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    Still say the kids don't give a crap about race.

    Just the principal does.
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    I wouldn't say kids don't give a crap about race, not yet at least, but these are middle schoolers so there are other factors that would likely play a bigger roll in their cliques. Social and economic standing can cause complaints concerning the lack of diversity. I'd love to see a full breakdown of how many students ran, who voted for who, and how it all breaks down concerning location, language, race and wealth.

    That being said, this is middle school, and the student body has next to no responsibilities. The principal should have seen what happened and created a 2nd group (our schools have a morning show/media center group for this), or created a better election system for next year.
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    WHERE THE FUCKING SHIT ARE MY GLASSES?
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    oh there they are
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ominous Gamer View Post
    First the pictures, delivery guy driving around the cones to park on the grass and sidewalk of the library (while pointed the wrong direction) in order to make a delivery across the street.

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    But the pictures aren't the WTF here. The response is! I posted those on twitter and tagged Dominoes and my geolocation. They replied and asked me to fill out an official complaint form on their site, while referencing an incident number they gave me. The complaint form is written in the manner as if I had ordered the delivery so a lot of the questions I left blank and gave a short blurb about this being in south tampa and attached my pictures with their metadata. I then get an email asking me for that missing information, cause they can't pass this to the correct location without it (even though south tampa only has 1 dominoes). I explain my case, again. Today I get a call from someone asking me to explain everything AGAIN. Apparently each time I was contacted the complaint had rolled down hill and the new person either didn't believe or understand what was given to them. The person I just talked to had me describe the type of car, because she doesn't do the whole twitter thing, and was only given the last email response I had sent Dominoes. She then had me text her these 2 pictures.

    After all this, and all these middle managers that just don't get it, I realized that these people are/were Rand, and I likely got the ball rolling for some poor son of a bitch to get fired by these clueless and disorganized people.
    Hey! WTF have I got to do with this?

    Oh and I have customer service experience, number one way to deal with it is and always has been f###ing listen to what is being said. If one person had taken the time to listen to you rather than take a "computer says no" response it wouldn't have happened.

    I'm not involved in a business like this but I damn well wouldn't fire the driver for doing this if I was. Show him the pictures and tell him not to do it again, job done. If its a good employee why would you fire someone for making a mistake, is that what you think I'm like? The way to deal with mistakes is training, point them out politely and explain why it shouldn't happen again. If anyone deserves to get in trouble from your scenario its not the driver (I don't know about US road laws but don't see double yellow lines there so his parking would not be illegal here AFAIK) it would be the morons who are supposed to deal with the public but can't understand to open their ears and switch of the computer.
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    Didn't you work for or with a big pizza chain? Maybe that came up in the 5 oclock shadow = getting sent home thread?

    As for the parking:
    its on a sidewalk, ticketable and bad
    its completely off the street on someone's property, towable and bad
    he is pointed the wrong direction if attempting to parallel park, ticketable (if he was on the street) and bad.
    "In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ominous Gamer View Post
    he is pointed the wrong direction if attempting to parallel park, ticketable (if he was on the street) and bad.
    Good to know if I ever went to the US. I would never had guessed you could be fined for that in a local road.
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    Quote Originally Posted by earthJoker View Post
    Good to know if I ever went to the US. I would never had guessed you could be fined for that in a local road.
    That's actually not allowed in Germany as well.
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    I used to (no longer do) work with Domino's itself actually yes. And complaints from members of the public as to how a driver behaved were rare but not unheard of. The only time I fired a driver over such a complaint was a road rage incident where he swore in uniform at a member of the public. That's gross misconduct.

    Obeying the highway code (what we call road laws) is of course a part of the job as is being in uniform etc. But people make mistakes too. If someone makes a mistake you correct it you don't fire them.

    If someone keeps making the same mistake (or the mistake is gross misconduct) then it's eventually dismissal. Sending someone home to get shaved or saying not to park illegally is not dismissal.

    As for your three concerns none are illegal here. On a sidewalk is a grey area, charities for the blind want it to be made illegal but it's not. On someone's property - up to that someone to deal with. Wrong direction, not illegal here.

    EDIT: I really am confused what I've ever said that would make you think I'd fire anyone for a simple mistake. That's an apalling way to manage a team and would never work. That's not to say I haven't fired people before but it's got to be very serious to justify that.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ominous Gamer View Post
    ℬeing upset is understandable, but be upset at yourself for poor planning, not at the world by acting like a spoiled bitch during an interview.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Khendraja'aro View Post
    That's actually not allowed in Germany as well.
    Well here it depends on the road:
    Das Halten auf der linken Strassenseite ist nur zulässig:
    a. wenn rechts ein Strassenbahngeleise verläuft;
    b. wenn rechts ein Halte- oder Parkverbot signalisiert oder markiert ist;
    c. in schmalen Strassen mit schwachem Verkehr;
    d. in Einbahnstrassen.
    And that only applies if you park on the street, not if you park next to it. But the guy in the photo would be fined anyway because:
    Das Parkieren der anderen Fahrzeuge auf dem Trottoir ist untersagt, sofern es Signale oder
    Markierungen nicht ausdrücklich zulassen
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    http://www.economist.com/news/britai...abeloffesndive

    Intolerance of intolerance

    Students are ever quicker to label offensive material as hate speech

    “JUST because you lop off your dick and then wear a dress doesn’t make you a fucking woman,” believes Germaine Greer, an Australian-born feminist and controversialist.
    There's no denying that there is a worrying trend on college campuses when it comes to discussion and debate, but I think perhaps that was an extremely dumb example to use.
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    I think it's a good example. Free speech means allowing views you find abhorrent (within some limits for legality). You don't need free speech to allow views that are considered acceptable.
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    No I meant that I don't think it's the best example when distinguishing between "hate speech" and "offensive speech" although obv. opinions will differ.
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    Also:



    ;o
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    Quote Originally Posted by Aimless View Post
    No I meant that I don't think it's the best example when distinguishing between "hate speech" and "offensive speech" although obv. opinions will differ.
    Hate speech is still considered free speech in the US (clearly not in the UK though).
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    Quote Originally Posted by Loki View Post
    clearly not in the UK though
    As in many countries, deal with it.
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    In the WTF thread.....Germaine Greer and Stephen Colbert are cited as if their influence is similar or equal, which takes the WTF thread to the Nth degree! WTF?

    Then Rand goes on about his prior business relationship with Domino's Pizza, and what's considered "proper" behavior for people hired to deliver pizzas, while using a recognized brand logo on their personal vehicle.

    In the meantime, Domino's has also made it possible for folks to use an emoji to order pizza from their smartphones, and pay an uber driver to deliver it to their doorstep.

    WTF are people arguing about again?
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    "One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."

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    http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politi...w-police-abuse

    for those getting the copyright error
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    the email that started this:

    Dear Sillimanders:
    Nicholas and I have heard from a number of students who were frustrated by the mass email sent to the student body about appropriate Halloween*wear. I’ve always found Halloween an interesting embodiment of more general adult worries about young people. As some of you may be aware, I teach a class on “The Concept of the Problem Child,” and I was speaking with some of my students yesterday about the ways in which Halloween – traditionally a day of subversion for children and young people – is also an occasion for adults to exert their control.
    When I was young, adults were freaked out by the specter of Halloween candy poisoned by lunatics, or spiked with razor blades (despite the absence of a single recorded case of such an event). Now, we’ve grown to fear the sugary candy itself. And this year, we seem afraid that college students are unable to decide how to dress themselves on Halloween. I don’t wish to trivialize genuine concerns about cultural and personal representation, and other challenges to our lived experience in a plural community. I know that many decent people have proposed guidelines on Halloween costumes from a spirit of avoiding hurt and offense. I laud those goals, in theory, as most of us do. But in practice, I wonder if we should reflect more transparently, as a community, on the consequences of an institutional (which is to say: bureaucratic and administrative) exercise of implied control over college students.
    It seems to me that we can have this discussion of costumes on many levels: we can talk about complex issues of identify, free speech, cultural appropriation, and virtue “signalling.” But I wanted to share my thoughts with you from a totally different angle, as an educator concerned with the developmental stages of childhood and young adulthood.
    As a former preschool teacher, for example, it is hard for me to give credence to a claim that there is something objectionably “appropriative” about a blonde*haired child’s wanting to be Mulan for a day. Pretend play is the foundation of most cognitive tasks, and it seems to me that we want to be in the business of encouraging the exercise of imagination, not constraining it. I suppose we could agree that there is a difference between fantasizing about an individual character vs. appropriating a culture, wholesale, the latter of which could be seen as (tacky)(offensive)(jejeune)(hurtful), take your pick. But, then, I wonder what is the statute of limitations on dreaming of dressing as Tiana the Frog Princess if you aren’t a black girl from New Orleans? Is it okay if you are eight, but not 18? I don’t know the answer to these questions; they seem unanswerable. Or at the least, they put us on slippery terrain that I, for one, prefer not to cross.
    Which is my point. I don’t, actually, trust myself to foist my Halloweenish standards and motives on others. I can’t defend them anymore than you could defend yours. Why do we dress up on Halloween, anyway? Should we start explaining that too? I’ve always been a good mimic and I enjoy accents. I love to travel, too, and have been to every continent but Antarctica. When I lived in Bangladesh, I bought a sari because it was beautiful, even though I looked stupid in it and never wore it once. Am I fetishizing and appropriating others’ cultural experiences? Probably. But I really, really like them too. Even if we could agree on how to avoid offense – and I’ll note that no one around campus seems overly concerned about the offense taken by religiously conservative folks to skin*revealing costumes – I wonder, and I am not trying to be provocative: Is there no room anymore for a child or young person to be a little bit obnoxious… a little bit inappropriate or provocative or, yes, offensive? American universities were once a safe space not only for maturation but also for a certain regressive, or even transgressive, experience;increasingly, it seems, they have become places of censure and prohibition. And the censure and prohibition come from above, not from yourselves! Are we all okay with this transfer of power? Have we lost faith in young people's capacity – in your capacity * to exercise self*censure, through social norming, and also in your capacity to ignore or reject things that trouble you? We tend to view this shift from individual to institutional agency as a tradeoff between libertarian vs. liberal values (“liberal” in the American, not European sense of the word).
    Nicholas says, if you don’t like a costume someone is wearing, look away, or tell them you are offended. Talk to each other. Free speech and the ability to tolerate offence are the hallmarks of a free and open society.
    But – again, speaking as a child development specialist – I think there might be something missing in our discourse about the exercise of free speech (including how we dress ourselves) on campus, and it is this: What does this debate about Halloween costumes say about our view of young adults, of their strength and judgment?
    In other words: Whose business is it to control the forms of costumes of young people? It's not mine, I know that.
    Happy Halloween.

    apparently snapping is used cause clapping causes anxiety?

    That professor in the video is world famous, even made Time's top 100 most influential people in the world. These students now want him and his wife fired for trying to have a debate on this issue. He invited every student that signed that open letter to lunch, and now the students are upset that hes "instigating more debate."

    The Yale administration needs to sit down individually with each student thats supporting these moronic SJWs, and expel each one of them that can't present a civilized explanation for acting like giant fucking tools.
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    Thank God I teach in the south.
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    You want students expelled for acting like complete tools? We're going to have empty campuses
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    People here are less willing to buy into the latest fad. You get a wide range of views on campus here, so people have no choice but to be exposed to views they don't like.
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  26. #3626
    Just read a debate about this. I swear this is the GGTization of the college campus. People want to have their "feelings acknowledged", even if those feelings have no basis in reality, if voicing them blocks off debate, and if voicing them requires shouting and rudeness. How did we get to this point?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Flixy View Post
    You want students expelled for acting like complete tools? We're going to have empty campuses
    giant fucking tools. I understand that they are still growing and coming to understand how the real world works, but its crossing a line when you want a teacher fired for taking the extra step to turn your stupidity into a teachable moment.
    "In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."

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    The progressive movement developed these ideas (basically, the primacy of the offended parties views and feelings) to counter silencing tactics used against victims of abuse, harassment, racism etc.

    Unfortunately, they failed to draw the distinction between behavior which you impose on someone else, behavior which doesn't affect anyone else and behavior which takes place in a shared space. Now, unfortunately, there are a lot of young progressives who feel that being offended by something, anything, is some kind of moral trump card.
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    So to commemorate Kristallnacht a number of political organisations here have arranged a manifestation against racism to which they've invited pretty much everyone except representatives of the local Jewish community, with the motivation that Jewish people may experience discomfort of varying degrees eg. caused by people bringing anti-Israel signs equating Israel with Nazis. Elsewhere organisers seem to have been extremely reluctant to acknowledge the historical context wrt the persecution of Jews in their promotional material. I don't know whether to laugh or cry. Truth is indeed far stranger than satire.
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