and we are 100% busy as there is a lot going on, and we are about to have 6 days of ISO audits which is going to be horrible.
Load More Replies... Susie Elle 8 months ago
As a biochem technician, I disagree with a lot of the 'great results!' PhDs and postdocs manage to conjure up. Your melting curves are subpar, therefore your qPCR is unreliable. Design new primers!
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