Bazza Posted October 9, 2021 Report Share Posted October 9, 2021 Let’s get jiggy with the watts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted October 9, 2021 Report Share Posted October 9, 2021 Now that's just kinky! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlord Posted October 9, 2021 Report Share Posted October 9, 2021 Posted for my wife: Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 10, 2021 Report Share Posted October 10, 2021 Professional development seminars are an obvious outgrowth of the core idea of modern management. Managers don't know a damned thing, but they ahve been told they have to pretend to care for their underlings ... but they don't know how. But they do have a budget, and PD seminars are marketed to managers as being ways to manifest a fictitious sense of caring about the next tier down by providing swill purported to help them get into the next tier. Kill all the managers, and you'll never have to sit through another PD event. And there are other benefits, too. Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ternaugh Posted October 10, 2021 Report Share Posted October 10, 2021 9 hours ago, Cancer said: Professional development seminars are an obvious outgrowth of the core idea of modern management. Managers don't know a damned thing, but they ahve been told they have to pretend to care for their underlings ... but they don't know how. But they do have a budget, and PD seminars are marketed to managers as being ways to manifest a fictitious sense of caring about the next tier down by providing swill purported to help them get into the next tier. Kill all the managers, and you'll never have to sit through another PD event. And there are other benefits, too. Many years ago, when I still worked in retail, our store manager came back from a development meeting with a bunch of cheerleading concepts that he attempted to share at a morning huddle. He talked about finding our North Star, and said that we should set our goals to reaching it. He then made the mistake of asking us what we thought that meant (you know, for "buy-in"). I casually answered, "You should set an unattainable goal, so that you'll always be chasing it." "Yes!" he shouted, before it sunk in, then he shouted, "no!" He then changed his metaphor to climbing a mountain towards our North Star goal, and asked us what we thought that meant. I answered, "You should always climb higher, until you fall off the other side of the mountain, like in that 'Price Is Right' game." "Yes!" Then, after a pause, "no." He looked confused and decided to break up the huddle at that time. And we never heard about the North Star again from him. Pariah, Cancer and Logan D. Hurricanes 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 11, 2021 Report Share Posted October 11, 2021 That must have been back in the worst of the management by buzzword days. At some point when I was working for the insurance company the buzzword was "Line of sight!". My immediate manager was not into that, but the next two tiers above him were. After three repetitions of that line-of-sight thing, I muttered a sneered "Indirect fire" in response and a couple of people heard me. It took a few more reps before I grumbled, "Did Marshal Pétain teach you nothing?!?" Getting laid off at the end of CY2003 meant I no longer had the buzzworders over me. I hope the howitzers of the 11th Marines took them all out. L. Marcus 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted October 12, 2021 Author Report Share Posted October 12, 2021 We were discussing space exploration in my astronomy class today, and the subject of William Shatner going into space came up. My students pretty much all knew who he was, but they were quite surprised to learn that he was 90 years old. One of my students asked, "How long is he going to be up there?" I responded, "Maybe for the rest of his life...." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted October 12, 2021 Author Report Share Posted October 12, 2021 As of right now, this very moment, I have nothing waiting for me to grade it. Finals start Thursday, though, so that won't last long. But for now, it's glorious. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted October 13, 2021 Report Share Posted October 13, 2021 tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 13, 2021 Report Share Posted October 13, 2021 May have to print that and post it a few doors down, where the Math Department is. Tom Cowan 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 14, 2021 Report Share Posted October 14, 2021 In a spasm of raw, malicious aggression, I left the blackboard unerased when I left my Math Meth class about noon, when I had the general expressions for divergence, laplacian, and curl in a curvilinear coordinate system written up there. In my defense, I had a meeting to get to. The poor liberal arts class that was in that room after me won't be far wrong if they think it's all bits of stuff out of the untranslated Necronomicron. (You can see those equations scattered across several places in, e.g., here.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted October 14, 2021 Report Share Posted October 14, 2021 More like Liber Paginarum Fulvarum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted October 14, 2021 Author Report Share Posted October 14, 2021 I'm writing a 20-question multiple choice quiz for which none of the correct answers is C. Cancer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted October 14, 2021 Report Share Posted October 14, 2021 Dr Satan’s Apprentice? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted October 14, 2021 Report Share Posted October 14, 2021 20 minutes ago, Pariah said: I'm writing a 20-question multiple choice quiz for which none of the correct answers is C. ... Nasty. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tombrown803 Posted October 14, 2021 Report Share Posted October 14, 2021 20 minutes ago, Pariah said: I'm writing a 20-question multiple choice quiz for which none of the correct answers is C. 4 minutes ago, L. Marcus said: ... Nasty. When I first read this I read a 20-page quiz, that would be Nasty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted October 14, 2021 Report Share Posted October 14, 2021 That's basically the Swedish SATs, of which I am a top scorer. [/bragging] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 14, 2021 Report Share Posted October 14, 2021 1 hour ago, Bazza said: Dr Satan’s Apprentice? Pariah is far beyond apprenticehood. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted October 15, 2021 Author Report Share Posted October 15, 2021 Yeah, I got a piece of paper that says I'm a master. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted October 15, 2021 Report Share Posted October 15, 2021 Only a master of evil, Darth! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 15, 2021 Report Share Posted October 15, 2021 Darth Pariah has an interesting ring to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted October 15, 2021 Author Report Share Posted October 15, 2021 Indeed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted October 15, 2021 Report Share Posted October 15, 2021 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 15, 2021 Report Share Posted October 15, 2021 No imagination at all. Should have been mouse, skirt, and sota. Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted October 15, 2021 Report Share Posted October 15, 2021 There's nothing mini about sota! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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