Most public school teachers have very little say about what happens in the school or the curriculum. We’re just carrying out orders and hope that students will go along.
Student discipline can only be applied with parent and administrator cooperation. If admin doesn’t do anything about bullying, fighting, or cheating, then the school is screwed.
Broken/buggy software usually is not developers/QA’s fault but management and clients.
Consulting want something that conforms exactly what is signed and as fast as possible, if there are later bugs that doesn’t invalidates what was agreed es or new features take longer to introduce it means more money as maintenance/evolution contracts.
Clients often don’t see why they should pay extra and include extra time for better code. Also they prioritise stupid things like changing the font in a page over fixing a bug in the checkout page.
The bespoke software that runs most of the business world is actually way simpler than a lot of people think.
If you’re a university student and some company hires you on the first year to work on a business analysis system to be used by a major regional retailer, you might be thinking you must be some kind of a wunderkid, but it also just might be because this system really isn’t that complicated, and you had no idea about the average salaries on this field, so they hired you on the cheap.
Financial institutions are not as secure as you think.
Every once in a while I will see someone ask “We bank online why can’t we vote online?” Banking is secure enough that the money the banks lose is less than the money they make. Also not all lose of funds will hurt the bank if the individual is scammed, since individuals are supposed to keep their accounts secure and not fall for scams.
Your bank is using old technology and Excel for a lot of internal records keeping. Most fraud detection is a cost to the bank not a money maker. Stopping money laundering, human trafficking, ect means the bank doesn’t get that money and has to pay people to investigate it and shudder report to the government.
Like almost every other business out there they work off of poorly made or old tech and the lowest paid people are push to more work with less time and resources.
The depth and diameter of my sinuses
Youth worker here: How much fucking work it is to just keep things from falling apart constantly. People assume most of my work is planning and doing activities with teenagers. But a lot of the time I’m like 50% caretaker.
Your field is chronically under staffed, right?
It’s probably not going to change until the workers stop thinking they’re doing this to help people and start realizing that they also have a job to live off themselves. This goes for most health and care related professions here in Germany. Bad pay and very long hours, many in the field still think that exploiting yourself is virtuous.
Common sense tells you that people get paid in relation to what importance their job has or how hard it is. That’s not the case though, people get paid what they can be paid.
Horoscopes on radio shows? Made up on the spot or stolen from google. And I’m willing to bet the ones on newspapers and websites are too.
I wonder how many astrology girlies would have their hearts broken by this.
Learned this when I interned at a radio station. (My field is communications; Journalism + Marketing.)
I’m curious what anyone who truly believes in those horoscopes thinks is going on. Do they assume the Skippy and Dippy Morning Show crew have a licensed fortune teller casting star charts and meditating in a back room somewhere while the rest of the guys are giving away concert tickets and making prank phone calls to celebrities?
I don’t know. One of my friends in college was an astrology girl but I made a point to not ask her for details (OR tell her about the thing I learned at my internship–)
All horoscopes are made up, it’s how they work
Lotta boring crap about PLUs, SKUs, UPCs, TPRs, and such. Stores have dedicated pricing staff for a reason. One trick that might be interesting, but not surprising, is the way stores hide price increases by putting a product “on sale” this week, so it’s cheaper than last week, but raising the regular price, so it costs more when the sale price ends.
It’s often really fucking stupid to get a phd.
This can’t be said enough. It’s almost always not worth the strain on your mental health. You’re not a student but a worker for your professor and getting paid way too little
Millions of government employees work hard every day on so much shit you’ll never see or understand that does in fact make your life so much nicer than you deserve when you complain about government workers.
And I’m NOT talking about the cultic worshipped military. I’m talking civilian civil servants at all levels of government.
SOME people are really gonna wonder why everything’s getting shittier and never make the connection that their idiotic notions about government led to it.
I have some gov contracts and I can confirm this.
Also: the big complaint about working with gov is either apparently expensive stuff and/or apparently slow progress .
Reality? We as citizens require a crazy amount of justified checking and validation from every part of gov because it affects people’s lives that things take longer and cost more to do right … and many times that to back out a fuck up and not kill anyone. (Oh Hi Elon)
Brazil nuts aren’t nuts! They’re fruit seeds. The fruit is the size of a cannonball.
Most cannonballs were quite small, the really big ones, the 32 pounders, have a 16cm diameter.
Academia, USA.
You’re getting the exact same quality of education for introductory classes at a community college, state school, and private school.
I know because I teach the same suite of classes at all 3 as an adjunct. Same book, same syllabus, same schedule, same assignments. The only difference is the price tag, and I’m hardly alone in that.
Actually, scratch that. You’re getting a better education at the community college because the people in charge there bother to remember that I exist and treat me as an equal.
I got degrees from both a community college and a major research university. The two don’t share instructors, but on average, the quality is much better at the community college.
Community college instructors are there to teach. They go to continuing education classes to learn how to do it better. Some classes at a research university are taught by similar, dedicated instructors, but some are taught by the professor who drew the metaphorical short straw that semester, and who’d rather be focusing on her research. She will put in her best effort, don’t get me wrong, but her first priority is research.
That is to say, for anyone thinking about a degree, don’t overlook the value of community college.
(ETA: I work at a research university now; the research professors who also teach are some of my co-workers.)
All big banks run on horrendous excel spreadsheets ridden with errors
They’re not errors. They are expected deviations from reality. And if you fix them, YOU are wrong.
Your house is insanely easy to break into unless it’s built with special materials or has steel bars over all openings.
Disregarding the fact that windows break, pretty much every residential door (both interior and exterior) can be busted down by anyone with a decent body weight or with a framing hammer. Hammer thru the door skin, or claw pry on the jamb to force the latch to release, or even just bodyslamming it can be enough to separate the lock block and stiles and the doors will simply fall apart from there.
- “Haha, deadbolt… I just smash the door in.”
- “I can pick most locks with a credit card.”
- “I know when you’re home… and when you’re not.”
Learning how locks work made me realise that locking a door is basically just like putting a sign on my door saying "please don’t burgle me :) ". That terrified me at first, but I came to realise that nothing had changed and that I was no less safe than I was before. Turns out that the social contract is the main thing that keeps people in line
You reminded me of this old film from the 1980’s:
B & E from A to Z: How to Get In Anywhere, Anytime
Half of security is just making them be noisy enough to get worried someone will check
I’m a software developer making big bucks and I’m lazy and stupid
