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Girl Quits On Dry Erase Board a Hoax
suraj.sun writes "It's the same old story: young woman quits, uses dry erase board and series of pictures to let entire office know the boss is a sexist pig, exposes his love of playing FarmVille during work hours." Story seem too good to be true? It probably is, at least according to writer Peter Kafka. Even so, Jay Leno and Good Morning America have already reached out to "Jenny."
Nice, story published hours after it was revealed to be a hoax / stunt: http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/11/elyse-porterfield/
Vacuum cleaners suck. Kings rule.
This is known to be fake.
Come on /. this is so obviously fake...
All's well, except she already admitted it to be fake:
http://thechive.com/2010/08/11/a-word-from-jenny-16-photos/
That whiteboard is surprisingly clean, no smudges, no ghost lines of previous half-erased messages. Even the marker lines themselves are so clean you could swear they were drawn in mspaint rather than with an old dying black marker. But there's no way the internet would ever publish a HOAX, is there?
Way to post this after it's already been called a hoax.
"Story seem too good to be true? Well it probably is[...]" - uh no...it IS too good to be true.
But still an HPOA.
That's our life, the big wheel of shit. - The Fat Man, Blue Tango Salvage
Indeed.
Tired of my customary (Score:1)
When this story was in the submission bin I read it and fell for it. WHo knew it was fake?
Slashdot isn't always the most timely place to see things, but it's usually at least accurate. Too bad this made it through today.
Who could spend 5.3 hours/week on TechCrunchy? That wouldn't leave enough time for /.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/10/nyregion/10attendant.html?_r=1&src=me&ref=homepage
The jetblue guy did a better job then this!
Is just making it harder for anyone to believe that my penis can sing Lady GaGa tunes.
I was going to post it on YouTube but now everyone will just think it's fake. Goddamn internet.
Yes you can you idiot.
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grammar
--The Spelling Nazi
I'm sure you are a big fan of "America's got talent".
Probably too good to be true?
I would have fired you because you don't know English. Grammar is spelled with an A. Also, your signature is missing proper capitalization and punctuation.
-- The Spelling Nazi
Grammar does goes wonky around pretty girls
Fire up fiddler on that page and all will be revealed; I counted no less than 180 separate tracker requests. This was my first and last time I visit that site.
You can; it's clumsy but it's quite correct, in the same way that it's is a perfectly acceptable contraction of 'it has'.
...that you don't want.
999,000 will be pervs on the 'net
dam u spelin' nazi!!
-- The Grammaer Nazi
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I think you're mostly right but I also think you're arguing against human nature at the same time.
It's in a woman's nature to want to be physically attractive, to compete against other women to be "most" attractive -- this has been going on far longer than just our very recent contemporary mass-media society and represents part of the biological imperative for reproduction.
That being said, I think deliberate sexual manipulation by women is kind of pathetic and usually very short-sighted; a hot piece of ass is like cut flowers -- it has a very short shelf life and after the bloom fades they usually end up in the trash.
It would do men good to not allow themselves to be so easily manipulated by it, too, but I think men's inability to control themselves is largely what's behind repressive social rules and laws that hinder women.
but.... but.... she's an aspiring actress!! You can't expect her to do anything more than smile for the camera
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does she look like a snog teeshirt girl? http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-qF6CbJo2vY/R5SEm2iC6yI/AAAAAAAABv0/_bfFDVJcavM/s400/snorg+girl.jpg
Could someone please come up with sources?
I looked it up in my school's grammar book and wikipedia. Both explicitly allow the combination of pronouns with contracted auxiliary verbs. But neither forbid the use of contracted auxiliary verbs with real nouns.
I'm not a native speaker - but it definately doesn't sound clumsy to me. And this obviously is a situation where informal use of a language is quite appropriate.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contraction_(grammar)#English
Actually, that seems like a good deal for the Trophy Wife, provided she takes him to the cleaners at the divorce. Then she's financially well-off and free of her asshole ex-husband.
All Barbies are HOPAs. At least if you're about a foot tall anyway.
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You've gone from "someone posed in some pictures that weren't 100% depictions of an actual event" to condemning every "young" female american in existence.
Never thought I'd see a generation of women who's goal in life is 'I want to be a Trophy Wife when I grow up then get dumped and replaced by my wealthy husband for a younger trophy wife...'"
Are you sexist, out of touch with reality, or just trolling? Totally aside from the issue that no one actually has "then get dumped and replaced by my wealthy husband" as a goal, i can look around my office right now and see plenty of women "working hard and earning something in life." (Arguably more so than you or i, since i suspect that most of them aren't posting on Slashdot right now *cough*) I suggest you go compare the _reality_ of life today to that of just about all of history prior to the 20th century. Men spent several thousand years telling women that they mattered for nothing in life except for who they married and how many children they had. Do you really want to be the one bitching about how since we were finally gracious enough to start telling them they were equal a couple generations ago that it's unreasonable that some fraction (and _only_ a fraction) of them haven't gotten over that mindset yet? Despite the fact that a lot of men still treat them like they don't matter except for what's on their chest or between their legs?
"Maybe I am an old curmudgeon. But by God I want more 'women' and less 'chicks' please...."
If you look around and all you see is "chicks," then i suspect that you _are_ an old curmudgeon, and a sexist one at that, and are a bigger part of the problem than any woman who complains about being mistreated because of her gender, regardless of whether it's in a "fake" photoshoot or not. Either that, or you need to go outside and meet some real people living real lives and working at real jobs, rather than assuming that everything is just like what you see on TV or the internet.
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the white board is a lie?
"In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change" --Thich Nhat Hanh
Dear /.,
Please stop trying to be Digg/Reddit. It's really quite embarrassing. You post these stories way past their expiration date and provide no meaningful content to contribute enlightenment or lolz. We've already seen the story. We've already read the comments. Don't fall into the trap of pandering mainstream drivel to drive traffic. If my grandma knows about it, it doesn't belong on /. Even in "Idle" your readers expect more.
Lovingly yours,
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For one thing, she's NOT AT WORK.
I'm usually at work when I quit, though this has not always been true. But a whiteboard from the fridge, a moment of feeling unappreciated, what the heck, post this. The gang at work will get a Kick out of it.
So, without encouraging this by actually RTFA, did her boss accept her resignation?
deleting the extra space after periods so i can stay relevant, yeah.
stop calling be and fusing the toilet before I come to your house and stick the phone up your a** like I to the guy at the house where Stewart Stevenson lives.
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When this story was first posted, the headline didn't say anything about a hoax; it had just the one line in the summary admitting it was "probably" fake. I can still see the original headline in my RSS feed. Now they've altered it as though they knew all along, which makes posts like yours look like pointless complaining. A little transparency would be nice, maybe an editor's note added to the bottom of the summary with a clear timestamp.
"This algorithm runs in constant time. Come on, 2,147,483,648 is a constant..."
Come on, the site's called "The Chive." You know, like "The Onion?"
Get off my launchpad!
I shouldn't bother, as you clearly haven't even tried to be sympathetic to the women whose characters you so denigrate, but in the interest of the wider humanity I'm going to try to reach you.
Have you ever watched a woman be introduced on stage? I mean, really watched and payed attention to the context? "And now the beautiful Jane Doe will perform X..." or "And now the lovely Jane Doe is here to talk to you about Y..." Men rarely are introduced in the context of their appearance, usually only if it is their career like male modeling; however women who may have spent decades as office workers of some kind or educators or what-have-you are still introduced this way. The people doing it think of it as polite flattery, but it is an indicator of an element in human society. Women are expected to look good regardless of what they do or how well they do it. Whatever their talents or their careers, they must also be pseudo-models on top of that. And those that actually manage to both do something well and look good doing it are, in general, more highly regarded than those limited by capacity or nature to one or the other primarily.
I do think it is irrational for women to complain about being objectified, if for no other reason than the people we don't know are objects. You don't see a total stranger, say, passing you on an escalator and can then rationally think 'wow they sure are generous/honest/loyal/smart' etc. You can't know people's character or intellect just by looking at them, but you can know of course whether they are attractive or not. If, after getting to know a person one still treats them like no more than an object, then you have a real cause for complaint. In any case, you should learn this lesson yourself. Each person deserves to be judged individually based on known qualities, not caught up in some broad brush antagonism based solely on assumptions drawn from appearances. Doing that makes you worse than a curmudgeon, it makes you a prejudiced asshole.
I support the Slashcott and will not be reading or commenting from 2/10/14 to 2/17/14. Beta is steaming pile of dog shit
Here here, cetacean needed!
Emergency slides > Dry erase boards....
I'm just sayin...
That guy is a ready made pop-culture hero for our times...I predict instant internet fame, and appearances on talk shows, reality shows, and job offers...
Doug Walker quitting his job
Would it KILL this girl to pose nude???
"You can; it's clumsy but it's quite correct, in the same way that it's is a perfectly acceptable contraction of 'it has'."
No. Assistant's is possessive, like "this is the assistant's pen".
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Actually, that's why I said it's clumsy. If you want to browse through Earnest Gowers' 'The Complete Plain Words' you'll find he's quite unworried about the use of apostrophes for contractions, and goes so far as to only list three cases where one needs to worry unduly about apostrophes. He does, however, go to great pains to explain that the whole point of writing is to communicate without ambiguity, and in the case quoted above there's clearly ambiguity - is it an unconventional contraction of 'assistant has' or is it a possessive apostrophe? Both acceptable, but arguably ambiguous, hence my opinion of it as clumsy.
You wouldn't happen to have a Strunk and White handy, would you? My own library only extends as far as Sir Earnest Gowers on the grammatical front, and it would be interesting to see what an American guide has to say on the matter.
The assistant's going to the bar. (is)
The assistant's bar is big. (possessive)
The assistant's been to the bar. (has)
All are correct.
I feel sorry for the unfortunate creature that had no recourse but to marry you.
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Right you is.
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
HOPA? Hot of Piece Ass?
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**citation needed
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You claimed that since assistant's is used for possessive that it can't be used for assistant has. I showed that it is (correctly) used for assistant is, so your argument doesn't work.
Well done...Mel Gibson thought it was so good, he quit Hollywood with a dry erase board, too...love the spoofs: http://www.thecollaredsheep.com/mel-gibson-quits-hollywood-on-dry-erase-board/