# Stupid little things that make you stabby!!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-little-things-that-make-you-stabby/750123>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [March 25, 2016, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-little-things-that-make-you-stabby/750123 "2016-03-25T11:28:49Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2016, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-little-things-that-make-you-stabby/750123/161 "2016-04-08T11:24:21Z")

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> [@Magiver](#):
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> Oh they’ve taken it further than that. Some of these “productivity” courses require you actual pay attention. They’re full of acronym generated nonsense. The first person in my office to take the test would hit print when the answers popped up and pass them out. Yep, they disabled the print function. And then they changed the questions so they’re different with each attempt.
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> Rest assured if the person who designs these black holes of time ever walk in front of my car I will be adjusting the clock on my radio.

If I’m paid the same whether I’m working, or having a mindless video sorta running in one ear while surfing the 'Dope on another window/screen/device it’s all good.

At least for the first few hours per year. 8 hours a day might get old after awhile. 🙂

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**Author:** ![GESancMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gesancman/32/2923_2.png) [@GESancMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GESancMan)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2016, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-little-things-that-make-you-stabby/750123/162 "2016-04-08T14:02:27Z")

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> [@LSLGuy](#):
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> If I’m paid the same whether I’m working, or having a mindless video sorta running in one ear while surfing the 'Dope on another window/screen/device it’s all good.

I’m a teacher, I get paid by the credit hour. So if I was supposed to spend 90 minutes on their dumb sexual harassment thing, I wasn’t getting any extra pay for it.

What was especially annoying was when the video clips started up. I immediately opened a new browser window to look at something else while the video played, but as soon as the window showing the video lost focus it automatically paused. Grrr. So I let it play and got up and went to the bathroom. Then when the next one came on, I went and emptied the dishwasher or something.

Somebody mentioned taking the “test” over until passing it… when I was doing this one, I misread an option for one of the questions, and got it wrong. A message came up saying so, then it kicked me back the same question. So apparently, one could just click whatever until they get the question right, and it’s not possible to get anything less than 100%.

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