Tales of the Competency Crisis - How do I into anything?

[NerdShamer]

What if the person isn't intellectually disabled, yet still sucks at math?

Well, everyone has their strengths and weaknesses. But there's an bit of an minimal amount of knowledge that's required to get to life on your own and using algebra to balance out your bills is a small part of it. Other than that, a lot of math gradually becomes more theoretical up until the off-chance for when you'll actually using it to fix something.

Of course, some people just eventually grow out of it. Others will refuse to recognize the smaller set of fractions and add them the common set. Some will just REEEE about random shit and subsequently prove that they can't be bothered to learn the right things off the web.

 

[The Hardest R]

Multinationals like Lidl, Spar, Eurospin, McD's don't seem to have these problems. The Slovenian stores do, the largest example maybe Merkur. Seems like the smaller the store is the more technical problems it has.

Most regulations are designed to lock out smaller businesses and make it more challenging for them to comply. Most enterprise software these days are designed for these large businesses because there’s more money selling licenses to them. Compound this with the fact that this type of software only gets built with jeetcode. Even large businesses will have difficulty complying but they can lobby, bribe or absorb fines to help them out where local businesses can’t. While you’re in Slovenia, American small businesses deal with that shit. It’s why the vast majority of businesses shut down after just a couple years.

 

[yolotengo]

So the outside of our building at work has started to get graffiti tags on it. Normally we would have spare paint to paint over them however we ran out and I cant just go order another can in the same colour because the previous brainiac decided to combine two different shades to make a whole new shade to paint the wall.

I brought in a fan deck of paint colours for the new day manager to match it to - I work nights so I cant accurately match it on my shift - and leave it for her with instructions to pick out the nearest match.

I go into work thinking she's picked it out. I ask about it. "Oh no, I couldn't do it. Sorry." Umm what do you mean you couldn't do it? Just pick the closest shade!

I'm the night manager so unless I drive 30 mins one way and 30 mins back during thr day when i'm meant to be sleeping before my shift today paint till never be chosen for me to pick up.

Laziness, incompetence ... fucking hell.

 

[NerdShamer]

I go into work thinking she's picked it out. I ask about it. "Oh no, I couldn't do it. Sorry." Umm what do you mean you couldn't do it? Just pick the closest shade!

You know, there's a few old apps that are made exactly for doing this. But who needs an fancy phone when you already gave her an fan deck?

 

[Mad as a Swan]

What if the person isn't intellectually disabled, yet still sucks at math?

"Intellectually disabled" and "sux at math" is an oxymoron

You know, there's a few old apps that are made exactly for doing this. But who needs an fancy phone when you already gave her an fan deck?

https://youtube.com/watch?v=NIZdIOnKIhA

Good luck. Most free tools have been out-SEO'd by jeetcode scameare, and those who haven't have been bought out and replaced with license junk.

Nothing is free anymore.

 

[The Hardest R]

Laziness, incompetence ... fucking hell.

Managers who don’t know to actually manage are a dime a dozen these days, especially those who got promoted due to DEI reasons. They’re committed to doing exactly what their scope is and absolutely nothing else. Something like picking paint for walls is surprisingly beyond their competence. They only want to do things that are clearly laid out in a process or procedure that they can lean on. You might say that it’s just paint but these people get easily flummoxed by something not covered in a procedure. I can see an intern or an entry level analyst struggling with this but this is management here.

 

[NerdShamer]

Good luck. Most free tools have been out-SEO'd by jeetcode scameare, and those who haven't have been bought out and replaced with license junk.

Nothing is free anymore

Well, I never said that it was free. Unless you can get the apk off the back of an truck and give your phone an digital STD after you've installed it.

But again, fan cards with the color palette on them.

 

[Althalus]

So the outside of our building at work has started to get graffiti tags on it. Normally we would have spare paint to paint over them however we ran out and I cant just go order another can in the same colour because the previous brainiac decided to combine two different shades to make a whole new shade to paint the wall.

I brought in a fan deck of paint colours for the new day manager to match it to - I work nights so I cant accurately match it on my shift - and leave it for her with instructions to pick out the nearest match.

I go into work thinking she's picked it out. I ask about it. "Oh no, I couldn't do it. Sorry." Umm what do you mean you couldn't do it? Just pick the closest shade!

I'm the night manager so unless I drive 30 mins one way and 30 mins back during thr day when i'm meant to be sleeping before my shift today paint till never be chosen for me to pick up.

Laziness, incompetence ... fucking hell.

Actual advice here, Home Depot and Lowe's do have the ability to match paint if you bring a chip in. Get a piece off the wall, at least the size of a quarter (preferably larger, but it needs to be an actual piece and not bread crumbs), and they can match it.

 

[DavidS877]

Actual advice here, Home Depot and Lowe's do have the ability to match paint if you bring a chip in. Get a piece off the wall, at least the size of a quarter (preferably larger, but it needs to be an actual piece and not bread crumbs), and they can match it.

I was going to suggest a small sample, maybe a 3" hole saw.

 

[Althalus]

I was going to suggest a small sample, maybe a 3" hole saw.

That is even better, but if it's an outdoor wall for a commercial building, that suggests he is dealing with brick or concrete. Hence chipping off a piece of paint is probably the more practical option.

 

[yolotengo]

Yeah getting a decent sized chip off it is actually the preferred method but unfortunately it has this shitty render on it so no bueno.

Anyway! Instead of choosing a similar grey like I asked so a few tags could be painted over - a quick job - now the entire fucking wall has been graffitied so the entire wall needs to be painted. Its a big wall too - the entire side of the building. So i guess I can just choose any grey now but now we need to buy more paint. SMH.

 

[Raven of the Burning God]

Humans have an innate ability to acquire spoken language, but this does not extend to reading or writing. You have to deliberately form the neural connections to become literate. Becoming numerate requires an even more complicated set of deliberate steps to lay neural foundations and build upon them.

You might have a elementary school teacher bring up that little Suzy doesn't color between the lines and the parents scoff about how that's bullshit, who gives a fuck, why are you grading Suzy on coloring, don't you have better things to do, and maybe she's just an avant garde creative who's rebelling against your system, maaan.

Except...

Coloring inside the lines is how little Suzy develops the neural pathways for fine motor skills that she will need to be able to write letters snd numbers. Pretending her haphazard crayon scribbles are "artistic" sets her up for failure.

Except...

The teacher has to actually know this in order to explain it to the parents, and thanks to decades of Education Department chasing curricular fashion trends, what to teach the kids, and in what order, seems just as arbitrary to the teachers as to the parents.

"You're not always going to have a calculator." as an argument for making children memorize mathematical tables falls a bit flat when nearly everyone literally has a calculator in their pocket, but "it establishes and expands foundational arithmetic memory and basic executive functions necessary to develop faculty in working with numbers" is, like little Suzy coloring inside the lines, too complicated to explain, I guess.

You can teach someone how something is done, but they learn by doing it... and for various reasons we're increasingly skipping the "doing it" portion, so nobody learns much before moving on to being taught the next thing.

 

[Otterly]

Coloring inside the lines is how little Suzy develops the neural pathways for fine motor skills that she will need to be able to write letters snd numbers

Handwriting activates a far wider set if brain networks than typing. If you write something you’re engaging a whole different and more complex set of systems. I do worry how the reliance on keyboards and tablets will affect people who never did any significant writing. And my own handwriting has gotten worse - it used to be far smoother and now it’s quite jerky - I really should write and practice more

 

[teriyakiburns]

And my own handwriting has gotten worse - it used to be far smoother and now it’s quite jerky - I really should write and practice more

This can be a result of the kind of pen, as well as lack of practice. My handwriting is much better when I'm using a fountain pen or a pencil, but becomes absolutely atrocious when I'm using most ballpoints (except good quality ones, like parker or uni-ball). My dad had the same issue when he was in primary school. Back then they forced everyone to learn with a dip-pen before they could graduate to a fountain pen, which because of his dyslexia he just couldn't master - I suspect because it forced him to stop to refill every dozen or so letters, which made it harder for him to connect the words coherently. They were threatening to hold him back because he couldn't write with their shitty dip-pen, even though he could write perfectly legibly at home. He eventually had enough, bought himself a fountain pen, and his handwriting became legible overnight. So they took it off him. The 50s were stupid like that.

 

[Otterly]

So they took it off him

Sometimes you think Dickens was exaggerating, then you remember your own experiences at school …
Yeah it’s not just the pen, my writing used to be more fluent, I need to practice more.
I can’t even find good pens, everything is those nasty scratchy ink gel things. Do they still do the red Berol pens? I can’t find them but they used to be my favourite. They were expensive though and we were poor, so I rarely had them.
Our desks at school still had the old inkwells in and the lift up wooden lids.

 

[MightyMorphin'Willbender]

Managers who don’t know to actually manage are a dime a dozen these days,

AI is killing these people's neurons faster than meth.
i.e. Giving their employees feedback straight from the LLM or sometimes trying to talk shop like "have you considered solution X, I read that helps from chatgpt" when a specialist is pulling their hair out on a particularly tricky problem.

 

[big pauper]

This can be a result of the kind of pen, as well as lack of practice. My handwriting is much better when I'm using a fountain pen or a pencil, but becomes absolutely atrocious when I'm using most ballpoints (except good quality ones, like parker or uni-ball). My dad had the same issue when he was in primary school. Back then they forced everyone to learn with a dip-pen before they could graduate to a fountain pen, which because of his dyslexia he just couldn't master - I suspect because it forced him to stop to refill every dozen or so letters, which made it harder for him to connect the words coherently. They were threatening to hold him back because he couldn't write with their shitty dip-pen, even though he could write perfectly legibly at home. He eventually had enough, bought himself a fountain pen, and his handwriting became legible overnight. So they took it off him. The 50s were stupid like that.

i went through the exact same thing in the 2000's with typing. my handwriting is dyslexic but i type fine. i thought the whole thing was dumb because 'the future' was typing and i can do that shit just fine. in my 20s i found out about fountain pens and i never had any issues writing with them. ballpoint pens and 2b pencil lead just require way too much pressure to write with comfortably but you literally are not given any other option in school.

now that i am older i know the play was just to use softer lead in a mechanical pencil even though it was dis-allowed and to just lie to the teacher instead of just following the rules and doing all of the procedures and bureaucracy properly

 

[Waffle Iron]

This can be a result of the kind of pen, as well as lack of practice. My handwriting is much better when I'm using a fountain pen or a pencil, but becomes absolutely atrocious when I'm using most ballpoints (except good quality ones, like parker or uni-ball). My dad had the same issue when he was in primary school. Back then they forced everyone to learn with a dip-pen before they could graduate to a fountain pen, which because of his dyslexia he just couldn't master - I suspect because it forced him to stop to refill every dozen or so letters, which made it harder for him to connect the words coherently. They were threatening to hold him back because he couldn't write with their shitty dip-pen, even though he could write perfectly legibly at home. He eventually had enough, bought himself a fountain pen, and his handwriting became legible overnight. So they took it off him. The 50s were stupid like that.

All pens suck, fountain or ballpen, for dyslexia in my experience. My letters dance all over the place, are unevenly sized and sentences barely stay straight even with lined paper . I could put the fear of god back into a doctor with my handwriting. Thank god for typing, now it's just unreadable because I make all sorts of dyslexia-related mistakes.

i.e. Giving their employees feedback straight from the LLM or sometimes trying to talk shop like "have you considered solution X, I read that helps from chatgpt" when a specialist is pulling their hair out on a particularly tricky problem.

It's truly terrible. We went from absolutely terrible feedback you could easily dismiss to advice you can only dismiss if the person you're talking to actually knows what you're talking about.

 

[Raven of the Burning God]

We pen sperging?

Current fountain pen is a Kaweco Special in EF, with Monteverde Magnum cartridges, refilled with Platinum Carbon permanent ink.
Main ballpoint pen I occasionally use has a Fisher "Space Pen" cartridge, which is nice, but is just in a normal-looking retractable-pen body rather than the kinda crap ovoid space pen body.
Preferred mechanical pencils have been Pentel SHARP/P200-series for a very long time.

Pilot G2 and Zebra F402 have also been tolerable.

 

[Steel Billet]

Kaweco

Goyim.