I get evaluated at my job, should i be outraged? Maybe this will motivate them to actually try harder to be better teachers instead of just griping about a paycheck. There are worse jobs out there with even worse pay, i say start firing teachers that rank the worst.
Being a public school teacher is a racket if I ever saw one. And teacher's unions exist to make sure it stays that way.
Screw them. Cushy, milquetoast job. Summers off. And having the union there to make sure NOTHING changes that doesn't benefit or protect them. Like receiving that regular, fat kiss in the mail until they're dead.
I've spent most of my career in the private sector, but working at a public school inside the Mass. 128 belt opened my eyes like you wouldn't believe. Waste, ineptitude, that you wouldn't believe unless you spend at least a day there.
T-Mobile is qualified to join the money-grubbing aswipes club as well, starting with their milking Starbucks customers for wireless last year. Are they still doing it?
basic aptitude would be sufficient. The ability to spell, adequate grammar, and some sense of what's going on in the world--not just in the World of Warcraft, for example.
"Travelers at Sea-Tac and dozens of other major airports across America are being scrutinized by teams of TSA behavior-detection officers specially trained to discern the subtlest suspicious behaviors."
OMFG why aren't the MySpace admins looking over my little Bratley's shoulder!1111!1!
The present generation of parents is utterly risk-averse. Moreover, they don't want to be responsible for anything. If their crotchfruit gets into trouble or does something wrong, surely there is a company or institution that can be sued.
You've heard the phrase before. "Too many cooks..." ah nevermind. Everyone's familiar with it.
That's the danger with this 'crowdsourcing' (oooooh! Another l33t cyber term for PHBs to parrot around the office!!111!
We depend on the mainstream media to investigate, check facts, copyedit, and proofread. I'm willing to pay for the results of work like that. "Crowdsourcing" seems too much like an 'up with people'/70s commune type of concept. However, it's primed to devolve into nothing more but mob rule--rife with hidden agendas and all manner of ad-hoc malaise.
I can tolerate the 'not-ready-for-prime-time' concept in places like Slashdot and Fark. But I'd rather turn to the MSM for hard facts, well done reports, and a lack of FUD.
The MSM is sitting at the dinner table and eyeing the attention that web news/blogs are getting, and wants to join the party. This is a warmed-over version of the dipshittery served up in The Cluetrain Manifesto.
The disgusting thing about this news is that we continually see fishermen bleating on the evening news about how important fishing is to them--and the income derived from such. They're bitching and whining about how it'll be terrible if they can't fish as much as they'd like to; how their childrunn will suffer, and they won't be able to support their families.
DIAF.
Go learn a new skill, get a different job, and STFU. EVERYONE ELSE has to do this when it's necessary, and you aren't special.
Or even the boombox.
When the media fails and people lose all the lossy mp3s they paid oodles for, they'll be a bit pissed.
Perhaps it will die when people realize it's just hipster jewelery, and listening with tinny headphones sucks.
Best Buy might do better as an electronics chain if they just turned all their stores into automats. The sales help is useless.
I went to a Best Buy recently to pick up an under $15 item. It came up as 8 dollars too much--the sale price didn't ring up. So rather than void the sale and simply enter the correct price for the item, the Missy Elliot enthusiast tells me to GO OVER TO CUSTOMER SERVICE and get the difference from them. WTF?
I told her to void the sale and do the transaction at the marked sale price. She did, perhaps after realizing that I wasn't going to be cowed by her 'tude.
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Even the kind reviews characterize this as a crapfest and non-starter.
It's so absurd it's hilarious. Anyone who takes that app seriously -- and not good natured fun -- has a major problem.
This dude out-thunk a bunch of municipal employees.
Agreed. The folks at io9 seem like they've run out of sci-fi books to read, and need to craft their own genre of fan-fiction.
I get evaluated at my job, should i be outraged? Maybe this will motivate them to actually try harder to be better teachers instead of just griping about a paycheck. There are worse jobs out there with even worse pay, i say start firing teachers that rank the worst.
Being a public school teacher is a racket if I ever saw one. And teacher's unions exist to make sure it stays that way.
Screw them. Cushy, milquetoast job. Summers off. And having the union there to make sure NOTHING changes that doesn't benefit or protect them. Like receiving that regular, fat kiss in the mail until they're dead.
I've spent most of my career in the private sector, but working at a public school inside the Mass. 128 belt opened my eyes like you wouldn't believe. Waste, ineptitude, that you wouldn't believe unless you spend at least a day there.
Wow. This whole thing is like The Dawn of Man for cinema enthusiasts and V1 owners.
All those Viewmaster slides!
dumb.
Is there anything analogous to Macsbug and Resedit these days? I haven't played around with good utils like those in years.
"Elizabeth's] navy made a giant leap forward in the way men fought at sea, years ahead of England's enemies,"
Didn't help 'em much during the American Revolution, did it now...
T-Mobile is qualified to join the money-grubbing aswipes club as well, starting with their milking Starbucks customers for wireless last year. Are they still doing it?
So THAT'S where my desk is buried.
basic aptitude would be sufficient. The ability to spell, adequate grammar, and some sense of what's going on in the world--not just in the World of Warcraft, for example.
Ah...this will end well.
This will end well...
OMFG why aren't the MySpace admins looking over my little Bratley's shoulder!1111!1!
The present generation of parents is utterly risk-averse. Moreover, they don't want to be responsible for anything. If their crotchfruit gets into trouble or does something wrong, surely there is a company or institution that can be sued.
DIAF, Cagri. Is his entire 'career' based on that stupid lemonade stand of a website?
Stop wasting trees with ineptitude like this, Wired.
You've heard the phrase before. "Too many cooks..." ah nevermind. Everyone's familiar with it.
That's the danger with this 'crowdsourcing' (oooooh! Another l33t cyber term for PHBs to parrot around the office!!111!
We depend on the mainstream media to investigate, check facts, copyedit, and proofread. I'm willing to pay for the results of work like that. "Crowdsourcing" seems too much like an 'up with people'/70s commune type of concept. However, it's primed to devolve into nothing more but mob rule--rife with hidden agendas and all manner of ad-hoc malaise.
I can tolerate the 'not-ready-for-prime-time' concept in places like Slashdot and Fark. But I'd rather turn to the MSM for hard facts, well done reports, and a lack of FUD.
The MSM is sitting at the dinner table and eyeing the attention that web news/blogs are getting, and wants to join the party. This is a warmed-over version of the dipshittery served up in The Cluetrain Manifesto.
The disgusting thing about this news is that we continually see fishermen bleating on the evening news about how important fishing is to them--and the income derived from such. They're bitching and whining about how it'll be terrible if they can't fish as much as they'd like to; how their childrunn will suffer, and they won't be able to support their families.
DIAF.
Go learn a new skill, get a different job, and STFU. EVERYONE ELSE has to do this when it's necessary, and you aren't special.
Or even the boombox. When the media fails and people lose all the lossy mp3s they paid oodles for, they'll be a bit pissed. Perhaps it will die when people realize it's just hipster jewelery, and listening with tinny headphones sucks.
It figures.
By the time I'm old enough to pilot Blue Thunder, they've outsourced the job to f'ing drones.
Very well said.
Best Buy might do better as an electronics chain if they just turned all their stores into automats. The sales help is useless.
I went to a Best Buy recently to pick up an under $15 item. It came up as 8 dollars too much--the sale price didn't ring up. So rather than void the sale and simply enter the correct price for the item, the Missy Elliot enthusiast tells me to GO OVER TO CUSTOMER SERVICE and get the difference from them. WTF?
I told her to void the sale and do the transaction at the marked sale price. She did, perhaps after realizing that I wasn't going to be cowed by her 'tude.
SUNDAY! SUNDAY! SUNDAYYY!!!
Come see renegade Slashdot nerds pilot their rocket-powered, case-modded FUNNYCAAARRRS!!!!
Sorry. Didn't read the entire article, but c'mon...
(On the positive side, and FWIW, the only time I saw a working NeXT box was at the Media Lab...aound '93.)