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Re: How to lose your dream job
By: Chez Miriam Date: October 26, 2018, 6:21 am
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[quote author=daen link=topic=635.msg17064#msg17064
date=1540422070]
[quote author=HenrysMom link=topic=635.msg16872#msg16872
date=1540264790]
[quote author=Mary Sunshine Rain
link=topic=635.msg16865#msg16865 date=1540257028]
He wasn't scolding her, he was warning her.
What idiot doesn't realize that using the F-word in the same
sentence as the government agency that you just got a position
with is a stupid thing to do?! Especially a government agency
that has a long history of being rather sensitive about how the
people who work for it represent it in public.
SHE could have handled it better from the beginning by not doing
what she did! SHE caused her own problem. And then she
compounded it by being profane and nasty to a stranger. He
bears absolutely no responsibility for her screwing herself over
like that.
Her Twitter was public. It was just an incredibly stupid thing
for her to do.
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Of course I don’t know the young lady in question, but I have to
ask: If someone is dumb enough to do the above, perhaps she’s
too dumb to be trusted with things that can go boom.
[/quote]
Maybe. But I've known people who are brilliant in one area and
completely hopeless in another. The absent-minded professor is a
stereotype for a reason. :D
[/quote]
My 'uncle' was a maths professor, and one of my favourite
stories* was his wife asking "T, where's the baby?!? :o" after
he'd used the car...
Baby was happily safe and sound in the car, in the car park,
where he'd forgotten that he'd even used the car earlier [he
forgot, and took a cab/bus home]. F said that was the last time
she let the baby sleep peacefully whilst she unloaded the
shopping [T had taken the car on one of her trips inside]; after
that, baby was the first thing removed!
But I think he was a tenured professor of some standing before
that happened.
* Because it ended well
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Re: How to lose your dream job
By: TamJamB Date: October 26, 2018, 4:06 pm
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Random opinions about this:
Hickham's warning might have been a bit scoldy, but I don't
think that's a problem under the circumstances. She is an
intern, attempting to enter into a field in which he is very,
very prominent. I don't think a warning about behaving
professionally is amiss here.
Also, I agree that her first comment (with the f-bomb) could
easily have been explained by the excitement of the moment. If
she had responded to Hickham's warning with a, "Whoops! Sorry
everyone -- I was just excited!" that would probably have been
the end of it. Instead, she doubled down with a much worse
response (if you haven't seen it, it wasn't just another excited
f-bomb -- she said "S**k my d**k and b***s!"
Super, super, inappropriate. If she gets a second chance I
really hope she's learned a lesson from this.
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Re: How to lose your dream job
By: Lula Date: October 30, 2018, 9:57 am
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It's unfortunate if some netizens did, in fact, bully her for
being trans (I haven't familiarized myself with the whole
story), but I feel like she's desperately trying to use that to
dodge the social and professional consequences of her behavior.
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