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Postby Minion » Sun Mar 04, 2007 2:20 am

stories about people that are too stupid for the work they do

back in highschool, me and another student got into an argument. a person anoyd by our bickering said "please shut the fuck up".
i don't recall what came directly after that, but he somehow got pulled into the arguement.
(we should have shut the fuck up)

the teacher said "he asked nicely, in a rude way".
i said "that's an oxymoron".

not knowing the word, she assumes that i'm calling her a moron and goes crazy. she consults with 2 other teachers who happened to be in the room, and neither of them knew the word either. they said i was making up a word to cover for calling a teacher stupid.

they send me to the office. i explain to a dean. he does not know the word.

finally, they call me back to the room after looking it up in a dictionary.

they tell me to never use the word again, and that "it has 2 definitions. it can also mean a foolosh person".


i declined to call her a moron, though tempting.
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Postby badmartialarts » Sun Mar 04, 2007 2:46 am

You know, in Massachusetts back in 1998, they gave their teachers a test that was deisgned to assess a 9th grader's educational level. 59 percent of them failed it. Granted this was a while ago, but I doubt it's gotten better. There is an old saying: "Those who can, do. Those who can't teach."


(The irony is: I want to be a teacher. Thankfully, I know what an oxymoron is.)
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Postby madbunny » Sun Mar 04, 2007 4:04 am

This story has to be bullshit.

Any teacher dumb enough to not know the meaning of oxymoron, and not smart enough to look it up shouldn't be teaching in the first place.

I'll do a test on monday where I work. I'm curious now.
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Postby Orwell » Sun Mar 04, 2007 4:32 am

madbunny wrote:This story has to be bullshit.

Any teacher dumb enough to not know the meaning of oxymoron, and not smart enough to look it up shouldn't be teaching in the first place.

I'll do a test on monday where I work. I'm curious now.


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Postby Minion » Sun Mar 04, 2007 12:23 pm

madbunny wrote:This story has to be bullshit.

it's a very sad fact that it's true.
it's florida. that should be explaination enough.



i've got another one about a teacher. my current teacher, actually (tech school).
a teacher who doesn't know as much about graphic design as she wants students to believe, and thus she often gives false info.
of course, i used to think she really did know all there was to be known about it.
i'm nearing the end of the program, and this school year i started to realize how many mistakes she makes.

just as an example, she insisted that it's ok to call a computer a "CPU".

she was doing a lesson on saving a clipping path from photoshop. she said that you can only save of with an EPS. i said that you could also do it with a TIF.
she tells me that i'm wrong, and continues.

she has an unrealistic view of what a work place is like, since she'sonly gotten to be a teacher. says that anyone working in an office should be wearing suits every day.
other things too, but i'm tired of typing :/
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Postby Minion » Sun Mar 04, 2007 12:26 pm

Minion wrote:
madbunny wrote:save it with an EPS
she's only

fix'd.
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Postby CodeZTM » Sun Mar 04, 2007 2:25 pm

Same issues here on my end. One teacher I had (who has a doctorate in chemistry) is teaching math. She doesn't know a thing about what she's teaching, and has actually taught the wrong way to work problems. I actually had to re-teach myself material on several occasions. Oh, and she couldn't use a graphing calculator either. :roll:

Oh, and my EAST lab teacher know jack crap about technology and tries to act like she knows what she's doing. For example: We're getting ready to send a football program to printers, and she asks us: "Well what about the pixel ratio?" I reply, knowing that she doesn't know a thing about what she's talking about "It's fine." She goes along with it. :roll:
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Postby Orwell » Sun Mar 04, 2007 2:47 pm

code_chrono wrote:...EAST...
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Postby JaddziaDax » Sun Mar 04, 2007 2:57 pm

when i was in highschool my Geometry teacher insisted in teaching us that "cow milk is bad, dont feed it to your kids (when you grow up or have kids or whatever) give them soy milk instead because there are less horomones in soy milk than cow milk" and "The Matrix is an okay movie for your kids, because it only has all sorts of violence and no sex in it" (i was still in highschool when the FIRST matrix came out... i bet hes eating his words after seeing the "temple sex orgy dance thing" in the second one O: heh) needless to say it has nothing to do with geometry so why was he teaching us these things?

the "teacher" i had in college told us not to take any of the teachers in the program i was studying in as a "gruru" yet when we didnt treat him as a gruru it pissed him off to no end... but thats why alot of actors get a bad reputation... because they are asses.
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Postby Otohiko » Sun Mar 04, 2007 2:59 pm

JaddziaDax wrote:"there are less horomones in soy milk than cow milk"


That' actually true :roll:
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Postby JaddziaDax » Sun Mar 04, 2007 2:59 pm

guru O.o i shouldnt type when i first wake up
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Postby JaddziaDax » Sun Mar 04, 2007 2:59 pm

Otohiko wrote:
JaddziaDax wrote:"there are less horomones in soy milk than cow milk"


That' actually true :roll:


weather or not thats true it had nothing to do with geometry
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Postby Otohiko » Sun Mar 04, 2007 3:00 pm

That's also true.

And soy milk also (usually) has more pesticides, so that kinda defeats the argument :P
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Postby godix » Sun Mar 04, 2007 3:18 pm

I used to work in Best Buy in the computer section long long ago. In the interview they asked me three semi-technical questions. The only one I can remember is 'what's better, EGA or Super VGA?' Uh, right. Even if you didn't know the answer wouldn't most people think 'well super has to be better' and get it right? As a total side note even though this was back in the 90's the question was pretty fucked dated even then since EGA hadn't been seriously used since the 80's.

Other fun things, BB had a pre-release copy of Win95 to show off (I said this was long long ago). The thing had a 45 day trial. After the 45 days BB had a blue screen telling everyone our copy of 95 was expired to show off. They didn't actually do anything about it. They could have removed the display, set the date back on the computer, reinstall, or something like that. Instead they just left the blue screen up for a couple months till we actually got a machine with 95 preinstalled to put up. Yippie for computer salesmen who just don't give a fuck about making microsoft look good and managers too stupid to know how to make microsoft look good.

One of the computers had a built in video capture card. Back in the mid 90's this was some cool shit so we hooked a VCR up to the thing to show it off. I did a screen cap of the FBI warning and made that the background. No one ever bothered to change it back. And here you probably thought playing with copyright issues was a recent org only thing.

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. Every single one of them would click on the background image of the icon or start button and getting nowhere figured it'd lock up. No matter how many reboots they tried it just kept locking up on them though, weird isn't it? A few days later I just put things back to normal, played minesweeper on it for a few hours, then told everyone it was tough going but I got it fixed. Other tricks that stumped all the computer salesmen: swapping left and right mouse buttons, printing out 'Error 12b55lc - call technician' and putting it on top of the paper in a printer then feeding it through so my coworkers saw it print the error message, and ending task on the start button (you could do that in Win95. Ctrl esc. esc. alt -. up arrow. enter. They fixed that in 98). Computer salesmen didn't know how to deal with those things but they sure as fuck knew SVGA was better than EGA.

At a store meeting the store manager went off because someone unnamed employee told a customer that Packard Bell were pieces of crap and recommended buying a different brand. Whoops, I didn't think I'd ever get caught on that. I figured the customers weren't so stupid that they'd go talk to a manager about it. Anyway she was bitching because it took her half an hour to talk the customer into believing packard bell was a good quality product. It takes a true moron to allow themselves to be talked into buying a piece of shit even after being told it was a piece of shit. Oh well. At least they never caught on that I was selling extended warranties by telling people that just before the extended warranty expired to hook up some jumper cables from a car battery to their motherboard. BB would have to replace the computer then and in three years even the lowest end computer available would be better than the computer they just fried. 6 or 7 years later I ended up working with someone I had told that to and they confirmed that they did get a more powerful computer shortly before their warranty expired. AFAIK this still works.

Considering the shit I did perhaps I should mention that I quit Best Buy, I was not fired. That right there is probably another huge sign of stupidity on their part.

Some major theft was going on and BB sent in a loss prevention specialist from their headquarters to find out what was going on. The guy quickly determined it had to be an employee so he brought in a bag that had a hidden camera and 'accidently' left it in the managers office overnight. The camera clearly showed a manager putting unpaid merchandise in his coat. The manager threatened to sue since he was caught with a hidden camera that wasn't one of the stores cameras. Best Buy backed down and the manager was still working there months later. Eventually the manager quit but not over this, he quit because he got reported for telling an employee that the only way to become a supervisor was to suck his dick.

I learned a valuable lesson from that job. If you walk into a big box store and have any question other than 'How much' or 'Is it in stock' then you are totally fucked.
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