Once I'm through security, I love flying. Wandering around the airport, people watching, plenty of time to read, perfectly acceptable day drinking. It's all good.

Cool Jesse! Not everyone tests well. My son Brendon tests absurdly high always and is basically non-functional, while his dad tests horribly and is extremely capable. Both brilliant, but only one knows how to use it.

Yeah, testing well is definitely a skill that gets you very far right up until it completely stops doing anything at all for you! Which is a shock for many of us.....

We have that to, but only in Arts and Sciences. We want to extend it to Nursing School and then, I will volunteer.

WRT testing, I am super good at it. Like, I can pass the nursing licensure exam without ever having taken classes. I usually go in to the test prep classes to demonstrate to the students how much of passing is just test taking skills and that that is what they need to focus on now that their nursing education is done, because they NEED to pass to work

Vortex, I think tone is the trick, which is hard when you're peeved! But if you have any kind of leadership role, you can just say that, but nicely.

I literally cannot control my tone. I sound like a condescending asshole. I hate it. Like, I have no tone between infinite patience and condescending asshole tone. Even if I try to sound nice, I sound super annoyed. I need lessons

Also, I need to share this cute sample video I made of my kitten [link]

In other news, I am on vacation and have been working since 7 am! The Beginning of the school years is terrible

My pet peeve that I cannot control my tone over right now is that I work with people who cannot use browser tabs or bookmarks or the address bar. So if we navigate away from what they have set as their homepage (like our Learning Management system) the way they navigate back is to close the browser and reopen it. Like, if they need to have the LMS and another thing open at once, it blows their minds and they use two different browsers.

Kitten! That does not sound very vacation-like, Sophia.

After several delays my plane did leave. Arrived at 3:30am. If it were not for the pure adrenaline of getting to see my hopeful future home, I would be a pile of gronk. I have driven by house 3 times and scoped our the hood like a creeper.

Super yum food a local all scratch bakery, so I'll be gaining weight.

If people cannot do basic web navigation they should not have a job that uses a computer. I will die on this hill.

Also it is not hard to learn, so by remaining ignorant is willful on their part.

Yesterday I told someone to X out of a tab, and then sort of shouted "Not that "x"!!!!" As they closed their whole browser. The back button seems to be a challenge too.

Unfortunately, I do not know how to test for this in job interviews where we are unable to perform a skills test. We are told it is illegal, and that I don't believe, but not actually a hill I am willing to die on, because there are only so many hills and I only have so much social capital!

It is also endemic in my job, because there are so many nurses, and they are horrible with the web. So then they hire staff who are also horrible. And the upside is that they think I am Penelope Garcia levels of tech savvy as I zip around, but also, I want to kill them. They are also afraid to delete anything ever, so they save 42 copies of the same document even though we use Box which has versioning. And everything is a mess

If people cannot do basic web navigation they should not have a job that uses a computer. I will die on this hill.

One of the things I love about freelancing is that I no longer work in an office full of people who have no idea how to use computers and think I'm a damn shaman for knowing how to (I am not lying) open a file. My old boss tried to open every file through Word. Even if they weren't .doc files. She would open Word, then go to the menu bar and select Open, and be utterly baffled when she would try to open, say, a PDF and Word wouldn't let her. No matter how many times I showed her to go double-click on the damn icon in the Finder, the very next time she had a non-.doc file format, she'd try to open it through Word again.

Another co-worker had like 5 GB of music...on the server, not his own hard drive. He got busted for that one, and when he was told it's fine to have music on his computer, but it has to be on his hard drive, he asked, "What do you mean, it's not on my computer? It plays on my computer, doesn't it?"

And my favorite was the co-worker who, every goddamn morning, would start her computer and then sit and stare complacently at a completely dark screen for a good 3 minutes (I did time her once) before it would occur to her to TURN ON THE FUCKING MONITOR.