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I'd consider it less dunking and more "what the freaking heck is your presentation actually about and what are you selling us in plain English"

 Vulcan wrote:

Generally, one does that once early in one's career. Then you are persona non grata in that company, get all the crummy jobs, no raise, no promotion, get dumped on by management... Afterward that, one learns to keep one's mouth shut in meetings unless one is the highest-ranked person there.

Bosses don't respond well to having their bovine excrement questioned.

Eh, I've not gotten a promotion or raise in a decade, despite most definitely having earned either or both for years.
So as a result, I've stopped pulling my punches when it comes to calling management on its bs.
In essence it's been the reverse for me.

When people type 'alot' instead of 'a lot'.

A lot of modern lingo leaves me just confused, luckily I have very little interaction with anyone born after the millennium... which helps a lot.

Yes, I did purposely start and end that paragraph with 'a lot' deliberately, you can thank me later.

That reminds me of another one that really fecks me off. Everyday instead of 'every day'.

If you want to say something happens every day, that's two words. Everyday is an adjective meaning commonplace, routine.

We have professionally printed signs at work saying "Quality. Own it everyday." They make my teeth itch.

Routinely owning quality sort of makes sense for a business sign, but they could certainly word it better.

Crispy78 wrote:
That reminds me of another one that really fecks me off. Everyday instead of 'every day'.

If you want to say something happens every day, that's two words. Everyday is an adjective meaning commonplace, routine.

We have professionally printed signs at work saying "Quality. Own it everyday." They make my teeth itch.

Not quite the same, but something that wound me up at work a few years back. Well, I say a few it’s probably a decade ago. In short, our offices were being renovated on floor at a time. When we moved in? Vinyl on the fridges declaring “brrrr!”, and by the sinks? “Splish splash”.

I ask you. We’re an office, we’re professionals. And we’re there because we’re clever, mature and rational. So why the nursery style “decorations”. Utterly ludicrous. What idiot signed that off.

We recently introduced a fething cartoon bird health and safety mascot...

Oh, and anyone that is a professional “consultant” or “consultancy” should be kept away from all businesses forever.

You don’t know what we do. You don’t know how we go about it. You don’t know why we do things the way we do, or the approach we takes. You’ve absolutely no idea what is involved in being good at what I do. And it takes a good six months to get a new recruit signed off - and even then it takes years to get a rounded experience.

So some tosser in a suit who’s no more than a poke-nose git trying to suggest we do things differently can get squarely in the bin, then in the sea. I don’t care what your degree makes you reckon would work. Because you’ve never done this job, and you may not even be capable of doing it - because not everyone is.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Oh, and anyone that is a professional “consultant” or “consultancy” should be kept away from all businesses forever.

You don’t know what we do. You don’t know how we go about it. You don’t know why we do things the way we do, or the approach we takes. You’ve absolutely no idea what is involved in being good at what I do. And it takes a good six months to get a new recruit signed off - and even then it takes years to get a rounded experience.

So some tosser in a suit who’s no more than a poke-nose git trying to suggest we do things differently can get squarely in the bin, then in the sea. I don’t care what your degree makes you reckon would work. Because you’ve never done this job, and you may not even be capable of doing it - because not everyone is.

Know you're just having a rant here, but this isn't universally true IME. I've seen every outcome when consultants were brought in. I've seen them bring some interesting insights. I've seen their advice completely screw up a business. And I've seen them assess situations accurately but not identify or suggest anything that internal folks haven't already offered. Two out of 3 of these results are solid outcomes. The third there may have been a waste of money, but it may also be a valuable confirmation of what you thought you knew.

But sure, I rant sometimes about putting so much value in the opinion of a 27 year old with an MBA from a fancy school. I took some MBA classwork too...there's no secret sauce there no matter how fancy the binders are. Still, the worst case I've experienced involved lots of more seasoned consultants...they just weren't very good.

That great thing about being a consultant, is you can charge the company a ton of money, deliver a recommendation, and then walk away and never see if they do or don't do it. You got paid whether they take the recommendations or not.



I actually love the fact that English is a constant and evolving language. Things that were a no-go in the past, can be acceptable today. Things that we use commonly today, will be gone next year. Keeps things interesting.

I'm still bothered that Hoverboards did not hover in any way. What is marketed as AI isn't really AI so I wonder what we will call it when he have an actual AI break though.

 Ahtman wrote:
I'm still bothered that Hoverboards did not hover in any way. What is marketed as AI isn't really AI so I wonder what we will call it when he have an actual AI break though.

Artificial Sentience, because that’s actually what we mean when we talk about artificial intelligence in a sci-fi context.

 Jadenim wrote:

 Ahtman wrote:
I'm still bothered that Hoverboards did not hover in any way. What is marketed as AI isn't really AI so I wonder what we will call it when he have an actual AI break though.

Artificial Sentience, because that’s actually what we mean when we talk about artificial intelligence in a sci-fi context.

That is part of why it is so annoying. We used AI to mean sentient for decades and then in the last few years just switched it to describe something else. *shakes fist angrily at cloud*

There's levels. Artificial General Intelligence is the next step, where the AI is not limited to a single specific function but operates more like a sentient mind, and can perform similarly to humans at a variety of cognitive tasks.

Beyond that is Artificial Super Intelligence, which is where the AI can vastly out-perform humans.

 Ahtman wrote:

 Jadenim wrote:

 Ahtman wrote:
I'm still bothered that Hoverboards did not hover in any way. What is marketed as AI isn't really AI so I wonder what we will call it when he have an actual AI break though.

Artificial Sentience, because that’s actually what we mean when we talk about artificial intelligence in a sci-fi context.

That is part of why it is so annoying. We used AI to mean sentient for decades and then in the last few years just switched it to describe something else. *shakes fist angrily at cloud*

Marketing and sloppy journalism. It is so annoying.

 Ahtman wrote:
I'm still bothered that Hoverboards did not hover in any way. What is marketed as AI isn't really AI so I wonder what we will call it when he have an actual AI break though.

Yeah, "Hover"boards tick me right the heck off.

They're just on wheels! They don't hover. At all.

And they don’t work on water.

…unless you have power.

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
And they don’t work on water.

…unless you have power.

this gem of horror has just cropped up on the film review thread:

"Interquel"

Good grief...

 JNAProductions wrote:

 Ahtman wrote:
I'm still bothered that Hoverboards did not hover in any way. What is marketed as AI isn't really AI so I wonder what we will call it when he have an actual AI break though.

Yeah, "Hover"boards tick me right the heck off.

They're just on wheels! They don't hover. At all.

Technically they do make the rider hover when they inevitably explode?

Only time I’ve seen one in real life, it was being ridden by a Hipster down my road, holding up the traffic.

That’s not an advert any product can come back from.

 Flinty wrote:
this gem of horror has just cropped up on the film review thread:

"Interquel"

Good grief...

What is it supposed to mean..?

Its a sequel that is positioned between two pre-existing films in the in-universe timeline...

Ghaz helpfully provided a link to an even bigger archive of hairsplittingness!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequel#Classifications

 Flinty wrote:
Its a sequel that is positioned between two pre-existing films in the in-universe timeline...

Ghaz helpfully provided a link to an even bigger archive of hairsplittingness!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequel#Classifications

...so something like Rogue One?

 Flinty wrote:
this gem of horror has just cropped up on the film review thread:

"Interquel"

Good grief...

Seriously. I looked up when the new Alien movie was set and I saw that word and thought I was having a stroke. Had to post it to make sure I wasn't the only one!

I mostly see children using Hoverboards.

Is there a term for a more or less acceptable film, such as Alien Resurrection, where general appreciation increases because what follow was utterly dreadful?

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Is there a term for a more or less acceptable film, such as Alien Resurrection, where general appreciation increases because what follow was utterly dreadful?

"The end"?

 Easy E wrote:
I mostly see children using Hoverboards.

Who is using it doesn't change that it is not hovering.

 Vulcan wrote:

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Is there a term for a more or less acceptable film, such as Alien Resurrection, where general appreciation increases because what follow was utterly dreadful?

"The end"?

It’s called God Emperor of Dune…

Heretics of Dune wasn’t that bad. It had chairdogs.