Patrick Stewart is like that joke about Japan living in the year 2000 since the 80s
Reminds me of a comedy sketch in the 90s with I think Hugh Laurie, set in a scifi scene.
Alien Woman: "Captain, tell me about your human emotion, love"
Hugh:
Alien Woman: "I see. So what is oral sex?"
Hugh:
Agreed. Because of the type of people I normally train and the subject, I start with asking what their experience is. Comfortable with BIOS, networking, drivers? OK cool I'm going to assume then you know enough to follow, don't hesitate to stop me if i mention something or use an acronym you don't understand but let's continue optimistically that you have that knowledge. I think its better for their confidence that I don't explain DHCP unless they ask. It's a form if respect in my view.
The key difference as you mentioned is they sought out my knowledge instead of having it thrust upon them like with this guy. He honestly seemed confused what the relevance was to him, if it was important it would have come up on his course, no? The relevance is to your fucking job my friend.
I wouldn't trade places with him for anything but it amazes me he can walk into his first job with a starting salary I'll never achieve with such contempt for a simple screwdriver.
Yep.
"How sure are you about this?
Ooooh.. 99%?
"So you're pretty confident"
What? No I couldn't have less faith in this unless I saw it fail with my own two eyes.
I'm not so old that I'm of the generation that assumed a job was for life. I've never seen any of them as forever jobs. But if I'm doing something full time for what 2-5 years I'm going to take the time to find out what's involved and make a choice if that's what I want to do.
Unless that guy thought the same thing, but, I don't want to climb ladders - THEY better get used to that clicks APPLY
I had a job where the culture was all you know and all you do is what you're told, and fuck you for asking. I have bitter memories of being scolded for not knowing something I'd never been asked to work on before and wasn't even aware of it's existence. It's so painful to read your story of taking the time to provide training and it being not just unappreciated but disrespected.
I was once told, your gut reaction and first impulse is your upbringing and conditioning. It's your reasoned, critical response that makes you who you are.
I have had similar questions about myself recently and this advice helped me to analyse my thinking without getting caught up in guilt.
I'm trans and I learned a lot myself from this. I might have brought up the 41% thing and not knowing its use, miscommunicated what I meant in support of trans rights. Glad to have read this, being trans doesn't automatically make you aware of every aspect of the conversations.
My company had a client who did those financed schemes where people buy furniture and TVs and stuff and pay in installments. The one bit of information that stuck with me was they expected 50% of customers to default. They went under.
I was about to say how can you run a business like that but it just clicked. The execs were running a scheme on the company itself. The company tricks financially illiterate customers (I sympathise, not denigrating) into debt and bankruptcy, ruining their lives, while the owners pay themselves handsomely and buy cars and mansions running the company into bankruptcy. But they walk away with all their toys paid for by the broken finances of their victims.
Fucking parasites.
GIVE ME leather Picard
I wondered that myself, something must have been duplicating for all but one to get denied? I can't believe even that manufacturer would reuse the same MAC but whatever it was I guessed they're all sending but only one was getting a reply.
I assumed they had maybe a proxy set for their corporate network they'd forgotten to untick or something.
Loved that game.
Sort of related, life has been challenging recently so been thinking about making a tshirt that reads "Fuck this, I'm replaying Stardew Valley again".