Author Topic: Quotes from work (Read 191821 times)

rivka · « **Reply #1575 on:** April 04, 2016, 02:42:01 PM »

In a discussion as to whether international students should be given extra time on exams:

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We had a professor who did give all his international students a bit of extra time on exams. When the Americans complained he told them he would be happy to give them the extra time and they could pick the language [other than English] they would like to take the test in.

Jonathon · « **Reply #1576 on:** April 04, 2016, 02:56:20 PM »

Jonathon · « **Reply #1577 on:** May 23, 2016, 12:52:40 PM »

"for your FYI"

rivka · « **Reply #1578 on:** May 23, 2016, 05:22:18 PM »

:faceplam:

Tante Shvester · « **Reply #1579 on:** May 23, 2016, 09:23:54 PM »

I like it. For your FYI, I got $60 from the automatic teller ATM so I could buy something for the bring your own BYOB party.

Oh my OMG!

Jonathon · « **Reply #1580 on:** May 23, 2016, 09:36:55 PM »

Literally laughing out LOL.

Jonathon · « **Reply #1581 on:** May 31, 2016, 02:24:09 PM »

From a math lesson on line equations:

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Many of you will have seen lines before.

I feel bad for those students from poor families who couldn't afford lines. They must have been so lost when they got to this lesson.

Annie Subjunctive · « **Reply #1582 on:** May 31, 2016, 03:17:53 PM »

Quote from: Jonathon on May 23, 2016, 12:52:40 PM

"for your FYI"

Is there any possibility they were trying to be clever here? I can see myself saying that in a casual group email trying to be funny.

But it probably wasn't, was it? It was probably a treatise on political instability in sub-Saharan Africa.

Jonathon · « **Reply #1583 on:** May 31, 2016, 03:33:20 PM »

I don't think it was supposed to be funny. It was said in a meeting, and I'm guessing it was just an accident.

I'm still a big fan of "as a for example", though. I had a boss who used that all the time.

rivka · « **Reply #1584 on:** May 31, 2016, 04:06:34 PM »

Quote from: Jonathon on May 31, 2016, 02:24:09 PM

From a math lesson on line equations:

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Many of you will have seen lines before.

I feel bad for those students from poor families who couldn't afford lines. They must have been so lost when they got to this lesson.

Tante Shvester · « **Reply #1585 on:** May 31, 2016, 09:04:38 PM »

Quote from: Jonathon on May 31, 2016, 03:33:20 PM

I don't think it was supposed to be funny. It was said in a meeting, and I'm guessing it was just an accident.

I'm still a big fan of "as a for example", though. I had a boss who used that all the time.

I'm partial to "as a f'r'instance".

Jonathon · « **Reply #1586 on:** June 09, 2016, 01:08:06 PM »

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In 1884, Thomas Edison invented the vacuum tube. We know it today as the light bulb.

My first reaction was

. Apparently it's not too far off from the truth, though—lots of people, Edison included, were experimenting with evacuated tubes, and what we know as a vacuum tube grew out of that research. Of course, Edison wasn't really the first person to invent the light bulb, either—he's just the first one to make a commercially viable light bulb.

So, actually, my reaction is still

.

Jonathon · « **Reply #1587 on:** June 29, 2016, 11:41:43 AM »

"I haven't ever worked with accessibility text before. Is that some sort of political correctness thing?"

Tante Shvester · « **Reply #1588 on:** June 29, 2016, 11:50:15 AM »

That's adorable.

rivka · « **Reply #1589 on:** June 29, 2016, 12:20:34 PM »

:facepalm:

Jonathon · « **Reply #1590 on:** June 29, 2016, 12:54:32 PM »

Yeah, because making courses accessible to people with disabilities is just a fad about catering to people who are easily offended rather than a legal and moral obligation to make sure that people with disabilities have an equal opportunity to get an education.

Jonathon · « **Reply #1591 on:** July 06, 2016, 09:28:17 AM »

"It's so much quicker to ask you than to look it up myself."
"I'm not going to remember any of this."

rivka · « **Reply #1592 on:** July 06, 2016, 09:37:42 AM »

Jonathon · « **Reply #1593 on:** July 06, 2016, 01:19:18 PM »

Pro tip: When your boss is teaching you a skill that is critical to your job, don't tell him that you're not going to remember any of it, as if saying that excuses you from having to know it. If you're really struggling to learn something, then we need to have an honest talk about it, not a flippant remark.

rivka · « **Reply #1594 on:** July 06, 2016, 01:35:35 PM »

These are coming from your direct reports? Oh, that's just criminally stupid.

Comments like that are bad enough when they come from colleagues or people who don't report to you directly.

Jonathon · « **Reply #1595 on:** July 06, 2016, 01:48:03 PM »

Jonathon · « **Reply #1596 on:** July 21, 2016, 01:59:02 PM »

I edited a transcription of this video, and there's a part where the transcription left something blank because they couldn't understand what was being said. (It's at 3:35, if anyone's curious.) I watched the video, figured out that he was saying "air purifier", and inserted the change.

Someone following after me watched the same clip and apparently disagreed. They made a comment saying, "This was in Japanese."

Samsung's CEO is Korean, not Japanese.
I'm still pretty sure it was "air purifier", not a random word in Korean inserted into an otherwise-English talk.

Jonathon · « **Reply #1597 on:** July 21, 2016, 02:03:25 PM »

I also marked that "Ctlopan" should be "6LoWPAN" at 4:33, but this person disagreed (even though "6LoWPAN" is clearly visible on screen) and said it should be 6LoPAN. They wrote, "I checked this with the video—but I'll check again if you want." Okay, sure, except that 6LoWPAN is a thing and 6LoPAN isn't.

Keith · « **Reply #1598 on:** July 25, 2016, 12:53:51 PM »

Porter · « **Reply #1599 on:** July 27, 2016, 02:07:54 PM »

Quote from: Tante Shvester on May 23, 2016, 09:23:54 PM

I like it. For your FYI, I got $60 from the automatic teller ATM so I could buy something for the bring your own BYOB party.

Oh my OMG!

Quote from: Jonathon on May 23, 2016, 09:36:55 PM

Literally laughing out LOL.

I think I need to lie down for a while after reading those.