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[CF87]

We had a thread like this a long time ago and I hate bumping threads that have been dead a long time so here we go.

We know Krow works for an oil company or something. We know CIG is a handyman. What do you all do?

I'm a business/quality analyst for an insurance company. I basically have to do two sets of tasks due to staffing concerns, but basically someone will submit a project to be worked on and it'll get assigned to me. I will go to the business partners who wrote the project and ask them what they want the ultimate goal of the project to be. Currently, I work with an administration system the company uses and write requirements based on enhancing or fixing the system. After this, I present the requirements to people in the company for approvals. At this point, a developer (programmer) is hopefully diligently working on writing the code for the fixes/enhancements. Once this is completed, I will test their code to make sure it both works and that it didn't break anything. I will report defects and then retest fixes for those defects as necessary. I will then write up a project summary and send to the business partners. After this, I move to the next project.

It's boring and sucks most of the time but I'm considered a subject matter expert and only two other people in the company know more about how this system works than I do so I have a little bit of knowledge power as well.

So what you're saying is you're a professional asshole ?

You want to fuck his mother and douche up that ol poon, is that what you're sayin ?

 

[The Ozzman]

So what you're saying is you're a professional asshole ?

You want to fuck his mother and douche up that ol poon, is that what you're sayin ?

What's the difference?

 

[HamburgerBoy]

I'm the same way. Out of 60 students in a level 100 history course, it's not unusual for me to fail one or two and hand out a few other Ds. Conversely, 20-30% will receive an A. At the 100 level, I don't set my expectations too high. If a student of mine puts in an honest effort and engages with the primary sources with something resembling an argument, they'll typically get no worse than a B. I give them a bit of slack on the writing aspect if they show me they can think, but that's leeway I take on account of it being a freshman course and history rather than English. I also tend to rip their first paper of the semester to shreds to light a fire under their asses for the second. It seems to work.

I've had some excel spreadsheet fun with the grade spread across different factors. Unremarkably, seniors tend to average a letter grade higher. Women average a letter grade higher than men. Women typically average a higher GPA, but a whole letter grade (sometimes a letter grade and a half depending on the assignment) seems a bit skewed, so I think there are some other factors at play here. Women constitute the majority of students at my Uni, but are underrepresented in my history courses. I suspect that gender norms tend to attract men to history while influencing women to choose a different elective, resulting in me receiving on average more of the higher achieving women. Or maybe I've just got a ton of lazy-ass, hungover frat boys.

Women did much better in my chemistry labs as well, although at the very top it was about 50/50 with maybe a slight male bias. I think it comes down to typical gender role stuff tbh:

1. Men being raised to be self-reliant, so that the ones with poor self-control have no work ethic, especially seen in lazy neckbeard men getting bad grades (it was eye-opening to see so many nerdy Asian men fail; tied with Hispanic men for the worst demographic in my labs)
2. Women supporting each other/studying together, and being raised to be that way (basically, the quiet women were either A students that presumably just studied and kicked ass, or were C-and-below students that would rather turn in incomplete work than ask for help)

Of course, part of the problem is that colleges are full of cheating, so if you have friends and a support network, there are much better odds that you have access to old exams and whatnot which makes class 10 times easier. This is why I'm sympathetic towards anti-normie sentiments.

 

[CiG]

If women aren't raised to be self-reliant as you claim, why would so many be unwilling to ask for help and just turn in incomplete work?

 

[HamburgerBoy]

There aren't that many, that's the point, overall they do much better than men in my labs. Maybe one per section, probably less. I can think of two particular women off the top of my head, versus easily several men that are also loners. Usually the problem is that we're suppose to have groups of two or four depending on the lab, and all the women get together and create a federation of feminine power from which they delegate various tasks to minimize work, and I have to get in there and draw up borders.

 

[CiG]

Oh okay, just though I'd ask since it seemed counter-intuitive.

I agree that women are good at delegating, it's why I'd never hesitate to hire a woman as a manager, only thing I notice (and maybe you have too in the lab) is that women seem to have trouble pushing the weakest link to get off their ass and give some effort whereas men seem to be better at that. They tend to enable them rather than let them get chewed up and spat out by the meritocratic process.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

From what I've seen, if there's a student that's truly worthless and slacking off, I (the instructor) am the only one capable of applying the right motivators. Generally I fail those students anyways. From a single anecdote, a woman is more likely to come to me and ask for me to get involved when there's a problem student. Might be that men are afraid of being labeled as snitches and just ignore the issue.

 

[CiG]

From a single anecdote, a woman is more likely to come to me and ask for me to get involved when there's a problem student. Might be that men are afraid of being labeled as snitches and just ignore the issue.

Oh really? That's interesting.
I suppose a lab isn't exactly going to crossover with my experiences on a worksite. In my experience men are more likely to overreact to having a slacker on a team or under their management because they don't want to lose in some subjective sense.

 

[CF87]

Deli clerk at one job, basically a barista at a small coffee chain at another. You need sliced cold meat, I got it. Just don't ask for it shaved cause only plebs like sandwich meat shaved. Slices or fuck off.

if I worked at a deli would mix some snot in with some chicks deli meat, there's no way someone would notice it say a half a pound of roast beef

 

[The Ozzman]

if I worked at a deli would mix some snot in with some chicks deli meat, there's no way someone would notice it say a half a pound of roast beef

 

[PrincessHades]

I've never made any money off of anything other than being born, surviving holidays, and taking care of my friend's dog. I'm looking at part time jobs right now.

 

[PrincessHades]

Part of me says "for that face, a thousand dollars would be worth it".

 

[RadicalThrasher]

Somewhat job related. Foreman for the the iron workers crew got car jacked right in front of the jobsite Tuesday morning. About 4:30 am he was parked sitting in his car with it running. Heard rustling and sat up and a motherfucker in a ski mask put a gun to the window and told him to get out. Worse part is that its been like -10° here. He had to wait outside until someone showed up because his phone and everything was in the car. Dudes lucky I'v been coming in early or he would have been waiting for like an hour and half before someone showed up. Gold coast Chicago, high end area.......a guy can't even go to work anymore without worrying about getting shot. Chicago is a shithole.


https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/man-carjacked-at-gunpoint-in-gold-coast/

 

[The Ozzman]

Gun control is so great, amirite?!

 

[viewerfromnihil]

Gun control is so great, amirite?!

Fuck off. You gun fetishists can't think of anything else.

Interesting how it doesn't happen in countries where guns are banned.

edit: ib4 the knives come.

 

[Einherjar86]

Or cars.

 

[The Ozzman]

Fuck off.

Triggered

 

[CF87]

I've never made any money off of anything other than being born, surviving holidays, and taking care of my friend's dog. I'm looking at part time jobs right now.

Get a job microwaving whoppers wearing a Burger King Crown, would you like an apple pie with your fries ?

 

[The Ozzman]

Interesting how it doesn't happen in countries where guns are banned.

But it does happen:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/boy-13-carjacks-woman-gunpoint-11472647.amp

The only way to completely get rid of violent crime with guns is to ban the sale and manufacture of firearms worldwide along with confiscation of all firearms worldwide. Even if this happens, there are people who will not give up their guns or will still commit violent crime with guns that they hide or get on the black market. Violent crime with guns will never reach 0%.

 

[viewerfromnihil]

But it does happen:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/boy-13-carjacks-woman-gunpoint-11472647.amp

The only way to completely get rid of violent crime with guns is to ban the sale and manufacture of firearms worldwide along with confiscation of all firearms worldwide. Even if this happens, there are people who will not give up their guns or will still commit violent crime with guns that they hide or get on the black market. Violent crime with guns will never reach 0%.

That's a news report about a car jacking with a BB gun in Florida.