― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 13:58 (twenty-one years ago) link
― dave q, Wednesday, 15 January 2003 14:21 (twenty-one years ago) link
― g-kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 14:45 (twenty-one years ago) link
Other things he did: worked at his cube standing up (making everyone around him very tense), unbuttoned his shirts halfway down his chest, commented on every phone conversation I had (work related or not), talked to himself, and played horrible CD-Rs of cabaret tunes he wrote and produced. I think the whole experience inoculated me against ever being annoyed by co-workers again.
― mike a (mike a), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 16:14 (twenty-one years ago) link
Unfortunately something this stupid is uttered in my office at least once a day...
― Nicole (Nicole), Thursday, 16 January 2003 03:26 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 16 January 2003 03:54 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Nicole (Nicole), Thursday, 16 January 2003 03:56 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 16 January 2003 03:57 (twenty-one years ago) link
― isadora (isadora), Thursday, 16 January 2003 04:15 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 16 January 2003 04:54 (twenty-one years ago) link
― j.lu (j.lu), Thursday, 16 January 2003 23:19 (twenty-one years ago) link
― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 16:09 (twenty years ago) link
― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 16:16 (twenty years ago) link
An old japanese woman wearing a baby dress and pigtails jumping and down in front of me at the desk. I just came in. Please, let me wake up a bit first. Or am I still dreaming?
― Erik, Wednesday, 2 April 2003 16:30 (twenty years ago) link
― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 16:37 (twenty years ago) link
― Sarah McLUsky (coco), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 18:16 (twenty years ago) link
― Sarah MCLUsky (coco), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 18:16 (twenty years ago) link
i feel like i'm missing out
― jess (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 18:21 (twenty years ago) link
There's nothing like a five minute meeting with your boss in which he tells you that you've basically got like two months to turn things around with a mouth full of Mike n' Ikes.
― hstencil, Wednesday, 2 April 2003 18:23 (twenty years ago) link
― cybele (cybele), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 19:14 (twenty years ago) link
big flat mole on the left side of his face with 9 really long and scraggly hairs growing out of it. He was always playing with them... twisting and pulling on them (but not pulling them out.) Very distracting....
― order some disorder, Wednesday, 2 April 2003 23:19 (twenty years ago) link
"Please tell me if you understand what I am saying, at the moment in the exqualifier there are only a 4 digit code, you append another 3 in front of them I don't know where, but doesn't matter anyway to sort out the letter in the front for the new code."
I assure you it makes only 1% more sense to me than it does to you.
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 3 April 2003 10:19 (twenty years ago) link
― Andrew (enneff), Thursday, 3 April 2003 10:54 (twenty years ago) link
― Nick A. (Nick A.), Thursday, 3 April 2003 11:23 (twenty years ago) link
― toraneko (toraneko), Thursday, 3 April 2003 14:18 (twenty years ago) link
THis goes on at least ONCE A WEEK in my office.
― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 3 April 2003 14:35 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 3 April 2003 14:40 (twenty years ago) link
Also, I don't think the owner's secretary knows how to use the phone properly, because she's always complaining that "the phones are down", but it's only her phone, apparently. And when someone comes in to test it, it works.
― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 3 April 2003 14:45 (twenty years ago) link
I think you just identified the perv dream of far too many people in the world. But you'd have to give them guns too.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 3 April 2003 14:47 (twenty years ago) link
― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 3 April 2003 14:49 (twenty years ago) link
― Sarah McLUsky (coco), Thursday, 3 April 2003 14:57 (twenty years ago) link
― Nick A. (Nick A.), Thursday, 3 April 2003 15:58 (twenty years ago) link
― g-kit (g-kit), Friday, 4 April 2003 07:12 (twenty years ago) link
― smee (smee), Friday, 4 April 2003 07:14 (twenty years ago) link
― Madeleine (Madeleine), Friday, 4 April 2003 07:29 (twenty years ago) link
The only really annoying thing my current co-workers do is send me ridiculous spam forwards about poisoned shampoo samples (normally originating from higher up in the Council!), then look sceptical when I explain that it's a dumb scaremongering thing to do. Also I have to tell them how to spell things all the live long day.
― Liz :x (Liz :x), Friday, 4 April 2003 07:41 (twenty years ago) link
― suzy (suzy), Friday, 4 April 2003 08:04 (twenty years ago) link
― Archel (Archel), Friday, 4 April 2003 09:16 (twenty years ago) link
― Archel (Archel), Friday, 4 April 2003 09:18 (twenty years ago) link
― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 4 April 2003 12:27 (twenty years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 4 April 2003 15:29 (twenty years ago) link
― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 10 April 2003 10:42 (twenty years ago) link
― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 10 April 2003 10:52 (twenty years ago) link
― Nick A. (Nick A.), Thursday, 10 April 2003 11:04 (twenty years ago) link
― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 10 April 2003 11:06 (twenty years ago) link
I have found that replying to annoying forwarders with a link to Urban Legends stops them dead in their tracks.
― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 10 April 2003 11:27 (twenty years ago) link
― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 10 April 2003 11:28 (twenty years ago) link
― Nick A. (Nick A.), Thursday, 10 April 2003 11:28 (twenty years ago) link
One of our senior partners asked me to scan some pictures for his daughter this morning, first thing - they were from medical books, examples of colostomys, I still feel ill.....
― smee (smee), Thursday, 10 April 2003 11:31 (twenty years ago) link
― Aaron W (Aaron W), Thursday, 10 April 2003 11:36 (twenty years ago) link
the lecturing comment, i mean
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Thursday, 21 March 2024 22:18 (one week ago) link
To simply blame the speaker is ignoring a huge number of variables, from whether the course is required to whether the student thought it would be a gut when it isn’t to the ability of contemporary technology to distract and consume our attention more than what is actually important and right in front of us. The speaker isn’t always at fault, and the listener or student isn’t always innocent. In a sense, your scenario places all of the onus for education on the educator, and frankly, that’s horseshit
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Thursday, 21 March 2024 22:22 (one week ago) link
I too enjoy when my employer treats me like a toddler.
Whole lotta low-paid working class jobs where that's the rule, not the exception.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 21 March 2024 22:29 (one week ago) link
It is on asserts own lecturing though, table. It is admittedly harsh on the speaker (I had a nobel lecturer who stupidly had his class scheduled to clash with Champions League games, though I would note he also didn't win his nobel for lecturing)
It is good for any lecturer to see that as a challenge to raise their game though. Focusing more on delivering your message well will be better for those who want to pay attention. Even if you don't win.
― horizontal, Thursday, 21 March 2024 22:50 (one week ago) link
The general principle I operate on is that under no circumstance can I make everyone listen.
But...if I begin losing half of the class or more, including people who had previously been focused, then maybe I need to change gears.
Not even necessarily my fault that it happened, but my responsibility to try a new strategy.
Of course the big wild card are cliques or people who manage to distract other people. If you have one or two people repeatedly distract well-meaning students, or a group of friends who can't focus when they're around each other, them sometimes yr only option is to be the grade school teacher who separates the T-Birds
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Thursday, 21 March 2024 23:06 (one week ago) link
yeah table my view is more like Neando's there, I was exaggerating because I worked with people who would self-immolate by demanding people switch off their phones and pay attention. I was / am a very good lecturer (no point in false modesty, I've been told enough) and my view was that the material was interesting, I'm putting in the work, the students are paying and I'm getting paid, so attention is up to the listener and I'm not going to demand it. Not pitching it right in the lecture, that's totally on me, and I made a contract with students that they could just make a kind of "uhh" noise if something didn't make sense, and if I heard that I would go back and elaborate. Takes the heat off raising a hand to say "I don't get it". And of course that's useless now because it's all online with a sea of black rectangles containing student names.
― assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 22 March 2024 00:07 (one week ago) link
working from home, in meetings where my camera is off, I sometimes close my eyes and lean back to better concentrate on individual speakers. just try doing that in any other context
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Friday, 22 March 2024 13:36 (one week ago) link
is my 7th work anniversary tomorrow so i was going to post on the work message board along the lines of '7 years, eh? you get less for $crime'
looking up 7-year sentences here: https://www.thelawpages.com/court-cases/maximums.php and it gets really dark and nsfw really quickly
― koogs, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 19:30 (three days ago) link