BrodyThe WatchThe First ShoreRegistered Userregular
Ok, I feel dumb. I was sent a PDF to fill out, but I can't find any way to fill it out? Downloaded it, opened it in the basic version of both Bluebeam and Adobe. Is there something I'm missing here?
"I will write your name in the ruin of them. I will paint you across history in the color of their blood."
they might not have saved it as an editable document - that's something you have to check on export. So this is probably on them.
If you have a mac, Preview will let you edit/write on PDFs. Otherwise, I think LibreOffice has that functionality but I could be wrong.
Do I email HR and ask if they can resave it as an editable PDF? Or do I just use the signature function to sort of halfass writing over it, or do I print it, hope no one finds it on the printer, hand fill it all out, scan it, and then email it back?
"I will write your name in the ruin of them. I will paint you across history in the color of their blood."
Comcast has made it impossible to turn off ax mode on their gateway. So the clients I've disabled it on before for their old computers now no longer have internet access again.
This shit isn't hard Comcast.
Guess who finally pulled the trigger on getting Xfinity this weekend (in anticipation of switching over from slow, outdated and overpriced DSL from CenturyLink), brought home the kit... and now can't even sign into the app or the website?
they might not have saved it as an editable document - that's something you have to check on export. So this is probably on them.
If you have a mac, Preview will let you edit/write on PDFs. Otherwise, I think LibreOffice has that functionality but I could be wrong.
Do I email HR and ask if they can resave it as an editable PDF? Or do I just use the signature function to sort of halfass writing over it, or do I print it, hope no one finds it on the printer, hand fill it all out, scan it, and then email it back?
I would email them, it would save you, and everyone else that needs to do this, time.
Been up since 4 am and haven't been able to catch a nap since I've been on kid duty.
4 year old: "Daddy you look tired"
"I am tired"
"You should have went to bed earlier"
"I went to bed early, but we had a fire at work"
"Oh you should take a nap then"
" I have to watch you two"
"We (her and the two year old) can figure out our own problems"
I can totally trust a four year old right?
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Update: Principal wants to pay me extra to go to school tomorrow to build the new promethean boards. I grudgingly accepted, but then our IT tells me that the stands that we've had since August might be the wrong ones and can't hold the weight of the screens so now maybe I don't have to go. He said other schools also got their boards and started to assemble them and discovered this information so he is checking to see if they are the same.
If this is true then it will probably be months before the stands can get replaced.
they might not have saved it as an editable document - that's something you have to check on export. So this is probably on them.
If you have a mac, Preview will let you edit/write on PDFs. Otherwise, I think LibreOffice has that functionality but I could be wrong.
Do I email HR and ask if they can resave it as an editable PDF? Or do I just use the signature function to sort of halfass writing over it, or do I print it, hope no one finds it on the printer, hand fill it all out, scan it, and then email it back?
I would email them, it would save you, and everyone else that needs to do this, time.
They said it should be fillable. Is there an easy way to check if it was saved as a fillable PDF and I'm just incompetent?
Edit: Is it normal to be feeling a panic spiral like this?
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"I will write your name in the ruin of them. I will paint you across history in the color of their blood."
ShadowfireVermont, in the middle of nowhereRegistered Userregular
Company has a volumetric system for figuring out how much product will fit in a vehicle so that trucks don't get overloaded. Basically, X dryer class takes up Y square footage, make sure to not fill beyond Z measurement so a truck isn't overfull.
There's been a problem with TVs that's been there off and on for.. ever. So now we've got a board with a dude delivering ten TVs that are all between 65 and 75", in a cargo van.
Today every single boys restroom on our campus is closed because our male students continue to destroy the sinks (and other bathroom facilities).
So... The school year continues to go fantastic.
When I student taught we had such a run of bomb threats that my cooperating teacher had to sit outside the restrooms, let kids in one at a time, and check the restroom thoroughly after each kid left to make sure they didn't drop a slip of paper or write a threat on the walls. I basically had no mentor the whole time because they had him playing toilet cop.
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Really just trying to get by with the minimum amount of service with a smile at work today and tomorrow.
Ultra Thanksgiving Holiday Fridax can't come soon enough.
they might not have saved it as an editable document - that's something you have to check on export. So this is probably on them.
If you have a mac, Preview will let you edit/write on PDFs. Otherwise, I think LibreOffice has that functionality but I could be wrong.
Do I email HR and ask if they can resave it as an editable PDF? Or do I just use the signature function to sort of halfass writing over it, or do I print it, hope no one finds it on the printer, hand fill it all out, scan it, and then email it back?
I would email them, it would save you, and everyone else that needs to do this, time.
They said it should be fillable. Is there an easy way to check if it was saved as a fillable PDF and I'm just incompetent?
Edit: Is it normal to be feeling a panic spiral like this?
@Brody
Ok so looks like adobe has an online tool that should help you out
And no, I don't think this is incompetence, adobe is an absolute butt about what features are and are not available on their free vs paid software and I think it's possible to make a pdf that is editable in Acrobat but not Reader, for example.
they might not have saved it as an editable document - that's something you have to check on export. So this is probably on them.
If you have a mac, Preview will let you edit/write on PDFs. Otherwise, I think LibreOffice has that functionality but I could be wrong.
Do I email HR and ask if they can resave it as an editable PDF? Or do I just use the signature function to sort of halfass writing over it, or do I print it, hope no one finds it on the printer, hand fill it all out, scan it, and then email it back?
I would email them, it would save you, and everyone else that needs to do this, time.
They said it should be fillable. Is there an easy way to check if it was saved as a fillable PDF and I'm just incompetent?
Edit: Is it normal to be feeling a panic spiral like this?
I just filled it out with Adobe's "Fill & Sign" tool, which wasn't the cleanest, but provides answers to all the required fields, and printed to PDF, now to send it off and hope they don't take this as a sign they should hire someone else.
"I will write your name in the ruin of them. I will paint you across history in the color of their blood."
While I posted that I was waiting to finally get my second jab. And I just got it! Along with flu vaccine.
I really didn't wanna cut it this close to Thanksgiving, but the last couple weeks have been nuts and I figures now that I had a couple days I could afford to be laid up, better to do it now and get it over with.
With any luck it won't zombify me like the first one did.
Gah! I'm fed up of arguing the toss with students over whether they need to wear their labcoats (they do). Or whether I have to kick them out of the workshop when I go home and not let them work till security come round to lock the building up properly (I do).
All because the main tech for the area doesn't enforce said rules. So the students are (rightly) annoyed at the mixed instructions. "But X doesn't make us." Which, yeah sure, but I've been told that I must apply these rules so...
This is a department I only help out in as well. I got voluntold to be workshop cover for the main tech who only works Tues-Fri. And when this started (a couple years ago) I had a discussion with him saying that I don't wanna be standing there looking like a idiot saying one thing whilst he says another so can we just stick to the same page? Knowing he has previous form for just not enforcing things. To which he agreed. That lasted all of two weeks.
And he wants me to help him out on the days he's in but too busy to do it all himself. Well I can't do that without completely losing my stick to the rule thing I do on Mondays. Unless I run round enforcing things whilst he's saying it's not a problem.
He's a nice enough guy to chat to but by God he's an awful cow-orker.
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When I was a student working in a lab, wearing a lab coat was probably the thing I most enjoyed about it. Those students sound weird, I wouldn't trust them.
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OrcaAlso known as EspressosaurusWrexRegistered Userregular
If you can't wear a labcoat and can't wear stupid looking goggles, it's not science
what the hell, kids.
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BrodyThe WatchThe First ShoreRegistered Userregular
Unless your job title is PDF Ambassador I wouldn't sweat it
Nah, but I did send them an email asking if they were supposed to have fillable fields, and was told that they were, so sending back something that I feel like clearly didn't use their anticipated fillable fields makes me look dumb.
"I will write your name in the ruin of them. I will paint you across history in the color of their blood."
You didn’t hear about the “take a synchronized dump in all the sinks in your school at once” challenge?
I still call them Vines to give an indication of how connected I am to the latest culture beats
I call them Friendsters. Because the vast majority of people will ignore me at that point, and the ones that do will get a lecture on the history of Tiktok, Vine, Myspace, and other companies. And, most importantly, they will NEVER EVER bring up the subject again.
Unless your job title is PDF Ambassador I wouldn't sweat it
Nah, but I did send them an email asking if they were supposed to have fillable fields, and was told that they were, so sending back something that I feel like clearly didn't use their anticipated fillable fields makes me look dumb.
I doubt they'll give it a second thought. Printing it and hand writing the answers would also have been a perfectly valid option and definitely nobody would have cared then.
BaidolI will hold him offEscape while you canRegistered Userregular
In academic job news, I have an on-campus interview for a teaching-focused position that will, obviously, include a mock lecture. It's been nearly two years since I had an in-person course so I'm gonna need to derust for that.
In academic job news, I have an on-campus interview for a teaching-focused position that will, obviously, include a mock lecture. It's been nearly two years since I had an in-person course so I'm gonna need to derust for that.
Seems a bit cruel to make you do a lecture designed to be mocked, but I don't know the first thing about academia, so.
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OrcaAlso known as EspressosaurusWrexRegistered Userregular
In academic job news, I have an on-campus interview for a teaching-focused position that will, obviously, include a mock lecture. It's been nearly two years since I had an in-person course so I'm gonna need to derust for that.
Seems a bit cruel to make you do a lecture designed to be mocked, but I don't know the first thing about academia, so.
On the other hand it's good training for teaching middle-schoolers
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BaidolI will hold him offEscape while you canRegistered Userregular
In academic job news, I have an on-campus interview for a teaching-focused position that will, obviously, include a mock lecture. It's been nearly two years since I had an in-person course so I'm gonna need to derust for that.
Seems a bit cruel to make you do a lecture designed to be mocked, but I don't know the first thing about academia, so.
On the other hand it's good training for teaching middle-schoolers
Its also a good exercise to see if you can refrain mocking the students.
If you can't wear a labcoat and can't wear stupid looking goggles, it's not science
what the hell, kids.
I have no idea how she swung it, but in AP Chem my junior year of high school, the teacher (who was in her mid-20's and yet to be jaded and ground down by life) gave us a goal, if everyone in the class got a 4 (on a 1-5 scale) on the AP exam, she promised a big surprise at end of the year.
We accomplished this (the 2 weeks before the test was one of the most brutal cram sessions of my academic life) and she had us design a Rube Goldbergesque device whose only goal was to push a small button which would release a small claw like item she'd set up. Last day of school roles around, we go out to the empty football practice field and see a bucket of water and a blast shield about 20 yards away from it and our elaborate game of Mouse Trap set to release whatever she put in the holder at the end into the water. We all took up position beind the blast shield while our psychotic teacher proceeded to the device and took something out of a container of mineral oil and placed it in the claw.
The item in question wound up being a rather decent chunk of pure cesium, as in 2-3 ounces of the stuff. Once the button was pushed and it dropped, the bucket bifurcated and covered the entire field with a light mist and we went bananas at the joy of alkali metal's reactivity.
One of the best exothermic reactions I've ever witnessed, would take the AP Chem test again to see a repeat.
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If you can't wear a labcoat and can't wear stupid looking goggles, it's not science
what the hell, kids.
I have no idea how she swung it, but in AP Chem my junior year of high school, the teacher (who was in her mid-20's and yet to be jaded and ground down by life) gave us a goal, if everyone in the class got a 4 (on a 1-5 scale) on the AP exam, she promised a big surprise at end of the year.
We accomplished this (the 2 weeks before the test was one of the most brutal cram sessions of my academic life) and she had us design a Rube Goldbergesque device whose only goal was to push a small button which would release a small claw like item she'd set up. Last day of school roles around, we go out to the empty football practice field and see a bucket of water and a blast shield about 20 yards away from it and our elaborate game of Mouse Trap set to release whatever she put in the holder at the end into the water. We all took up position beind the blast shield while our psychotic teacher proceeded to the device and took something out of a container of mineral oil and placed it in the claw.
The item in question wound up being a rather decent chunk of pure cesium, as in 2-3 ounces of the stuff. Once the button was pushed and it dropped, the bucket bifurcated and covered the entire field with a light mist and we went bananas at the joy of alkali metal's reactivity.
One of the best exothermic reactions I've ever witnessed, would take the AP Chem test again to see a repeat.
That's a lot better than my AP Chem teacher. We had a lab where we were supposed to make soap, and I misread the directions and instead of making 100g of soap, I made a kilogram. When I realized the mistake, I tried to pour the still liquid mixture down the drain. Where it solidified enough to plug the drain before completely emptying the sink.
Knowing I was in trouble, I called the teacher over. Right after I called for her, I pulled on the soap slug and it slid right out of the drain.
So that's how I ended up being sent to the principals office for having a soap dildo.
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My AP chem option was notoriously awful so I didn’t take it.
I did take AP Bio primarily because I was told you could basically 4 the test by showing up, and I did.
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If you can't wear a labcoat and can't wear stupid looking goggles, it's not science
what the hell, kids.
I have no idea how she swung it, but in AP Chem my junior year of high school, the teacher (who was in her mid-20's and yet to be jaded and ground down by life) gave us a goal, if everyone in the class got a 4 (on a 1-5 scale) on the AP exam, she promised a big surprise at end of the year.
We accomplished this (the 2 weeks before the test was one of the most brutal cram sessions of my academic life) and she had us design a Rube Goldbergesque device whose only goal was to push a small button which would release a small claw like item she'd set up. Last day of school roles around, we go out to the empty football practice field and see a bucket of water and a blast shield about 20 yards away from it and our elaborate game of Mouse Trap set to release whatever she put in the holder at the end into the water. We all took up position beind the blast shield while our psychotic teacher proceeded to the device and took something out of a container of mineral oil and placed it in the claw.
The item in question wound up being a rather decent chunk of pure cesium, as in 2-3 ounces of the stuff. Once the button was pushed and it dropped, the bucket bifurcated and covered the entire field with a light mist and we went bananas at the joy of alkali metal's reactivity.
One of the best exothermic reactions I've ever witnessed, would take the AP Chem test again to see a repeat.
So that's how I ended up being sent to the principals office for having a soap dildo.
That's certainly a novel approach to hygiene if one were to use it.
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The Monster Baru Cormorant - Seth Dickinson
Steam: Korvalain
If you have a mac, Preview will let you edit/write on PDFs. Otherwise, I think LibreOffice has that functionality but I could be wrong.
Do I email HR and ask if they can resave it as an editable PDF? Or do I just use the signature function to sort of halfass writing over it, or do I print it, hope no one finds it on the printer, hand fill it all out, scan it, and then email it back?
The Monster Baru Cormorant - Seth Dickinson
Steam: Korvalain
Guess who finally pulled the trigger on getting Xfinity this weekend (in anticipation of switching over from slow, outdated and overpriced DSL from CenturyLink), brought home the kit... and now can't even sign into the app or the website?
My fury, it is incandescent.
I would email them, it would save you, and everyone else that needs to do this, time.
4 year old: "Daddy you look tired"
"I am tired"
"You should have went to bed earlier"
"I went to bed early, but we had a fire at work"
"Oh you should take a nap then"
" I have to watch you two"
"We (her and the two year old) can figure out our own problems"
I can totally trust a four year old right?
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If this is true then it will probably be months before the stands can get replaced.
:rotate:
They said it should be fillable. Is there an easy way to check if it was saved as a fillable PDF and I'm just incompetent?
Edit: Is it normal to be feeling a panic spiral like this?
The Monster Baru Cormorant - Seth Dickinson
Steam: Korvalain
There's been a problem with TVs that's been there off and on for.. ever. So now we've got a board with a dude delivering ten TVs that are all between 65 and 75", in a cargo van.
Yeah, that's a problem.
So... The school year continues to go fantastic.
You didn’t hear about the “take a synchronized dump in all the sinks in your school at once” challenge?
When I student taught we had such a run of bomb threats that my cooperating teacher had to sit outside the restrooms, let kids in one at a time, and check the restroom thoroughly after each kid left to make sure they didn't drop a slip of paper or write a threat on the walls. I basically had no mentor the whole time because they had him playing toilet cop.
Ultra Thanksgiving Holiday Fridax can't come soon enough.
I still call them Vines to give an indication of how connected I am to the latest culture beats
I mean, I just call that Monday
@Brody
Ok so looks like adobe has an online tool that should help you out
https://www.adobe.com/acrobat/online/pdf-editor.html
And no, I don't think this is incompetence, adobe is an absolute butt about what features are and are not available on their free vs paid software and I think it's possible to make a pdf that is editable in Acrobat but not Reader, for example.
I just filled it out with Adobe's "Fill & Sign" tool, which wasn't the cleanest, but provides answers to all the required fields, and printed to PDF, now to send it off and hope they don't take this as a sign they should hire someone else.
The Monster Baru Cormorant - Seth Dickinson
Steam: Korvalain
I really didn't wanna cut it this close to Thanksgiving, but the last couple weeks have been nuts and I figures now that I had a couple days I could afford to be laid up, better to do it now and get it over with.
With any luck it won't zombify me like the first one did.
All because the main tech for the area doesn't enforce said rules. So the students are (rightly) annoyed at the mixed instructions. "But X doesn't make us." Which, yeah sure, but I've been told that I must apply these rules so...
This is a department I only help out in as well. I got voluntold to be workshop cover for the main tech who only works Tues-Fri. And when this started (a couple years ago) I had a discussion with him saying that I don't wanna be standing there looking like a idiot saying one thing whilst he says another so can we just stick to the same page? Knowing he has previous form for just not enforcing things. To which he agreed. That lasted all of two weeks.
And he wants me to help him out on the days he's in but too busy to do it all himself. Well I can't do that without completely losing my stick to the rule thing I do on Mondays. Unless I run round enforcing things whilst he's saying it's not a problem.
He's a nice enough guy to chat to but by God he's an awful cow-orker.
what the hell, kids.
Nah, but I did send them an email asking if they were supposed to have fillable fields, and was told that they were, so sending back something that I feel like clearly didn't use their anticipated fillable fields makes me look dumb.
The Monster Baru Cormorant - Seth Dickinson
Steam: Korvalain
I call them Friendsters. Because the vast majority of people will ignore me at that point, and the ones that do will get a lecture on the history of Tiktok, Vine, Myspace, and other companies. And, most importantly, they will NEVER EVER bring up the subject again.
Never assume malice when incompetence will suffice.
When it comes to Adobe I don't know how you tell the difference
I doubt they'll give it a second thought. Printing it and hand writing the answers would also have been a perfectly valid option and definitely nobody would have cared then.
The Monster Baru Cormorant - Seth Dickinson
Steam: Korvalain
Seems a bit cruel to make you do a lecture designed to be mocked, but I don't know the first thing about academia, so.
On the other hand it's good training for teaching middle-schoolers
Its also a good exercise to see if you can refrain mocking the students.
I have no idea how she swung it, but in AP Chem my junior year of high school, the teacher (who was in her mid-20's and yet to be jaded and ground down by life) gave us a goal, if everyone in the class got a 4 (on a 1-5 scale) on the AP exam, she promised a big surprise at end of the year.
We accomplished this (the 2 weeks before the test was one of the most brutal cram sessions of my academic life) and she had us design a Rube Goldbergesque device whose only goal was to push a small button which would release a small claw like item she'd set up. Last day of school roles around, we go out to the empty football practice field and see a bucket of water and a blast shield about 20 yards away from it and our elaborate game of Mouse Trap set to release whatever she put in the holder at the end into the water. We all took up position beind the blast shield while our psychotic teacher proceeded to the device and took something out of a container of mineral oil and placed it in the claw.
The item in question wound up being a rather decent chunk of pure cesium, as in 2-3 ounces of the stuff. Once the button was pushed and it dropped, the bucket bifurcated and covered the entire field with a light mist and we went bananas at the joy of alkali metal's reactivity.
One of the best exothermic reactions I've ever witnessed, would take the AP Chem test again to see a repeat.
~ Buckaroo Banzai
That's a lot better than my AP Chem teacher. We had a lab where we were supposed to make soap, and I misread the directions and instead of making 100g of soap, I made a kilogram. When I realized the mistake, I tried to pour the still liquid mixture down the drain. Where it solidified enough to plug the drain before completely emptying the sink.
Knowing I was in trouble, I called the teacher over. Right after I called for her, I pulled on the soap slug and it slid right out of the drain.
So that's how I ended up being sent to the principals office for having a soap dildo.
I did take AP Bio primarily because I was told you could basically 4 the test by showing up, and I did.
That's certainly a novel approach to hygiene if one were to use it.
~ Buckaroo Banzai