The intern in my department is going for a job interview tomorrow, and he's listed me as a reference.

Holy shit, I've made it.

Also, what do I say when someone from that company calls me?
 
This one doesn't really count as a rant, just abject fucking stupidity. Twice recently I've seen what have to be some of the stupidest spelling suggestions EVAR.

1) While typing a post here for something, my Google Chrome dictionary seriously recommended that I change "kind of" to "kinda".
2) While replying to a tweet (on my phone, so I don't know if this was Twitter's dictionary, Samsung's dictionary, or Android's dictionary) Twitter recommended that I change the word "He's" to "Hes". Out of pure curiosity, I took the recommendation to see what would happen, and it immediately autocorrected itself back to "He's".

Seriously, who the hell got put in charge of predictive text and spelling corrections? I know they didn't go back to the team that developed T9 text prediction - they could fucking spell. Couldn't do much else though, I know a couple guys from that original team. Brilliant people when it comes to coding. Dumber than a bag of hammers when it comes to anything else.[DOUBLEPOST=1491401162,1491400678][/DOUBLEPOST]
The intern in my department is going for a job interview tomorrow, and he's listed me as a reference.

Holy shit, I've made it.

Also, what do I say when someone from that company calls me?
I don't know how it is there, but when I was a hiring manager and I called people for references, all I wanted was the truth. I had a set list of questions that I would ask to determine whether or not you really know the candidate, how long you worked together, how you and my candidate interacted on a daily/weekly/monthly basis, and how you viewed the work ethic and quality of work produced by the candidate. If it sounded like you were up-selling the candidate, I left it at that.
 
what do I say when someone from that company calls me?
You should talk to HR and find out if they have specific guidelines. I know several companies in the US who restrict answers to whether they worked there or not, and the dates of the start and end employment. Might not be an issue where you are.
 
who the hell got put in charge of predictive text and spelling corrections?
Some systems these days will adapt their dictionary based on what you type, so if you are seeing a lot of "kinda" and "hes," it may be because the AI has noticed you typing these and is starting to think they might be real words.

--Patrick
 
This one doesn't really count as a rant, just abject fucking stupidity. Twice recently I've seen what have to be some of the stupidest spelling suggestions EVAR.

1) While typing a post here for something, my Google Chrome dictionary seriously recommended that I change "kind of" to "kinda".
2) While replying to a tweet (on my phone, so I don't know if this was Twitter's dictionary, Samsung's dictionary, or Android's dictionary) Twitter recommended that I change the word "He's" to "Hes". Out of pure curiosity, I took the recommendation to see what would happen, and it immediately autocorrected itself back to "He's".

Seriously, who the hell got put in charge of predictive text and spelling corrections? I know they didn't go back to the team that developed T9 text prediction - they could fucking spell. Couldn't do much else though, I know a couple guys from that original team. Brilliant people when it comes to coding. Dumber than a bag of hammers when it comes to anything else.[DOUBLEPOST=1491401162,1491400678][/DOUBLEPOST]
I don't know how it is there, but when I was a hiring manager and I called people for references, all I wanted was the truth. I had a set list of questions that I would ask to determine whether or not you really know the candidate, how long you worked together, how you and my candidate interacted on a daily/weekly/monthly basis, and how you viewed the work ethic and quality of work produced by the candidate. If it sounded like you were up-selling the candidate, I left it at that.
I'm pretty sure predictive text and auto correct pull from two different sources. Autocorrect pulls from a built in dictionary (which you can add to) while predictive text bases its predictions on your typing habits, or sometimes pulls from a shared cloud. So if you are in the habit of typing hes knowing that autocorrect will automatically change it, that is what predictive text thinks you are going to type.
 

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Some systems these days will adapt their dictionary based on what you type, so if you are seeing a lot of "kinda" and "hes," it may be because the AI has noticed you typing these and is starting to think they might be real words.

--Patrick
What's extra infuriating is my speech recognition engine is learning my spanish faster than it is learning my english. I never want to have the word "comma" in a sentence, and it still flips a coin between "in" and "and" whenever I say "and," but by god, it knows how to spell "La Michoacana" (which is pronounced "mish-wa-ka-na") and "Iglesias Pentecostales."
 
You should talk to HR and find out if they have specific guidelines. I know several companies in the US who restrict answers to whether they worked there or not, and the dates of the start and end employment. Might not be an issue where you are.
That pretty much is all we're allowed to say, we are allowed to answer the question, "Would you rehire XXXX?"
 
I need three references for an apartment application. Would it bad bad form to just have three coworkers? I don't really know any other adults I'm not related to that well.
 
Someone at our office is wearing a very nice perfume today, but I can't tell who it is because I can't exactly go around sniffing everyone.
 
Season 1 bhamv wasn't married yet. :D
Just what I mean! Every show they feel the need to have characters "evolve" and "'grow" in exactly the same way! "Things are getting stale", they say. "Let's have someone marry", they say. "Let's have an in-group relationship status change", they say. Before you know it it'll all be jokes about babies and potty training!

(more seriously, though, if you can narrow it down to a few, it's perfectly OK to go ask someone "hey, are you wearing a new perfume/cologne/whatever? It smells nice, what is it?")
 
Actually I already managed to identify the bearer of the perfume when I encountered her next to the water fountain. Hot girl.
 
Actually I already managed to identify the bearer of the perfume when I encountered her next to the water fountain. Hot girl.
I always assumed you floated around, following the trail, a la Pepe Le Pew. Of course, if you are Pepe Le Pew, we may have found the reason those women keep running for the hills.
 
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