Nice people thread part 5 - nicely does it

Generali

LydiaJ wrote: »

When I was 6 we went to Australia for a year for my dad's sabbatical. I'd begun learning tables in England, but in Oz they didn't believe in rote learning at that time, so we didn't do any at school. My brothers decided to take a hand. The drilled me in all the squares, and 7x8, until I knew them properly. For a long time I knew 7x8 but had to think a long time to do 8x7. So I'd be fine in your interview. I could do Magna Carta too (1215 innit), but would frankly confess not caring about football and having no idea about the FA cup one. I wouldn't lie or guess the football. I think it's important for teachers to be able to admit when they don't know something, so maybe that would be the "right answer" in my line of work.

TBH I don't care if people get the answer right or not. I'd only ask an FA Cup question to someone that was a soccer fan on their CV and you are right about the Magna Carta.

In almost every field of work, "I don't know" is an acceptable answer IMHO.

lostinrates

Generali wrote: »

The best interview question is, "What's 7X8?".

It's the times table that fewest people know I reckon and people think they should know the answer yet almost nobody does in an interview situation.

You will learn more about a person in an interview by chucking that in than you will in a hundred questions about synergies, pro-activity, going forward (like a Christian soldier presumably) and solutionizing.

The correct answer doesn't matter at all. The way the answer is given tells you everything.

You could just as well ask what the Magna Carta was, the best way to get from one town 50 miles away to another a similar distance away or who won the FA Cup in 1981. People will either lie, blurt out the first thing that comes into their head, think about it and try to get it right or refuse to answer.

PS I'm wearing my pinstripe, a nice pink shirt and nipple tassles.

I think the pink shirt is ott with the nipple tassles personally.

lostinrates

vivatifosi wrote: »

I just posted there before reading this. We've gone through a good phase for a couple of days and now we're back to that again. Such a shame. It's bullying by any other name.


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It is indeed.

Fwiw i don't post, i just reported it. Twice now.Its scary how people fail to see how they are contributing apor that their behaviour is also not great imo.

This follows a post on the relations ships board i mentioned a while back, where rl id was discussed. I like the idea of mse board guides, but i really feel mse has to accept that some children, some vulnerable people , some with mental heatplth issues, and some straightforward nasty pieces of work have access to the internet and that it might be time to get some mods. The other thread was up for over twelve hours when reported, as i think must the stupid one here....though rl names afaik are not being discussed someone who may or may not be an mse user has been made targetable. This is NOT just a problem with this board on mse, as i say, if it happens in the marriage/relation ship board too....i also saw it happen some time ago...a year or two, othe pets board, where i advised a poster she had made herself id able, (i knew of her from real life situations) and frankly was not doing herself or others we both knew in rl any favours.

vivatifosi

I agree lir. FWIW I'm trying to populate the front page with threads about economic and housing interests at the moment. Doubtless they will sink like stones while that one sticks around like a bad smell, but hey, I care about this place so its worth a shot (not a shot from an interviewer's metaphorical gun I hasten to add before anyone starts to wonder about me)...

zagubov

Well done doozergirl
:beer:

In interviews a tricky artithmetic question would be 3/4 of 90. Everybody expects it to be easy as if you could rattle off the answer from memory.

I was always led to belive that asking about risk was a coded way of asking "are you a hothead".:D

sss555s

silvercar wrote: »

I had a great contact lens scheme that michaels would be proud of.

D&A contact lens by post. You pay monthly and they send lenses in the post, every 3 months for the light user scheme. This entitles you to eye care, contact lens check ups, half price glasses, eye tests etc etc. So I pay something like £11 a month and every 3 months a new box of 30 x 2 lenses arrive.

Except I don't where my lenses that often, so I end up with boxes unopened. Now for the clever bit, you phone up and tell them to put everything on hold and they stop sending the lenses and stop the DD for 6 months at a time. Yet you still get the eye care, the check ups and the half price glasses the whole time. So I'm paying £11 every 6 months for everything.

A winner. Check up today and she tells me that in a year or so I may need different prescription lenses. but I've got boxes of the current ones.:(

Thanks for this silvercar and it was just the kick up the backside I needed :beer:

My (near vision) eye sight has diminished over the last couple of years (I'm just at that age) and I was just using the cheap glasses for reading or close up work.

I have booked a long overdue eye test and contacts assessment with my local D & A and they already told me I can suspend the DD when they were describing what was on offer, though I may wish to use them most of the time.

Appointment's tomorrow afternoon. :j

sss555s

vivatifosi wrote: »

I agree lir. FWIW I'm trying to populate the front page with threads about economic and housing interests at the moment. Doubtless they will sink like stones while that one sticks around like a bad smell, but hey, I care about this place so its worth a shot (not a shot from an interviewer's metaphorical gun I hasten to add before anyone starts to wonder about me)...

It's funny to think back before any NPT.

It's almost like looking back before computers or mobile phones were invented

Maybe TNPT has sucked most the nice people out of other threads and causing a spiralling miss-balance of posts....

IT'S ALL OUR FAULT!!! :eek:

vivatifosi

sss555s wrote: »

IT'S ALL OUR FAULT!!! :eek:

:rotfl:
Well I've tried to redress the balance, a bit. But I'm all out of threads to start now. Give it an hour and we all know which one will be at the top. It won't be this one and it won't be any of the new ones:eek:.

SingleSue

I don't wear pj's......nightshirts all the way for me.

Not so good for school runs though, so it means I always get dressed for the school run otherwise we would have too many folk running for the hills or throwing up their breakfast at the sight of me.

I also only wear glasses, I could never get along with contacts due to too many things that make my eyes irritated. I have never really gone for expensive pairs as I always believed you could get an equal effect from cheaper frames but I must confess to always having the anti scratch protection put on and either a tint or photochromic lenses. Now of course, I just have bog standard lenses and an even more bog standard frame (which tends to last less than a blooming year before I am getting out the replacement screws and sellotape)

Me and hubby did have an optiplan which helped towards the cost of our glasses/contacts which worked brilliantly...until hubby decided he was going to splash out and spend all the built up funds on a pair of ultra expensive and fashionable frames which meant that I then had to put off getting my glasses and then going for cheaper than I wanted ones.

Incidently, his amazing ultra fashionable glasses looked awful and he rarely wore them...he was a bit of a brand queen.

vivatifosi

SingleSue wrote: »

Incidently, his amazing ultra fashionable glasses looked awful and he rarely wore them...he was a bit of a brand queen.

There was a guy where I used to work who was always imo very stylish. Then one day he got new glasses. From that day on I couldn't get the image of Brains from Thunderbirds out of my head. Getting glasses wrong can be a very big mistake.