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Postby Otohiko » Sun Mar 04, 2007 3:30 pm

moar like farming legends :roll:


Did I ever tell my teacher story?

Anyway, back in Russia, there was quite a few teachers who hated my guts - for the fact that I never took their word for anything, and if they were bullshitting - I argued.

So, we had this subject called "Civil Safety", taught by a HUGE dude (scarier teacher than Madbunny) who in the Soviet times taught the same subject when it was called "Civil Defense/Military Preparation". The subject was kinda hilarious, we'd still be learning stuff like... what to do in the case of a nuclear attack, or how to avoid being a victim of a crime, or something like that. The teacher of course could intimidate the hell out of pretty much anyone; and if you misbehaved in class or did something he didn't like, he'd make you stand in the corner or in particularly bad cases, outside the classroom door.

Once in class, after a particularly bad case of police abuse was in the media in Russia, he launched into a rant about how "our Russian police are great and honest [and a lot of other great descriptives of them I needn't mention], while in America if you come up to a policeman, he'll punch you in the face"

Now, I'm not an Americaphile or anything, but as soon as he uttered that, I stood right up, in broad view of everyone, and loudly declared BULLSHIT. Everyone just froze. The teacher stared at me in amazement, and said sternly: "Krylov, go stand outside the door, or I'm going to send you to the principal's office!"

To which I nonchalantly answered "no need, I'm leaving myself" - and marched out of class, heading straight home. On my way out I think I saw his jaw drop. :o

I refused to come to his class again, and later he did see my mom and was apologizing to her and all. I returned to the class next week, but he NEVER mentioned anything or even called on me in class again. He just totally left me the fuck alone ever since :P
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Postby Flint the Dwarf » Sun Mar 04, 2007 3:37 pm

That's awesome. Reminds me of one time I really pissed my English teacher off. I'd been sick a few days so I missed out on a lot of lessons, and when I came back she was going through homework, and had a student up at the board to answer it. He couldn't answer it, and she was stumped as well. She asked for volunteers to answer it, and when no one stood up, she said, "doesn't anyone do their homework?" I couldn't help myself, so I said, "how do you expect us to do our homework when you can't even solve the problem?"

Her eyes got enormous, she looked so indignant. I felt bad later, cuz she was actually a pretty cool teacher. I was just upset cuz I'd missed a few days and was lost.

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Postby madbunny » Sun Mar 04, 2007 4:45 pm

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Sure I can do that. Honestly, if a student uses a word I don't know I'll just look it up. Just like when they ask me to teach them to make web pages, and teach programming for game design. I tell the I know jack all about either one, but I'll get them a book.

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Postby Arigatomina » Sun Mar 04, 2007 6:25 pm

I had a blowout with my highschool Pre-Algebra teacher. He was teaching us the "greater than, less than, or equal to" signs. He said if a number isn't "less than" it's automatically "greater than" and if it isn't "greater than" it's automatically "less than". I pointed out that it could be "equal to" as well.

He told me I was wrong, made a mocking speech about me trying to teach him how to read his own text book, I tried to show him the textbook and got sent to the principal's office. The next two days I got bad grades on my homework because I refused to do it his way (the wrong way). My mom ended up having to come in, show the textbook to the principal, and have the Pre-Algebra teacher talk to the Calculus teacher (since clearly a student or a parent weren't sources of authority). The next week he gave a mocking appology to the class because they had a test coming up and now they would do badly because there wasn't time enough to "relearn" the lesson.

I had people hating me for weeks after that. And I never did get credit for those "failed" assignments where I was doing it right and he was grading it wrong. On the other hand, the Calculus teacher really liked me after that. He'd been saying for years that the Pre-Algebra teacher was screwing kids up so he had to start all over with them when they got to his classes.
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Postby Ileia » Sun Mar 04, 2007 7:19 pm

Man, Ari, had that guy even looked at the textbooks he was using in class?

I had a sociology teacher who would give tests where something he lectured about in class would differ from the textbook. And I'd get answers wrong on tests because I'd go by what the book said. Every test, I'd get it back and point out where in the textbook it was that said the answer. And he'd argue that he said in class what the answer was. So I asked him which it was, him or the textbook. His answer was obviously himself, so I picked up the book and asked if I could throw it away, since it was useless. I didn't get an answer, but I found the questions on the tests started changing.

And I've also discovered that some teachers hardly pay attention to "smart kids" once it's been established that they're smart. I noticed it with one of my English teacher (who once also sent back a report on alliteracy with the "spelling error" in alliteracy corrected to illiteracy), who had a habit of returning tests that I KNOW I made a few errors on with 100% grades, and a history teacher who didn't read my weekly current events reports. The latter brought some entertainment for the whole class, when I turned one in that linked matters in Iraq to dinosaurs, mutants and eating babies, and it was returned to me with full credit. I showed it to him again and asked if he noticed anything odd (I was tricksy though, because my first and last paragraph made no mention of anything out of place) and he gave it back to me with a shrug. And every week, one person volunteered to read their report, so I read mine. He was a pretty nice teacher, and he knew when he'd been caught, he just grinned sheepishly and hid his face behind a folder while everyone laughed.

Not to say that this is the case with every teacher. Everyone is human, and everyone can get bored with the same ol' same ol' and become lax in their habits. There are still a lot of great teachers out there.
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Postby Orwell » Sun Mar 04, 2007 8:47 pm

I don't think I had any particularily bad teachers, and the only really interesting one would be my US History teacher who'd go off into bizarre, amusing, and rather anti-capitalist tangents. Last I heard he was working on a bio-fuel engine, or maybe one that ran on water.

Of course, maybe they were interesting teachers, who knows, I certainly had my focus on other things.
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Postby Minion » Mon Mar 05, 2007 1:04 am

back in highschool i worked in the fish dept. of walmart.
i remember once watching the guy who was supposed to be training me, convince an old lady to get some goldfish and angelfish for the same tank. he also bagged them together.
why is this wrong? angel fish are a bit aggressive though thats not the real concern. gold fish waste is very acidic, and burns other fish. this is why gold fish have a separate section in most pet stores.
he had been working in the dept for 2 years, so wonder how many times he's done this before.
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Postby Shazzy » Mon Mar 05, 2007 1:28 am

Minion wrote:back in highschool i worked in the fish dept. of walmart.
i remember once watching the guy who was supposed to be training me, convince an old lady to get some goldfish and angelfish for the same tank. he also bagged them together.
why is this wrong? angel fish are a bit aggressive though thats not the real concern. gold fish waste is very acidic, and burns other fish. this is why gold fish have a separate section in most pet stores.
he had been working in the dept for 2 years, so wonder how many times he's done this before.


I thought they did that so you'd have to buy more fish from Wal-Mart when they ate each other. Or got burned by goldfish crap.
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Postby JaddziaDax » Mon Mar 05, 2007 1:31 am

i would never buy fish from walmart anyways, they always die.
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Postby madbunny » Mon Mar 05, 2007 1:34 am

JaddziaDax wrote:i would never buy fish from walmart anyways, they always die.


Now you know why.

I would never buy a computer from Godix at BestBuy either. Or, actually from bestbuy in the first place come to think of it.
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Postby slackergirl » Wed Mar 07, 2007 2:11 am

Ileia wrote:a history teacher who didn't read my weekly current events reports.


I had the exact same thing happen to me, right down to the first paragraph being normal. Though I didn't bother with the concluding paragraph. Plus the body of the text didn't actually contain words... but I did configure the random letters to appear as though they might be words (if that makes sense). I got an A+.

Once I didn't even hand a paper in. I was sick or something (or maybe just lazy), but it was 3 days past the due date and my History teacher had already handed back everyone else's graded reports. I approached her desk, trying to think up a plausible BS excuse as to why I didn't do it, when she said, "I forgot to enter your grade in my book. I gave you an A, right?" I heartily agreed.

Funny, those were the only 2 teachers I never really respected.
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Postby JaddziaDax » Wed Mar 07, 2007 2:46 am

the only teacher i respected in highschool was the ones that dared to fail me for not doing homework..
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Postby slackergirl » Wed Mar 07, 2007 3:13 am

Well, I went to small private high school, so most of my teachers were actually good. Not necessarily nice, but good.
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Postby Ayanefan » Wed Mar 07, 2007 6:19 am

godix wrote:Once I stumped all my coworkers by screen capturing the computer just after it booted up when it was showing the icons and start bar then making that the background. Next I deleted the icons and hide the start bar.


Yeah, my co-worker and I did that to the guy sitting next to us, screen-cap and then we moved all his icons into a new folder so he wouldn't lose them. I usually come in 1 hour later than the other 2 guys and when I came in the next day, our boy who we pranked was on the phone with the EDS helpdesk with his issue while my prankster-in-arms was just oblivious to everything.
Well, needless to say that by the time I told him, he had DELETED all the actual icons off the desktop and caused his PC to lose links and application functions.
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Postby madbunny » Fri Mar 09, 2007 12:52 am

Orwell wrote:Report back results, if you don't mind.


Sadly I have my results back.
I'm not included in these numbers.

I used three words, words, I might add that I use on a regular basis.


Oxymoron

PostModern

Panacea

Virtually all of the teachers knew oxymoron, 3 did not.
Only 3 teachers knew PostModern (correctly)
Four people knew Panacea. Some of my data may be suspect, since for part of the day, I had a student with a clipboard go around and ask. It is possible that some teachers, simply did not want to be bothered, and others only knew one or two but didn't want to admit it.

Now, without googling, or looking it up, how many of you knew these words?
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