for the record, the direct quote was:
`this is fuckin stupid`
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Quitting is half the battle!
Hat’s off to a magnificent bastard!
@cap_ybarra I remember doing frontlines work with some homeless folks here, back in 2012. I still remember one lively woman who was telling me about being grateful for access to homeless shelters. She told me that one of her mottos, to remember to be grateful for being alive, while homeless & struggling with addiction was: The shelter gives me 3 hots & a cot without bars. I can't complain about that.
Hots is what most homeless folks call hot meals(for those unfamiliar with homeless communities).
Some statements stick with you for a long time.
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Actually I'm a big believer in education, and I feel proud of the work I did; I don't think most higher ed is "BS".
That said, university should be free and easy to get into. The crippling loan system is terrible.
@ThreeSigma @cap_ybarra I don’t think *education* is BS, and I apologize for implying professors aren’t seriously trying to educate people. I’m friends with a couple, and they are great people doing good and important work.
Universities, otoh, are more interested in building luxury housing for undergrads to lure in more students with $$subsidized loans$$ than in improving the state of knowledge. Meanwhile grad students are left to fend for themselves. That’s the BS-education part, which is really the BS-educational-*system* part, as you correctly pointed out.
I completely agree it should be free and administered fairly.
Good on you.
Alas, probably this only inconvenienced the department, which had to scramble to cover the class. But in my experience, the policy is set elsewhere, as are the adjunct pay rates.
And this will be true as long as people are willing to be adjuncts for those pay rates.
Many years ago I heard the story of an assistant in a studio who got up and walked out of a stressful session. He didn't show up the next day and when they finally tracked him down he was on a beach in Mexico.
@cap_ybarra I definitely feel this. Tech has gone mask off once again.
People who make stuff aren’t even listened to anymore.
I haven't *precisely* done that, but there was one all-hands at a company I worked for until March 1995 that made me quit my job a week or so later.
What did it was the music when the board of directors ran on stage, punching the air, to announce the old CEO's retirement and replacement by the CFO.
They played "Things can only get better".
Reader: they did not.
(Luckily I read the writing on the wall and got out in time.)
I worked with a woman, we helped open a store together. She bided her time until she finally got the promotion she'd been denied for no reason except being Black.
She went to the Home Office training in Colorado, did all the shit she had to, until it was meet-and-greet day with the ownership dummies.
They walk the line, shaking hands, feeling powerful.
Priscilla looked at them, said essentially, "You're racists and your company is racist. Fuck you." And left.
pouring out a little of my malt liquor for this guy.
@cap_ybarra The developer that stood up in my all hands said "You're useless" to the CTO and walked out. He didn't bother going back to his desk.
Didn't miss him. He was quite entitled and wanted root access to his SUN workstation which my boss (head of IT) said no. Laptops were scares at the office in the 90s.
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