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Post by spoon on Apr 13, 2019 19:40:11 GMT -5
This is one reason why unions are important, and it hurts workers that union membership has been so low in recent times. Union contracts can establish disciplinary procedures that can be followed, so at least you might have the right to an internal hearing and some consistency about how discipline (including firing) is handled.
At-will employment really allows employers to screw with workers, because nasty or unfair justifications are allowed. Like "I just don't like you" or "I just felt like it."
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Apr 16, 2019 14:23:32 GMT -5
Couldnt agree more. Americans rudeness in their narcissism over the importance of a phone call is unsettling. Ugh. I was at the barber shop the other day and the guy in the chair had the barber stop cutting his hair 3 times!!! to answer his cell phone. I leave my cell phone in the car or in my jacket on silent for stuff like that. Mine is provided for me by my employer so I have to carry it with me at all times. But in situations like that, it's on silent and I am not answering it until I am done with whatever it is. That's what texting and/or voicemail is for. It's the height of rudeness to me how some people take their phone priority over people they are interacting with face to face.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2019 14:39:31 GMT -5
Ugh. I was at the barber shop the other day and the guy in the chair had the barber stop cutting his hair 3 times!!! to answer his cell phone. I leave my cell phone in the car or in my jacket on silent for stuff like that. Mine is provided for me by my employer so I have to carry it with me at all times. But in situations like that, it's on silent and I am not answering it until I am done with whatever it is. That's what texting and/or voicemail is for. It's the height of rudeness to me how some people take their phone priority over people they are interacting with face to face. People have always been the center of their own universe, technology just makes it easier to display that and makes it easier for people to behave that way, but technology did not create the attitude or impulse to do so. To paraphrase Robert Anton Wilson, each person exists in their own reality tunnel and the universe takes the shape based on their perceptions and ordering of it. Things that don't fit that reality tunnel are ignored, expunged or mutilated until it does fit. To put it in Douglas Adams terms, everyone thinks they are Zaphod Beeblerox in their own universe, even if they aren't, and from their point of view it is you that is being rude to interrupt their phone call or expect them to stop doing what they want to do to accommodate you. Everyone is the hero of their own story. It's not a new problem because of technology, use of technology is just another expression of what is already there. -M
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Apr 16, 2019 14:40:19 GMT -5
Students should do a specific effort to read exam questions and to answer them, not to randomly regurgitate all the material they crammed the night before.
There! I said it.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2019 14:44:44 GMT -5
Students should do a specific effort to read exam questions and to answer them, not to randomly regurgitate all the material they crammed the night before. There! I said it. Our educational system should promote actual learning and not educational bulimia where students are forced to cram massive amounts of fact or content into their system only to purge it out into a paper or exam soon thereafter with nothing remaining in their system afterwards just to make a grade to make their transcript appealing or maintain a grade level for external reasons. But having outcome based education and standardized testing (without a standardized curriculum) simply promotes the educational bulimia model. -M
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Apr 16, 2019 15:23:11 GMT -5
Mine is provided for me by my employer so I have to carry it with me at all times. But in situations like that, it's on silent and I am not answering it until I am done with whatever it is. That's what texting and/or voicemail is for. It's the height of rudeness to me how some people take their phone priority over people they are interacting with face to face. People have always been the center of their own universe, technology just makes it easier to display that and makes it easier for people to behave that way, but technology did not create the attitude or impulse to do so. To paraphrase Robert Anton Wilson, each person exists in their own reality tunnel and the universe takes the shape based on their perceptions and ordering of it. Things that don't fit that reality tunnel are ignored, expunged or mutilated until it does fit. To put it in Douglas Adams terms, everyone thinks they are Zaphod Beeblerox in their own universe, even if they aren't, and from their point of view it is you that is being rude to interrupt their phone call or expect them to stop doing what they want to do to accommodate you. Everyone is the hero of their own story. It's not a new problem because of technology, use of technology is just another expression of what is already there. -M Oh I agree. Lots of people like to blame technology. And if that's how my post came off, then I was not clear. Americans (I say that only because I haven't been anywhere else, though as you said it's a human trait) definitely live in a vacuum when it comes to those around you. It's not just cell phones, it's in people's driving habits, their relationships, interactions with humans in general. It's painfully apparent a lot of people would rather not consider others. Even in the most smallest and innocuous of ways.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Apr 18, 2019 19:47:27 GMT -5
There are two kinds of people in the world. Those that like Blue Swede’s version of Hooked on a Feeling and those that like BJ Thomas’.
There I said it.
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Post by Prince Hal on Apr 18, 2019 21:28:19 GMT -5
There are two kinds of people in the world. Those that like Blue Swede’s version of Hooked on a Feeling and those that like BJ Thomas’. There I said it. No, there are three. You've forgotten those who like neither one.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 18, 2019 21:32:26 GMT -5
There are two kinds of people in the world. Those that like Blue Swede’s version of Hooked on a Feeling and those that like BJ Thomas’. There I said it. There are two types of people in the world, those who can spell suede and those who type Swede. (speaking as the king of typos myself, I probably would fall in the latter) -M
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Post by Prince Hal on Apr 18, 2019 21:40:23 GMT -5
There are two kinds of people in the world. Those that like Blue Swede’s version of Hooked on a Feeling and those that like BJ Thomas’. There I said it. There are two types of people in the world, those who can spell suede and those who type Swede. (speaking as the king of typos myself, I probably would fall in the latter) -M You meant "from the ladder," right?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 18, 2019 21:42:43 GMT -5
There are two types of people in the world, those who can spell suede and those who type Swede. (speaking as the king of typos myself, I probably would fall in the latter) -M You meant "from the ladder," right? I'd have to actually get up on the ladder first and that ain't happening these days -M
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Apr 19, 2019 8:31:58 GMT -5
There are two kinds of people in the world. Those that like Blue Swede’s version of Hooked on a Feeling and those that like BJ Thomas’. There I said it. No, there are three. You've forgotten those who like neither one. *Gasp* My dear sir .....
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Post by Prince Hal on Apr 19, 2019 9:40:09 GMT -5
No, there are three. You've forgotten those who like neither one. *Gasp* My dear sir ..... I've called for the fainting couch for you.
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Post by Farrar on Apr 19, 2019 12:25:39 GMT -5
Aww, I'll always have a soft spot for B.J. Thomas. When I got my first transistor radio his songs were played all the time on WABC-AM.
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Post by brutalis on Apr 19, 2019 13:13:39 GMT -5
Aww, I'll always have a soft spot for B.J. Thomas. When I got my first transistor radio his songs were played all the time on WABC-AM. Same here for me. Grew up listening to him.Actually met him twice in concert at the Payson casino about 8 years ago. My retired grandfather worked the casino as part time security so he took me and my parents when he played there. Very small intimate room (fits maybe 100 people) with just him and his guitar and after he hung around the casino playing slot machines and talking with folks. Very warm, caring, funnyand personable man. As a joke during the concert he tells everyone he is going to perform the extended long play version of his greatest hit and then he sings the Folgers coffee song and repeats it 3 times! LOL
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