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My professional burden has been saddled with people who want applause for taking twice as long to less than 50% of the same amount. And those numbers are probably generous.

Unfortunately? I’d call that fortunate. Glad you made it out of WoW alive

That's a bonus award in Smash Bros Melee, did they also call you a bird of prey or peaceful warrior? Maybe you misinterpreted.

I see why you would be working as an electrician.

JK, I'm the same way. I'm fast and good at my job and that's why I'm not cheap.

Dude how tf did u manage to retire at 38 and have a house? Like u must be literally a millionaire.

I had a great manager a few years ago. Basically it was a manufacturing job. At the beginning of the shift(or near it) he would come by you and say something like "I need 150 devices done tonight". Near the end of the shift he would come by and ask how many devices you got done.

As long as you got done the number he asked for he didn't care. Take an extra 10 minutes on lunch? Having stomach issues and used the bathroom for 30 minutes? Take a personal phone call? Had a chat with a co-worker about how they got engaged this weekend? All perfectly acceptable, as long as you got done with the 150 devices. If a machine broke or some material ran out so you couldn't complete it? Acceptable because it was outside of your control.

That said, if you didn't get the number he wanted done but everything at your station was fine I'll describe him with 3 attributes 1. Puerto Rican 2. Ex-marine 3. Drill Sargent!

Next few days he would be on you for every thing since you showed you couldn't be trusted to do what was expected. He would check periodically that you were at your station. He would check every hour or so to make sure you were on schedule to get the required work done that day instead of just checking at end of day. This of course added extra work for him which he didn't like. Do it too often and you had a not so nice "meeting".

But... Do what was expected (almost always reasonable) and he left you alone. You didn't have to watch a clock for exact minutes. It was assumed you were an adult and could accomplish what was asked without constant monitoring, until you proved you couldn't.

Whelp, math is all about the tedious details

It's usually an understandable thing to expect for a math problem, but sometimes they can get pretty petty with it when the skipped parts are obvious for that level of understanding

I once had a teacher write “I have no idea how you got here, but this correct” on a test.

I’d forgotten some trig identity and derived the cosine law and then solved for all the angles with it to get the answer.

It was like that math joke where a mathematician is asked to boil water. The first time he takes the pot off the shelf, fills it with water, then puts it on the stove and boils it.

The next day he’s asked to boil water again. The pot is on the counter with water in it. He dumps the water out, and puts it back on the shelf, as that is a known solved state for boiling water.

So why memorize the formula we were studying when I could just solve more angles and then get the lengths.

This works, until it doesn't. And then you can't go back and find the mistake, and save time by both realizing the error part and not having to redo it all to get there.

I get it, I was bad about that too, but any form of writing improves the understanding of the concepts because it uses a different part of the brain that I think retains better than the one doing the thinking work.