Don't tell me about the real world you 6th year senior piece of shit, i was a repair technician on heavy construction equipment for 4 years before i came to school here for engineering, and I know when you need to be careful of little mistakes. When you get done with your web design degree and become unemployable not quite artist who sold out and didn't even get paid well for it, and you have more student debt than your 'temporary' job at best buy could ever repay you, i hope the fact that you once had the power to drop someones grade for a whole class from an A+ to a C because they call a single module in a single program a different name than you wrote in your little outline makes your life feel like less of a total loss.

[Edited on April 22, 2008 at 9:04 PM. Reason : ]

[Edited on April 22, 2008 at 9:05 PM. Reason : ]

4/22/2008 9:03:40 PM

Fail?

4/22/2008 9:04:34 PM

well im sure he will see this

4/22/2008 9:04:54 PM

On the real tip though, if he reads this, you are FUCKED

4/22/2008 9:05:44 PM

why dont you try complaining about it to him

4/22/2008 9:06:36 PM

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"On the real tip though, if he reads this, you are FUCKED"

4/22/2008 9:07:34 PM

yeah well the little bastard would probably call security on me if I so much as scowled at him. The level of smug bastardness here was beyond anything I've ever seen. It was like being lectured on responsibility by a hobbit.

4/22/2008 9:08:09 PM

is pilgrimshoes your TA?

4/22/2008 9:09:06 PM

what will security do

4/22/2008 9:09:14 PM

wow these ranting about someone you're pissed at threads grow fast.

4/22/2008 9:09:32 PM

Why the fuck is a hobbit any less capable than a normal person of lecturing you on responsibility?

4/22/2008 9:09:44 PM

the life lesson here is that people, in general, suck ass

4/22/2008 9:09:52 PM

this is why we can't have nice things have aliases.

lol is this for Computer Science One Hundred and Twelve - Formula Translation?

4/22/2008 9:10:07 PM

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"The level of smug bastardness here was beyond anything I've ever seen."

does he talk with his eyes closed and smell his own farts?

4/22/2008 9:10:09 PM

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"HEAVY CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT"

4/22/2008 9:12:34 PM

yeah, its an easy class I had 100s in everything, the subject matter isn't the issue its that i called a module Functions.o instead of module2.o. It isn't even the grade, i can take a C instead of a A+ its just that i should get a A+ and he was so smug and condescending, like he was talking to a 4 year old asking him why they shoulden't shit themselves.

4/22/2008 9:13:53 PM

honestly, i dont see the big deal with smelling your own farts

am i right

4/22/2008 9:13:59 PM

ok

ill give it to you just because i do it to know if i need to leave the area if i just dropped a nasty one

but the eyes closed thing, that just is unacceptable

the combo, total smug

4/22/2008 9:15:51 PM

sucks for you.

it says on every assignment what to name the files.
the graders just have a macro so that they don't have to individually go in and check 100s of files to see what they are named. Its a shitty but necessary piece of the puzzle, otherwise they'd have to allow everyone to name everything whatever they wanted and not make exceptions for people.

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"Submit the files: part2.f95 -> Program that uses Module. module2.f95 -> Module containing 6 function and any necessary subroutines to print menus to screen. "

4/22/2008 9:16:24 PM

^again, im sure there are reasons, but i wish i could convey the level of smugness were talking about here

4/22/2008 9:17:22 PM

bet you won't make that mistake again, amirite?

4/22/2008 9:19:39 PM

just wondering if this affects the FINAL grade or just the grade for one assignment. If its just one assignment and you have 100s on all the others Id just say. Stop your bitching. its engineering all the TAs have their heads of their asses

4/22/2008 9:20:38 PM

this is just like bitching because you forgot to shade in the write circles for your name on the SAT or something.

4/22/2008 9:21:17 PM

i can see maybe knocking you down to a B for that but not a C

4/22/2008 9:21:27 PM

Walls1441 is obviously your TA.

4/22/2008 9:21:32 PM

You wouldn't go from a A+ to a C if you just missed one Inlab.

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"The final grade in the course is based on lab grades 2-9 (80%), 13 in-class quizzes (10%), and the final exam/term project (10%)"

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"G[78-80)=C+; G[73-78)=C; G[70-73)=C"

lol i'm not his TA, i just had 2 of my in labs not show in my locker so i had to go to the graders a few times and listen to all of this

4/22/2008 9:23:06 PM

AHAHA

4/22/2008 9:23:58 PM

Dude if you didn't have such an attitude problem you might have gotten farther with him. Don't start out bitching out out a TA and expect results. Especially not when you are talking shit about him and other TA's loud enough for us to hear you before even talking to us. I believe you had a B chief so stop being a tool. Its quite humorous that you are still this worked up over this when this conversation happened 5 hours previously .

oh and by the way I am glad Pack shut your bitchy ass down. Rodman agrees as well. enjoy your B jackass

4/22/2008 9:46:59 PM

wait... you're saying that the code in the file was correct, you just misnamed the file and that killed your grade?

4/22/2008 10:05:34 PM

WHY YES, I BELIEVE THAT IS WHAT HE IS SAYING

4/22/2008 10:05:55 PM

shit just got real

4/22/2008 10:18:23 PM

i keep thinking about this when i see the thread title

4/22/2008 10:21:02 PM

oh sn@p!

4/22/2008 10:22:19 PM

PROGRAM FORTRAN
IF YEAR(1960)
get job at bank
ELSE
continue learning
END

4/22/2008 10:22:22 PM

It was me. I dropped your dumbass grade. You deserved it. Do something about it.

4/22/2008 10:23:35 PM

tell me if i'm wrong here... but this is how i'm seeing what happened

wait he's just bitching because he didnt follow the rules AT ALL, and in turn the teacher had to individually pull his work and read through it and make sure he got it because he couldnt name it the right way so it would just run it in the batch with the other 200 modules he got that night?

most people would have failed you for not following directions.... and then the rest would have failed you for making them do extra work.

your best bet would have been to email him or approach him in person and beg or claim stupidity. hopefully he doesnt read tww (Which he probably does) and you can still maybe get another chance to resubmit it the right way so it can be graded like the rest

rule #1 about life (im learning new ones every day). you gotta stick your tail between your legs every time you come up against someone who could wipe you out.

4/22/2008 10:33:07 PM

^for sure. kissing ass will take you a long way.

4/22/2008 10:38:34 PM

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"because they call a single module in a single program a different name than you wrote in your little outline makes your life feel like less of a total loss."

Sounds like failure to follow directions to me. I wonder what your boss would think?

4/22/2008 11:00:09 PM

did NASA screw up awhile back by not using the metric system on something...and cost billions. small errors can be costly!

4/22/2008 11:01:33 PM

Prayer and bitching about stuff on TWW don't change shit. Get pissed.

4/22/2008 11:05:48 PM

Dude that sucks.

But I have seen bottles of chemicals worth hundreds of dollars ruined by people who somehow got into grad school at chapel hill for chemistry

Because they couldn't follow simple directions to NOT contaminate said bottles of chemicals for the whole class

4/22/2008 11:10:14 PM

I hear they smell their own farts in San Francisco.

[Edited on April 22, 2008 at 11:23 PM. Reason : that does suck, man]

4/22/2008 11:23:03 PM

What they did to your grade seems harsh, but you have only yourself to blame if you didn't follow their directions to the letter. You claim to have been in the real world for quite some time, you ought to know by now what happens when you don't do what other people ask you to do.

4/22/2008 11:26:18 PM

Don't come to TWW looking for sympathy. I've tried it. Everyone here is a giant asshole.

4/22/2008 11:39:24 PM

dude I feel for you
all the worst, most arrogant, most ruthless TAs I've had were all for computer science classes
they think because they have acquired the ability to write code, it makes them badass or something

I really think it has to do with a sort of Napoleonesque complex, but dealing w/ social success rather than height...many of them are fat virgins and losers, so they enjoy having power and feeling superior about something

4/22/2008 11:47:07 PM

It's not so much putting your tail between your legs and kissing ass; it's being respectful.

4/23/2008 12:04:16 AM

^^ funniest part is that 1/2 of them(TA's) in csc aren't actually even good at programming. only fat and virgins.

4/23/2008 12:14:55 AM

now lets not act like we're all super special cause we didnt fuck up some directions at some point

skip this post if you dont like me, or dont like reading. read it if you wanna read some dumb story about me getting yelled at at work today for not following rules

first thing this morning i caught some hell from someone "above" me. i dont report to him, but he reads my work and reports to our mutual boss. so he's like my step-boss kinda. pointless job, he's probably married to the owner's daughter.

anyways, i got in, got to my chair, took my coat off, hung it on my chair. before i even set my coffee down, he was all whining about something that i fucked up on last week. (heres where it relates to the thread... i can't say shit, causeit was specifically in the instructions not to use the method i did. but i didn't read them cause "i do this shit all the time" and 99 times out of 100 i do it the other way, so i figured it was the only way... plus i had a busy day friday and was trying to get done and get outta there to go get whitey off my payroll.

of course the person (cant fire me, but has more pull) was giving me shit about it for like 30 minutes. and of course i get pretty damned annoyed. and of course i was butthurt cause no one likes to get their little ego hurt at work. so he kept on messing with me for a while, and all i wanted to say was "dude, great, you did your fucking job! i'm glad i messed up for once, this is the first real work you've done in 2008" and then yell and scream and go home and go back to bed. but this is why rehab costs the big bucks!!1

instead, i said "thanks a lot, man. that could have reflected really badly on me if it got out of the office. i really appreciate you looking out for me like that." -- made it sound like he was doing it cause he wanted to, cause he loves me... and not cause thats what QC guys get paid for. then i spent the next half hour writing 3 different test batches and emailed them to him and our boss, then walked to his office to see which he'd prefer i use for that instruction in the future.

he didn't even care, that was the best part. he saw a chance to be annoying, and he bitched and assumed it was done. but me, being the best employee ever, took it as a chance to make sure i was being all i could be. he asked me which one i found best out of my 15 trial runs, and i told him. and he said, "ok use that". and that was that

yes that was a long and ALMOST pointless story. but its important to let people take shit out on you sometimes, ESPECIALLY if you actually fuck up. and if they're just doing it to be a shithead, its SO MUCH FUN to go the extra mile to pretend like you're losing sleep over the error and bugging them with a solution so that it never happens again!

4/23/2008 12:21:26 AM

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"this is just like bitching because you forgot to shade in the write circles for your name on the SAT or something."

How'd you do on the SAT?

4/23/2008 12:26:16 AM

set em up

4/23/2008 12:26:42 AM