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A lot of American, and everywhere else, accents and vernacular are effectively put on and are hard to understand so yeah don't care if Duane from Bumfuck feigns the inability to understand basic English.

OTOH I had an Indian working for me who communicated to Indian suppliers in English and I had no idea what either of them were writing or saying.

Dilbert_X wrote:

Thats pretty miserable Ken, 'terminating' people because they had the misfortune of poor mentoring and slack accountability.

Thats on the company, not them.

I've been in a few companies with shitty management which blame employees for their shitty management.

I just fired someone that has been at my company for 33 years. Addition by subtraction. Is 33 years enough time to understand it's not misfortune, but a terrible attitude and work ethic?

Really loving the new expense process.

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Dilbert_X wrote:

Were they in the same role for 33 years? Maybe work isn't their priority.

I'm glad that Jack Welsh's entire 40 year career is now discredited. Is 40 years long enough to fail?

No, good example of the peter principle though

interesting stuff.

Ken, you got fired by an intern.

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

SuperJail Warden wrote:

The issue isn't just the kids don't want to pay attention to me yapping about Stalingrad.

There is legit violence taking place in our public schools.

https://youtu.be/4wofemLpPC8?si=lchMcaZcnfxbRcI-

We have severely behaviorally messed up students. The kid that pointed his cellphone at me didn't do it because high gas prices. I didn't get cursed out by a different student because the Strait of Hormuz is closed.

https://youtu.be/XMhIUo2a1iE?si=GzTGzfl5az1gCRHK

Damn. those kids are really depressed about corporate taxes.

you've had the classes for this stuff. you're the forum expert here. i don't blame you for wanting to move on from a job you're not enjoying. just think teachers probably have some 'too close and personally invested' going on when they're all like, "ya this is 100% the kids, the little shits." i could probably dig up youtube videos of professionals giving it more than 2d thought.

get you some breathing space, certainly!

kids (maybe not your kids) definitely think about stuff going on in their country and elsewhere in the world.

i've thought about this for awhile, in my capacity as a person people tend to overshare with even on uncomfortable, stressful personal histories and secrets (i remind again, that i'm not a therapist).

crashing out and throwing stuff at or hitting a teacher is probably an unfulfilled dream many kids have had irt their awful teachers. i'm not saying that you're such a teacher who's wronging your students. but there are horror stories out there in people's lived experience as defenseless kids in education, under the thumb of abuses of power. many such stories! sustained psychological and physical abuses and enabling, not just general prickishness. tell me that it's fundamentally intolerable for a teacher to get a punch or two ideated in their direction, when said teacher knows a household is abusive, gets a kid in trouble to invite abusive behavior, and then gives the kid a smug look for sporting a black eye the next day in class. what kind of teacher goes straight to the dad when a kid complains about the dad sexually abusing them. "we should work on your child's fibbing," wow.

there's a certain, automatic 'thank you for your service' lip service mentality towards teachers that i just don't support. there's good teachers, and really, really bad teachers. i always think about that stuff (legacy or otherwise) whenever i see a haggard educator in one of those "chaos in the classroom" videos about how all the young people have gone to shit.

Last edited by unnamednewbie13 (2026-04-25 18:08:37)

This was staged/a hoax.

I am not going to give this event the seriousness being asked of us. I am glad the night was ruined for them. I am going to go continue to build up the local community out of spite.

Dilbert_X wrote:

"He graduated in 2017 with a mechanical engineering degree, according to his LinkedIn profile"

engineers tend to be conspicuously over-represented in american far-right groups and domestic terror cells.

and that ain't all!

https://spectrum.ieee.org/extremist-engineers

”Some of them were generally curious. But most had knee-jerk reactions. Look, we did not say engineers have a terrorist mind-set—please write that. We said that engineers tend to be politically to the right and more conservative than other graduates. You can therefore infer that their radical fringe is closer to those of religious groups.”

Hertog and Gambetta believe that a combination of social conditions and an engineering mind-set make engineers susceptible to radicalization.

The paper cites evidence that engineering graduates are much more religious and politically conservative than those pursuing other courses of study. ”People gravitating toward engineering already have those views,” says Hertog. ”Engineering seems to attract a larger share of people drawn to rule-bound systems, compared with other scientists who primarily work on open-ended questions and might be more skeptical.”

Last edited by uziq (2026-04-27 03:50:01)

isn't IEEE one of the main engineering bodies? i see citations to their journals and publishing house pretty frequently in the areas of physics i edit.

people in the office used to pronounce the name "eye-triple E", which sounds like 'tripoli', which always made it doubly amusing to cite their publishing house location as somewhere in new jersey with a name like 'piscataway'. and also very unfortunate, considering tripoli is now a factory of islamic extremism.

Last edited by uziq (2026-04-27 04:18:09)

Dilbert_X wrote:

I think israel is a factory of islamic extremism.

you could set an egg timer to your posts, honestly.

incidentally israel is another nation that places a high valuation on engineers as a sort of vanguard of the genocidal ethnostate. isn't Technion their imperial?

yes i have pointed out to you several times that the 'engineering utopia' has been tried already, and it was called the soviet union.