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What the Fark 3: The Strange and Unusual

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There's a lady in another department at work who brings in microwave dinners to eat. But she doesn't microwave them... she'all let it thaw and have room temp microwave dinners for an afternoon snack. It troubles me.
 
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Spartanforlife4 said:
There's a lady in another department at work who brings in microwave dinners to eat. But she doesn't microwave them... she'all let it thaw and have room temp microwave dinners for an afternoon snack. It troubles me.
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Is she sure all that glitters is gold? I've heard about this lady.

BTW, your lady is going to die of something bacterial. Stay away from her.
 
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Spartanforlife4 said:
There's a lady in another department at work who brings in microwave dinners to eat. But she doesn't microwave them... she'all let it thaw and have room temp microwave dinners for an afternoon snack. It troubles me.
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That is disgusting.
 
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St. Clown said:
The movie that had it on the soundtrack was roundly panned, Nothing But Trouble. The judge was Dan Akroyd, IIRC.
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I turned that movie on about halfway through without ever having heard of it. Starting from zero and trying to figure out what was happening it's actually a really funny movie.

Almost all movies are better if you get rid of the first 20 minutes. The only exceptions are action movies, which are better if you leave after the first 20 minutes.
 
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joecct said:
Canada. Think we'll do it?
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Not until the last Boomer is dead. They have too much invested in their War on Drugs to admit it was all just a partisan tactic to discredit peaceniks.
 
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Proposed class-action lawsuit for false advertising against Chipotle and their "300 calorie" burrito

Uhh, the tortilla alone at Chipotle is 300 calories and 10g fat - you can look that up using the nutrition calculator on their website. That is why so many people get the bowl.

And apparently, the chorizo by itself is 300 calories, but Chipotle "didn't make it clear", instead counting on Americans to be their usual dumb selves. Moooooooooo.
 
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I don't really know where to put this one, it's just a little work story.

Background first: The hipster guy on my application support team has had a running debate with a few of us about how much technological knowledge a person should have in today's corporate offices regardless of actual position held. The conversation stemmed from an article where a young executive at a tech company said that everyone in his company should know how to code at some level or another, and Mr. Hipster decided to side with the executive. The rest of us said that it was foolish because too many people in the office were adults when computers became commonplace, that too many people are still learning how to use them let alone code them. It's an ongoing point of discussion we've all had ever since then.

Moving along to today: I received a support request for an older application from someone who couldn't open the app due to a missing fie on her PC. For one reason or another, the computer has either deleted or moved the file in error as she could use the app prior to today. I walk over to her desk, tell her that she needs to contact the LAN/Desktop Support group directly because they will need to access her PC and I can't provide the information they'll want. We decide together that an email to that team would be best. She asks me for the email address, and I begin, "It's I-M-ampersand-T." That's as far as I got because she looks at me like I'd said something completely foreign to her. This young woman has a college degree, is in her 20's, and doesn't know the word ampersand. The guy on my team wants her to code applications? Yeah, I don't think I'm in any danger of losing my job any time soon, and neither are our current application developers.
 
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I've had this debate before, and I oppose teaching everyone to code. It takes a certain skill set, and if you don't have it, then it's a waste of money and time that would be better spent honing the skills you actually do have. In fact, you may end up alienating employees who struggle with it, and lose them to other companies who will utilize the skills they are best at.

Your hipster, just like my developer friends, can't understand that because they have those skills, and coding came naturally to them. "It's so easy! Why wouldn't we teach everyone?"

It's like trying to coach a hockey team's offense. A good coach can teach positioning, do shooting/passing drills, and emphasize taking high-percentage shots. They can't teach sniper hands, hand-eye coordination, reaction time, or "hockey sense".
 
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