I think there's a pretty big disconnect between telling kids that they have to face up to and accept the possibility of school shooting as a fact of life and then punishing them for joking about a terrorist attack that happened before they were born. Obviously not saying that anyone here is directly involved in either or both of those things, but I can't really imagine how shitty it would feel to watch the old tragedy be put on a pedestal while the current one that impacts them every day is dismissed and minimized.
I’m not the first one to make this point, but the way society abstracted 9/11 from the events of the day to justify atrocities means that it’s absurd to get mad at students for joking about it. Mocking 9/11 is way closer to mocking the reaction to it rather than any kind of endorsement of a terrorist attack.
It was in bad taste.
Columbine was before they were born too. Would that be an appropriate costume?
I don't care if someone wants to make a 9/11 joke, but dressing up is a bit much.
I am sure they enjoyed the attention and head shaking. I did dumb stuff as a kid for attention too. I also thought I was edgy, cool, and original for doing so. So, I get that part.
Columbine was before they were born too. Would that be an appropriate costume?
I don't care if someone wants to make a 9/11 joke, but dressing up is a bit much.
I am sure they enjoyed the attention and head shaking. I did dumb stuff as a kid for attention too. I also thought I was edgy, cool, and original for doing so. So, I get that part.
Sure, I don't disagree with that. Having a conversation with them about why it might have more of an impact on the teacher than on themselves or their fellow students seems like it'd be a fair response that might lead to a learning moment, too. Sending them to the principal's office, presumably with further lectures and punishment to follow, feels like it's a bit much, given the added context I mentioned before.
If the principal's response was to have that conversation, tell them to take the costume off, and send them back to class then I mostly don't have an objection beyond that observation about the constant implication that the deaths before they were born matter more than their peers getting killed, which is still super shitty and can't help but be reinforced by things like this.
Oh, I never said it wasn't in bad taste. Calling them to the office and telling them why is entirely the right call. My issue was the belief that this is proof that society is doomed and kids today are worse than they've ever been. Kids are the exact same as they've always been, we all did dumb stuff as kids.
Agreed. I am quite lucky my teenage antics aren't captured forever on the Internet.
What the source text said: "This industry is expected to drive US$6 billion euros in investment by 2025."
How the translator (ie me) reacted: "If this is the level of care you put into the source text, then quite frankly I'm going to give you a commensurate level of care as the translator."
How the translator (ie me) reacted: "If this is the level of care you put into the source text, then quite frankly I'm going to give you a commensurate level of care as the translator."
Me: Does a very hard and complex case.
Company higher-up: "You did this whole thing wrong and you need to do it over again."
Me: "I hate everything and everyone."
*****
Me: Redoes the very hard and complex case. It is delivered to the client.
Contact person at the client: "You guys did the whole thing completely wrong and you need to do it over again." (Turns out the way the client wanted it was different from what I and my company higher-up thought.)
Me: "I hate everything and everyone in the universe."
*****
Me: Redoes the very hard and complex case again. It is delivered to the client again.
Client's company higher-up: "The translation company did the whole thing completely wrong and they need to do it all over again." (Turns out the way the client's company higher-ups wanted it was different from what I, my company higher-up, and the contact person thought. Though my company higher-up was closest.)
Me: "I hate everything and everyone in the universe with the fire of a million suns."
*****
So that's where we are now. We want to tell the client that we can't keep redoing this case for them ad nauseam, but they're also a pretty major client of ours so we don't want to piss them off either, so... I may soon be discovering new ways to hate.
Company higher-up: "You did this whole thing wrong and you need to do it over again."
Me: "I hate everything and everyone."
*****
Me: Redoes the very hard and complex case. It is delivered to the client.
Contact person at the client: "You guys did the whole thing completely wrong and you need to do it over again." (Turns out the way the client wanted it was different from what I and my company higher-up thought.)
Me: "I hate everything and everyone in the universe."
*****
Me: Redoes the very hard and complex case again. It is delivered to the client again.
Client's company higher-up: "The translation company did the whole thing completely wrong and they need to do it all over again." (Turns out the way the client's company higher-ups wanted it was different from what I, my company higher-up, and the contact person thought. Though my company higher-up was closest.)
Me: "I hate everything and everyone in the universe with the fire of a million suns."
*****
So that's where we are now. We want to tell the client that we can't keep redoing this case for them ad nauseam, but they're also a pretty major client of ours so we don't want to piss them off either, so... I may soon be discovering new ways to hate.
But this Warhammer crap did totally copy Warcraft!
So we have a client, let's say it's a software company in China, and they have their own end client, let's say it's a car company in Italy. The car company hired the Chinese software company to make an in-vehicle software suite, for example the stuff for the touchscreen, the in-vehicle features, etc.
The software company designed the UI in English. However, they are a Chinese company, so their English is not great. But the Italians don't know that, so they looked over the completed English version of the software, and didn't notice that there were a bunch of errors in the terminology or phrasing (eg. "setup" instead of "settings", "bored" instead of "board", "no signal transmitted" instead of "no signal detected" etc.). Instead, the Italian car company said, "Okay, now translate this English version of the software into 32 different languages!"
So the software company came to us, the translation company, and said, "Translate the strings from this software into 32 different languages. Due to confidentiality reasons, we can only give you a list of strings, we can't show you screenshots or tell you anything more about how the software works."
So we got 32 different translators from almost as many countries to do the translations. And then the software company sent the translations over to the Italians, so naturally the Italians took a look at the Italian version of the software, and they were all like, "This Italian version is shit! WTF are you guys doing?" So the Chinese software company came to us and said, "Our Italian clients said the Italian translation is shit! What are we paying you for?"
And we're all like, "Considering the limitations and demands you placed on us, we actually think we did very well..." Ha ha no, I kid, there's no chance we could say that. Instead what we said was "Okay, we're dispatching our most senior and most awesome English editor to meet with you guys to clarify what the English is meant to be saying."
So that's what I'm going to be doing next week, it seems. And since I actually wasn't involved in this case at all at first, it looks like I'm also going to need a crash course in software development, in-vehicle software suites, and possibly Italian.
The software company designed the UI in English. However, they are a Chinese company, so their English is not great. But the Italians don't know that, so they looked over the completed English version of the software, and didn't notice that there were a bunch of errors in the terminology or phrasing (eg. "setup" instead of "settings", "bored" instead of "board", "no signal transmitted" instead of "no signal detected" etc.). Instead, the Italian car company said, "Okay, now translate this English version of the software into 32 different languages!"
So the software company came to us, the translation company, and said, "Translate the strings from this software into 32 different languages. Due to confidentiality reasons, we can only give you a list of strings, we can't show you screenshots or tell you anything more about how the software works."
So we got 32 different translators from almost as many countries to do the translations. And then the software company sent the translations over to the Italians, so naturally the Italians took a look at the Italian version of the software, and they were all like, "This Italian version is shit! WTF are you guys doing?" So the Chinese software company came to us and said, "Our Italian clients said the Italian translation is shit! What are we paying you for?"
And we're all like, "Considering the limitations and demands you placed on us, we actually think we did very well..." Ha ha no, I kid, there's no chance we could say that. Instead what we said was "Okay, we're dispatching our most senior and most awesome English editor to meet with you guys to clarify what the English is meant to be saying."
So that's what I'm going to be doing next week, it seems. And since I actually wasn't involved in this case at all at first, it looks like I'm also going to need a crash course in software development, in-vehicle software suites, and possibly Italian.
... But the good thing is their flying you out to Rome for six weeks all expenses paid?
... Yeah I figured.
Psht, if there's one thing that made huge leaps and strides in the pandemic years, it's videoconferencing technology.
The Principal at the school I work at is out with covid. She was in a series of meetings yesterday with nearly every teacher in the building and was sharing cookies and candy with them. We don't do quarantines anymore. My run of not having gotten covid might be coming to an end.
The day that I got covid back in ‘22, I spent the whole morning with my girlfriend. We drove places in a car when I had no mask on, we hung out in a house with no mask on, etc. She never got covid despite me being around her, even in an enclosed space.
If you’re up to date on your vaccines, there’s a decent chance you’ll be fine.
I am the lone survivor at work in management, also the only one who went and got vaxxed, because everyone else was "for X reason, I dont need to get my shots."
We need to go get the very latest booster, but otherwise, yes, gotten all the other covid shots.
Same thing happened to us last year when Mr. Z caught it. We were in close quarters the whole day or two before he started showing symptoms, and Li'l Z and I never caught it. But Li'l Z and I had just gotten our updated vaxxes, and Mr. Z was due for his when he caught it.
WHELP, my giant pot has exactly ONE small hole right near the 4 qt mark, so THAT'S annoyed.
Cooking my turkey stock in a crockpot and my popcorn cauldron, hate splitting the broth, I like it all combined.
Cooking my turkey stock in a crockpot and my popcorn cauldron, hate splitting the broth, I like it all combined.
GasBandit
Staff member
Had a VERY unpleasant confrontation at work yesterday morning with someone who mistakenly thought I reported to him (he's the manager of our Physical Security department, which is not over Engineering in the org chart). I let him know in front of everyone, including my actual supervisor, that no, he is NOT in fact my boss, I DO not answer to him, and if he treats his subordinates the way he was attempting to interact with me, I was surprised any of them stuck around to take the abuse.
My boss is on my side in this, so I got that going for me, but the petty would-be tyrant with delusions of authority in question has always been a guy who got by on "office politics" rather than the quality of his work. Again, no wonder his children won't speak to him.
My boss is on my side in this, so I got that going for me, but the petty would-be tyrant with delusions of authority in question has always been a guy who got by on "office politics" rather than the quality of his work. Again, no wonder his children won't speak to him.
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I texted my boss that I would not make it in today.
her reply was... "because?"
I replied I have 1100 hours of sick time and I do not feel good.
I do not want to go into my depression or alcoholism in a fucking text.
her reply was... "because?"
I replied I have 1100 hours of sick time and I do not feel good.
I do not want to go into my depression or alcoholism in a fucking text.
GasBandit
Staff member
Well, a happy ending (hopefully) to this story, the dude apparently got told by numerous uninvolved parties that he was being a dick, so he apologized to me in front of the whole department this morning. So that's nice.
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One of my hot female coworkers recently became pregnant. Well, to be more precise, she became pregnant a few months ago, and is now starting to show. Cool, I'm happy for her. I know nothing about her personal life so I don't know if she's married or in a relationship, and I don't know who the father of the baby is. Nor do I want or need to know, it's none of my beeswax.
Except for some reason, over the last few days, I've been overhearing a lot of people in the office gossiping about this particular hot female coworker. Apparently she's supposed to be single. Apparently she hasn't been willing to say who the father is. Apparently someone spotted her and a guy in her department (who's sort of supposed to be her supervisor) out together one weekend. Apparently the guy is also supposed to be single. Apparently she's preparing to take maternity leave in March next year, so if he also takes leave for whatever reason at the same time next year then their department is going to be very shorthanded. Apparently this is the only reason why the nosy nancies are discussing this particular topic, it's because they don't want to see a catastrophic shortage of manpower in a few months, and not because they want to poke their noses in other people's business.
I mean, I like hearing about gossip as much as the next old hag, but this really feels like it's too much.
Except for some reason, over the last few days, I've been overhearing a lot of people in the office gossiping about this particular hot female coworker. Apparently she's supposed to be single. Apparently she hasn't been willing to say who the father is. Apparently someone spotted her and a guy in her department (who's sort of supposed to be her supervisor) out together one weekend. Apparently the guy is also supposed to be single. Apparently she's preparing to take maternity leave in March next year, so if he also takes leave for whatever reason at the same time next year then their department is going to be very shorthanded. Apparently this is the only reason why the nosy nancies are discussing this particular topic, it's because they don't want to see a catastrophic shortage of manpower in a few months, and not because they want to poke their noses in other people's business.
I mean, I like hearing about gossip as much as the next old hag, but this really feels like it's too much.
This can't go in the Weird Weather thread because it's... actually pretty normal for winter here. We got our first real snowfall of the year. Nothing mind blowing: a few inches. Enough to be annoying, but not enough to cancel school! So, delayed opening, which would be great except guess who didn't get to sleep in?
...have I mentioned Mr. Z has Covid again? Yeah, since last week. Not quite as bad as the first time, but he's still positive, and congested. Needless to say, he is of no use today.
All of this means Mr. Z never got a chance to prep the snow thrower, so that meant I had to shovel our long-ass driveway by myself to make sure Li'l Z can get to school. No coffee, no breakfast, just Mom a-shovelin'. (To his credit, Li'l Z made himself breakfast and shoveled the front steps for me.) And then got to wait in line of ALLLLLLL the parents dropping their kids off at school. Now I'm home, tired, but at least I finally have coffee.
...have I mentioned Mr. Z has Covid again? Yeah, since last week. Not quite as bad as the first time, but he's still positive, and congested. Needless to say, he is of no use today.
All of this means Mr. Z never got a chance to prep the snow thrower, so that meant I had to shovel our long-ass driveway by myself to make sure Li'l Z can get to school. No coffee, no breakfast, just Mom a-shovelin'. (To his credit, Li'l Z made himself breakfast and shoveled the front steps for me.) And then got to wait in line of ALLLLLLL the parents dropping their kids off at school. Now I'm home, tired, but at least I finally have coffee.
GasBandit
Staff member
That's what... she said?
Where I live is not getting snow. We only get snow every couple of years. And even then, it usually does not stick. Just makes everything icey and dangerous. We will still close schools with even the threat of snow, though. This is mostly because we don't have plows or dedicated equipment to deal with said snow/sleet/ice.
Scheduling conflicts at work that are causing me to lose sleep (I should be sleeping now). My overnight relief is moving to days which will possibly keep me from my Friday/Saturdays off which will interfere with my overnight visitation schedule with H. Our relationship has improved now that we’ve had regular overnights every other weekend (sat 10am to Sunday 7pm) Going back to every Sunday (10am -7pm) feels like a step backward.
Course now all of that is thrown off by two of our FD managers being put on suspension pending an investigation into something they did. Now I’m working some extra hours this week just to help hold down the fort until they return or they are let go and we begin to hire new folks.
I suppose the silver lining is that if they are let go there is some potential room to move up, but even that makes me nervous despite knowing I should be able to handle the position which, honestly, I should have held years ago regardless of the hotel I’m working at. 40 something and the thought of moving up and bettering my lot in life scares me because I will have to learn some new things and falter a bit to start? Frustrating.
Course now all of that is thrown off by two of our FD managers being put on suspension pending an investigation into something they did. Now I’m working some extra hours this week just to help hold down the fort until they return or they are let go and we begin to hire new folks.
I suppose the silver lining is that if they are let go there is some potential room to move up, but even that makes me nervous despite knowing I should be able to handle the position which, honestly, I should have held years ago regardless of the hotel I’m working at. 40 something and the thought of moving up and bettering my lot in life scares me because I will have to learn some new things and falter a bit to start? Frustrating.
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