mrspaz

@mrspaz@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon tech workers leaving for other jobs in response to return to office mandate⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They have a name for it: Dead Sea Effect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Remember when planes and hospitals had smoking sections? (Probably a lot of you do not).⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I work in an office that was built in 1980. There are built-in ashtray slots in the restrooms. They’ve all been glued shut now, but it’s very obvious what they are.

  There’s a main atrium in the building surrounded by the wings of space for cubicles. I can only imagine the smoke cloud that must have hung in the air back in the day!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dangerous moment on the road⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  More like he got a drift letter… 😁

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨College professors are going back to paper exams and handwritten essays to fight students using ChatGPT⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I recently finished my degree, and exam-heavy courses were the bane of my existence. I could sit down with the homework, work out every problem completely with everything documented, and then sit to an exam and suddenly it’s “what’s a fluid? What’s energy? Is this a pencil?”

  The worst example was a course with three exams worth 30% of the grade, attendance 5% and homework 5%. I had to take the course twice; 100% on HW each time, but barely scraped by with a 70.4% after exams on the second attempt. Courses like that took years off my life in stress. :(