how the hell did you get this job?

Orwell · Post by **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.

Minion · Post by **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.

Shazzy · Post by **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.

JaddziaDax · Post by **JaddziaDax** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 1:31 am

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

madbunny · Post by **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.

slackergirl · Post by **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.

JaddziaDax · Post by **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..

slackergirl · Post by **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.

Ayanefan · Post by **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.
Lesson 1: Never trust a co-worker who's a musician on the side.
Lesson 2: Never prank a co-worker who's not smart enough to know he's been Hoff'ed.

madbunny · Post by **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?