Wait, I’m confused. What argument were they putting forth? What were they claiming was “the difference between a number and a multiple of ten”?
My husband runs into this problem a lot when he’s on the job. He’s a USPS letter carrier, and they’re supposed to (to the best of their ability) give directions to people who ask them. Well, he’s lived in his delivery area most of his life, so he knows it really well. Yet inevitably, many people will argue with him over the directions he’s giving. What the hell, you’re the one who’s lost; he knows where he is, so why are you disputing what he’s telling you?
Oh, and especially the people who are looking for the courthouse, and who run into my husband on a somewhat similar road? Seriously. I don’t care what your MapQuest printout says, you’re in the totally wrong suburb, on, say, “Center Straight Road,” rather than a suburb with a completely different name 20 miles away and on “Center Pasture Road.” You maybe should have noticed what the website told you about your destination, compared to whatever summons/citation you were holding, before you accepted the directions and hit print. But hey, mistakes happen - just don’t yell at/argue with my husband when he’s actually trying to tell you how to drive those 20 miles to get your ass to the courthouse, because he’s telling you very important things and nothing about this is his fault.
If I remember correctly, it was something like “When you count by 10s, you hit the multiple of 10, and multiples of 10 end in zeroes.” Yes, it really was that nonsensical, and yes, I pointed out that a multiple of 10 IS “a number.” No, they weren’t persuaded: believing me would have meant admitting they (or the folks that designed the training materials) made an error.
So, the recruiter says they have a great job for me. I look at the job description and it looks very technical which I’m moving away from. They say no, it is a team lead position where they want a senior person to manage the group.
At the interview with the client they don’t want a team lead. They want a person, who by their very presence, will guide the team and ensure that more junior members will toe the line.
So, I would be responsible for their performance? Yes.
But I wouldn’t have any real authority to do anything if they didn’t perform? Yes.
<Spock eyebrow raise> Yeah, go fuck yourselves.
::Reads paragraph again::
Yep, you’re still an asshole.
All the responsibility!
None of the authority!
What, one of the most stressful job situations is not enticing to you?
Like, what is the difference between 3 and 20? If the answer is not “17”, then the answer must be something like “you draw them differently”, “they look different on a piece of paper”, “they represent quantities that are not the same”, etc. Is that what they were claiming the answers should be?
I don’t understand any part of that (except the part where you have a zero at the end of every multiple of 10).
I’d rather gouge my eyes out with a coat hanger.
It is the one thing that I will actually tell someone trying to put me in that sort of situation to go and fuck themselves.
Give me the authority or get another patsy. People that think this is a good idea are some of the worst or most stupid people on the planet.
Ok, if you’re still waiting in line and haven’t started to check out yet, and you’re convinced you can get the past peiece of shit before the checker gets to you, which means running to get it won’t actually delay anything, then you can go.
BUT, if you’re wrong, and when you come back you see a line of people waiting behind your cartand looking at you, you must pull your cart out of line and step off to the side – so your shame-induced ritual suicide won’t cause even more delays.
I think you’re looking at this the wrong way - you should be grateful for companies like this for showing you what they’re all about up front, so you don’t waste any more time on them. 
Yup. I once shot a man, just to watch him die. Then I got distracted and missed it. I asked my friends what it was like, but it just wasn’t the same.
Do I have to do your thinking for you?
Shoot somebody else.
I muffed the quote.
Episode 11
The Gun Fighter
Dave Foley: I once shot a man just to watch him die, then I got distracted and missed it. Oh my friends tried to describe it to me, but it just isn’t the same.
Yeah, it was something like “When you count by 10s, you hit the multiple of 10, and multiples of 10 end in zeroes.” Seriously ridiculous, but they would not back down from it.
(And yes, if I ever didn’t make it back in time, I’d totally hope the cashier would already have distributed my food to other customers so they could pelt me on my return. That’d be inexcusable).
Plus, everyone who’s not a hopeless moron knows that you should enter a highway at highway cruising speed. That’s like Driver’s Ed 101.
Yes.
(And I take back my previous asshole comment.)
Everybody knows that kiddie grocery carts are the worst things in the world.
Actually, no. Fuck that, the asshole parents who give into their pwecious widdle snowfwakes’ bleating and actually use the fucking things are the worst things (yes, things) in the world.
- When comedians turn self-righteous. STFU and tell some jokes, jokebitch.
This is what annoyed me about George Carlin in the end. He would just prattle on about how he’s an atheist, his pot smoking politics and how the World and the elite are screwing “the little guy” (while being a multi millionaire, who the World treated like royalty).
He’s been dead a couple of years, so no more HBO (a large corporation Calin supposedly hated), on television (a medium he dislikes), downgrading the course of soceity while people yuck it up. His political commentary was in his twilight years thankfully.