so over the years, we made a list of things my boss SHOULD have asked me when he was interviewing me.
you have been warned.
this list is in no particular order, there is some redundancy, nor does this include my good qualities. no wait, these are my good qualities??
HAH
insubordination
lying
english
polite
annoying
obnoxious
noxious (burps)
maturity
nosy
shut up
lazy
RUDE (gruff)
irritable
impatient
profane
disruptive
crazy
weird
pushy
spelling
corruptor
responsible
flaky
immature
whining
liberal
yacker
never says please
doesn't listen
argumentative
nice
inflexible
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Friday, October 1, 2010
Monday, September 20, 2010
the Fine Rule - things we developed at work
something that we started using in my office circa 2000. getting my boss to buy in was the easiest thing I have ever done. fine.
the Fine Rule
a) fine - fine. I have bought your argument. we can move on to the next step/topic. You ahve convinced me. I do not require the rest of your sales pitch.
b) got it - no really, I understand what you are saying. got it. we can move on.
c) shut up - now you are just talking to hear yourself talk. I got it 5 mins ago and you wont shut up alreay. no really shut up.
d) SHUT UP - escalate as loud as your wish. they are so rude and self-centered that there is no need to even pretend to be polite to them.
We found that while working, we would run into people trying to sell us on their idea. they would have this long explanation/rationalization prepared in advance. guessing that we wouldn't or couldn't understand them if they explained the idea at a high level. Their psychological commitment to their pitch was such that you had trouble getting them to stop, long after you died of boredom. this was particularly true of slideshows/presentations. we spent all this effort putting together the pitch? dont you want to see it all? NO!!
Our goal was to stop wasting time and get on with our jobs.
(if you have said fine already, you should have stopped reading lines ago. there really is nothing else to add)
one caveat or problem is that idiots dont like the fine rule. they want to her themselves talk. they think it makes them sound smart. I find this a good thing.
ME: Fine. next topic.
Idiot: but I have finished yet.
ME: I got it. you dont have to explain more. what's next?
Idiot: your aren't listening.
ME: shut up. (unless they are a senior manager and then I have an emergency bathroom break. practice fake puking is good for this. and then dont come back)
the Fine Rule
a) fine - fine. I have bought your argument. we can move on to the next step/topic. You ahve convinced me. I do not require the rest of your sales pitch.
b) got it - no really, I understand what you are saying. got it. we can move on.
c) shut up - now you are just talking to hear yourself talk. I got it 5 mins ago and you wont shut up alreay. no really shut up.
d) SHUT UP - escalate as loud as your wish. they are so rude and self-centered that there is no need to even pretend to be polite to them.
We found that while working, we would run into people trying to sell us on their idea. they would have this long explanation/rationalization prepared in advance. guessing that we wouldn't or couldn't understand them if they explained the idea at a high level. Their psychological commitment to their pitch was such that you had trouble getting them to stop, long after you died of boredom. this was particularly true of slideshows/presentations. we spent all this effort putting together the pitch? dont you want to see it all? NO!!
Our goal was to stop wasting time and get on with our jobs.
(if you have said fine already, you should have stopped reading lines ago. there really is nothing else to add)
one caveat or problem is that idiots dont like the fine rule. they want to her themselves talk. they think it makes them sound smart. I find this a good thing.
ME: Fine. next topic.
Idiot: but I have finished yet.
ME: I got it. you dont have to explain more. what's next?
Idiot: your aren't listening.
ME: shut up. (unless they are a senior manager and then I have an emergency bathroom break. practice fake puking is good for this. and then dont come back)
Sunday, September 5, 2010
pete on education
TOTAL.FARK.com: (5601520) This just in: dumbfarks with no skills get paid less than smart people with serious degrees. no, your english degree still is worthless
RodneyToady: namatad: why are you giving the same number of loans and the ammount of money for degrees with little or no payback expectation compared to a field where there is expected payback?
history/english/women studies? small loans to a small number of students.
math/science/eng/comp sci/medicine? larger loans to a larger number of students.
It's kind of impractical, though. This isn't like buying a house, in which you can look a credit score and the price and make an assessment of ability to pay the loan back. Would someone be forbidden from changing majors? Many students aren't allowed to declare a major until their sophomore or junior year... what happens to the freshmen? Are we going to use high school GPA or SAT scores to determine loan eligibility?
Plus, some of the majors tend to have useful skills embedded in them. A BA in Psychology is more or less useless if you want to "practice" psychology, but it's obviously useful if you want to go to graduate school in psychology. It also tends to give a good background on statistics and research methodology, as well as (potentially) aiding someone who wants to work in marketing or advertising. Pair graduate psychology with a law degree, and you can do some pretty lucrative things. If you don't get the initial loan, you may never get there. I assume that for certain other non-STEM majors, you can get similarly useful skills.
Now the next logical question is, even taking that into account, is there an oversupply of people even in those advanced fields, that will limit earning potential, the way it is with law, for example? I don't know. Probably. In which case, is there even a real point in going to college and accruing massive debt for a significant chunk of the population? And if there isn't a real point, and people begin to doubt how beneficial college is to the extent that they go in smaller numbers, are we looking at a higher education "bubble"?
supply and demand for any field changes over time.
with less young people being born, there is less demand for k-12 teachers.
with more people getting OLD, there is more demand for health/old people care. (the full spectrum, from drs to ass wipers)
with more manufacturering being automated or shipped to cheaper labor, there is less demand for human robots.
there is a continuous need for people in the trades. low to middle paying jobs. people need to eat, sleep, be entertained.
so there will be a constant demand for cooks, waitors, entertainers, managers, store clerks.
there is a fixed demand for law enforcement and sercurity, esp as long as we have consensual crimes. if you got rid of all the consensual crimes and the black markets which come with them, you are left with assault/murder/rape/robbery.
many/most scifi has predicted a bored lower/middle class living on the dole watching tv/internet/games. kind of like we have now.
so yah, society will continue to change and mutate in ways we have predicted and not predicted.
at some point we wont be able to afford the cost of unpaid school loans and the loan system will dramatically change.
at exactly that same point, the education system has/will change to meet those needs.
how many schools already have tons/most classes on line?
at what point could you get 1-3 years done real cheap from home and spend 1-2 year paying for the stuff you cannot do remotely?
at what point is the goal now finishing high school to get into undergrad become finishing undergrad to get into the best grad schools?
kids will stay home until they finish their undergrad and compete for grad school.
those that dont make the cut will do what people have always done, something else.
/change is good
/unless you are a fear-monger and then change is ZOMG THE END OF THE WORLD IS COMING!!!
RodneyToady: namatad: why are you giving the same number of loans and the ammount of money for degrees with little or no payback expectation compared to a field where there is expected payback?
history/english/women studies? small loans to a small number of students.
math/science/eng/comp sci/medicine? larger loans to a larger number of students.
It's kind of impractical, though. This isn't like buying a house, in which you can look a credit score and the price and make an assessment of ability to pay the loan back. Would someone be forbidden from changing majors? Many students aren't allowed to declare a major until their sophomore or junior year... what happens to the freshmen? Are we going to use high school GPA or SAT scores to determine loan eligibility?
Plus, some of the majors tend to have useful skills embedded in them. A BA in Psychology is more or less useless if you want to "practice" psychology, but it's obviously useful if you want to go to graduate school in psychology. It also tends to give a good background on statistics and research methodology, as well as (potentially) aiding someone who wants to work in marketing or advertising. Pair graduate psychology with a law degree, and you can do some pretty lucrative things. If you don't get the initial loan, you may never get there. I assume that for certain other non-STEM majors, you can get similarly useful skills.
Now the next logical question is, even taking that into account, is there an oversupply of people even in those advanced fields, that will limit earning potential, the way it is with law, for example? I don't know. Probably. In which case, is there even a real point in going to college and accruing massive debt for a significant chunk of the population? And if there isn't a real point, and people begin to doubt how beneficial college is to the extent that they go in smaller numbers, are we looking at a higher education "bubble"?
supply and demand for any field changes over time.
with less young people being born, there is less demand for k-12 teachers.
with more people getting OLD, there is more demand for health/old people care. (the full spectrum, from drs to ass wipers)
with more manufacturering being automated or shipped to cheaper labor, there is less demand for human robots.
there is a continuous need for people in the trades. low to middle paying jobs. people need to eat, sleep, be entertained.
so there will be a constant demand for cooks, waitors, entertainers, managers, store clerks.
there is a fixed demand for law enforcement and sercurity, esp as long as we have consensual crimes. if you got rid of all the consensual crimes and the black markets which come with them, you are left with assault/murder/rape/robbery.
many/most scifi has predicted a bored lower/middle class living on the dole watching tv/internet/games. kind of like we have now.
so yah, society will continue to change and mutate in ways we have predicted and not predicted.
at some point we wont be able to afford the cost of unpaid school loans and the loan system will dramatically change.
at exactly that same point, the education system has/will change to meet those needs.
how many schools already have tons/most classes on line?
at what point could you get 1-3 years done real cheap from home and spend 1-2 year paying for the stuff you cannot do remotely?
at what point is the goal now finishing high school to get into undergrad become finishing undergrad to get into the best grad schools?
kids will stay home until they finish their undergrad and compete for grad school.
those that dont make the cut will do what people have always done, something else.
/change is good
/unless you are a fear-monger and then change is ZOMG THE END OF THE WORLD IS COMING!!!
Monday, August 23, 2010
inscription or the things I do to make a ton of gold - in 900 easy steps
this is what I do. you dont like it, you can always continue doing whatever you currently do to make gold.
you can replace inscription with enchanting or jewelcrafting.
same process holds for them as glyphs.
in the end, as long as the mats
in no particular order
INK - jessica sellers - ink trader
ATSW - use an addon to make glyphs
quick auction - for the love of god, you must use an addon to post glyphs
postal - you must have a mail addon to get canceled auctions
resetting prices - sometimes you have to reset the prices. use the BUY tab (think it is from quick auction, but could be from auctioneer). it lets you buy things in bulk, when they are posted in stacks of 1. ugh
two toons - one for crafting and mats, one for posting on the AH. two accounts can go even further.
know your competetion! save their names on your friends list. undercut them when they logoff.
you can replace inscription with enchanting or jewelcrafting.
same process holds for them as glyphs.
in the end, as long as the mats
in no particular order
INK - jessica sellers - ink trader
ATSW - use an addon to make glyphs
quick auction - for the love of god, you must use an addon to post glyphs
postal - you must have a mail addon to get canceled auctions
resetting prices - sometimes you have to reset the prices. use the BUY tab (think it is from quick auction, but could be from auctioneer). it lets you buy things in bulk, when they are posted in stacks of 1. ugh
two toons - one for crafting and mats, one for posting on the AH. two accounts can go even further.
know your competetion! save their names on your friends list. undercut them when they logoff.
quick auction - the only way to post on the AH
without this addon, you should stick with farming trash/herbing/mining to make gold. people using this addon will kick your ass.
there are a number of great guides on how to use this addon.
1) you add the glyphs you want to sell to the list
2) you change the default prices and number of item you want posted and the undercut amount.
button, then cancels everything. saves you a billion hours.
there are a number of great guides on how to use this addon.
1) you add the glyphs you want to sell to the list
2) you change the default prices and number of item you want posted and the undercut amount.
- I set my default price at 100g (top price I will ever list at)
- I set the low price to 3g (cause I want to run the tard out of the market)
- I only will post/repost 2 glyphs at a time. reason? because some tard will undercut you and you will have to cancel your undercut auctions and then relist them.
- set undercut to 1c.
ATSW - or dont make glyphs using the built in interface
use anyone of a number of addons which let you QUEUE the things you want to make. while you still have to press a button between things, you can do this while not paying attention.
dont make 5-10 glyphs at a time. make 40-60 of one glyph.
if you dont think you can sell that many of that glyph, then you need to research which glyphs sell.
dont make 5-10 glyphs at a time. make 40-60 of one glyph.
if you dont think you can sell that many of that glyph, then you need to research which glyphs sell.
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