Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

chris_m

PasturesNew wrote: »

What constitutes working is subjective.
As a self-employed person you're currently scheduling and prioritising.

That's work isn't it!

Sounds good enough to me - save the actual work for tomorrow :rotfl:

Doozergirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

Went, did it, back.

Weird walking away, knowing that tomorrow some things will be on a different path to that which they'd have been on if the vote'd gone the other way.

I just hope that mis-informed, social-media-pumped-up, idiots don't try to "miss the point" of democracy by doing stupid and outrageous things if their "team" didn't win..... like they do.

Yeah, so the other lot won. Boo hoo .... !!!!'s occurred, so adapt and learn to live with it.

Well done.

That stuff's already started. There's a conspiracy theory on the share that you're only given a pencil so they can rub out your choice and change it. It has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that pencils are dirt cheap, of course.

I know at least three people stupid enough to share this crud.

SingleSue

With Josh he has that plus not actually understanding what is being said to him...funniest one was at a statement review where he had been moaning to me about his socialisation chances being reduced due to change in the school rules, at the review he was asked if the change had made it harder for him to socialise and he said no!

Later when I asked him (after he moaned yet again), why he had said no he replied that she hadn't asked that, she had asked something else. He had completely misunderstood a very simple question. To help him understand stuff like that, he has to have it broken down into very simple parts and then given a definition that he can understand for him to finally get it.

It's why for his level 3 Business studies I had to learn the entire course myself and then teach him the course in a way he could understand as he had become completely lost with his teacher and his teaching method and was facing the horrible outcome of a fail. He went from scraping passes at best to distinctions so I must have done something right.

Doozergirl

chris_m wrote: »

Sounds good enough to me - save the actual work for tomorrow :rotfl:

Tomorrow, or depending on the outcome, mañana.

Save

chris_m

Doozergirl wrote: »

I know at least three people stupid enough to share this crud.

I've got at least three people stupid enough to share this crud on "ignore" :rotfl:

TBH, what this site needs is the option to hide entire threads, irrespective of who posted in them.

Pyxis

SingleSue wrote: »

With Josh he has that plus not actually understanding what is being said to him...funniest one was at a statement review where he had been moaning to me about his socialisation chances being reduced due to change in the school rules, at the review he was asked if the change had made it harder for him to socialise and he said no!

Later when I asked him (after he moaned yet again), why he had said no he replied that she hadn't asked that, she had asked something else. He had completely misunderstood a very simple question. To help him understand stuff like that, he has to have it broken down into very simple parts and then given a definition that he can understand for him to finally get it.

It's why for his level 3 Business studies I had to learn the entire course myself and then teach him the course in a way he could understand as he had become completely lost with his teacher and his teaching method and was facing the horrible outcome of a fail. He went from scraping passes at best to distinctions so I must have done something right.

You should have taken it too, and got yourself a Distinction at the same time! :rotfl:

SingleSue

Pyxis wrote: »

You should have taken it too, and got yourself a Distinction at the same time! :rotfl:

I was completely and utterly bored and sick of it by the end, think if anyone had mentioned Business studies to me this time last year I would have throttled them :rotfl:

I did have a head start on most students though, I had been in the corporate world in various roles and saw how things worked and of course, I do my own marketing and administration with my site now, so it was only the real nitty gritty of the financials plus a few other little bits that I needed to really cram learn to teach him. Think it took me longer to work out how a BTEC worked and what they wanted, the criteria of how to set it all out than it did to learn the additionals.

Josh said I was the harshest and strictest teacher he had ever had, I didn't let him just make do, if I wasn't happy the work was returned and he was told to look at it and work out where he had gone wrong and then tell me how he thinks he should rectify it. In the Easter half term last year, working all day every day (minus the first 3 days when I was learning), he managed to complete 3 units. When he handed it in his teacher asked what had happened, Josh's reply was "My mum", the teachers reply? "Oh poor you, she can be a bit scary in full force can't she, you have my sympathies but she also has my congratulations for actually getting you to get it done"

chris_m

Doozergirl wrote: »

Tomorrow, or depending on the outcome, mañana.Save

The French artisan roofer that my parents employed to fix their roof wasn't overly quick. Although the work he actually did was good, he would frequently disappear for days or even weeks before coming back and doing a bit more. Every time Dad asked when it would be finished the reply was always "Dans un petit mois."

They never found out what a "petit mois" really was but came to the conclusion that it actually meant "never", sacked him and employed an expat Yorkshireman from the next village to do it instead.

His view of time was somewhat different. "Eee ah've got a few other jobs to do first so ah couldn't start straightaway, how about next Thursday?" He started on the Thursday and had all that Frenchie hadn't finished done by Monday, then did the whole of the other side of the roof by the end of the following week.

Good job too really - two months later we had the Christmas 1999 storms and I'm convinced that had the roof not been finished they'd have lost the lot, the wind would have got under it and taken it all off.

chris_m

PasturesNew wrote: »

I do wish I'd seen a voting sheet before I left though. I stood and read it, then double-read it. Then triple checked. Then I made my mark.
Then I checked it again, and read it again, and checked, and said it "out loud to myself in my head" just to check I'd done what I had gone in there to do.
I was now sure I'd followed the instructions correctly .....

You're sure you spelt the X correctly?

Doozergirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

stuff

Even more well done!:T

I voted the other way, but I'm still really pleased you made it.