Topic: The 'Let's Bitch About Our Jobs' thread. (Read 213854 times)

Min · « **Reply #350 on:** October 24, 2008, 02:38:12 PM »

Yeah, it was the bonus question on a test. I'm awesome. It said so on my overhead projector today.

BizB · « **Reply #351 on:** October 24, 2008, 07:32:02 PM »

I didn't realize you were teaching special needs kids this year. You're awesome AND you have a big heart.

Jaepheth · « **Reply #352 on:** October 27, 2008, 11:35:21 PM »

You should have as a bonus question on the next exam (+80 billion points and an instant A+ for the school year):

Prove or disprove that all nontrivial zeros of the analytical continuation of the Riemann zeta function have a real part of 1/2.

I can't wait to get an actuarial job.... I'd feel so much better gouging corporations than gouging customers.
Got a virus on your machine? Sure we can fix it.... FOR $200 DOLLARS!

I'd open my own PC repair shop, but I don't plan on being in this industry that long.

Min · « **Reply #353 on:** October 28, 2008, 02:40:18 PM »

I broke up a fight today in front of my classroom. It was crazy.

kanca mosan · « **Reply #354 on:** October 28, 2008, 02:48:07 PM »

Please expound on that thought! Sounds very interesting. Plus, it would be something else to distract me right now.

Min · « **Reply #355 on:** October 29, 2008, 03:28:35 PM »

Two high school rednecks beating the crap out of each other in front of my classroom. I decided, in all my 5 foot half inch glory, to step between them and say "stop". By some miracle, they did.

(Guess they know who the fuck I am.

)

kanca mosan · « **Reply #356 on:** October 29, 2008, 03:35:27 PM »

That, my friend, is pretty awesome. Nice job.

Min · « **Reply #357 on:** October 29, 2008, 03:49:53 PM »

Thanks John.

Demosthenes · « **Reply #358 on:** October 29, 2008, 04:05:17 PM »

Told those bitches you were a moderator at teh Geekery (OMFGLOL!!1), didn't you!

kanca mosan · « **Reply #359 on:** October 29, 2008, 04:06:23 PM »

I absolutely resent that remark. I AM NOT JOHN MCCAIN!

Do not take that personally...

MISTER MASSACRE · « **Reply #360 on:** October 29, 2008, 04:22:54 PM »

Quote from: Detta on October 29, 2008, 03:28:35 PM

Two high school rednecks beating the crap out of each other in front of my classroom.

Couldn't you just have incorporated this into a lesson about evolution?

12AX7 · « **Reply #361 on:** October 30, 2008, 01:12:38 PM »

Quote from: Lacerda on October 29, 2008, 04:22:54 PM

Couldn't you just have incorporated this into a lesson about evolution?

Is it still Creationism since she's a Goddess?

xolik · « **Reply #362 on:** October 30, 2008, 01:13:50 PM »

I shouldn't have to tell the 'technical' people how to check the amount of free drive space on a hard drive. I shouldn't have to give them a dumbed down utility that lets them know how large each folder is on disk. They should know how to do this already.

Not two minutes after I tell them how to check folder size I get a call back from him asking me if it's ok to delete user profile data because 'it's taking up disk space.'

Mark my words, this idiot tech is going to go hog wild deleting any file larger than 2mb now and I'll get the blame for it since I showed him how to check folder and file size. Of course it will be my fault, because if you give a chimp a gun and the chimp shoots someone, you can't blame the chimp.

12AX7 · « **Reply #363 on:** October 30, 2008, 01:16:49 PM »

Doesn't know how to see folder and file sizes and he's a TECH??
Wow.

* 12AX7 starts scripting the Tech-O-Tron ...

ivan · « **Reply #364 on:** October 30, 2008, 01:22:36 PM »

If a user profile is taking up a lot of disk space, delete the nekkid jaypeggs from the browser cache.

Wunderkind · « **Reply #365 on:** November 05, 2008, 12:47:32 AM »

Goddammit people.
I realize the elections are a pretty big deal but pissing and moaning and arguing with a guest about the outcome, which you have no power to change (minus assassination), when you work 3rd shift front desk in a hotel is NOT appropriate behavior, i don't care what country you live in. Damn I work with some stupid people.
How the fuck do you start an arguement about the election outcome with a guest at the front desk anyway?

"Hey you look like a Democrat. Why did you vote for him?"

xolik · « **Reply #366 on:** November 18, 2008, 06:48:19 PM »

Boss just scheduled me to be project lead right on the week I have my finals and a door just fell on me.

I'm pissed off and bleeding.

Demosthenes · « **Reply #367 on:** November 19, 2008, 10:49:25 AM »

What the hell kind of project IS that!?

ivan · « **Reply #368 on:** November 19, 2008, 10:56:07 AM »

Quote from: Demosthenes on November 19, 2008, 10:49:25 AM

What the hell kind of project IS that!?

Ya, I was actually dumbfounded. I tried feebly to come up with an Aldous Huxley or Jim Morrison riff, then just gave up and let someone with a clearer head say what needs to be said.

Project... Bleeding... Door fell on... WHAT THE FOXTROT???

Demosthenes · « **Reply #369 on:** November 19, 2008, 10:58:35 AM »

Yeah, I was initially working out a Ray Manzarek reference, but when I couldn't find a way to get it to fruition I just went for the garden variety "confusion over two unrelated subjects" approach.

I think it works.

ivan · « **Reply #370 on:** November 19, 2008, 11:41:12 AM »

It's a classic.

Scheherazade · « **Reply #371 on:** November 19, 2008, 05:29:56 PM »

I'm aware that school isn't really a job, but I just have to vent a little about this paper I wrote.

My history professor assigned a paper about three weeks ago. She never wanted to see a rough draft or anything, just the final completed paper, and she gave us a due date (this Friday). The paper has to be eight pages long. She told us we could write the paper on absolutely anything to do with the current chapter we're on in the text. So I wrote this really great paper on religion, how the catholic church split between Roman Catholic and Greek orthodox and then about Protestants and Lutherans, etc. I know it was a great paper because I handed it to her early (as she said we could) and she sent me an email telling me how much she liked it.

Today is Wednesday. I get to class before her. She walks in, slams her bag down on the table, and tells us we have to change the topics of our papers. She says now it HAS to be on the Crusades (Saladin and Richard, specifically). Naturally, no one had done a paper on the Crusades. It's still due Friday - so I have to do the research and rewrite an eight page paper in two days.

Not only do I now have to re-do the paper, but I wasted a perfectly good paper in the process. *fumes*

/rant

Min · « **Reply #372 on:** November 19, 2008, 06:06:26 PM »

A good teacher sets the expectation early.

BizB · « **Reply #373 on:** November 20, 2008, 09:26:30 AM »

I would go see her during her office hours.

Walk into her office.
Slam your bookbag down onto her desk.
Sit down with an exasperated sigh.
Pull out 8 blank sheets of paper and place them on her desk one at a time while counting them out loud in Sesame Street's The Count voice.
Then, just sit there and stare at her until she calls campus security.

Joe Sixpack · « **Reply #374 on:** November 20, 2008, 10:23:55 AM »

Make a couple changes to show how the crusades led to the events that were in your first paper.

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