Author Topic: Quotes from work (Read 180692 times)

Jonathon · « **Reply #1675 on:** July 13, 2018, 10:22:54 AM »

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Organizational learning is the procedure utilized by an organization to achieve predetermined outcomes. Focusing on the factors that play into organizational learning can help determine parts of the procedure that are less effective and need to be changed. At a hospital unit level, organization learning is significant because the overall performance of the hospital is linked to the performance of individuals units.

I'm not sure what this actually says because I fell asleep in the middle of the first sentence.

Jonathon · « **Reply #1676 on:** July 13, 2018, 10:34:42 AM »

I think you could just about replace every noun with "thing" and it would make as much sense.

rivka · « **Reply #1677 on:** July 13, 2018, 10:56:56 AM »

Let's try and see!

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Thing is the thing utilized by a[n] thing to achieve predetermined things. Focusing on the things that play into thing can help determine things of the thing that are less effective and need to be changed. At a thing level, thing is significant because the overall thing of the thing is linked to the thing of individual things.

I think this is better, actually.

Jonathon · « **Reply #1678 on:** July 13, 2018, 11:19:51 AM »

Jonathon · « **Reply #1679 on:** July 13, 2018, 11:49:56 AM »

Aaaaand it turns out this whole article isn't even accurate. It's about a study on organizational learning in hospitals, but the study was actually about organizational learning in colleges of nursing. I'm sending it back to the client and asking what they want me to do with it.

rivka · « **Reply #1680 on:** July 13, 2018, 06:03:07 PM »

Hospital, school, it's all the same. Right?

Jonathon · « **Reply #1681 on:** July 13, 2018, 08:57:54 PM »

Sure! Even though the abstract of the paper this piece is talking about specifically said "thing has already been studied in hospitals, but not in schools."

rivka · « **Reply #1682 on:** July 14, 2018, 09:29:58 PM »

Like they actually read the abstract. Psssh.

Jonathon · « **Reply #1683 on:** July 26, 2018, 01:00:02 PM »

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For their first date, the couple went on a hayride. They were engaged three weeks later.

I think this is one of the most Mormon couple of sentences I've ever read.

rivka · « **Reply #1684 on:** July 26, 2018, 02:57:37 PM »

pooka · « **Reply #1685 on:** August 16, 2018, 10:58:47 AM »

When you copy and paste an all caps sentence into a regular document and it says:
"tayloR, Rn, MPa diReCtoR of nuRsing infoRMatiCs"

Jonathon · « **Reply #1686 on:** September 13, 2018, 02:34:21 PM »

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Pro Bono Boot Camps will facilitate service in areas such as domestic violence, housing discrimination, debt collection, and elder abuse.

There's a really unfortunate potential misreading there.

rivka · « **Reply #1687 on:** September 13, 2018, 05:42:52 PM »

Um, yeah.

Jonathon · « **Reply #1688 on:** November 15, 2018, 04:17:52 PM »

"Donating a kidney is just one example of the selfless service [she] renders on a daily basis."

She must have a lot of spare kidneys.

rivka · « **Reply #1689 on:** November 15, 2018, 06:22:05 PM »

Jonathon · « **Reply #1690 on:** March 01, 2019, 02:52:26 PM »

Have you ever had a client or coworker make so many baffling typos that you have literally no idea what they're trying to say? I just got this comment in our project management system:

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Jonathon, Steve has asked that we temivecthe cooyvthat days exceotvfor obecso who went into hiding...we can end after “childten.”

Jonathon · « **Reply #1691 on:** March 01, 2019, 04:03:06 PM »

I eventually figured it out. It's supposed to say "Remove the copy that says except for one sone who went into hiding...we can end after 'children.'"

rivka · « **Reply #1692 on:** March 02, 2019, 07:03:47 PM »

Impressive decoding.

Ela · « **Reply #1693 on:** March 05, 2019, 08:27:01 AM »

Quote from: Jonathon on March 01, 2019, 02:52:26 PM

Have you ever had a client or coworker make so many baffling typos that you have literally no idea what they're trying to say? I just got this comment in our project management system:

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Jonathon, Steve has asked that we temivecthe cooyvthat days exceotvfor obecso who went into hiding...we can end after “childten.”

Yes, I have.

The number of typos in that comment is impressive, however.

Jonathon · « **Reply #1694 on:** March 05, 2019, 09:25:33 AM »

This person makes a lot of typos on a regular basis, but this was an order of magnitude worse than anything I'd seen before.

Ela · « **Reply #1695 on:** March 05, 2019, 11:54:02 AM »

I believe it!

Jonathon · « **Reply #1696 on:** April 08, 2019, 10:24:36 AM »

One of my coworkers called an apple fritter a baklava because she was trying to be fancy, I guess. Apparently she didn't actually know what a baklava is and just thought it was a synonym for pastry or something.

rivka · « **Reply #1697 on:** April 08, 2019, 01:40:06 PM »

It could have been worse. She could have been slightly more confused and called it a balaclava.

Jonathon · « **Reply #1698 on:** April 08, 2019, 02:09:07 PM »

True.

Tante Shvester · « **Reply #1699 on:** April 09, 2019, 04:51:48 AM »

Balalaika.