CalvinBall wrote:

kopphanatic wrote:In this case, accounting and business administration. I'm certified Social Studies but I figured I could handle it for a day.

not to be a dick but it is similar to babysitting. you dont do anything other than make sure they behave. you will quickly hate it.

it kind of depends on if the teacher a) knows the sub and b) trusts the sub to actually do something with his or her material

most of us trust our contracted or requested subs to actually teach something

and look at calvinball, going all burned-out-teacher

probably 98 percent of the time it is give out a worksheet or make them watch a video. i sub for my best friend and i dont teach anything when im there. not that i want to bc they are his students, not mine. i just do what im told, not trying to step on anyones toes. i hate the subs that think they should actually teach or do stuff outside of what they are told to do.

ill help them find the information in the book or point them in the right direction. but im never introducing new material.

one time i did have to play this podcast that the teacher recorded. it was him lecturing and he would get up and leave to take care of his baby at times. it was weird.

really it just comes down to how much boredom can you handle.

well yeah, i might have a sub hand out a worksheet or show a video, but i also want him to lead a discussion or review the stuff with the kids

he's not expected to introduce a new topic, because i'd probably have to reteach it anyway

keyboard commands is serious business

I'll do my best with the material given. But I'm going to be outside of my certification area so I'll only be able to provide so much help.

I've met the guy before but he doesn't really know me. This was posted on their online system, and I wanted to get to a point where I can get on the building list at a couple of schools. The more jobs I take, the more people I meet and I would get onto the preferred list quicker.

Wizlah wrote:

Woody wrote:wiz, what's your hourly rate for editing/proofing? and, can you do it american english, without use of works like didnae, bollocks, and knackered?

£15/$23.20 for proofing,
£18/$27.80 for copy-edit

Last big edit I did was about £24/$37 an hour, but it was unusually well paid and those jobs don't come along regularly.

Yeah, can do american spelling, although if I had to do an edit/copy-edit, I'd need to brush up on possible grammer differences (that england were $#@!/england was $#@! business from the world cup is a classic example of stuff it's easy to miss). It's not unusual for me to proof a book which has been rerun from the american text, in which case the publisher usually wants me to keep the american spellings because it's more likely to be consistent and it's also cheaper.

POUNDS, BABY.

Thanks, I was just curious, and good to know. There is a small chance I may have some work of this type to outsource in the near future. This client probably wouldn't even notice the difference in the british/american spellings anyway, so maybe you're the man

TenuredVulture wrote:jh--you're gonna have to learn to pace yourself.

I taught my American Politics professor about McCain Feingold today

He was going on about people and businesses soft money to national party committees, and I was like, lol what

Trent Steele wrote:Is there any suckier feeling than going to bed at 12, waking up at 6:30, reaching over to the nightstand to check your work blackberry, and finding that you have 42 $#@! new emails?

Getting up to go take a piss and having 42 new emails when you come back.

At some point, e-mail will cease being a productive mode of communication in the business world. If it hasn't already. No one reads e-mails, at least not in their entirety

It's already dead on campuses. Today's students view logging into their e-mail the same way I did walking to my Simmons Hall mailbox back in the day (ie, a waste of time unless LaTisha was working)

Woody wrote:At some point, e-mail will cease being a productive mode of communication in the business world. If it hasn't already. No one reads e-mails, at least not in their entirety

Yeah, pretty much. At my company we have IM, and that is what you use to contact people if you want to get something done. email is for forwards and long winded important updates that no one reads. And phones are dead man, I don't even know my extension and I've been here for a year.

we use email all the time, we have to deal with mills in asia with 12 hour time differences and it's clearly the best way to communicate

plus a chunk of customers communicate strictly thru email, there are some customers that I may have never spoken to at all.

almost as if on cue, we got an email from management here telling us not to open an email with the subject "here you have".

It comes in, forwarded from someone very, very high in the company, I delete it, but apparently it has been sent to everyone and now my inbox is full of people relpying to all say "The link you sent doesn't work, please advise". Jesus... people are dumb.

jerseyhoya wrote:

TenuredVulture wrote:jh--you're gonna have to learn to pace yourself.

I taught my American Politics professor about McCain Feingold today

He was going on about people and businesses soft money to national party committees, and I was like, lol what

There are still intro textbooks that haven't updated this info. McCain Feingold passed in 2002. I'm a fucking theorist in fucking Arkansas and I know this happened and what it did.

In fact, the textbook I used for the last couple of years was a new textbook--that is, there never was a pre-McCain Feingold edition, and I think it had something about soft money in it. Then you get stuff like this:

jerseyhoya wrote:

TenuredVulture wrote:jh--you're gonna have to learn to pace yourself.

I taught my American Politics professor about McCain Feingold today

He was going on about people and businesses soft money to national party committees, and I was like, lol what

wat.

are you at Rutgers already?

Yes wrapping up my first week of classes this evening

Hoping to be home in time for kickoff

My professor also today said that the country was in recession in 1983-4 even as Reagan was winning reelection, and that Bush's poll standing improved after the late DUI leak in 2000. I told him he was wrong on the latter, and bit my tongue on the former.

He also told us we were all getting A's in the class today

It was kind of a weird morning

The Crimson Cyclone wrote:we use email all the time, we have to deal with mills in asia with 12 hour time differences and it's clearly the best way to communicate

plus a chunk of customers communicate strictly thru email, there are some customers that I may have never spoken to at all.

way to employ 'mericans

jerseyhoya wrote:Yes wrapping up my first week of classes this evening

Hoping to be home in time for kickoff

My professor also today said that the country was in recession in 1983-4 even as Reagan was winning reelection, and that Bush's poll standing improved after the late DUI leak in 2000. I told him he was wrong on the latter, and bit my tongue on the former.

He also told us we were all getting A's in the class today

It was kind of a weird morning

What did you think of Milt?

Bill McNeal wrote:

Woody wrote:At some point, e-mail will cease being a productive mode of communication in the business world. If it hasn't already. No one reads e-mails, at least not in their entirety

Yeah, pretty much. At my company we have IM, and that is what you use to contact people if you want to get something done. email is for forwards and long winded important updates that no one reads. And phones are dead man, I don't even know my extension and I've been here for a year.

i use email as my primary form of communication at work. The problem is people not checking it. They then answer me by coming to my desk and jnterrupting other work im doing.
I also mute my phone and actually answer maybe 4 calls a day. I have clerks forward me my messages and sort through them in terms of importance. It always baffles me when i get messages from another organization; this aint the 20th century anymore and i wont respond less than 16-24 hours later so why not send an email?

TenuredVulture wrote:

jerseyhoya wrote:Yes wrapping up my first week of classes this evening

Hoping to be home in time for kickoff

My professor also today said that the country was in recession in 1983-4 even as Reagan was winning reelection, and that Bush's poll standing improved after the late DUI leak in 2000. I told him he was wrong on the latter, and bit my tongue on the former.

He also told us we were all getting A's in the class today

It was kind of a weird morning

What did you think of Milt?

We spent 45 minutes assembling our course packs from three different piles that were in no discernible order. The whole class was pretty amazing, but that stood out.

Luzinski's Gut wrote:ISAF Joint Command.

smitty wrote:

Luzinski's Gut wrote:I received deployment orders for Afghanistan, will be there in the first week of December.

(is that random enough?)

Who you gonna be with?

You being a SAMS guy I figured it would be something like that. Yowsa. That seems like a real puzzle palace. I was with a division HQ once and I thought that was bad.