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2024.05.22 02:52 dexrex7777 Summative Assessment is “Developing”
I’m a first year teacher and was promised a lot of support from my school when I was hired. I was given a mentor and a mentor over all beginning teachers to help guide me. I was also placed in a grade with 3 other veteran teachers. I got high marks on my student teaching evaluations as well as glowing recommendation letters from my grade level teachers during student teaching. I also received a Highly Qualified score on my state licensure based on my testing scores.
I was given a classroom full of students who Failed their EOGs from the year before and there are 15% IEP/504 with pull outs during intervention and class time as well as inclusion.
I have had 1 training with the beginning teacher mentor the whole year. My first evaluation with admin I was developing in most categories and was told that I just needed to get proficient and they had no concerns about me getting there. I worked closely with my grade level team to nail down best practices and ensure I was doing the right things in my classroom for my students. I worked closely with SPED all year and ended up co-teaching with them while they were doing inclusion. I saw my dedicated mentor barely once a month, and only when she remembered me.
My second observation with the beginning teacher mentor went good I thought but I was still considered Developing in most categories. When I asked for feedback she suggested about 3 different online programs to put my kids on and said not to keep them on one task more than 15 minutes. So I modified my instruction to do that.
My third and fourth observations were nearly back to back and right after Christmas break. I did what I thought were decent lessons, following directions from everyone I had talked to. I didn’t get a consultation with admin after my third observation before they gave me my fourth, so I had no time to modify anything before they evaluated again. At my meeting for the third observation I was fussed at because I didn’t stop my instruction to teach one-on-one and at the same time had a kid acting out with known behaviors. When I met for my fourth observation, I was told I may not get a renewal for next year.
I also never got observed by my assigned mentor, and she’s the one they wanted me to rely on for help.
I was taken aback and frustrated. I brought up the lack of specifics for what to fix and admin talked around it without going into details of what they were looking for. They told me they’d do another observation and it would determine my placement for next year. This final observation was supposed to be on a Monday or Wednesday since testing would occur later.
No observation came until the day before testing when we were on a modified schedule due to testing in other grade levels. The observation was my kids working independently on review the day before EOGs!!! Every other classroom in the building looked like mine or worse. And still they marked me as Developing on that observation. They knew that day would be like that and still observed.
My summative was posted yesterday and nearly every section is developing. I have a meeting tomorrow to discuss it and I know what they are going to say. I just can’t wrap my head around how they haven’t given me support to improve, how I was given students so far behind and expected to work miracles, and what it is they aren’t getting. I’m literally doing everything I have been taught and everything I can to teach exactly how I’m supposed to. My students have also shown significant growth over the year with nearly all of them now at grade level instead of behind.
I’ve already started looking for other jobs so I’m prepared, but was hoping some veteran teachers might have insight. Or maybe other new teachers have experienced this?
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I was given a classroom full of students who Failed their EOGs from the year before and there are 15% IEP/504 with pull outs during intervention and class time as well as inclusion.
I have had 1 training with the beginning teacher mentor the whole year. My first evaluation with admin I was developing in most categories and was told that I just needed to get proficient and they had no concerns about me getting there. I worked closely with my grade level team to nail down best practices and ensure I was doing the right things in my classroom for my students. I worked closely with SPED all year and ended up co-teaching with them while they were doing inclusion. I saw my dedicated mentor barely once a month, and only when she remembered me.
My second observation with the beginning teacher mentor went good I thought but I was still considered Developing in most categories. When I asked for feedback she suggested about 3 different online programs to put my kids on and said not to keep them on one task more than 15 minutes. So I modified my instruction to do that.
My third and fourth observations were nearly back to back and right after Christmas break. I did what I thought were decent lessons, following directions from everyone I had talked to. I didn’t get a consultation with admin after my third observation before they gave me my fourth, so I had no time to modify anything before they evaluated again. At my meeting for the third observation I was fussed at because I didn’t stop my instruction to teach one-on-one and at the same time had a kid acting out with known behaviors. When I met for my fourth observation, I was told I may not get a renewal for next year.
I also never got observed by my assigned mentor, and she’s the one they wanted me to rely on for help.
I was taken aback and frustrated. I brought up the lack of specifics for what to fix and admin talked around it without going into details of what they were looking for. They told me they’d do another observation and it would determine my placement for next year. This final observation was supposed to be on a Monday or Wednesday since testing would occur later.
No observation came until the day before testing when we were on a modified schedule due to testing in other grade levels. The observation was my kids working independently on review the day before EOGs!!! Every other classroom in the building looked like mine or worse. And still they marked me as Developing on that observation. They knew that day would be like that and still observed.
My summative was posted yesterday and nearly every section is developing. I have a meeting tomorrow to discuss it and I know what they are going to say. I just can’t wrap my head around how they haven’t given me support to improve, how I was given students so far behind and expected to work miracles, and what it is they aren’t getting. I’m literally doing everything I have been taught and everything I can to teach exactly how I’m supposed to. My students have also shown significant growth over the year with nearly all of them now at grade level instead of behind.
I’ve already started looking for other jobs so I’m prepared, but was hoping some veteran teachers might have insight. Or maybe other new teachers have experienced this?
2024.05.22 02:50 Rich_Antelope7100 Lesser known facts about the OJ Simpson murder case
Denise Pilnak was a neighbor of Nicole’s. Her telephone bill shows she was on the phone from 10:25 PM and 10:28 PM. Prior to making this phone call, she and her friend noted how quiet the neighborhood was. Several minutes later between 10:33 and 10:35 PM, she testified that’s when she began to hear the sound of a barking dog, which is likely when the murders began. Allan Park testified to seeing OJ near the front door of the Rockingham estate at 10:55 PM, and his telephone records also document that. That leaves less than 25 minutes to commit the murders, drive back home, get rid of the evidence, etc.
Both Nicole and Ron had defensive wounds. Ron in particular was in hand to hand combat with whoever killed him, yet OJ had no injuries. The cut on his finger wasn’t seen by anyone who interacted with him at the airport, on the airplane ride to Chicago, nor when he immediately landed in Chicago. This includes people who got autographs from him, shook hands with him, and observed his hands. A broken glass was also found in his hotel room and it was documented he asked for a bandage at the hotel.
The FBI searched all of OJ’s and Nicole's credit card records and there was never any receipt found belonging to either of them that showed a purchase of Bruno Magli shoes. Every store that sold the shoes in the country was also searched, and they couldn't find anyone who sold him the shoes. The only proof of him owning them are the National Enquirer photos, which show him wearing suede shoes on a very rainy day. It was also found that the shoe soles that were said to be OJ's footprint were actually more popular than the prosecution maintained, the manufacturer sold the pattern to numerous shoe lines.
1.5 millimeters of OJ’s blood went missing from its vial. Thanos Peratis, the nurse who withdrew his blood, initially testified that he withdrew 8 millimeters. He took that back when only 6.5 appeared and the prosecution suggested he was mistaken. About a decade later he admitted to William Dear that he was certain he withdrew 8 millimeters because it was the amount he had drawn from patients all of his career, but he was close to retirement and had health problems so he didn’t want to cause any trouble.
The glove found at Bundy contained none of OJ’s DNA. The other glove found at Rockingham only contained his DNA in the area where Collin Yamauchi testified to spilling OJ's reference blood sample while handling it.
An identical knit cap matching the knit cap found lying on the ground next to one of the gloves was found in Nicole’s house. Those caps likely belonged to Sydney and Justin Simpson.
Two different people, John Meraz and William Blasini, encountered the Bronco at the lot where it had been impounded days after the murders. They both looked inside it for blood and testified they saw none. There was also only 1/8th of one drop of blood ever found inside it.
New York Times best selling author and journalist Stephen Singular was connected by an anonymous source within the LAPD about the case a few weeks after the murders. He was told Mark Fuhrman made an undocumented trip to Rockingham in the early morning hours after the murders looking for evidence that would incriminate OJ. Rosa Lopez, a housekeeper for OJ’s next door neighbor, testified to hearing men’s voices coming from the yard of Rockingham in the early morning.
The source told Singular that Fuhrman used a broken piece of fence from Bundy to pick up one of the two gloves found and placed it in a blue plastic bag. Next, he was told Fuhrman removed the glove from the plastic bag and planted it at Rockingham. A broken piece of fence was eventually found at Bundy and a blue plastic bag was found at Rockingham, and both were introduced as evidence in the trial.
He was also told EDTA would be found in some of the blood evidence if tested, lab technicians had mishandled OJ’s blood samples, vials of OJ’s, Nicole’s, and Ron's blood were in possession of an LAPD detective for several hours before being booked into evidence, and that Fuhrman had been acquainted with Nicole in some way.
Singular relayed this information from the source to the defense team and was in communication with them for awhile. Pretty much all of it checked out, including an investigation conducted by the LAPD's Internal Affairs Division which revealed that Fuhrman was overheard by other LAPD officers bragging about being intimate with Nicole and seeing her boob job before she was murdered.
There were 17 fingerprints lifted from the Bundy crime scene that didn’t belong to OJ or any of the police officers involved in the case.
Brett Cantor ran a nightclub called The Dragonfly where Ron worked for him as a waitepromoter. Nicole was also a regular at the club. He was murdered a year before them in almost exactly the same way, by being stabbed repeatedly in the upper body and being nearly decapitated. Judge Ito ruled the defense team could review his case. His murder remains unsolved.
Casimir Sucharski, a friend of OJ's, was murdered alongside two female companions in his house in Florida by people with machine guns two weeks after Ron and Nicole were murdered.
Michael Nigg was friends with Ron and also worked at the Mezzaluna restaurant. He was murdered a year later in 1995 by being shot in the head after refusing to give his money to two men outside an ATM. The men who shot him didn't end up taking his money. His murder remains unsolved.
Not saying these murders are necessarily related to each other but it does make you wonder since all of these people reportedly led similar lifestyles which involved the use of cocaine. Faye Resnick, a cocaine addict, was also living with Nicole just days before the murders.
If you listen to the full 1993 911 call, OJ was mostly yelling about drugs and hookers being in the house. When police officers responded to the call, Nicole told the responding officers that OJ hadn’t hit her in four years. After the 1989 domestic violence incident, OJ added an addendum to their prenuptial agreement which stated that if he struck Nicole again, she would‘ve been entitled to a settlement of more than 5 million dollars.
OJ wasn't scheduled to be in LA during that week. He had been busy working and made a last minute decision to come back for Sydney's recital. Video taken of him afterwards shows him in a good mood, kissing his kids and the Brown’s goodbye.
Christian Reichardt spoke with OJ on the phone an hour before the murders and testified his demeanor was jovial and not indicative of a simmering murderous rage.
His telephone records also show he made phone calls trying to set up dates with a few models, one of which he told he was unattached to anyone. If he was in a jealous rage over Nicole, why was he trying to date other women?
After the bodies were discovered, Sydney told the police she heard her mommy (Nicole) fighting & crying with her best friend (Faye Resnick) on the phone earlier that night.
Sydney was planning to have a sleepover that night with one of her friends. According to family and friends who attended the recital and dinner, OJ was aware of this. Committing a murder with all those extra witnesses and the possibility of having the kids hurt or things getting out of control, in addition to having a flight to catch, doesn’t make sense.
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Both Nicole and Ron had defensive wounds. Ron in particular was in hand to hand combat with whoever killed him, yet OJ had no injuries. The cut on his finger wasn’t seen by anyone who interacted with him at the airport, on the airplane ride to Chicago, nor when he immediately landed in Chicago. This includes people who got autographs from him, shook hands with him, and observed his hands. A broken glass was also found in his hotel room and it was documented he asked for a bandage at the hotel.
The FBI searched all of OJ’s and Nicole's credit card records and there was never any receipt found belonging to either of them that showed a purchase of Bruno Magli shoes. Every store that sold the shoes in the country was also searched, and they couldn't find anyone who sold him the shoes. The only proof of him owning them are the National Enquirer photos, which show him wearing suede shoes on a very rainy day. It was also found that the shoe soles that were said to be OJ's footprint were actually more popular than the prosecution maintained, the manufacturer sold the pattern to numerous shoe lines.
1.5 millimeters of OJ’s blood went missing from its vial. Thanos Peratis, the nurse who withdrew his blood, initially testified that he withdrew 8 millimeters. He took that back when only 6.5 appeared and the prosecution suggested he was mistaken. About a decade later he admitted to William Dear that he was certain he withdrew 8 millimeters because it was the amount he had drawn from patients all of his career, but he was close to retirement and had health problems so he didn’t want to cause any trouble.
The glove found at Bundy contained none of OJ’s DNA. The other glove found at Rockingham only contained his DNA in the area where Collin Yamauchi testified to spilling OJ's reference blood sample while handling it.
An identical knit cap matching the knit cap found lying on the ground next to one of the gloves was found in Nicole’s house. Those caps likely belonged to Sydney and Justin Simpson.
Two different people, John Meraz and William Blasini, encountered the Bronco at the lot where it had been impounded days after the murders. They both looked inside it for blood and testified they saw none. There was also only 1/8th of one drop of blood ever found inside it.
New York Times best selling author and journalist Stephen Singular was connected by an anonymous source within the LAPD about the case a few weeks after the murders. He was told Mark Fuhrman made an undocumented trip to Rockingham in the early morning hours after the murders looking for evidence that would incriminate OJ. Rosa Lopez, a housekeeper for OJ’s next door neighbor, testified to hearing men’s voices coming from the yard of Rockingham in the early morning.
The source told Singular that Fuhrman used a broken piece of fence from Bundy to pick up one of the two gloves found and placed it in a blue plastic bag. Next, he was told Fuhrman removed the glove from the plastic bag and planted it at Rockingham. A broken piece of fence was eventually found at Bundy and a blue plastic bag was found at Rockingham, and both were introduced as evidence in the trial.
He was also told EDTA would be found in some of the blood evidence if tested, lab technicians had mishandled OJ’s blood samples, vials of OJ’s, Nicole’s, and Ron's blood were in possession of an LAPD detective for several hours before being booked into evidence, and that Fuhrman had been acquainted with Nicole in some way.
Singular relayed this information from the source to the defense team and was in communication with them for awhile. Pretty much all of it checked out, including an investigation conducted by the LAPD's Internal Affairs Division which revealed that Fuhrman was overheard by other LAPD officers bragging about being intimate with Nicole and seeing her boob job before she was murdered.
There were 17 fingerprints lifted from the Bundy crime scene that didn’t belong to OJ or any of the police officers involved in the case.
Brett Cantor ran a nightclub called The Dragonfly where Ron worked for him as a waitepromoter. Nicole was also a regular at the club. He was murdered a year before them in almost exactly the same way, by being stabbed repeatedly in the upper body and being nearly decapitated. Judge Ito ruled the defense team could review his case. His murder remains unsolved.
Casimir Sucharski, a friend of OJ's, was murdered alongside two female companions in his house in Florida by people with machine guns two weeks after Ron and Nicole were murdered.
Michael Nigg was friends with Ron and also worked at the Mezzaluna restaurant. He was murdered a year later in 1995 by being shot in the head after refusing to give his money to two men outside an ATM. The men who shot him didn't end up taking his money. His murder remains unsolved.
Not saying these murders are necessarily related to each other but it does make you wonder since all of these people reportedly led similar lifestyles which involved the use of cocaine. Faye Resnick, a cocaine addict, was also living with Nicole just days before the murders.
If you listen to the full 1993 911 call, OJ was mostly yelling about drugs and hookers being in the house. When police officers responded to the call, Nicole told the responding officers that OJ hadn’t hit her in four years. After the 1989 domestic violence incident, OJ added an addendum to their prenuptial agreement which stated that if he struck Nicole again, she would‘ve been entitled to a settlement of more than 5 million dollars.
OJ wasn't scheduled to be in LA during that week. He had been busy working and made a last minute decision to come back for Sydney's recital. Video taken of him afterwards shows him in a good mood, kissing his kids and the Brown’s goodbye.
Christian Reichardt spoke with OJ on the phone an hour before the murders and testified his demeanor was jovial and not indicative of a simmering murderous rage.
His telephone records also show he made phone calls trying to set up dates with a few models, one of which he told he was unattached to anyone. If he was in a jealous rage over Nicole, why was he trying to date other women?
After the bodies were discovered, Sydney told the police she heard her mommy (Nicole) fighting & crying with her best friend (Faye Resnick) on the phone earlier that night.
Sydney was planning to have a sleepover that night with one of her friends. According to family and friends who attended the recital and dinner, OJ was aware of this. Committing a murder with all those extra witnesses and the possibility of having the kids hurt or things getting out of control, in addition to having a flight to catch, doesn’t make sense.
2024.05.22 02:49 Mountain-Jello-2083 Is it the Company or Career?
I've been a geologist for 5 years working in exploration and I'm starting to feel very discouraged about my future in this career. I graduated in geology 5 years ago with a bachelors degree. I worked summer jobs in geology throughout school, mostly field work and sampling. I got a job with a small junior exploration company after I graduated and spent 2 years doing field work (grab samples) and a few small drill programs. I was never involved in any planning, claims management, or submitting assessment reports. I was just kept busy in the field, and I struggled to find the time to teach myself any mapping programs. After two years, that company flopped and I got a contract job logging core for 8 months for a bigger company. There I was just a core logger and nothing else. Then I started working for another Junior company, where again, I find myself just executing field plans and not involved with anything. My coworker who only graduated a few years ago started with this company a year earlier when the company was forming. I feel like they took time to mentor him through the back end stuff like filing assessment reports, managing claims, and planning projects. I've been with this company for 2 years, have been a geologist now 5 years and I'm basically always left out of the conversation and meetings when it comes to project planning, mapping, and report writing. My boss turns to my coworker for everything involving a "project geologist" duties, calls him to let him know what's going on next in terms of contracts and stuff moving ahead (even if we're in the field together) and I feel like I'm just filled in as an after thought. I have no mentorship and still don't know how to do half my job. I have a hard time teaching myself because I'm out in the field helping televiewer guys or IP guys lay their lines out (as I'm told to do). My salary is okay $90'000/yr. But I feel like I'm just stuck being the grunt worker while coworker is gaining all the opportunity to advance his career. I barely had enough time to start to learn QGIS this past winter. I just feel leagues behind and don't know if I'll ever feel like I'm going to catch up, if my boss even cares to take the time to show me when the young tech savvy graduate is excelling in that department. I can see him getting promotions/raises over me quite soon while I'm left in the dust.
I've tried bringing this to my bosses attention, that I'd like to be more involved in the project planning, the assessment reports, etc. and that I'm starting to get worried at this point that I don't have that experience. He seemed genuinely happy to hear that, but nothing has changed and I'm still left out of meetings. The whole team went to a big conference and I was told they couldn't afford to bring me out there.
Should I change companies, change careers? I like the "geology" but I've been at this for 5+ years and I feel like I'm getting nowhere.
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I've tried bringing this to my bosses attention, that I'd like to be more involved in the project planning, the assessment reports, etc. and that I'm starting to get worried at this point that I don't have that experience. He seemed genuinely happy to hear that, but nothing has changed and I'm still left out of meetings. The whole team went to a big conference and I was told they couldn't afford to bring me out there.
Should I change companies, change careers? I like the "geology" but I've been at this for 5+ years and I feel like I'm getting nowhere.
2024.05.22 02:35 AliasLocket1794 An almost extensive list of potential stories for future episodes.
Creepypastas:
Psychosis https://www.creepypasta.com/psychosis/
Anansi's Goatman Story https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/Anansi%27s_Goatman_Story
Annora Petrova https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/Annora_Petrova
Annie96 is typing... https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/Annie96_Is_Typing
Smile Dog https://www.creepypasta.com/smile-dog/
Mr. Widemouth https://www.creepypasta.com/mr-widemouth/
Ben Drowned https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/BEN_Drowned
Sonic.EXE https://www.creepypasta.com/sonic-exe/
Squidward's Suicide https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/Squidward%27s_Suicide
Dead Bart https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/Dead_Bart
Weeping Angel https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/Weeping_Angel
The Portraits https://www.creepypasta.com/the-portraits/
The Strangers https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/The_Strangers
TURN IT OFF! https://www.creepypasta.com/turn-it-off/
Forgotten Valentine https://www.creepypasta.com/forgotten-valentine/
The Lost Colony Isla Sirena https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/The_Lost_Colony_of_Isla_Sirena
Letters From a Land That Doesn't Exist https://www.creepypasta.com/for-thirty-years-ive-been-receiving-letters-from-a-land-that-doesnt-exist/
I Was a British Intelligence Officer In Ireland During The 1970s. https://www.creepypasta.com/i-was-a-british-intelligence-officer-in-ireland-during-the-1970s-we-unleashed-something-terrible/
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NoSleep Stories:
Tales from the Gas Station https://www.reddit.com/nosleep/comments/rya83/the_gas_station_pt_1/
The Burned Photo https://www.reddit.com/nosleep/comments/eh191j/the_burned_photo_part_1/
Stolen Tongues https://www.reddit.com/nosleep/comments/4fd2lmy_romantic_cabin_getaway_with_my_fiancee_isnt/
The Portal in the Forest https://www.reddit.com/nosleep/comments/2m4i88/the_portal_in_the_forest/
The Settlements https://www.reddit.com/nosleep/comments/1w1wdi/the_weirdness_thats_happening_in_the_remote/
My Dad Finally Told Me What Happened That Day https://www.reddit.com/nosleep/comments/5dr9fh/my_dad_finally_told_me_what_happened_that_day/
The Private Museum https://www.reddit.com/nosleep/comments/ksckm8/i_work_at_a_private_museum_for_the_rich_and/
Her Holding an Orange https://www.reddit.com/nosleep/comments/10nadn/i_am_a_grown_logical_man_crying_tears_of_horro
I'm a Search and Rescue Diver https://www.reddit.com/nosleep/comments/dlhqu6/ive_been_a_search_and_rescue_diver_for_12_years/
I Think My Wife is Faking Her Amnesia https://www.reddit.com/nosleep/comments/yx88an/i_think_my_wife_is_faking_her_amnesia_part_one/
My Job Is Watching A Woman Trapped In A Room https://www.reddit.com/nosleep/comments/brco33/my_job_is_watching_a_woman_trapped_in_a_room/
If You're Armed and At The Glenmont Metro, please shoot me. https://www.reddit.com/nosleep/comments/cokl1l/if_youre_armed_and_at_the_glenmont_metro_please/
My Wife Has Been Peeking at Me From Around Corners and Behind Furniture. https://www.reddit.com/nosleep/comments/sva7z6/my_wife_has_been_peeking_at_me_from_around/
The Hitchhiker of Butter Street https://www.reddit.com/nosleep/comments/9qejeg/how_to_summon_the_butter_street_hitchhike
The Forest of a Thousand Legs https://www.reddit.com/nosleep/comments/6evj8z/the_forest_of_a_thousand_legs/
I Clean Crime Scenes and Hoarder Houses for a Living https://www.reddit.com/nosleep/comments/8e7z4e/i_clean_crime_scenes_and_hoarder_houses_for_a/
Charles Bonnet Syndrome https://www.reddit.com/nosleep/comments/68nir5/charles_bonnet_syndrome/
Something Walks Whistling Past My House Every Night at 3:03. https://www.reddit.com/nosleep/comments/dyqd5e/something_walks_whistling_past_my_house_every/
The Third Parent (Content Warning) https://www.reddit.com/nosleep/comments/51bnu3/third_parent/
The Lost City of Korona https://www.reddit.com/nosleep/comments/a2idn5/has_anyone_heard_of_this_city_no_one_seems_to/
Down in the Library Basement https://www.reddit.com/nosleep/comments/4c78o3/down_in_the_library_basement/
The Bunker of a Prepper Family https://www.reddit.com/nosleep/comments/11txaos/i_found_the_bunker_of_a_prepper_family_who_went/
I'm a Criminal Profiler https://www.reddit.com/nosleep/comments/g9jyzg/im_a_criminal_profiler_but_not_even_i_can_explain/
The Hidden Door https://www.reddit.com/nosleep/comments/593yys/i_found_a_hidden_door_in_my_cellar_and_i_think/
I'm an Aquarium Employee https://www.reddit.com/nosleep/comments/irjhli/im_an_aquarium_employee_and_ive_discovered_a/
The Queen's Guard https://www.reddit.com/nosleep/comments/27el9i/i_was_a_part_of_queens_guard_in_england_one_of/
That Wasn't My Husband Who Slept Next To Me Last Night https://www.reddit.com/nosleep/comments/2byus8/that_wasnt_my_husband_who_slept_next_to_me_last/
Return to Sender https://www.reddit.com/nosleep/comments/5j6p8x/a_package_marked_return_to_sende
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Psychosis https://www.creepypasta.com/psychosis/
Anansi's Goatman Story https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/Anansi%27s_Goatman_Story
Annora Petrova https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/Annora_Petrova
Annie96 is typing... https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/Annie96_Is_Typing
Smile Dog https://www.creepypasta.com/smile-dog/
Mr. Widemouth https://www.creepypasta.com/mr-widemouth/
Ben Drowned https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/BEN_Drowned
Sonic.EXE https://www.creepypasta.com/sonic-exe/
Squidward's Suicide https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/Squidward%27s_Suicide
Dead Bart https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/Dead_Bart
Weeping Angel https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/Weeping_Angel
The Portraits https://www.creepypasta.com/the-portraits/
The Strangers https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/The_Strangers
TURN IT OFF! https://www.creepypasta.com/turn-it-off/
Forgotten Valentine https://www.creepypasta.com/forgotten-valentine/
The Lost Colony Isla Sirena https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/The_Lost_Colony_of_Isla_Sirena
Letters From a Land That Doesn't Exist https://www.creepypasta.com/for-thirty-years-ive-been-receiving-letters-from-a-land-that-doesnt-exist/
I Was a British Intelligence Officer In Ireland During The 1970s. https://www.creepypasta.com/i-was-a-british-intelligence-officer-in-ireland-during-the-1970s-we-unleashed-something-terrible/
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NoSleep Stories:
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2024.05.22 02:31 ThrowRA_mindlessfly5 I (F30) discovered my boyfriend (M30) learnt my native language secretly to listen in on what my me and my family talk about. Is this a red flag and should I tell him that I know?
TL;DR: boyfriend (M30) learnt my native language secretly to listen in on what my me (F30) and my family talk about.
Some basic info on us that I think is relevant:
My bf, come from a kind of rich country in europe, and has been living in the secondary country for all of his life. He has a good job but has had bad relationships in the past.
I (GF) come from a comparitively under-developed country and met my bf on holiday to visit my brother in the secondary country.
I met my boyfriend about 3.5 years ago, we spoke for a year while he visited almost every month even though it is far, he sorted out having me move to the secondary country where I have been living with him for 2.5 year. So far it has been great, he's kind, smart and very charismatic. I know all of his friends and family and nobody has said anything bad about him or mentioned anything about him learning my language so I think they do not know.
All my family speaks English fully but we default to a kind of small dialect of a language when I am home, they are here, or I am on the phone. He has no links to this community other than his step-dad who is from the same place as me, but has never hinted or even joked that my bf knows our language.
So. On with the story.
We were both home today, he is working on his laptop and someone from his work comes to the door and he has to leave urgently. This happens sometimes and is not unusual.
After a while I walk by the table he works on near the kitchen, and see that his laptop is still on and unlocked, with a document open in my native dialect, which as far as I knew he only knows a maximum of 5 words. I know it's bad of me, but I decided to snoop. I know that is dishonest of me but you can't not see the screen when you go to the kitchen and this isn't exactly something you would ignore, because its so unexpected.
I looked through the document, and it's basically small notes on a conversation I had with my brother earlier where my bf has listed down some slang phrases we used, which i thought was odd as my bf doesn't speak my language and incredibly intrusive (i know, irony). So by now I have to know more, so I carried on looking at his laptop and I saw a folder titled with my language and can see in there that he has been paying for lessons for almost 3 years and I can see all of his notes, which include writing practice stories in my language, letters and even watching tv shows. So I can see that he isn't just learning basic phrases, he has a very extremely advanced knowledge and understands almost everything, including slang we use.
Following on from this, I see messages between him and his tutor, explicitly saying that he is learning the language not to talk, but only to listen to me my family and my friends to see if we are looking to hurt him and if I mention something to a friend indicating that I'm cheating etc.
By now I'm angry, I know it probably look bad since I just admitted to snooping, but I've never given him a reason to think I'm scamming him or whatever, and I don't intend to.
Also, whenever I have been with family, he has made me translate what they are saying into English almost every day for 3.5 years while he has played dumb like he doesn't understand anything other than hello and give me beer.
Should I confront him and let him know all of this? some of this? I don't think I can ignore it as it is bothering me so much and I'm sure he will be back later tonight and he will know something is wrong. I love him of course, but I feel betrayed and now I'm worried about other things he may be hiding.
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Some basic info on us that I think is relevant:
My bf, come from a kind of rich country in europe, and has been living in the secondary country for all of his life. He has a good job but has had bad relationships in the past.
I (GF) come from a comparitively under-developed country and met my bf on holiday to visit my brother in the secondary country.
I met my boyfriend about 3.5 years ago, we spoke for a year while he visited almost every month even though it is far, he sorted out having me move to the secondary country where I have been living with him for 2.5 year. So far it has been great, he's kind, smart and very charismatic. I know all of his friends and family and nobody has said anything bad about him or mentioned anything about him learning my language so I think they do not know.
All my family speaks English fully but we default to a kind of small dialect of a language when I am home, they are here, or I am on the phone. He has no links to this community other than his step-dad who is from the same place as me, but has never hinted or even joked that my bf knows our language.
So. On with the story.
We were both home today, he is working on his laptop and someone from his work comes to the door and he has to leave urgently. This happens sometimes and is not unusual.
After a while I walk by the table he works on near the kitchen, and see that his laptop is still on and unlocked, with a document open in my native dialect, which as far as I knew he only knows a maximum of 5 words. I know it's bad of me, but I decided to snoop. I know that is dishonest of me but you can't not see the screen when you go to the kitchen and this isn't exactly something you would ignore, because its so unexpected.
I looked through the document, and it's basically small notes on a conversation I had with my brother earlier where my bf has listed down some slang phrases we used, which i thought was odd as my bf doesn't speak my language and incredibly intrusive (i know, irony). So by now I have to know more, so I carried on looking at his laptop and I saw a folder titled with my language and can see in there that he has been paying for lessons for almost 3 years and I can see all of his notes, which include writing practice stories in my language, letters and even watching tv shows. So I can see that he isn't just learning basic phrases, he has a very extremely advanced knowledge and understands almost everything, including slang we use.
Following on from this, I see messages between him and his tutor, explicitly saying that he is learning the language not to talk, but only to listen to me my family and my friends to see if we are looking to hurt him and if I mention something to a friend indicating that I'm cheating etc.
By now I'm angry, I know it probably look bad since I just admitted to snooping, but I've never given him a reason to think I'm scamming him or whatever, and I don't intend to.
Also, whenever I have been with family, he has made me translate what they are saying into English almost every day for 3.5 years while he has played dumb like he doesn't understand anything other than hello and give me beer.
Should I confront him and let him know all of this? some of this? I don't think I can ignore it as it is bothering me so much and I'm sure he will be back later tonight and he will know something is wrong. I love him of course, but I feel betrayed and now I'm worried about other things he may be hiding.
2024.05.22 02:26 khlocaine69 Do you need qualifications to work in a care home?
I've moved back to my hometown where 3,000 people live to live with my parents because of some health issues.
I'm overqualified for everything, I've worked abroad, speak three languages, have a BA but nobody will hire me cause I'm over-fucking-qualified. Everyone here gets jobs through nepotism and word of mouth.
I'm just over it, went for a job interview at a packing factory only to be told they're not hiring via a letter, then why waste 20 mins of our time and lie and say you're hiring???? Do I just scrap my whole CV to nothing?
I have some savings and lucky to not pay rent thanks to parents but there are 2 care homes in my town, I will do anything at this point to get out of the house. Should I use my savings and go back to college? Everyone needs carers right?
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I'm overqualified for everything, I've worked abroad, speak three languages, have a BA but nobody will hire me cause I'm over-fucking-qualified. Everyone here gets jobs through nepotism and word of mouth.
I'm just over it, went for a job interview at a packing factory only to be told they're not hiring via a letter, then why waste 20 mins of our time and lie and say you're hiring???? Do I just scrap my whole CV to nothing?
I have some savings and lucky to not pay rent thanks to parents but there are 2 care homes in my town, I will do anything at this point to get out of the house. Should I use my savings and go back to college? Everyone needs carers right?
2024.05.22 02:26 khlocaine69 Do you need qualifications to work in a care home?
I've moved back to my hometown where 3,000 people live to live with my parents because of some health issues.
I'm overqualified for everything, I've worked abroad, speak three languages, have a BA but nobody will hire me cause I'm over-fucking-qualified. Everyone here gets jobs through nepotism and word of mouth.
I'm just over it, went for a job interview at a packing factory only to be told they're not hiring via a letter, then why waste 20 mins of our time and lie and say you're hiring????
I have some savings and lucky to not pay rent thanks to parents but there are 2 care homes in my town, I will do anything at this point to get out of the house. Should I use my savings and go back to college? Everyone needs carers right?
submitted by khlocaine69 to UKJobs [link] [comments]
I'm overqualified for everything, I've worked abroad, speak three languages, have a BA but nobody will hire me cause I'm over-fucking-qualified. Everyone here gets jobs through nepotism and word of mouth.
I'm just over it, went for a job interview at a packing factory only to be told they're not hiring via a letter, then why waste 20 mins of our time and lie and say you're hiring????
I have some savings and lucky to not pay rent thanks to parents but there are 2 care homes in my town, I will do anything at this point to get out of the house. Should I use my savings and go back to college? Everyone needs carers right?
2024.05.22 02:26 OkSea4017 Hello! I recently wrote an essay about the Troubled Teen Industry for my high school Capstone project. I was wondering if you all would be willing to read it and give me feedback! It doesn’t have to be much, just any general comments or suggestions are appreciated. Thank you!
I hope this letter finds you well. To begin, I was drawn to this topic through social media posts that shared dozens of records detailing the abuse and deaths of hundreds of children in these therapy programs. I have often wondered, how can these programs be allowed to cause this amount of trauma to teens and children? This inspired me to look deeper into the troubled teen industry and understand why paid “caregivers” have put so many in danger. If we want to protect the wellbeing of these teens, we must find a solution to regulating these industries. Without increased laws and regulations we continue to place America’s children into potential death traps. Now what is a wilderness therapy program? Wilderness therapy programs, on the surface, seem like a promising solution for troubled teens, offering a blend of nature immersion and psychiatric support. However, the roots of the troubled teen industry date back to the 1970s, with reports of abuse surfacing early on. Shockingly, despite decades of outcry and documentation of fatalities, political inertia persists, and federal oversight remains lacking. It is understandable that parents want their children to be happy, respectful, and well-mannered. However, in an attempt to do what is right for their struggling child, parents may turn to the troubled teen industry. Currently, according to the American Bar Association, there are thousands of teenagers in these programs within the U.S, programs that often induce trauma and abuse, even causing the deaths of their children. So, why do parents continue to put their children into these programs? Is the fear of losing the “perfect” family leading parents to enrolling their children into these troubled teens’ wilderness programs? So why do parents enroll their children in these awful facilities? Simple answer: manipulation. The troubled teen industry (TTI) often manipulates parents through a series of insidious tactics. For instance, leveraging fear by exaggerating the risks associated with a child's behavior and creating a sense of imminent danger. Isolation tactics further reinforce this urgency, convincing parents that the facility is their sole recourse. These industries hire workers framed as “education consultants” that utilize high-pressure sales strategies to exploit parental anxiety, and present their TTI program as the only viable option. In an article by USAtoday, reporters held interviews of parents and teens who experienced a TTI program at Evoke, a Utah facility. "I was just an anxious mom. I loved (Katelyn) to death," Tessie, Katelyn’s mom, says, "I was so desperate and desperately wanting to save my child from herself" (USAtoday). Programs offer promises of rapid transformation and they prey on parental desperation for quick, easy fixes. Emotional manipulation adds another layer, playing on a parents guilt and insecurity. By showcasing selective success stories and controlling information flow, they obscure potential risks and alternatives. Stigmatizing the child's behavior further pressures parents into compliance, painting their facility as the sole refuge from societal judgment. "’[Evoke] just made it seem like (she was) such a rotten kid and that she couldn't come home after the wilderness program,’ Tessie says, instead [Evoke suggested] Katelyn go to an aftercare program” (USAtoday). In this web of manipulation, parents often find themselves coerced into decisions they later regret, unaware of the nuanced realities obscured by these tactics. In an article from the “Cafemoms” blog titled My Daughter Was a Victim of the 'Troubled Teen' Industry & It Haunts Me to This Day, a mother recounts her perspective of the tactics used by Island View (IV) treatment center to send her sixteen year old daughter to their facilities. “We trusted the [education consultant] when he said IV was the best program in the country and the best fit for Colleen. What the [education consultant] didn’t tell us was that the reason so many IV grads did so well after graduation is because nearly all of them went straight from IV to another residential treatment”(Cafemoms). Despite this, there is still hope for change. Imprint News wrote an article that focused on recent protests and youth advocates who were pushing congress to introduce new laws. Specifically, they discussed the Stop Institutional Child Abuse Act. A main advocacy group aiming at these lawmakers is Breaking Code Silence, a group dedicated to advocating for young people who had experienced harm in a youth treatment center (Imprint News). Their main goal is to pass a Bill of Rights for all children in youth treatment centers (Imprint News). The article also mentions that Breaking Code Silence wants children to have guaranteed protection from physical restraint and monitored phone calls. They further require that children are provided with all the basic necessities (Imprint News). Paris Hilton, a well-known celebrity, discussed in a Washington post article when she was 16 years old when she was taken from her home by two men. This was a result of her parents signing her up for a teen wilderness program (Hilton). Hilton describes that she was beaten and malnourished throughout her time at a Utah Facility. In October 2021, she partnered with Breaking Code Silence and pushed for a reform that was signed into law last April (Hilton). In Utah, it is now mandatory for treatment centers to document any time that staff used physical restraint (Hilton). Immediately following they have to submit these reports to the Utah Office of Licensing (Hilton). It also prohibits programs from sedating residents or using mechanical restraints, such as handcuffs and chains (Hilton). Therefore, this proves that reforms can be implemented and that it is important to continue the fight for more. Without regulations these programs can run rampant and place hundreds of children in danger. Continuing to protest, collaborate with government officials, and raise awareness can, and will, eventually stop the persistence of these programs. Enforcing reports and proper care through the law is the only way to give teens struggling with mental illnesses in these programs a fighting chance to recover. On the other hand, supporters of the troubled teen industry have used studies and research to prove the effectiveness of these programs, one example being RedCliff Ascent. RedCliff Ascent is a wilderness therapy program that claims the effectiveness of wilderness therapy. In 2005, this company hired a researcher to study families and adolescents 2 years after the program. The results found that over 90% of adolescents found wilderness therapy as effective and 83% of adolescents were doing better. In another study by Dr. Steve Aldana, it was found that 91.4% of children experienced clinically significant improvement six months post program. The counter argument presented by RedCliff Ascent is not only biased as the research was initiated from a wilderness therapy company, but they do not provide a sample size. This is important because when making conclusive statements such as “Over 90% of adolescents contacted perceived wilderness therapy as effective” they could be talking about six out of seven children or two hundred out of two hundred twenty (RedCliff Ascent). Through further research, the same results can be presented without the use of wilderness therapy. An article by the American Psychology Association (APA) titled “Better options for troubled teens” presents a series of studies and programs that was created to help adolescents. These programs focus on community-based activities, activities to help connect teenagers with their parents, and activities that align with the teens interests. This includes computer labs, dance studios, and machine shops. These programs have found significant success in decreasing the amount of juvenile offenders from 50% to 4% in an area of Connecticut (APA). It did this by helping teens take accountability and understand their actions. It utilized role play, writing assignments, and guided discussions between the teens. Overall, the troubled teen industry has caused abuse, trauma, and death to many children across the United States. It is a trap for children and a trick for desperate parents. Through the personal stories from teens and parents, reports of mistreatment, and protests it can easily be seen the impact and the importance of preventing this industry from expanding, instead increasing regulations and transparency to protect America’s children. To keep these children safe it is imperative that everyone works together to enact legislation. Your support matters to keep America’s children protected.
Sincerely, A high school student trying to make positive change
Works Cited Brennan, Caleb, et al. “Youth Advocates Again Push Congress to Crack Down on ‘Troubled Teen’ Industry.” The Imprint, 19 Aug. 2022, Date Accessed Mar. 2 imprintnews.org/top-stories/youth-advocates-congress-troubled-teen-industry/67243.
DeAngelis, Tori. “Better Options for Troubled Teens.” https://www.apa.org, www.apa.org/monito2011/12/troubled-teens. Accessed Feb. 19
Hilton, Paris. “America’s ‘Troubled Teen Industry’ Needs Reform so Kids Can Avoid the Abuse I Endured.” Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2021, Date Accessed Feb. 5 www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/18/paris-hilton-child-care-facilities-a Buse-reform.
Krebs, Catherine E. Five Facts About the Troubled Teen Industry. 22 Oct. 2021 Date Accessed Apr. 23 www.americanbar.org/groups/litigation/resources/newsletters/childrens-rights/five-facts-about-troubled-teen-industry.
Moniuszko, Sara M. “Wilderness therapy was supposed to help these ‘troubled teens.’ It traumatized them instead.” UsaToday, 8 Dec. 2022, Date Accessed Apr. 15 www.usatoday.com/in-depth/life/health-wellness/2022/12/08/wilderness-therapy-troubled-teen-industry/9890694002.
Parenting, baby names, celebrities, and royal news CafeMom.com. 14 Oct. 2022, Date Accessed Apr. 19 https://cafemom.com/parenting/troubled-teen-industry-island-view
RedCliff Ascent. “Does Wilderness Therapy Work?” Wilderness Therapy for Teens Needing Mental Health Treatment RedCliff Ascent, 10 Jan. 2023, Date Acessed Feb. 21 www.redcliffascent.com/wilderness-therapy-program/does-wilderness-therapy-work
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Sincerely, A high school student trying to make positive change
Works Cited Brennan, Caleb, et al. “Youth Advocates Again Push Congress to Crack Down on ‘Troubled Teen’ Industry.” The Imprint, 19 Aug. 2022, Date Accessed Mar. 2 imprintnews.org/top-stories/youth-advocates-congress-troubled-teen-industry/67243.
DeAngelis, Tori. “Better Options for Troubled Teens.” https://www.apa.org, www.apa.org/monito2011/12/troubled-teens. Accessed Feb. 19
Hilton, Paris. “America’s ‘Troubled Teen Industry’ Needs Reform so Kids Can Avoid the Abuse I Endured.” Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2021, Date Accessed Feb. 5 www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/18/paris-hilton-child-care-facilities-a Buse-reform.
Krebs, Catherine E. Five Facts About the Troubled Teen Industry. 22 Oct. 2021 Date Accessed Apr. 23 www.americanbar.org/groups/litigation/resources/newsletters/childrens-rights/five-facts-about-troubled-teen-industry.
Moniuszko, Sara M. “Wilderness therapy was supposed to help these ‘troubled teens.’ It traumatized them instead.” UsaToday, 8 Dec. 2022, Date Accessed Apr. 15 www.usatoday.com/in-depth/life/health-wellness/2022/12/08/wilderness-therapy-troubled-teen-industry/9890694002.
Parenting, baby names, celebrities, and royal news CafeMom.com. 14 Oct. 2022, Date Accessed Apr. 19 https://cafemom.com/parenting/troubled-teen-industry-island-view
RedCliff Ascent. “Does Wilderness Therapy Work?” Wilderness Therapy for Teens Needing Mental Health Treatment RedCliff Ascent, 10 Jan. 2023, Date Acessed Feb. 21 www.redcliffascent.com/wilderness-therapy-program/does-wilderness-therapy-work
2024.05.22 02:25 GaziShab Seeking Advice on Seneca Polytechnic Admission Rejection Due to English Qualification Misunderstanding
Hi everyone,
I’m reaching out to this community in the hopes of getting some advice and support regarding my recent admission experience with Seneca Polytechnic. Here’s a detailed account of my situation:
I am an international student who moved to Canada at the age of 17. Currently, I am completing my Grade 12 at Applewood Heights High School in Ontario. Prior to moving to Canada, I completed my IGCSE O Level and the International AS part of the A Level. Since arriving in Canada, I have successfully completed Grade 11 English and will finish Grade 12 English this semester.
I applied to Seneca Polytechnic for the Fall 2024 intake for three programs: CPP Computer Programming, CSN Computer Systems Technician, and CVL Civil Engineering Technician. However, I received an email stating that my application was refused because I did not meet the admission requirements. After reviewing the decision and contacting the Seneca Service Hub, I believe there was a misunderstanding regarding my English qualifications.
Here are the key points of my situation:
Here’s what I’ve done so far:
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I’m reaching out to this community in the hopes of getting some advice and support regarding my recent admission experience with Seneca Polytechnic. Here’s a detailed account of my situation:
I am an international student who moved to Canada at the age of 17. Currently, I am completing my Grade 12 at Applewood Heights High School in Ontario. Prior to moving to Canada, I completed my IGCSE O Level and the International AS part of the A Level. Since arriving in Canada, I have successfully completed Grade 11 English and will finish Grade 12 English this semester.
I applied to Seneca Polytechnic for the Fall 2024 intake for three programs: CPP Computer Programming, CSN Computer Systems Technician, and CVL Civil Engineering Technician. However, I received an email stating that my application was refused because I did not meet the admission requirements. After reviewing the decision and contacting the Seneca Service Hub, I believe there was a misunderstanding regarding my English qualifications.
Here are the key points of my situation:
- Completion of English Courses: I have completed Grade 11 English and am in the process of completing Grade 12 English at an Ontario high school, which is an English language-dominant environment.
- Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test (OSSLT): I have passed the Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test, which further demonstrates my proficiency in English.
- Admission Requirements: According to the Seneca Polytechnic website, completing Grade 11 and Grade 12 English in an English language-dominant country should exempt me from needing additional English tests such as IELTS or Duolingo.
Here’s what I’ve done so far:
- I have contacted the Seneca Service Hub, and they confirmed that my requirements are met. However, the admissions team might not have received or correctly interpreted all my documents.
- I have written to the Seneca International Admissions Team requesting a reconsideration of my application and explaining my qualifications and current situation.
- Has anyone faced a similar situation with Seneca Polytechnic or other institutions? How did you resolve it?
- What additional steps can I take to ensure my application is reconsidered promptly?
- Are there any specific documents or pieces of information I should provide to strengthen my case?
- Is there any other way to expedite the review process given my time constraints?
2024.05.22 02:21 artandgardenal What is it called when my friend does this?
My college friend really needs help and has for about 10 years. Despite trying a lot of tactics to help her, she just isn’t interested in sobriety or therapy. The past few years she seems to be devolving into what I can only describe as alcoholic rambling, general madness, and randomly lashing out.
When she calls me, it typically goes something like this: she tells a story or talks at me, reminisces about the good old days, remembers something that upset her, yells at me, says she loves me, reminisces again, and then I try to exit.
I think it would help me to have a few terms to describe her behavior and maybe mine too… My husbands friend was a total jerk to me behind his back for years and no one believed me. Understanding what “gaslighting” is helped me frame that behavior and be able to talk about it!
So that’s why I’m posting and would so appreciate any comments.
—-—- here’s the long version:
My friend is a 37-year-old living in a rural area with her parents and grandmother with dementia since COVID. My friend is an alcoholic, workaholic, and has ADD. She also really smart, funny and social. Shes amazing at her job in sales/recruiting and really defines herself by it. Her parents are both alcoholics, kinda conspiracy theorists, and often mean to each other (yelling in the background, belittling, hiding things from eachother, etc). She feels obligated to help with her grandma and is kinda resigned to change nothing. Clearly the environment is bad and rubbing off on her.
For example, last week she called me frantic and crying because her dog killed a bird. She talked for about 30-45 minutes, jumping between the current bird and other bird stories, of which there are many. I barely uttered a mmhmm the whole time. Eventually, she asked what’s up with me. I mentioned that I’ve been depressed and struggling to find a job, which is putting stress on my marriage so overall I’m feeling really low. Since she’s in recruiting and knows my work history, I asked if she knew of any job openings. She then launched into a story about how competitive she is with her coworkers and how it’s all a game to get the biggest commissions on placements but those are for engineers. So I take that as a no and by the end of her monologue she was back on the topic of birds. I tried to exit the conversation, and she said to call her the next afternoon if I wanted to talk about job hunting and she may have ideas.
The next day, I called her, optimistic to see the side of her that shines and hoping for some jobs she can refer me to. Instead she pulled up my LinkedIn profile and started telling me what I should change. Which wasn’t want I wanted but sure if that’s her approach she’s the expert. Then she became critical, loudly laughing at my picture, saying my hair was covering part of my face and I looked like a villan, untrustworthy. She’d never hire me based on that photo. She was kinda manic laughing as I was kinda tearing up (I’m aging and avoid photos so I thought the one take by my hairdresser was a high quality headshot and my hair looked cute). Okay sure I’ll change it. The critique wore on roast style with the justification of this is just tough love, the way we talk to each other is unfiltered and she just always around guys.
She brought up networking and remembered introducing me to a coworker, Sally. I said I didn’t remember what ever happened with Sally because it was two years ago. To which she got very heated, accusing me of dropping the ball and never following up. She started screaming, how she put her neck out for me and I couldn’t be bothered. I tried to talk her down and eventually hung up. I later checked the old email thread and saw that I had followed up with Sally, but she was going on vacation, so it didn’t go anywhere. My friend kept calling and texting, so I eventually picked up. I told her I didn’t mess up, and I didn’t want to be spoken to like that. So she apologized for yelling. Then she went back to criticizing my LinkedIn, pointing out a spelling error and calling me stupid. I told her I wasn’t in a great place and that her feedback style was hurtful.
She then veered off into a story about how she loves me and has saved the letters I wrote her. I cut her off, saying that while I appreciate it, those notes aren’t relevant to this conversation and let’s focus on job talk. She got upset, saying I don’t value our friendship and was using her just for a job so fuck you blablabla…
After a few more hours of texts and calls, I let her know I’m going to prioritize my own feelings and block her number but I’ll check in with her in 3months. I’ve tried to support her but also keep my distance but I need to be firmer in enforcing that. I’d say forever but that feels like canceling her when I know she needs help. ——- Rewriting this, feels as long and draining as that conversation was so I’ll stop there.
All of this to say, what kind of pattern is that? Is it something she’s doing because her parents do it to her? Am I crazy to keep picking up her calls? I feel like if I had a name or terminology to unpack all these conversations it would be easier to process them.
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When she calls me, it typically goes something like this: she tells a story or talks at me, reminisces about the good old days, remembers something that upset her, yells at me, says she loves me, reminisces again, and then I try to exit.
I think it would help me to have a few terms to describe her behavior and maybe mine too… My husbands friend was a total jerk to me behind his back for years and no one believed me. Understanding what “gaslighting” is helped me frame that behavior and be able to talk about it!
So that’s why I’m posting and would so appreciate any comments.
—-—- here’s the long version:
My friend is a 37-year-old living in a rural area with her parents and grandmother with dementia since COVID. My friend is an alcoholic, workaholic, and has ADD. She also really smart, funny and social. Shes amazing at her job in sales/recruiting and really defines herself by it. Her parents are both alcoholics, kinda conspiracy theorists, and often mean to each other (yelling in the background, belittling, hiding things from eachother, etc). She feels obligated to help with her grandma and is kinda resigned to change nothing. Clearly the environment is bad and rubbing off on her.
For example, last week she called me frantic and crying because her dog killed a bird. She talked for about 30-45 minutes, jumping between the current bird and other bird stories, of which there are many. I barely uttered a mmhmm the whole time. Eventually, she asked what’s up with me. I mentioned that I’ve been depressed and struggling to find a job, which is putting stress on my marriage so overall I’m feeling really low. Since she’s in recruiting and knows my work history, I asked if she knew of any job openings. She then launched into a story about how competitive she is with her coworkers and how it’s all a game to get the biggest commissions on placements but those are for engineers. So I take that as a no and by the end of her monologue she was back on the topic of birds. I tried to exit the conversation, and she said to call her the next afternoon if I wanted to talk about job hunting and she may have ideas.
The next day, I called her, optimistic to see the side of her that shines and hoping for some jobs she can refer me to. Instead she pulled up my LinkedIn profile and started telling me what I should change. Which wasn’t want I wanted but sure if that’s her approach she’s the expert. Then she became critical, loudly laughing at my picture, saying my hair was covering part of my face and I looked like a villan, untrustworthy. She’d never hire me based on that photo. She was kinda manic laughing as I was kinda tearing up (I’m aging and avoid photos so I thought the one take by my hairdresser was a high quality headshot and my hair looked cute). Okay sure I’ll change it. The critique wore on roast style with the justification of this is just tough love, the way we talk to each other is unfiltered and she just always around guys.
She brought up networking and remembered introducing me to a coworker, Sally. I said I didn’t remember what ever happened with Sally because it was two years ago. To which she got very heated, accusing me of dropping the ball and never following up. She started screaming, how she put her neck out for me and I couldn’t be bothered. I tried to talk her down and eventually hung up. I later checked the old email thread and saw that I had followed up with Sally, but she was going on vacation, so it didn’t go anywhere. My friend kept calling and texting, so I eventually picked up. I told her I didn’t mess up, and I didn’t want to be spoken to like that. So she apologized for yelling. Then she went back to criticizing my LinkedIn, pointing out a spelling error and calling me stupid. I told her I wasn’t in a great place and that her feedback style was hurtful.
She then veered off into a story about how she loves me and has saved the letters I wrote her. I cut her off, saying that while I appreciate it, those notes aren’t relevant to this conversation and let’s focus on job talk. She got upset, saying I don’t value our friendship and was using her just for a job so fuck you blablabla…
After a few more hours of texts and calls, I let her know I’m going to prioritize my own feelings and block her number but I’ll check in with her in 3months. I’ve tried to support her but also keep my distance but I need to be firmer in enforcing that. I’d say forever but that feels like canceling her when I know she needs help. ——- Rewriting this, feels as long and draining as that conversation was so I’ll stop there.
All of this to say, what kind of pattern is that? Is it something she’s doing because her parents do it to her? Am I crazy to keep picking up her calls? I feel like if I had a name or terminology to unpack all these conversations it would be easier to process them.
2024.05.22 02:18 8th_Hurdle [EVENT] Leave Them Hanging On The Line
29th January 1967;
Port Arthur, SCS;
What nationality did not live within the city? The borders of the SCS had been closed off in 1952, but the prior torrent had already brought in every culture by then. There were the Scots, the Welsh, the Irish, the English, the French, the Norwegians, the Danish, the Finnish, the New Englanders, the Quebecois, the Maritimers, the many others, the world inside a city. For all that Sault was Canadian and that Fort William was Serene, Port Arthur was the city that held every other flavour of the (Northern Atlantic) world. As Gloria walked along the tarmac between the rows of housing, cheaply-erected to house the many, she did not feel a stranger one bit.
She had not a similar feeling since she had left the town of Stoke to the rising waters.
Even so, the few that were the protesters did their best to attract her, to whistle and to call out at her, because she was a woman and alone on the streets, with Mark typing frantically to his friend across the lake, as he tried to convey what he knew onwards towards the armed forces. That friend had his own mates, in higher places, and they had met a while ago. By now, he sulked by the St Mary’s, carrying his heavy loads, and Sault was a good place to sulk. All Mark had to confirm was that he was still in Sault, and not attracted by the offers of guaranteed accommodation and tax rebates if he decided to live and farm in the countryside. He just needed to know.
In the meantime, Gloria needed to seek out Lee, and to get through the city, walking was what was needed, and that was Mark’s idea which Gloria agreed with.
Thus, she trudged through the storms and the gales onwards into the docklands, to find her man. Well, finding the docklands was easy enough, since the high chain-fence was obvious enough with its notices in government typeface. Walking around far enough to the south allowed Gloria to find her entrance, and to find a helpful woman, one who worked at the front. She held all the keys, and all of the telephone wires, and, upon a quick one-button check of the video-monitoring system to Lee’s desk that showed him reading a book, the all-clear was given. “William is free to talk, I assume this will be on personal matters? I’ll give permission, it’s too stormy to do much more than read books anyway, he won’t get much. I’ll get someone to escort you.”
“Ah cheers. Interesting that you’re here for work, didn’t know about the MLS and MS protests here, yep? Tis horrendous, but ah well, I live close enough to docks that they don’t hit me, all’s fine round these parts. Longuelac is a place for sure, that also work?” asked Lee rhetorically, drawing in all the information he required.
“Yes, all just work and money. I just want to live near our work rather than him use our money on fuel on his car just to get him to work. He thinks we only get higher-paying jobs just because of that car. I can’t see why a motorcycle wouldn’t work either, but maybe it’s storms like today that do it,” stated Gloria towards Lee, whom she knew wanted to draw in more of that lovely information.
“So… so… you like the Monde Suffit then? They have their 13-minute-city idea or whatever, it’s about reducing distance to workplaces, by putting work right near the homes. It’s stuff like that which the MS like, but then you’re with Mark, yep?” suggested Lee, putting the pieces together.
“Mark wants to set up a rival for the MS, but upon similar principles, because Gatley and Hyhurst are being too idealistic and that won’t get stuff right. But his idea is… uhm…” tailed off Gloria.
“Still taking shape, yep? Well, look, I have a bit about Matias, so say that to Mark when he opens… this letter. It’ll have a bit more, and you can do more with it. I’m with Mark, because he met myself on the Samaria. He’ll do it, I’m sure.”
“You think, Lee?”
“I do think Gloria, thank you very much. He knows too much. I bet you every organisation wants him. What’s more they want him gone. Now, that’s all I have. Brave the weather, it’ll be better in a few hours once the morning’s over.”
“Thank you.”
“Oh, and good luck. It’s not like Mark’d need it, but you will, just in dodging the protesters.”
2024.05.22 02:18 Realistic-Freedom750 TN Visa Application - Edmonton Airport - Bachelor of Engineering in Information Technology - Position: Senior Software Engineer - NAFTA Categiory: Software Developer
Hello!
I have a job offer from a company in the US and have the following eligibility:
1) Canadian Citizen
2) 15 Years of experience in Software Engineering
3) The Offer Letter and Letter of Support say the Position is Senior Software Engineer and the Category under NAFTA is Software Developer
4) I have a Bachelor of Engineering in Information Technology from the University of Mumbai, India.
5) I have WES (from Canada) that says Bachelor of Engineering -
Canadian Equivalency - Bachelor's Degree (four years)
Major - Information Technology
Can someone please let me know if this arrangement would be acceptable or if I will face any issues while applying at the preclearance? I will be applying at the Edmonton Airport.
Any advice, suggestions, or information will be of great help.
Thank you in advance.
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I have a job offer from a company in the US and have the following eligibility:
1) Canadian Citizen
2) 15 Years of experience in Software Engineering
3) The Offer Letter and Letter of Support say the Position is Senior Software Engineer and the Category under NAFTA is Software Developer
4) I have a Bachelor of Engineering in Information Technology from the University of Mumbai, India.
5) I have WES (from Canada) that says Bachelor of Engineering -
Canadian Equivalency - Bachelor's Degree (four years)
Major - Information Technology
Can someone please let me know if this arrangement would be acceptable or if I will face any issues while applying at the preclearance? I will be applying at the Edmonton Airport.
Any advice, suggestions, or information will be of great help.
Thank you in advance.
2024.05.22 02:16 xNezah The Low Stat, High Hour EC App Review
Demographics
White dude
Iowa resident
First gen, rural (population of 700), and underserved background. Likely low income as well, not entirely sure.
Academics
cGPA (with dual enrollment included): 3.3
cGPA (only undergrad): 3.47, upward trend, 3.6-3.7 GPA in last 3 semesters with REALLY rigorous course load
sGPA (everything included): 3.32
MCAT: 508, even distribution, nothing below 126
Registered for Preview, will do casper as well
1 gap year, starting a 1 year master's program at my state school in the fall that is basically the first year of medical school. That is why this is kind of a fuck it we ball cycle, if I dont get accepted this year and dont fuck up, my chances at my state school are genuinely REALLY good next year.
Extracurriculars:
Hours are approximate but very close, I havent gotten to doing the exact math yet, but I did track hours for most things.
Research: 1500+hrs, 1000 in organic chem and 500 in Orthopedic surgery. One first author pub submitted for the ortho research
Clinical Volunteering: ~350hrs as coordinator for free mobile clinic for unserved communities, managed all of the supplies and lab equipment, trained over 300 student volunteers in lab tests and vitals. Clinics legit could not run without me, and that will be included in a rec letter
Leadership: ~100 hours as a fraternity VP and standards chair
Work experience:
2000+ total in a bunch of stuff
~500 hours as a peer mentor for first-generation college students
~100 hours as a private tutor, biology and chem at all levels
Other weird jobs I have had, mostly manual labor: Farm Hand, DNR State Park groundskeeper, tour guide for local architecture attraction, and working in warehouses.
About to get a patient care tech position
Other Misc ECs:
SHPEP Scholar
~30hrs working with a physician on a men's health initiative, targeted school's frats and athletic teams to educate young men on men's health
~30hrs social media manager for a Instagram page educating HS and younger prehealth students on the realities of healthcare and the opportunities at all levels
Hobbies: backpacking, photography, cooking and baking, computers, fitness, and reading
Other relevant info:
Note: You're gonna notice I'm not applying DO. I know everyone's gonna lose their shit over this. 3 reasons why:
I have had pretty much zero guidance on applying outside of this subreddit, so I really appreciate any and all advice. Be harsh if you have to, I get it.
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White dude
Iowa resident
First gen, rural (population of 700), and underserved background. Likely low income as well, not entirely sure.
Academics
cGPA (with dual enrollment included): 3.3
cGPA (only undergrad): 3.47, upward trend, 3.6-3.7 GPA in last 3 semesters with REALLY rigorous course load
sGPA (everything included): 3.32
MCAT: 508, even distribution, nothing below 126
Registered for Preview, will do casper as well
1 gap year, starting a 1 year master's program at my state school in the fall that is basically the first year of medical school. That is why this is kind of a fuck it we ball cycle, if I dont get accepted this year and dont fuck up, my chances at my state school are genuinely REALLY good next year.
Extracurriculars:
Hours are approximate but very close, I havent gotten to doing the exact math yet, but I did track hours for most things.
Research: 1500+hrs, 1000 in organic chem and 500 in Orthopedic surgery. One first author pub submitted for the ortho research
Clinical Volunteering: ~350hrs as coordinator for free mobile clinic for unserved communities, managed all of the supplies and lab equipment, trained over 300 student volunteers in lab tests and vitals. Clinics legit could not run without me, and that will be included in a rec letter
Leadership: ~100 hours as a fraternity VP and standards chair
Work experience:
2000+ total in a bunch of stuff
~500 hours as a peer mentor for first-generation college students
~100 hours as a private tutor, biology and chem at all levels
Other weird jobs I have had, mostly manual labor: Farm Hand, DNR State Park groundskeeper, tour guide for local architecture attraction, and working in warehouses.
About to get a patient care tech position
Other Misc ECs:
SHPEP Scholar
~30hrs working with a physician on a men's health initiative, targeted school's frats and athletic teams to educate young men on men's health
~30hrs social media manager for a Instagram page educating HS and younger prehealth students on the realities of healthcare and the opportunities at all levels
Hobbies: backpacking, photography, cooking and baking, computers, fitness, and reading
Other relevant info:
- Most of my extracurriculars, personal statement, etc., revolve around my rural, first-generation, and blue-collar background
- Really trying to leverage the fact that I am from a rural area, and would probably do rural health
- My lower GPA can also be explained by my extreme over-involvement in my earlier years and slower-than-average adaptation to college.
- My rec letters are pretty solid
Note: You're gonna notice I'm not applying DO. I know everyone's gonna lose their shit over this. 3 reasons why:
- Im broke, I can't afford 30+ schools.
- DO schools financially exploit the fuck out applicants even more so than AAMC already does, and I just don't wanna deal with that.
- Like I said, I'm getting a master's; if I get straight rejected this cycle, I'll be in a much better position to apply across the board in the next one and will apply for DO then.
- Iowa Carver (please god just let me in)
- Nebraska (where I did SHPEP)
- U of Minnesota
- UW Madison
- Michigan State
- Mayo Alix (No shot but I'm still a strong mission fit)
- Medical College of Wisconsin
- Yale (my one absolutely fuck it why not app, I really like new haven and pizza)
- Ohio State (considering removing, outside 10th percentile)
- U of Cincinnati (considering removing, outside 10th percentile)
- U of Miami Leonard (Consitering removing, outside 10th percentile)
- Oregon health and science
- Indiana (considering removing, regional bias and outside 10th percentile)
- Rutgers, Robert wood johnson (SHPEP is RWJ sponsored, again just trying to leverage anything I can)
- Geisel at Dartmouth
- Robert Larner at Vermont
- University of Missouri - Kansas City
- Virgina Tech
- West Virginia
- University of South Carolina Columbia
- Toledo
I have had pretty much zero guidance on applying outside of this subreddit, so I really appreciate any and all advice. Be harsh if you have to, I get it.
2024.05.22 02:09 annasfw How is OPS different from the Federal Public Service?
For federal public service (FPS), I know that:
Thank you!
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- making any change, even small, is a very lengthy process in FPS because of the bureaucracy.
- it has a great pension plan from what I've heard.
- the steps to getting a job involve answering the screening questions, passing written tests and interviews which then allow you to be placed in a pool, and then you may be picked from the pool sometime or never. It's an extremely lengthy process to get hired.
- you need to go through a Reliability, Secret or Top Secret clearance screening (also for OPS).
- French. If you don't know French, it's career limiting.
- OPS requires a cover letter for all applications whereas the federal public service (FPS) has screening questions.
- OPS has higher salaries.
Thank you!
2024.05.22 02:07 WrathfulMechanic [WTS] CT15, Nutsac Satchel 15, Alpaka Go sling Mini, Vertx Sling bag, and DFNDR IIIA Panel
Timestamp: https://imgur.com/T2T0bIB
[C] CTactical CT15 $60
https://imgur.com/a/wJRIMH5
A little too small for my big ass body, solid bag though. In very good condition, but I knocked off a letter grade because I removed the branded velcro panel on the top of the bag and removed the ctactical product tag on the inside of the bag. I used a stitch puller and it came out CLEAN, but still. It’s been modified.
[C] Nutsac Satchel 15 $200
https://imgur.com/a/X0UrXqP
I used this one for a while and loved it for my laptop, but I work a trade and very rarely actually need it. Kinda wish I worked a office job so I could get more use out of it.
[B] Alpaka Go Sling Mini X-Pac Dark Green $50
https://imgur.com/a/fw7OBtg
love this little bag, but I started using a different bag that suits my needs a little better. I was always scared of getting this one dirty, so I bought a spiritus big fanny pouch instead.
[B] Vertx Sling bag $100
https://imgur.com/a/dsokcK7
I’m fairly sure this is the Transit, but I’m not 100% sure and there’s no tags I can find in the damn bag.
[C] DFNDR Goruck IIIA panel $150
https://imgur.com/a/AjuXq5r
a little dusty, but it fits in the CT15 really well and was carried for about a year then sat in storage since. Hasn’t been dropped or damaged in any way.
Prices are shipped to CONUS via Paypal
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[C] CTactical CT15 $60
https://imgur.com/a/wJRIMH5
A little too small for my big ass body, solid bag though. In very good condition, but I knocked off a letter grade because I removed the branded velcro panel on the top of the bag and removed the ctactical product tag on the inside of the bag. I used a stitch puller and it came out CLEAN, but still. It’s been modified.
[C] Nutsac Satchel 15 $200
https://imgur.com/a/X0UrXqP
I used this one for a while and loved it for my laptop, but I work a trade and very rarely actually need it. Kinda wish I worked a office job so I could get more use out of it.
[B] Alpaka Go Sling Mini X-Pac Dark Green $50
https://imgur.com/a/fw7OBtg
love this little bag, but I started using a different bag that suits my needs a little better. I was always scared of getting this one dirty, so I bought a spiritus big fanny pouch instead.
[B] Vertx Sling bag $100
https://imgur.com/a/dsokcK7
I’m fairly sure this is the Transit, but I’m not 100% sure and there’s no tags I can find in the damn bag.
[C] DFNDR Goruck IIIA panel $150
https://imgur.com/a/AjuXq5r
a little dusty, but it fits in the CT15 really well and was carried for about a year then sat in storage since. Hasn’t been dropped or damaged in any way.
Prices are shipped to CONUS via Paypal
2024.05.22 02:07 SpiritedRavioli 4 rounds in the interview process - is it smart to share updated resume with new certifications in it?
Hi there! I am 4 rounds deep (😵💫) in an interview process with my 5th round (😵💫😵💫) coming up on Friday. I have been unemployed for 10 months now and this is the closest I've come to not only a job, but my dream role at my dream company, so I'm trying to do everything within my power to set myself up for success without coming across desperate.
The job is a very slight pivot from what I have done in the past, but extremely similar. I definitely am more than qualified, capable and have shown them strong work samples. It's not a major transition and it's a common one in my field.
However, through my conversations, I'm getting this feeling that if I don't get the role it will be due to my lack of experience in precisely what this role does. My thinking is it's already a competitive role at a large company, and in this hunger games of a job market right now - why would they hire me when other applicants have the EXACT experience?
To try to combat this, I've taken a couple certification courses (just Coursera, nothing fancy) that are relevent to the role I want. I also revamped my portfolio to include more examples of my past work.
My question: is it dumb to share an updated resume with the hiring manager ahead of my call on Friday? I am already very deep in the process so I don't want it to look like I'm throwing hail mary passes, but I also want to show that I'm making the effort to address what they may see as a potential shortcoming. If I were to send it, I would just keep the note simple saying that I completed some courses and revamped my portfolio so I wanted her to have my latest resume. I would NOT say anything along the lines of "I know I don't have the exact experience so I did this course.. blah blah blah"
Is this pointless and/or not tactful to do at this stage? Thank you for any insight/advice! And thank you for reading my novel!
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The job is a very slight pivot from what I have done in the past, but extremely similar. I definitely am more than qualified, capable and have shown them strong work samples. It's not a major transition and it's a common one in my field.
However, through my conversations, I'm getting this feeling that if I don't get the role it will be due to my lack of experience in precisely what this role does. My thinking is it's already a competitive role at a large company, and in this hunger games of a job market right now - why would they hire me when other applicants have the EXACT experience?
To try to combat this, I've taken a couple certification courses (just Coursera, nothing fancy) that are relevent to the role I want. I also revamped my portfolio to include more examples of my past work.
My question: is it dumb to share an updated resume with the hiring manager ahead of my call on Friday? I am already very deep in the process so I don't want it to look like I'm throwing hail mary passes, but I also want to show that I'm making the effort to address what they may see as a potential shortcoming. If I were to send it, I would just keep the note simple saying that I completed some courses and revamped my portfolio so I wanted her to have my latest resume. I would NOT say anything along the lines of "I know I don't have the exact experience so I did this course.. blah blah blah"
Is this pointless and/or not tactful to do at this stage? Thank you for any insight/advice! And thank you for reading my novel!
2024.05.22 02:02 JAM_Passive Apprentice of the Year
 | https://preview.redd.it/k3uwxljnwu1d1.jpg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fa0120ed23e7338cbba776dee3e3245db1a5d0c6 submitted by JAM_Passive to UnitedAssociation [link] [comments] Before getting to the award, I'd like to talk about my journey from open shop to the UA. About 2 years or so ago, before I knew about unions, I was working for an open shop plumbing/HVAC company. $15/hr, mostly residential with the occasional commercial. I liked my co-workers, boss was cool, one of my supervisors was cool, the other was a toss up on any given day. Ladies in the office were cool too. Good all around. I was a helper or apprentice, that title changed whenever the boss wanted it to, made no difference in my pay or hours. I went to a job with one of the guys, and it was to work on a tankless water heater. Long story short, the water heater was piped in backward. That's not important. What is, is the man we did the job for: Mr. Stevens. He was a retired pipefitter of about 30 years from a UA in Chicago. He had a bunch of union stickers from many different locals on the fridge in his garage where we were working. He asked me if I ever thought about joining the UA. I told him no, and I had no idea what that was. While my coworker was on the phone getting approval for the work from a warranty company, Mr. Stevens talked to me about how the UA gave him better wages, the good retirement that he's currently enjoying with his wife, health benefits, and everything he could advertise. I was listening intently because that sounded wonderful to me. He was describing everything I thought my at the time company was supposed to be. Before we left, Mr. Stevens gave me his number. He told me if I had any more questions to call or text him, he'll be available. He also told me if I was interested in getting in the UA, he'd write me a letter of recommendation for the board members. I thanked him and we went on our way. Over the next few months, I looked into unions, the UA specifically. I saw pro-union stuff, and anti-union stuff. I'm here, so as you can see, there was too much good for me to care about any of the anti-union stuff, which were mostly lies or exaggerations. Come March of 2023 when applications opened up, I speedran everything I could have. I called Local 43's office, got all the info I needed. Filled out my application, got my HS transcripts, did the Helmets to Hardhats, got with the VA to work out my GI Bill, smoked the ACT WorkKeys test. My supervisors did eventually find out about me doing all that. One of the board members owned the plumbing company next to my boss's and I guess they're friends and talked to each other, and my boss talked to my supervisors. The cool one made a joke about the dues I'd have to pay (exaggerated the amount) and the other one was visibly not pleased and made a sly remark about it. Fortunately nothing negative came of it for me. Anyway, finally, the interview. Easily the only thing I was stressed out about. I got a fresh cut, bought a nice (but cheap) blue suit, bought a nice pair of lowkey business casual shoes, bought a cheap black tie, even lightly put on cologne. I walked in to the waiting room and thought I fucked up. The other interviewees had on jeans, those nice dress(?) cowboy boots, and tucked in button-up long sleeve shirts. I make no exaggeration when I tell you, I was the ONLY one in a suit and tie. Internally I'm freaking out wondering "What was I thinking? It's the South, I should have dressed like them! The board is gonna see me an think I'm some prim & proper (derogatory) Yank!" An assumption I made based on the reaction I got when I joined a Fire Department and I told one of the Firefighters I'm from NY. Fortunately, this was not the case. Nothing to be done about it at that point, I get called into the room. I've been through a board or two in the Army, so I knew I could fake it at least, but I'm still nervous. What I did do immediately that I'm still proud of to this day is I remembered to shake everyone's hand and look at them. Just like I've practiced, a nice firm handshake and eye contact. Sat up straight, hand positioning, made eye contact when answering, answered audibly and clearly, practiced it all beforehand and executed. They did get Mr. Stevens' letter of recommendation and had me tell them about the work we did for him. And they wanted me to tell them about my time in the Army. That took up a large portion of time thankfully. No matter where you go, men love a good story. Around the last 5 -10 minutes, they had me tell them about my previous company. I didn't badmouth the company, I didn't have much negative to say about it anyway, aside from the hours being wonky occasionally and learning being difficult sometimes if they guy you're with didn't feel like teaching you that day. Sometimes, you really were just a helper. Hand them the tools and move back. Before I left, one of the men stopped me at the door and told me he was glad I dressed like a professional. He said "Some of these guys come around here and dress like they're about go to the bar and not an interview. I know this is blue collar work, but we're still professionals. Just a blazer goes a long way, and we appreciate that you took this seriously." All that work (and I'm not gonna lie, there's no doubt in my mind that me being a veteran damn near guaranteed me in) paid off as me and the rest if the 1st years swore in. And starting at $17.60 ain't too bad. Fast forward to today. Today was the last day of class at my Local. They did awards, congratulations, and all the flair that comes with it. Among the awardees, was me. I haven't earned an academic award since elementary. By the time I got to HS, I realized schooling (at least traditional) isn't something I enjoy or care for, and my effort (or lack of it) reflected that. I stopped doing homework altogether as it was only 15% of our grades, I did well on tests and quizzes, and did classwork depending on length/difficulty and necessity. Graduated HS stress free and got the same diploma as everyone else. This was not the case during this past school year. I put in the effort for this. I paid attention and asked for help. Especially with math, I asked for a lot of help with math. And I suppose that showed and reflected. I earned Apprentice of the Year for the 1st Year Class. I feel really good about it. I intend to put my ass into and try to earn it for the next 4 years. Joining the UA is one of the best decisions I've ever made. I fucking love the UA, and I love my Local Union 43. Note: I still talk to Mr. Stevens to this day. I sent him a picture of my award and he's treating me to dinner this weekend. |
2024.05.22 02:02 TDMC_614 I'm very close to giving up in finding a job with my degree
So I'm now over a year removed from college where I studied sustainable energy management (essentially everything to do with managing sustainable energy projects, from energy markets to the financial aspects of the project itself such as NPV and cost-benefit analysis). I enjoyed the classes I took and am definitely passionate about sustainable energy, but the process of finding a job since I graduated has made me want to never enter the corporate world
I have gotten nothing but disgusting and unprofessional behavior from hiring managers and recruiters. Had one recruiter reach out for a job I had applied to a few months back and explained to me the responsibilities, what the company does, the pay, what to expect when hired, and then asked when I'd be available for an interview. The job was utterly perfect and was exactly what I wanted to do. Never heard back from them, and when I reached out via email to him he entirely ignored it and never responded.
I also had an interview for a part-time role at a local college that was also right up my alley and involved managing a sustainable energy outreach program. Went through 3 interviews with this old lady who seemed to not know anything about sustainable energy and thought my name was THOMAS the entire time even though she had my resume. She wanted me to come into the school after the 2nd interview to show me what it was like and introduce me to the rest of the staff. Sounds like she wanted to hire me, right? NOPE, I NEVER HEARD BACK.
Apologies for the rant, but long story short I am absolutely disgusted with this whole process and honestly just wanna give up entirely and pursue something else. I'm tired of scouring websites for jobs, I'm tired of having to change my cover letter to basically beg for mediocre pay, and I'm tired of the disgusting behavior that these people are able to get away with when we candidates are expected to bend over backward for them.
Any advice?
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I have gotten nothing but disgusting and unprofessional behavior from hiring managers and recruiters. Had one recruiter reach out for a job I had applied to a few months back and explained to me the responsibilities, what the company does, the pay, what to expect when hired, and then asked when I'd be available for an interview. The job was utterly perfect and was exactly what I wanted to do. Never heard back from them, and when I reached out via email to him he entirely ignored it and never responded.
I also had an interview for a part-time role at a local college that was also right up my alley and involved managing a sustainable energy outreach program. Went through 3 interviews with this old lady who seemed to not know anything about sustainable energy and thought my name was THOMAS the entire time even though she had my resume. She wanted me to come into the school after the 2nd interview to show me what it was like and introduce me to the rest of the staff. Sounds like she wanted to hire me, right? NOPE, I NEVER HEARD BACK.
Apologies for the rant, but long story short I am absolutely disgusted with this whole process and honestly just wanna give up entirely and pursue something else. I'm tired of scouring websites for jobs, I'm tired of having to change my cover letter to basically beg for mediocre pay, and I'm tired of the disgusting behavior that these people are able to get away with when we candidates are expected to bend over backward for them.
Any advice?
2024.05.22 01:59 emphieishere Raising a fund to start working on Upwork
 | https://preview.redd.it/usm78dpk8v1d1.png?width=906&format=png&auto=webp&s=53e4ca2e8e99c1b5834b22a279c1bdda7b1e7d25 submitted by emphieishere to Upwork [link] [comments] Well, obviously, it was a joke. Just to mention the avrg. price for a proposal. But honestly, I wanted to ask you, what tips are you sticking to land yourself a job, what helps you? I've seen many-many times mentioned about cover letters. But.. nothing specific. Maybe I'm not looking through good enough. Thinking every time about saving the connects is pushing me to review my methods, and I believe I'm not a single lucky man here. Any piece of advice is appreciated. What area related to Python in your opinion is in demand, in order to focus on exact fields? Sorry for such vague questions.. Just want to get in touch with what's going on overall. At least I felt the opportunity to reach this subreddit, it seems to be a nice community here. I wish y'all a productive shift and more hires, thanks! |
2024.05.22 01:57 tiredblueberry2321 I'm worried I'm [27/m] not enough for my girlfriend (26/f), don't know how to make the relationship more equal?
We've been dating for just over a year now.
She's just so amazing- smart, funny, kind, I just love the way she sees the world and all the conversations we have. I feel like I really don't bring anything to the relationship, but she really seems to love me (and I love her) anyways. I'm scared I'm going to lose her because I'm not good enough.
I've gone back to school so I'm on a student budget for another year (though I'm set up with a good paying job once I graduate, and I have a degree so I have had corporate jobs before), but she's really well off (lawyer).
I keep telling her I'm happy just to spend time with her, and she doesn't need to spend money on me, but she loves going out and insists on paying for me. She also buys me all kinds of gifts, not even for special occasions, just because. I do buy her gifts I can afford, like flowers and the skincare products she like, and she seems to like it when I give her cards and draw or write letters inside them, but I feel like all the gifts I get her feel so cheap compared to the ones she gives me.
I try to plan nice dates, but I feel like her plans are always so much more elaborate. I don't want to invite her to anything involving money, because it would feel like I'm asking her to spend money on me.
I know I probably sound like a total loser, and maybe I'm selfish for staying with her, but I want to make her as happy as I can and I want to be the kind of boyfriend she deserves. All my past relationships felt more equal, but in this one I feel like I can't do anything that compares to everything she does for me. Any chance anyone has some advice?
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She's just so amazing- smart, funny, kind, I just love the way she sees the world and all the conversations we have. I feel like I really don't bring anything to the relationship, but she really seems to love me (and I love her) anyways. I'm scared I'm going to lose her because I'm not good enough.
I've gone back to school so I'm on a student budget for another year (though I'm set up with a good paying job once I graduate, and I have a degree so I have had corporate jobs before), but she's really well off (lawyer).
I keep telling her I'm happy just to spend time with her, and she doesn't need to spend money on me, but she loves going out and insists on paying for me. She also buys me all kinds of gifts, not even for special occasions, just because. I do buy her gifts I can afford, like flowers and the skincare products she like, and she seems to like it when I give her cards and draw or write letters inside them, but I feel like all the gifts I get her feel so cheap compared to the ones she gives me.
I try to plan nice dates, but I feel like her plans are always so much more elaborate. I don't want to invite her to anything involving money, because it would feel like I'm asking her to spend money on me.
I know I probably sound like a total loser, and maybe I'm selfish for staying with her, but I want to make her as happy as I can and I want to be the kind of boyfriend she deserves. All my past relationships felt more equal, but in this one I feel like I can't do anything that compares to everything she does for me. Any chance anyone has some advice?
2024.05.22 01:50 MathIsArtNotScience Review of Program from a Graduate - C Track
I saw someone else did something like this recently and thought that I might have something to add to the discussion to help people figure out whether they think this program is right for them, or for people currently in the program to help them plan out classes.
My background is very heavy in statistics and finance (I'm an actuary), so my grounding in calculus, statistics, linear algebra, and business topics was considerably better than most of the other people I interacted with in this program. Conversely, I'm sure my programming skills were probably about average or maybe a little bit below compared to someone with a more targeted background towards those skills.
I started in Fall of 2020 and just finished up this month, Spring 2024. I started out just taking one class a semester and never changed up that plan, would highly recommend doing the same if you're working full time alongside; there's no reason to rush this program. I got a 4.0 GPA overall, although I never really stressed that much about it and definitely did not shy away from "harder" classes in order to bolster GPA. I did this to learn, not to get good grades. The classes I took, in order (my memory of some of the earlier ones might be a bit jumbled as so much time has passed):
Anyways just wanted to give my perspective as someone who just finished this program and still thinks it's worthwhile despite its flaws.
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My background is very heavy in statistics and finance (I'm an actuary), so my grounding in calculus, statistics, linear algebra, and business topics was considerably better than most of the other people I interacted with in this program. Conversely, I'm sure my programming skills were probably about average or maybe a little bit below compared to someone with a more targeted background towards those skills.
I started in Fall of 2020 and just finished up this month, Spring 2024. I started out just taking one class a semester and never changed up that plan, would highly recommend doing the same if you're working full time alongside; there's no reason to rush this program. I got a 4.0 GPA overall, although I never really stressed that much about it and definitely did not shy away from "harder" classes in order to bolster GPA. I did this to learn, not to get good grades. The classes I took, in order (my memory of some of the earlier ones might be a bit jumbled as so much time has passed):
- CSE 6040 - I mentioned how my programming background was weaker relative to my mathematical background. However, reflecting on my experience in this class, it was probably still pretty strong. This class is focused on generalized programming skills, you don't really get into the analytics and modeling that much; it's more of a primer on things like functions, recursion, computer memory management, etc. It's been a few years, but I don't remember struggling with this class at all, and most of the concepts covered (object oriented programming, things like byte encoding, hexadecimal forms, recursion, etc.) were things I was already familiar with in another programming language (this class was in Python) or was relatively easy to pick up. From what I remember, the assignments were auto-graded and you had unlimited attempts, not to mention the fact that most of the prompts were to produce some predetermined result... and, as long as you were able to verify that your code produced that result, you got full points. I didn't miss a single point in this entire class. I believe there were "final exams" which were really just timed window coding assignments much like the homework, and you could do the assignments at any point during a 4-day window or something like that.
- ISYE 6501 - This class was R-based and focused on basic analytics models. The material was much more applied than 6040. Similarly, the material was not difficult, and I was familiar with a lot of the basic models already (such as GLMs) from having worked with them in my job. The grading was done on a peer-grading framework; based on who anonymously is assigned your homework to grade, you can get someone who's a stickler for every point on the guide, or people who are a bit more lenient. I never really worried much about how things were graded in this class; yeah, I did miss some points arbitrarily, but nothing that made that much of a difference. If you generally put in the work and understand the material, your peers will recognize that. I found this a bit more interesting than 6040 because, rather than a deterministic "right answer", there was some more creativity implied here to solve each problem. There was a final project for this class where you walked through a hypothetical analytics problem and explained how you would go about solving it. I found this an interesting thought exercise and enjoyed this class. The pacing felt a little fast, as you basically had an assignment due each week, but the assignments were small. Like 6040 I found this class to be quite easy but I didn't 100% it due to the peer grading thing.
- MGT 8803 - I almost applied to be exempt from this class, as my background intersects a lot with the material. The accounting and finance modules for this class literally did not teach me anything new. Supply chain was new for me and I found it interesting. I'm trying to remember what the other module was. I think it was marketing? I didn't like it. Overall I found this class quite easy for the aforementioned reasons, however I've heard from a lot of the other folks without business backgrounds that this class was pretty tough so take my opinions with a grain of salt. Taking this in the summer cut out one of the modules, normally there are 5 but in Summer there are 4. I figured this made sense to take during the truncated semester because I was unlikely to cover that much new material, and it turns out I was right about that. Each module lasted 2 weeks (I think in a normal semester it lasts 3) and has a timed multiple-choice test at the end. A lot of people didn't like this format compared to ISYE 6501 and CSE 6040; I'm not really sure how else this material could've been covered. This class was OK, the material is not really that deep but it's a pretty good primer on a large number of business topics.
- ISYE 6740 - The first class I took that was actually pretty challenging, which makes sense considering the first 3 courses were just the basic core. This is pretty much an intro to machine learning as a discipline, and the first time I remember digging into academic papers that discuss some machine learning topic and attempting to recreate the results (this is something we did a lot in the more advanced classes going forward and incidentally now that I have graduated is probably one of the best ways to go about learning a new topic). I remember this class as having a format similar to ISYE 6501/CSE6040 in that you had large programming assignments to do, as well as open-book "exams" which were really just timed programming assignments. Assignments are not auto-graded; TA's review each one and thus the assignments have much more of a focus on explaining your findings than producing the exact expected output (unlike 6040). Some of the theory questions have you applying complicated matrix algebra rules that I'm not surprised a lot of people struggled with. The TA responsiveness in this class was pretty good from what I remember, but your mileage may vary. I remember getting 3 weeks to do each assignment but I also remember not thinking that was a lot of time, these assignments are very extensive, have many parts, and take a long time to get through. Like with 6040 I ended up not missing a single point in this class but I did find it difficult and spent significantly more time working on it than in prior classes, probably 10-15 hrs a week, give or take.
- ISYE 6644 - I was familiar with maybe 50% of the material we covered due to my extensive statistics background, however I was not aware of the exact mechanics of random number generation or the concept of a batched mean, for example. I remember this class having several "check your understanding" quizzes that focused on the mathematical foundations. Didn't struggle with this much in terms of difficulty and found the material very useful. Setting up custom simulation environments is very useful and arena is pretty cool even if it's unlikely you'll ever use it. Some assignments feature similar tools in Python (simpy). There might have been some coverage of R in this as well, or at least the accommodation for people that wanted to use it. There was a project for this class, but you didn't have to come up with the topic on your own, you could pick from a list, and you could do your project on your own if you wanted (which, given the option, was always the choice I made, due to the inherent randomness in picking the right members of a group). However you can do a group project if you want.
- MGT 6203 - The first of the classes I took that required a group project. I recommend you are proactive in putting together groups in situations like these, posting threads on Ed/whatever the forum is as soon as the class begins. My group was alright; not everyone in it was great, but we had enough going overall to make up for the weaker group members. The project has some arbitrary guidelines from what I remember - you need to put together a midterm report and video presentation that is no more than ~2 minutes long or something like that (if it's 2:01 you get penalized) and the final report is 5 minutes or less, and everyone in the group needs to speak. I honestly don't remember much else about this class, it was pretty forgettable, but not horrible. Not overall that difficult, another business class so a lot of topics I was already familiar with, but there was more new here than in 8803.
- CSE 6242 - Another class with a group project. Again, I was proactive, and again, overall, my group was... okay. Some people who were really good, some who were... not. This class is characterized by a lot of assignments that are autograded, like 6040, but the assignments are a bit more difficult. Overall not that difficult with the exception of the D3 assignment, but that's more due to the fact that I'm not really sure how the autograder works for that; it tries to determine based on some internal structure of your html code whether or not you're fulfilling the requirements. I got a perfect score on all of the assignments, and they give you the chance to score over 100% on I believe either assignment 1 or assignment 2. A lot of people bombed the D3 assignment (I think it's assignment 2) but still did well in the class because it's not that hard to do well on everything else, so keep that in mind. This class does a great job of exposing you to a lot of new technologies, but there isn't that much depth to it. That's not really the point of this kind of class though, it equips you with the tools to explore things deeper if you so choose.
- ISYE 8803 - I was a big fan of this class. It's taught in MATLAB but you can use Python if you so choose, you'll see in reviews of this class that you should really just use MATLAB since a lot of the sample code etc. is not in other languages, so that's what I did. However, they must've recently added Python and R code for sample solutions, so feel free to use what you want. MATLAB was interesting, there were parts of one assignment I also used R for (grouped lasso in R is a lot more straightforward). This class is all about high dimensional data and representing it in a more simplified and comprehensive way, think about something like sonar which might have datapoints separated by milliseconds and thus a very dense representation of a signal captured over a short period of time. After ISYE 6740, I found this to be the class that taught me the most up to this point.
- CS 7642 - Taking this class in summer is kind of rough. There's 6 homework assignments that are autograded, similar format to CSE 6040. There are 3 projects which are much larger programming assignments for which you'll write papers explaining methodology, results, etc. These projects take a while, particularly project 3. I did well on projects 1 and 2 and decently on 3, although I spent the most time on 3 by far; it involves reinforcement learning to simulate a soccer environment and train agents how to play against an AI developed externally. The AI baselines are hard to beat, and I didn't manage to beat them, but I wrote a decent paper explaining what I did. The final exam for this class should be dropped as it doesn't add value to the class, people regularly score extremely low on it, the average score in the class was something like a 45%. I scored a bit lower than average but still got an A in the class because it was heavily curved. Reinforcement learning is a very interesting topic, though, and I would highly recommend this class as a primer on the material. It's probably a good idea not to take it in the summer, though.
- CS 7643 - This class was pretty difficult but I still think 6740 was tougher. The material is extremely dense. There are parts of programming assignments that are autograded, but also short answer portions that are reviewed by TAs. Grading on those were pretty subjective. This is the only class I can remember really needing to discuss things with TAs to understand what was being asked a little better. Unfortunately, the TAs in the semester I took this weren't the best. They seemed more concerned with unintentionally giving away a bit too much information in any of their responses. I can understand this, but it came off as intentionally opaque most of the time. There was a group project for this course as well, and my group was excellent, probably the best experience I had with a group in this program. I can imagine how much this course would've sucked if I would've had a mediocre/bad group. Based on discussions with my group, some of the grading seemed highly arbitrary, with some TAs grading similar responses to the same question differently. Like I said above, though, I never really worried about this. I never once in this program ever disputed a grade, and I continued with that in this class as well.
- CSE 6748 - Practicum and final class. For this class you get to choose between a number of pre-determined Georgia Tech sponsors, or form your own project for your own employesome external entity. It was a lot more work to do this, so I just went with one of the pre-determined GTech ones. I really enjoyed this one, I had constant communication with the sponsor as I developed my project and came up with something that I was quite proud of. I wanted to explore a natural language processing task, so I picked a project that I thought would allow me to do this, and was very satisfied with the result. There's a number of videos you have to watch that explain some overarching aspect of analytics that were pretty interesting as well, you can watch all of these in a single day and then focus on the project if you like. It's possible to finish the entire semester's work in just a few weeks, I was able to do the entire project and write the final paper in about a month's time, at which point I coordinated with the sponsor to tailor the work I did to a format that they would be able to implement for their business problem if they wanted to.
- I'm pretty shocked at how many people I saw during my program who didn't really think that much about why they're doing this. I get that the barrier to entry is low, but it's a serious commitment if you're actually trying to graduate. Most of the people who start this program don't finish, so consider whether you're ready to spend almost 4 years going to school part-time, or if you're able to double up on classes for some of the semesters. Most of the people I know in the program doubled up at least once, I never did but I was never in a hurry. If you must double up, don't make it your first semester. Dip your toe in the water, see how it is, and then reassess. But, above all else, think about why you want to do this, and use that as your guiding goal to bring you through to the end.
- Something I tended to see pretty much without fail in most of my classes - a lot of the graduate students in this program spend way too much time worrying about minute, particular details that don't really matter. Maybe it was just my philosophy that I would probably never dispute a grade, or that I was never really that concerned with getting a perfect GPA, etc. but I was always marveling at what I saw asked in Ed posts. People would ask whether they could use a certain programming language for an assignment, what packages they were allowed to use, would post screenshots of bugs and ask for TA's to help walk them through it, etc. Generally, without fail, the TAs would respond along the lines of: use whatever programming language you want, as long as you can display your output/submit it in a way that we can verify by running ourselves, we'll make the effort; use the debugger to step through your code to find the problem; etc. Generally, in most cases, the assignments and questions are designed in a way to teach you something, to get you to realize/understand some pattern or data concept that has some underlying logic that makes sense. For example, the idea of saliency maps on image processing takes the 3-channel RGB color pixel shading representation of an image and condenses it into a single channel, and, as a result of that, loses some resolution in suggesting parts of the image driving a model result that might be different depending on the channel; i.e., an image with a very heavily blue-shaded part that detracts from a certain result, but with a red-shaded part somewhere else that increases the probability of the modeled result. This was part of a conceptual question on how saliency maps differed from other pixel influence attribution methods in Deep Learning, and is part of what you should logically understand since it reduces the channels of the image representation from 3 (R, G, B) to 1 (usually grayscale). I think people tend to run to the TA the second they have difficulty with something and don't stop for a second to think it through, one exercise I might recommend is to consider: if you ran into this problem out in the world and you didn't have a TA/managesome other authority figure to explain the answer to you, what do you think it might be? Does the answer even matter? If it still matters and you have no idea how to solve it, maybe then you can go to the TA.
- In every single group project I worked on, we had an initial planning session where we determined the scope of what we wanted to do. For most of the projects, this was an essential deliverable in addition to the final paper. However, in almost every case, someone in the group was always playing some game of runaway scope where they kept on wanting to add methods/questions to exploration beyond what was initially planned in ways that I intuitively knew would be impossible to manage in just one semester. I often had to say something along the lines of "if we have time we'll do that" or "when we write up our paper, we can put that in the avenues for future exploration section" or something similar. It turns out that we never had time to look into these things, and our initial scope was usually well-defined considering the time we had. I'm not sure why this was always so front-and-center in my focus, maybe since I used to work in consulting and project budgeting/scoping is so unbelievably important in that context. Whatever the case may be, understand that you won't be able to change the world every time you do a project. Make some incremental improvement, reflect on the results, and then include some notes in a "potential avenues for future exploration" section. I was pretty surprised at how many people had so much trouble putting the pencils down at the end. I can practically guarantee that, for the classes where I did a project on my own, I probably did substantially less work than other individual groups for precisely this reason. In general, you probably don't have to do as much work as you think you do.
Anyways just wanted to give my perspective as someone who just finished this program and still thinks it's worthwhile despite its flaws.
2024.05.22 01:43 Terrible-Client-3604 My Cousin is trying to sue me over a Gameboy.
Yes this is actually happening.
My (27M) cousin "K" (32M) is a massive jerk and is trying to sue me over a Gameboy that he gave me, broken, over 20 years ago.
Context: K beat me up nearly 20 years ago because he just felt like it and when he inevitably got in trouble he was forced to give me his Gameboy Advance. Only when the time came he gave me his Gameboy color instead which he had broken the day before he gave it to me.
When the pandemic happened he lost his job and for what ever reason he began to restart his video game collection. About 8 months ago he started harassing me for his Gameboy color back even though he gave it to me broken and I threw it out not long after. He refused to believe it.
About 4 months ago he ended up getting a job and the harassment increased now he's threatening to sue me. Last Friday K showed me some sort of lettereceipt for a lawyer's consultation telling me that he is serious about this and to just give him 7K to make this go away otherwise he will go after me for 12K. 7K because that is what a brand new unopened Gameboy Color is.
I didn't want to believe him because this is absolutely ridiculous but I checked the Lawyer's name and its legit, The lawyer in question also has a reputation for being a shark.
I am really concerned now, can he actually do this?
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My (27M) cousin "K" (32M) is a massive jerk and is trying to sue me over a Gameboy that he gave me, broken, over 20 years ago.
Context: K beat me up nearly 20 years ago because he just felt like it and when he inevitably got in trouble he was forced to give me his Gameboy Advance. Only when the time came he gave me his Gameboy color instead which he had broken the day before he gave it to me.
When the pandemic happened he lost his job and for what ever reason he began to restart his video game collection. About 8 months ago he started harassing me for his Gameboy color back even though he gave it to me broken and I threw it out not long after. He refused to believe it.
About 4 months ago he ended up getting a job and the harassment increased now he's threatening to sue me. Last Friday K showed me some sort of lettereceipt for a lawyer's consultation telling me that he is serious about this and to just give him 7K to make this go away otherwise he will go after me for 12K. 7K because that is what a brand new unopened Gameboy Color is.
I didn't want to believe him because this is absolutely ridiculous but I checked the Lawyer's name and its legit, The lawyer in question also has a reputation for being a shark.
I am really concerned now, can he actually do this?