The Daily WTF: Curious Perversions in Information Technology

2006-09-29 Reply Admin

smbell:
I'm going to have to say that 'the real WTF™' here is that Paul was allowed (encouraged, forced?) to do C# programming in an all Java project rather than learning Java and building his piece in Java. They're really not that different. I'm best at Java, if I were to go to work for a C# shop I'd expect to be writing C# like everybody else.
Now a bunch of Java programmers are going to have to maintain that C# module. Of course that may lead to a series of more WTF's.
Of course it sounds like this whole organization was more concerned about company politics than producing a solid product. That's a WTF in itself.

Ohh please... any java programmer would recognize the the exceptions and the "java.net" to be a package in the java library and not a .NET thing... this just shows complete incompetence on the part of all those who looked at the code! They are the ones who should have been fired...

2006-10-02 Reply Admin

Free:
If that is real, perhaps the wisdom of adulthood and the financial stability of being a professional would permit one to hire a lawyer and see if something can be done to prevent this person from continuing in (or ever holding in the future ) a teaching position

As a parent who has seen this and worse, I can be believe it. However, getting the person removed from their post is as if not more difficult than impeaching a Supreme Court Justice. To give an example, my son was sent home *regularly* with math tests/quizess where he earned a dismal 30% correct. Written across the top were often the word "Great Job!!!".

His last "teacher" sent out a letter on how she teaches students, how she grades their english papers by what they should know and be able to do. No problem. I then graded here letter on that same standard. She scored a 62%.

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2006-10-02 Reply Admin

Anonymous:
Anonymous:
I hope Alex's mom flamed not only the teacher but the principal for that letter. And there is no way I would have let him serve that detention! Instead, make the teacher spend an hour in detention studying the metric system.
I suspect the detention was not for disagreeing, but for being rude or unruly.
There's an appropriate way to disagree, especially with supervisor.
Who knows, maybe the teacher was tying out some weird experiment, or maybe he was just a jerk.
In either case, the student does not have the right to be disruptive in the class.

Suspect in favor of the teacher all you want, but if the letter is real, the tone displayed by the teacher indicates that the son was not the source of disruption. The teacher clearly had an issue with his "authority" being questioned. Nothing is as disruptive as a teacher putting out false data, and then not being mature enough to admit a mistake. Well, nothing other than a teacher believing that students are to shut off their brains and accept whatever the teacher says.

Wonder if this Adam later went to work for NASA

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