My (one and hopefully only) ramble about school
It's been a long three years. And when I say long, I mean looooooooooooooooooooooooong. So far, my kids have been nice enough to keep me around, but I do need to watch how much of the Apprentice my five year old watches because he keeps telling me "You're fired!" My question is: How come he can remember to fire me, but can't remember what I told him five seconds ago?
Anyhow, this last University of Phoenix class is a killer! Five weeks of solid reading and writing about ethics. Being in Houston, I have to wonder how many good examples of bad ethics one person can take. Enron, Anderson Consulting, and several others are here for my choosing, but I am rather tired of hearing about all of them. Long story short, they were guilty and probably won't get half the punishment that they deserve. I guess money can by you almost anything these days, including shorter prison sentances. For us regular folk that live paycheck to paycheck, we probably won't find that out. My advice on doing the crime: don't. If you can't afford to purchase a lawyer, you really shouldn't be looking to do a crime.
Looking over my assignments, I see that I have to do a workplace dilemma paper. 700 - 1500 words of doublespaced, APA formatted paper bliss. What gets me is that you are to draw from an experience that you have had since you have been in the UoP program. Thankfully, I have worked with a moron that has saved my butt more than once by providing good writing material. Said moron had a habit of placing the blame on everyone but himself. Before he left the job that we worked at together, I became the scape goat.
It was rather humorous when I look back at it now, but I can admit that I was fuming at the time. Moron tries placing blame on two other people before he reaches me. Why he started on the other two, I can only guess. But one of them was a female that knew more than he did about computers and networking. Not bad considering he had a degree and she didn't. Throw in that she had only worked in this one place for a few years and he had (supposed) years of experience behind him. She could do cartwheels around him when it came to fixing a problem. His idea of a solution to fix a video card? He reinstalled the email and network clients after replacing the video card. He never did install the drivers for the card and couldn't figure out why he could only get 640 x 480 @ 16 colors. This was a typical solution for everything for him. If the PC was broken, reinstall email and network clients. Even if the printer was broken, this was the fix. I've got a million examples here from this guy.
So before he leaves, read: gets canned, he decides to bring me in on his list of excuses to do things. Although I wasn't ever told what all I was blamed for, my former boss told me that the charges were absolutely ridiculous and to not worry about them. The thing that got my hackles up though was that he accused me, on the day that he left via his home email address, of stealing a laptop from a company that I had worked for 2 years prior. How did he come to this conclusion? Let's see:
I worked as a sub contractor for a company and they had me go to various sites to aid in a companies consolodation. When all was said and done, there were a few break ins that occured at the new site. The crooks were caught on video, but could not be identified completely. Some networking equipment, PCs, and laptops were taken, if memory serves me. How did he tie me to one of these laptops? Simple. His wife worked for the company that I was contracted to during the same time the stuff was stolen.
Problem #1: She worked where I never went.
Problem #2: The only equipment stolen from her place of employment were laptops.
Problem #3: I had a laptop and never argued that I didn't.
Problem #4: My laptop was not a Dell (which was her company's standard issue).
So moron man heard that I worked for the same company as his wife, but ignored the differences in where I worked in comparison to where she worked, heard that I had a laptop, but didn't hear that I had a different brand, and finally, didn't take the time to put all of these things together. Brilliant! So now, I have that much more that I can write about and graduate with a BS in IT. Thanks Moron Man! You have completed yet another assignment for me!
So with four more weeks to go, as long as we stay on this topic of idiocy, I'm set for material to write my next 80 or so papers required.
Anyhow, this last University of Phoenix class is a killer! Five weeks of solid reading and writing about ethics. Being in Houston, I have to wonder how many good examples of bad ethics one person can take. Enron, Anderson Consulting, and several others are here for my choosing, but I am rather tired of hearing about all of them. Long story short, they were guilty and probably won't get half the punishment that they deserve. I guess money can by you almost anything these days, including shorter prison sentances. For us regular folk that live paycheck to paycheck, we probably won't find that out. My advice on doing the crime: don't. If you can't afford to purchase a lawyer, you really shouldn't be looking to do a crime.
Looking over my assignments, I see that I have to do a workplace dilemma paper. 700 - 1500 words of doublespaced, APA formatted paper bliss. What gets me is that you are to draw from an experience that you have had since you have been in the UoP program. Thankfully, I have worked with a moron that has saved my butt more than once by providing good writing material. Said moron had a habit of placing the blame on everyone but himself. Before he left the job that we worked at together, I became the scape goat.
It was rather humorous when I look back at it now, but I can admit that I was fuming at the time. Moron tries placing blame on two other people before he reaches me. Why he started on the other two, I can only guess. But one of them was a female that knew more than he did about computers and networking. Not bad considering he had a degree and she didn't. Throw in that she had only worked in this one place for a few years and he had (supposed) years of experience behind him. She could do cartwheels around him when it came to fixing a problem. His idea of a solution to fix a video card? He reinstalled the email and network clients after replacing the video card. He never did install the drivers for the card and couldn't figure out why he could only get 640 x 480 @ 16 colors. This was a typical solution for everything for him. If the PC was broken, reinstall email and network clients. Even if the printer was broken, this was the fix. I've got a million examples here from this guy.
So before he leaves, read: gets canned, he decides to bring me in on his list of excuses to do things. Although I wasn't ever told what all I was blamed for, my former boss told me that the charges were absolutely ridiculous and to not worry about them. The thing that got my hackles up though was that he accused me, on the day that he left via his home email address, of stealing a laptop from a company that I had worked for 2 years prior. How did he come to this conclusion? Let's see:
I worked as a sub contractor for a company and they had me go to various sites to aid in a companies consolodation. When all was said and done, there were a few break ins that occured at the new site. The crooks were caught on video, but could not be identified completely. Some networking equipment, PCs, and laptops were taken, if memory serves me. How did he tie me to one of these laptops? Simple. His wife worked for the company that I was contracted to during the same time the stuff was stolen.
Problem #1: She worked where I never went.
Problem #2: The only equipment stolen from her place of employment were laptops.
Problem #3: I had a laptop and never argued that I didn't.
Problem #4: My laptop was not a Dell (which was her company's standard issue).
So moron man heard that I worked for the same company as his wife, but ignored the differences in where I worked in comparison to where she worked, heard that I had a laptop, but didn't hear that I had a different brand, and finally, didn't take the time to put all of these things together. Brilliant! So now, I have that much more that I can write about and graduate with a BS in IT. Thanks Moron Man! You have completed yet another assignment for me!
So with four more weeks to go, as long as we stay on this topic of idiocy, I'm set for material to write my next 80 or so papers required.
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