Zonugal(He/Him) The Holiday ArmadilloI'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered Userregular
I remember my Geography 101 professor would have unit tests with multiple choice questions that would have four possible answers followed by the choices of "None of the Above" and "All of the Above".
And fuck that.
FUCK THAT.
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Librarian's ghostLibrarian, Ghostbuster, and TimSporkRegistered Userregular
As a teacher I just want to say, that is the laziest test writing ever and those teachers suck at writing tests.
I remember my Geography 101 professor would have unit tests with multiple choice questions that would have four possible answers followed by the choices of "None of the Above" and "All of the Above".
And fuck that.
FUCK THAT.
In that ordering aren't the last two the same?
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Zonugal(He/Him) The Holiday ArmadilloI'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered Userregular
I remember my Geography 101 professor would have unit tests with multiple choice questions that would have four possible answers followed by the choices of "None of the Above" and "All of the Above".
And fuck that.
FUCK THAT.
In that ordering aren't the last two the same?
You just scored detention.
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Blake TDo you have enemies then?Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered Userregular
Eh, multiple choice questions suck as a method of assessing achievement anyway. None of the above is a valid option as an answer because it makes the students individually assess each response and consider if there is no correct response.
So I landed a job as a parking garage supervisor in a theater district. I do about 2 hours of actual work and have nothing to do otherwise. It is entirely normal here for people to watch shows on their phones/tablets during down time. I went to visit a guy who was hired around the same time as me at another garage with the same company and this motherfucker was sitting next to his boss playing WoW. My mind is broken. I feel like the second I bring my tablet and start drawing, the feds are going to break the door down and arrest me.
I remember my Geography 101 professor would have unit tests with multiple choice questions that would have four possible answers followed by the choices of "None of the Above" and "All of the Above".
Going to Scotland over Christmas and going to taste ALL the scotch
If you are there with someone who is a member of the Scotch Whisky Society, try out the Vaults down in Leith; it’s a p. great way to spend a couple hours in a pretentious-but-not-really way and their sausage+cabbage+mashed potatoe main is really good. Membership is required.
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Goose!That's me, honeyShow me the way home, honeyRegistered Userregular
I can't recall if I posted this here or not yet, but my coworkers and bosses did a really nice thing for me Friday.
When I got in on Friday, they told me I need to help one of my bosses with a computer issue upstairs. This was a ploy to delay my arrival to the usual biweekly breakfast that they do, because when we did get there, everyone applauded and it was a send off/going away thing for me. They all got me a card and a cake and the teachers got together and gave me $500 which blew me away. Everything was so sweet and so nice and made me feel good. And made leaving all the more sad, even as it is necessary. I doubt I'll ever find a workplace environment as great as this again.
I remember my Geography 101 professor would have unit tests with multiple choice questions that would have four possible answers followed by the choices of "None of the Above" and "All of the Above".
And fuck that.
FUCK THAT.
Hey, my teacher did that, too. Some questions had more than one right answer, and you had to choose all of the correct answers to get credit.
If that's all there is my friends, then let's keep dancing
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Kane Red RobeMaster of MagicArcanusRegistered Userregular
I remember my Geography 101 professor would have unit tests with multiple choice questions that would have four possible answers followed by the choices of "None of the Above" and "All of the Above".
And fuck that.
FUCK THAT.
Hey, my teacher did that, too. Some questions had more than one right answer, and you had to choose all of the correct answers to get credit.
Probably the best teacher I ever had was my AP European History teacher, who the class after each test handed everyone the test and their results back, then let anyone argue why either their answer wasn't wrong or the question was badly stated. If your argument was judged good then everyone in the class who got the question wrong had their grade updated with it marked correct. Then he updated the test for next year to fix the question.
I remember my Geography 101 professor would have unit tests with multiple choice questions that would have four possible answers followed by the choices of "None of the Above" and "All of the Above".
And fuck that.
FUCK THAT.
Hey, my teacher did that, too. Some questions had more than one right answer, and you had to choose all of the correct answers to get credit.
So these are terrible ways to do tests for a lot of reasons
HOWEVER
AP tests, especially AP Lang and AP Lit tests, definitely do this. In very tricky ways. So some times my tests have this kind of thing, but I warn my students, and they know it’s entirely to prep them for AP Lang their junior year.
I've had more than a couple of jobs now where, like, +95% of the job was functionally same (help desk tier 1 type person). I don't see any real reason why my resume shouldn't reflect that, and am tempted to either list the exact same job description/skills for each entry, or to just have my current job, and then in work experience just combine all the jobs that were basically the same thing into basically one entry.
Kinda like this:
Thoughts?
Also who are some folks who do resume reviews because I would like to hire someone to help me get it to the next level.
About to submit this cover letter and resume via email.
Do I send them via PDF or word document (word.doc or RTF?)?
PDF
.docx goes in the bin when I'm screening
It shouldn't! Especially if you're in tech. Folks who work for temp/staffing agencies are required to submit their resumes in word/editable formats, so they may genuinely not know better!
I've had more than a couple of jobs now where, like, +95% of the job was functionally same (help desk tier 1 type person). I don't see any real reason why my resume shouldn't reflect that, and am tempted to either list the exact same job description/skills for each entry, or to just have my current job, and then in work experience just combine all the jobs that were basically the same thing into basically one entry.
Kinda like this:
Thoughts?
Also who are some folks who do resume reviews because I would like to hire someone to help me get it to the next level.
So, I'm not in IT, so listen if they tell you different. But this sells you short. A resume is not a document to accurately reflect your skills. A resume is a document to sell someone else the idea they MUST hire you, or be missing out. Unless all those jobs are fairly old/unimportant to the story, what you are saying is "I've done the same thing for a while, not learning new things or getting better" if they are at all important than go with the most recent one and bugger the rest because resumes are a horrorshow of length limits. If you've been working long enough no one cares about that old job anyway.
It also raises the flag that you didn't get promoted/were jumping, whether that's true or fair or not. So again, just the most recent might be sufficient.
As a general thing, the resumes I've liked seeing focused on accomplishments, not lists of skills. The accomplishment description can roll the skills into it and show you actually apply things, not just a bunch of things I don't know much more than "well tox probably did this at least once". But I'm in science world where you can go pretty darn long. In one page resume land I don't know how applicable that is, but it still seems like a good highlight.
Basically the shortest, clearest story you can tell of problem identified, what I did to fix it using what skills, measurable good outcome. 1-3 sentances likely.
Just something to highlight you and make you memorable, vs just a list of skills. So job, time, a key accomplishment, then the skills list.
Again, I'm coming from a weird background, but have been doing a lot more with mine and other people's resumes lately. So all my advice comes well salted, I know we have more straight business and it people here.
Anyone here use GSuite in their job? We switched from Office/Skype for Business and one thing I want and can't find is a way to mark myself as "Unavailable, leave me alone" in the chat options. Does anyone know if such an option exists and I'm just missing it somewhere?
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Librarian's ghostLibrarian, Ghostbuster, and TimSporkRegistered Userregular
edited September 2019
The admin office secretary had her baby. She was the one that would come in at 4 to keep the library open.
Upside: I now get 30-60 more minutes of supervision pay every day for 6-8 weeks.
Downside: I now have to stay 30-60 more minutes everyday.
Anyone here use GSuite in their job? We switched from Office/Skype for Business and one thing I want and can't find is a way to mark myself as "Unavailable, leave me alone" in the chat options. Does anyone know if such an option exists and I'm just missing it somewhere?
You can go into gmail and disable chat entirely in the settings, (or sign out of hangouts on the left side) though that might only affect you appearing online when using gmail. Other than that, all you can do is mute notifications for up to 8 hours.
The admin office secretary had her baby. She was the one that would come in at 4 to keep the library open.
Upside: I now get 30-60 more minutes of supervision pay every day for 6-8 weeks.
Downside: I now have to stay 30-60 more minutes everyday.
Granted you have a full, real library that has cool things in it like a Switch and VR stuff, but when I had to do supervision duties and stuff, I volunteered for the library duty. Library kids are usually chill. It could be lunch duty or outside duty...
In fact, at that school I volunteered for taking on extra duties so the library could actually be used, because I like libraries and think they are important. Then one year they took that duty away from me and closed the library except for when an overworked para who didn't want to do it could be scheduled to go in there to check out books with a class. So instead of every day before and after school, during lunch, and with classes as needed, it became classes as needed only.
They put me in a classroom instead, "to supervise." It was the biggest waste of time ever and within the first week I'd been undermined by administration so the rest of the time in that classroom was an even bigger waste of time.
The admin office secretary had her baby. She was the one that would come in at 4 to keep the library open.
Upside: I now get 30-60 more minutes of supervision pay every day for 6-8 weeks.
Downside: I now have to stay 30-60 more minutes everyday.
Granted you have a full, real library that has cool things in it like a Switch and VR stuff, but when I had to do supervision duties and stuff, I volunteered for the library duty. Library kids are usually chill. It could be lunch duty or outside duty...
In fact, at that school I volunteered for taking on extra duties so the library could actually be used, because I like libraries and think they are important. Then one year they took that duty away from me and closed the library except for when an overworked para who didn't want to do it could be scheduled to go in there to check out books with a class. So instead of every day before and after school, during lunch, and with classes as needed, it became classes as needed only.
They put me in a classroom instead, "to supervise." It was the biggest waste of time ever and within the first week I'd been undermined by administration so the rest of the time in that classroom was an even bigger waste of time.
These freshmen this year are real pieces of work. If it was just 10th-12th graders after school I'd have zero problems. The 9th graders are extra crazy this year.
Being the guy who orders supplies is starting to get to me. So I've been doing a dick thing. I've been being bad, on purpose, at ordering things for the office. Because I am on the first floor and they are on the 5th and the hired 3 new people in the last 2 months. Make one of them do it. They are in the god damned room with all the people who need supplies
Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
I remember my Geography 101 professor would have unit tests with multiple choice questions that would have four possible answers followed by the choices of "None of the Above" and "All of the Above".
And fuck that.
FUCK THAT.
I had a teacher once that would put "None of the Above" as a possible answer to every multiple choice question. And you could then write in what you thought it was.
She then went on to say that "None of the Above" was never the correct choice and she was only putting it there in case people wanted to rules lawyer it.
And people uh, did certainly try that option throughout the year. For zero points.
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
Being the guy who orders supplies is starting to get to me. So I've been doing a dick thing. I've been being bad, on purpose, at ordering things for the office. Because I am on the first floor and they are on the 5th and the hired 3 new people in the last 2 months. Make one of them do it. They are in the god damned room with all the people who need supplies
Yeah, I would have a real hard time not going completely pull system on that. Somebody emails me saying "order x" then it gets ordered, otherwise?
Kinda just reduces yourself to pointless bureaucracy though.
The worst test I have ever heard of didn't happen to me, but to some of my friends in university engineering. The class was a circuit analysis type class. Basically, there would be a picture of a complicated circuit and you had to use math to figure stuff out about it. Typically you would expect test questions about these to be written, so you could show your work and get part marks for things if you had maybe a correct method but made some mistakes.
Well.... not this test. This test was multiple choice. Each question had about 15 possible answers; all wrong ones were conveniently set up so that if you made some mistake in your method you would come up with one of those wrong answers. Oh, and also you got negative marks for wrong answers.
A lot of people came out of that one with a negative grade on the test.
The worst test I have ever heard of didn't happen to me, but to some of my friends in university engineering. The class was a circuit analysis type class. Basically, there would be a picture of a complicated circuit and you had to use math to figure stuff out about it. Typically you would expect test questions about these to be written, so you could show your work and get part marks for things if you had maybe a correct method but made some mistakes.
Well.... not this test. This test was multiple choice. Each question had about 15 possible answers; all wrong ones were conveniently set up so that if you made some mistake in your method you would come up with one of those wrong answers. Oh, and also you got negative marks for wrong answers.
A lot of people came out of that one with a negative grade on the test.
That is an asshole of a teacher. The idea of negative points for wrong answers is to discourage guessing. I'd say that 15 fucking options do a pretty good job of minimizing that influence. "Oh no, some "stupid person" who I failed to teach might get some free points 7% of the time!" If they hit that 7% chance like ten times in a row they might accidentally pass! I'd be ruined as a teacher!
JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
One of my professors in college had a bunch of pre-made test templates that he'd randomly rotate through. And each of these test templates had a number of different lists of multiple choice answers, so even if you have someone's test from a previous year that matches the test questions, you couldn't just memorize the letters and blitz the test.
When my class took our intro to philosophy midterm, he accidentally put the wrong answer template on the question template he was using. So most of the questions didn't have correct answers, and there was no "none of the above" option on most of them.
The result was that the class test average crashed from the mid 80s to the low 30s, and he didn't figure out why until he started trying to review the test with us during the next class period.
I will never forget the sheer silent wall of hatred that followed him laughing and saying "Man, I'd be really mad if someone gave me a test like this."
And that's how I took a college midterm with a 60-point curve.
He was widely regarded as a brilliant researcher and a piss-poor instructor, and I seem to remember that particular test causing many students to make formal complaints against him. People wanted to murder him.
One of my professors would assign a chapter to read in our book and then give a true/false test. You gained a point for getting a question right but subtracted a point for getting it wrong. So if you weren't 100% certain, you were better off leaving the question blank.
And you might think "how hard could a true/false test be?" but this teacher loved trick questions and red herrings and misdirection. He said it wasn't good enough to just read the chapter, you had to really comprehend it. If you truly understood it, you wouldn't get fooled by the trick questions.
I had a test in high school with the old "Do not move beyond this point" on the top. Teacher still acted like it was a normal timed test. Myself and one other people managed to get it, but I felt like an ass later when he said it out loud to the class "Everyone but Bucketman and Student failed because they are the only ones who can read".
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And fuck that.
FUCK THAT.
In that ordering aren't the last two the same?
You just scored detention.
Satans..... hints.....
Can you play this game about the worst night a parking garage supervisor has ever had, while you're at work? https://store.steampowered.com/app/584980/Late_Shift/
Fuck yeah, here I come Molly Ringwald!
Feel bad and poor, but need me time
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
You getting some Glen Cairn glasses? A dram in them looks sophisticated as all get out.
If you are there with someone who is a member of the Scotch Whisky Society, try out the Vaults down in Leith; it’s a p. great way to spend a couple hours in a pretentious-but-not-really way and their sausage+cabbage+mashed potatoe main is really good. Membership is required.
When I got in on Friday, they told me I need to help one of my bosses with a computer issue upstairs. This was a ploy to delay my arrival to the usual biweekly breakfast that they do, because when we did get there, everyone applauded and it was a send off/going away thing for me. They all got me a card and a cake and the teachers got together and gave me $500 which blew me away. Everything was so sweet and so nice and made me feel good. And made leaving all the more sad, even as it is necessary. I doubt I'll ever find a workplace environment as great as this again.
Hey, my teacher did that, too. Some questions had more than one right answer, and you had to choose all of the correct answers to get credit.
Probably the best teacher I ever had was my AP European History teacher, who the class after each test handed everyone the test and their results back, then let anyone argue why either their answer wasn't wrong or the question was badly stated. If your argument was judged good then everyone in the class who got the question wrong had their grade updated with it marked correct. Then he updated the test for next year to fix the question.
So these are terrible ways to do tests for a lot of reasons
HOWEVER
AP tests, especially AP Lang and AP Lit tests, definitely do this. In very tricky ways. So some times my tests have this kind of thing, but I warn my students, and they know it’s entirely to prep them for AP Lang their junior year.
But it is definitely bullshit.
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I've had more than a couple of jobs now where, like, +95% of the job was functionally same (help desk tier 1 type person). I don't see any real reason why my resume shouldn't reflect that, and am tempted to either list the exact same job description/skills for each entry, or to just have my current job, and then in work experience just combine all the jobs that were basically the same thing into basically one entry.
Kinda like this:
Thoughts?
Also who are some folks who do resume reviews because I would like to hire someone to help me get it to the next level.
Do I send them via PDF or word document (word.doc or RTF?)?
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
never word doc. Always a format like PDF that can't really easily be "accidentally" edited.
PDF
.docx goes in the bin when I'm screening
It shouldn't! Especially if you're in tech. Folks who work for temp/staffing agencies are required to submit their resumes in word/editable formats, so they may genuinely not know better!
So, I'm not in IT, so listen if they tell you different. But this sells you short. A resume is not a document to accurately reflect your skills. A resume is a document to sell someone else the idea they MUST hire you, or be missing out. Unless all those jobs are fairly old/unimportant to the story, what you are saying is "I've done the same thing for a while, not learning new things or getting better" if they are at all important than go with the most recent one and bugger the rest because resumes are a horrorshow of length limits. If you've been working long enough no one cares about that old job anyway.
It also raises the flag that you didn't get promoted/were jumping, whether that's true or fair or not. So again, just the most recent might be sufficient.
As a general thing, the resumes I've liked seeing focused on accomplishments, not lists of skills. The accomplishment description can roll the skills into it and show you actually apply things, not just a bunch of things I don't know much more than "well tox probably did this at least once". But I'm in science world where you can go pretty darn long. In one page resume land I don't know how applicable that is, but it still seems like a good highlight.
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
Just something to highlight you and make you memorable, vs just a list of skills. So job, time, a key accomplishment, then the skills list.
Again, I'm coming from a weird background, but have been doing a lot more with mine and other people's resumes lately. So all my advice comes well salted, I know we have more straight business and it people here.
Also pdf opens the same in any program and word docs don't even look the same between different versions of word.
Upside: I now get 30-60 more minutes of supervision pay every day for 6-8 weeks.
Downside: I now have to stay 30-60 more minutes everyday.
You can go into gmail and disable chat entirely in the settings, (or sign out of hangouts on the left side) though that might only affect you appearing online when using gmail. Other than that, all you can do is mute notifications for up to 8 hours.
Granted you have a full, real library that has cool things in it like a Switch and VR stuff, but when I had to do supervision duties and stuff, I volunteered for the library duty. Library kids are usually chill. It could be lunch duty or outside duty...
In fact, at that school I volunteered for taking on extra duties so the library could actually be used, because I like libraries and think they are important. Then one year they took that duty away from me and closed the library except for when an overworked para who didn't want to do it could be scheduled to go in there to check out books with a class. So instead of every day before and after school, during lunch, and with classes as needed, it became classes as needed only.
They put me in a classroom instead, "to supervise." It was the biggest waste of time ever and within the first week I'd been undermined by administration so the rest of the time in that classroom was an even bigger waste of time.
These freshmen this year are real pieces of work. If it was just 10th-12th graders after school I'd have zero problems. The 9th graders are extra crazy this year.
I figure in two or three years I should have the full sample to go on.
On the bright side, you can learn about the history of America in 101 objects, 36 postage stamps, 100 maps, 5 stock market crashes, or 10 strikes.
I just checked. My system has 77 and that is too many.
I had a teacher once that would put "None of the Above" as a possible answer to every multiple choice question. And you could then write in what you thought it was.
She then went on to say that "None of the Above" was never the correct choice and she was only putting it there in case people wanted to rules lawyer it.
And people uh, did certainly try that option throughout the year. For zero points.
Yeah, I would have a real hard time not going completely pull system on that. Somebody emails me saying "order x" then it gets ordered, otherwise?
Kinda just reduces yourself to pointless bureaucracy though.
Well.... not this test. This test was multiple choice. Each question had about 15 possible answers; all wrong ones were conveniently set up so that if you made some mistake in your method you would come up with one of those wrong answers. Oh, and also you got negative marks for wrong answers.
A lot of people came out of that one with a negative grade on the test.
That is an asshole of a teacher. The idea of negative points for wrong answers is to discourage guessing. I'd say that 15 fucking options do a pretty good job of minimizing that influence. "Oh no, some "stupid person" who I failed to teach might get some free points 7% of the time!" If they hit that 7% chance like ten times in a row they might accidentally pass! I'd be ruined as a teacher!
When my class took our intro to philosophy midterm, he accidentally put the wrong answer template on the question template he was using. So most of the questions didn't have correct answers, and there was no "none of the above" option on most of them.
The result was that the class test average crashed from the mid 80s to the low 30s, and he didn't figure out why until he started trying to review the test with us during the next class period.
I will never forget the sheer silent wall of hatred that followed him laughing and saying "Man, I'd be really mad if someone gave me a test like this."
And that's how I took a college midterm with a 60-point curve.
And you might think "how hard could a true/false test be?" but this teacher loved trick questions and red herrings and misdirection. He said it wasn't good enough to just read the chapter, you had to really comprehend it. If you truly understood it, you wouldn't get fooled by the trick questions.
Fuck this teacher.