Ridgewaycynic2013 Posted February 4, 2019 Posted February 4, 2019 On 2/3/2019 at 10:59 AM, WhoTom said: (This is a community college - no minors, but still...) Not true. My ‘minor’ in community college was pinball, second floor game room. 1
Steve O Posted February 4, 2019 Posted February 4, 2019 1 hour ago, The Real Buffalo Joe said: I don't even have to tell the whole story, let me just ask you a few questions. Let's say you work customer service for a major cable company. You fall on hard times, so you decide to resort to stealing customers credit card information. What's the ONE bill that you're not gonna pay with those stolen cards? Obviously this genius couldn't figure it out 1
RochesterRob Posted February 4, 2019 Posted February 4, 2019 1 hour ago, Ridgewaycynic2013 said: Not true. My ‘minor’ in community college was pinball, second floor game room. I know people who started community college before they turned 18 so there very well could have been minors there by the definition of the law. Some people take additional course work while still in high school as well at a community college. Might just be a dozen people out of a few hundred students in general but they are there.
WhoTom Posted February 4, 2019 Posted February 4, 2019 (edited) 1 hour ago, Ridgewaycynic2013 said: Not true. My ‘minor’ in community college was pinball, second floor game room. Mine was finding bar specials on weeknights. (Legal age was 18 back then.) Monday: ten cent wings and three splits for $1. Tuesday: Two-for-one drinks Wednesday: quarter drafts Thursday: $1 pitchers of gimlets Edited February 4, 2019 by WhoTom
WhoTom Posted February 4, 2019 Posted February 4, 2019 8 minutes ago, RochesterRob said: I know people who started community college before they turned 18 so there very well could have been minors there by the definition of the law. Some people take additional course work while still in high school as well at a community college. Might just be a dozen people out of a few hundred students in general but they are there. True - in fact, I started CC a couple months shy of my 18th birthday. As for HS students, at this college, high school students taking college courses have to get their parents to sign a waiver agreeing that they understand that the students will be exposed to college-level material, and professors are informed of who in the class is a high school student. Regardless of the students' ages, I think (or at least I hope) we can all agree that showing porn in class is an offense worthy of being fired.
The Real Buffalo Joe Posted February 4, 2019 Author Posted February 4, 2019 On 2/3/2019 at 9:59 AM, WhoTom said: I had a colleague who taught automotive service technology. In the early 2000s, he decided to show Internet porn on the classroom projector during class. (This is a community college - no minors, but still...) If you think tenured faculty members can't get fired, think again. He was immediately suspended and officially terminated at the next Board of Trustees meeting. The union ensured that due process was followed, but they didn't lift a finger to oppose his removal. Unrelated to that, one of our IT guys once told me that they can monitor what websites every person on campus is visiting (I knew that already), and he said, "You wouldn't believe how many upper administrators log on at 8AM and immediately surf for porn." Not that it justifies it in any way, but did he intentionally show that on the screen, or was it an embarrassing mistake where last nights browser windows were still up when he set up his laptop?
WhoTom Posted February 4, 2019 Posted February 4, 2019 11 minutes ago, The Real Buffalo Joe said: Not that it justifies it in any way, but did he intentionally show that on the screen, or was it an embarrassing mistake where last nights browser windows were still up when he set up his laptop? Intentional. As in, "Check this out, guys!" And it was a college computer, not his personal laptop. As soon as the complaint came in, the HR director brought an IT person and a campus police officer over to his office. They confiscated the classroom computer and escorted him off campus. I don't know whether he showed up for his disciplinary hearing or if he just knew he was toast and didn't bother. But your question reminded me of a grad course I took about 15 years ago. The class met in an open lab, and one night a porn pop-up appeared about an hour into the professor's lecture. He wasn't looking at the screen at the time, so it took a minute for him to realize it happened. I doubt that he was the one who visited the site - the lab was open to students when classes weren't meeting in there, so it could have been anyone.
The Real Buffalo Joe Posted February 4, 2019 Author Posted February 4, 2019 1 hour ago, WhoTom said: Intentional. As in, "Check this out, guys!" And it was a college computer, not his personal laptop. As soon as the complaint came in, the HR director brought an IT person and a campus police officer over to his office. They confiscated the classroom computer and escorted him off campus. I don't know whether he showed up for his disciplinary hearing or if he just knew he was toast and didn't bother. What was he thinking? I'm assuming if it was automotive technology it was mostly, if not all guys, so he figured it'd be okay. Have you talked to him after?
WhoTom Posted February 5, 2019 Posted February 5, 2019 4 hours ago, The Real Buffalo Joe said: What was he thinking? I'm assuming if it was automotive technology it was mostly, if not all guys, so he figured it'd be okay. Have you talked to him after? No. I didn't know him well, but I was friends with the other guy who taught auto. He told me about it after it happened.
Augie Posted February 5, 2019 Posted February 5, 2019 In order to head off future firings, when we had multiple people show up for job interviews together, I’d go to the window when they left to see who drove. THAT was the person with transportation and the most likely to arrive and be on time.
row_33 Posted February 5, 2019 Posted February 5, 2019 Government and union biggies love to use work resources to improve their cottages. Those nice clay tiles show how important you used to be. 1
Steve O Posted February 5, 2019 Posted February 5, 2019 12 hours ago, Augie said: In order to head off future firings, when we had multiple people show up for job interviews together, I’d go to the window when they left to see who drove. THAT was the person with transportation and the most likely to arrive and be on time. How did that strategy work?
RochesterRob Posted February 5, 2019 Posted February 5, 2019 58 minutes ago, Steve O said: How did that strategy work? Probably better than hiring the best looking female with the tightest clothes which most employers banks or otherwise use. I remember buying a pickup truck back in the mid-1990's at a Chevy dealer and one of the sales staff there was a woman wearing tights and boots above the knee. I thought that look was out of place for a non-city dealership and doubted that even for an urban dealer that wardrobe would fly at least for Rochester, NY. I went in for warranty work a few months later and heard that she got let go.
Augie Posted February 5, 2019 Posted February 5, 2019 1 hour ago, Steve O said: How did that strategy work? It was a start.....you have to start somewhere.....then were all the other things that could go wrong.
NoHuddleKelly12 Posted February 5, 2019 Posted February 5, 2019 On 2/1/2019 at 8:08 PM, Augie said: In my banking days, I fired dozens of people. (They deserved it.) Usually “just” tellers and customer service people. (That’s NOT Sammy Watkins in me, you DO get a different caliber of people. Fact.) There was one guy who pissed me of repeatedly. He wanted obscure Jewish holidays off (not the biggies) and HR made me give it to him even though I knew he was just flying to Key West for the weekend. Left us short handed, but you manage through it. Then another weak azz excuse comes up for him to add a day to a holiday weekend. I get with HR and plan to end this when he returns......but he never did. We figured it out over the weekend, but the vault timer was set so we had to wait until Tuesday AM to confirm. Unfortunately, he left with $41,250 that belonged to the bank (yes, that number sticks with me!). He did some tricky stuff with cashiers checks and his cash drawer that in hindsight had me kicking myself! We followed policy on everything and brought in all the right people at the right times. He got away at just the right moment. Long story, but we’re all pissed and kicking ourselves with the benefit of hindsight. Months and months go by, then one day a call. Authorities at LAX approached a suspicious looking individual in the terminal, leading the the arrest and imprisonment of dear old Alan. He was just returning from his most recent cruise in Mexico. I never had the opportunity to look him in the eye again, but I would have liked to say “YOU’RE FIRED!” In other news, the longer story arc of this gentleman's life has been recreated by the fine acting work of one Leo DiCaprio, in "Catch Me If You Can." On 2/1/2019 at 2:37 PM, ShadyBillsFan said: Years back in Rochester, a security guard "found" some travelers Cheques and cashed them at his bank 30 in Dansville. I'm sure he put up flyers all around town just to be sure they were unclaimed
Royale with Cheese Posted February 5, 2019 Posted February 5, 2019 A guy at my work almost 10 years ago got fired for leaving a note on a girls windshield. He meant no harm, he was just too nervous to walk up to the girl and start talking to her. The note he left said "Hey, I've been watching you and I think you're beautiful". Again, this guy wasn't trying to be a creeper, he just doesn't have social skills at all towards girls. I felt sorry for him. Anyway, the girl was so scared she called the cops. She stayed in her car until they arrived. The note was on the back on his business card. Cops walked right into our office. He wasn't arrested but they had to let Management and HR know the situation. He was fired on the spot.
The Real Buffalo Joe Posted February 5, 2019 Author Posted February 5, 2019 17 hours ago, Augie said: In order to head off future firings, when we had multiple people show up for job interviews together, I’d go to the window when they left to see who drove. THAT was the person with transportation and the most likely to arrive and be on time. That's not neccecarily the best option though. Speaking for myself, when I was job searching, my wife (girlfriend at the time) drove me to about half the interviews. I had a car and transportation, but she liked the excuse to go look around a mall or something on that side of town.
RochesterRob Posted February 5, 2019 Posted February 5, 2019 (edited) 51 minutes ago, Royale with Cheese said: A guy at my work almost 10 years ago got fired for leaving a note on a girls windshield. He meant no harm, he was just too nervous to walk up to the girl and start talking to her. The note he left said "Hey, I've been watching you and I think you're beautiful". Again, this guy wasn't trying to be a creeper, he just doesn't have social skills at all towards girls. I felt sorry for him. Anyway, the girl was so scared she called the cops. She stayed in her car until they arrived. The note was on the back on his business card. Cops walked right into our office. He wasn't arrested but they had to let Management and HR know the situation. He was fired on the spot. The leaving a note tactic has not worked in a very long time unless you are known to have a lot of money. That aside he could not have worded his feelings any worse given the method of the message. "I've been watching you" is probably the worst way to go and will be interpreted by most as being creepy. If he was going to leave the card then just leave it without any text. If she wants in she will call and if not probably would have just thrown the card away without any further thought. Edited February 5, 2019 by RochesterRob
\GoBillsInDallas/ Posted February 5, 2019 Posted February 5, 2019 On 2/3/2019 at 9:59 AM, WhoTom said: "You wouldn't believe how many upper administrators log on at 8AM and immediately surf for porn." In this day and age, I am absolutely astounded by the number of people out there who still believe that - if they install an anonymizer software on their computer, or work in incognito mode, or click the Delete History toggle - these will prevent or remove all traces of their computer activities.
Royale with Cheese Posted February 5, 2019 Posted February 5, 2019 29 minutes ago, RochesterRob said: The leaving a note tactic has not worked in a very long time unless you are known to have a lot of money. That aside he could not have worded his feelings any worse given the method of the message. "I've been watching you" is probably the worst way to go and will be interpreted by most as being creepy. If he was going to leave the card then just leave it without any text. If she wants in she will call and if not probably would have just thrown the card away without any further thought. It was literally the worst thing he could say. Its Summer of Sam type of stuff.
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