omg with this! i can't count the number of completely useless seminars i went to where this was the M.O. dude, if i wanted something read aloud to me, i'd've stayed home with an Audible!
Oof. I used to work With this CEO. When we sold the company, even after the buyer said I think we’ve seen enough and got out his checkbook, the CEO responded, “Hold on. I have just a few more slides.” He had 57 more slides. 😞
I had a college instructor who conducted every class this way. He also relied entirely on computer-scored tests... which consistently had terrible typos, wrong answers, incomprehensible questions, and overall "Could he get any lazier‽" It was at least a weekly practice of me having to go to his office with incorrectly scored tests and proof that my answer was correct. But he was so lazy that after less than a few weeks he just told his uncompensated student assistant to head me off and just correct my scores whenever I challenged. No, the errors were never fixed.
It was quite a dissatisfactory student experience. Especially since it was an advanced course on computing security.
Noooooooooooo!!!
omg with this! i can't count the number of completely useless seminars i went to where this was the M.O. dude, if i wanted something read aloud to me, i'd've stayed home with an Audible!
So many conferences... just. like. this.
And don't get me started on the military.
Oof. I used to work With this CEO. When we sold the company, even after the buyer said I think we’ve seen enough and got out his checkbook, the CEO responded, “Hold on. I have just a few more slides.” He had 57 more slides. 😞
…and this is the moment Bob knew he f’ed up 😅
If hell exists, this is it.
I'll start my next presentation with this slide...
Friday 4PM
Which layer of hell is this and how can I make sure I don't end up there?
Why?
I had a college instructor who conducted every class this way. He also relied entirely on computer-scored tests... which consistently had terrible typos, wrong answers, incomprehensible questions, and overall "Could he get any lazier‽" It was at least a weekly practice of me having to go to his office with incorrectly scored tests and proof that my answer was correct. But he was so lazy that after less than a few weeks he just told his uncompensated student assistant to head me off and just correct my scores whenever I challenged. No, the errors were never fixed.
It was quite a dissatisfactory student experience. Especially since it was an advanced course on computing security.
Daily life
Haha thank you. very recognizable!
And I was thinking about just this the other day. Honestly, if you’re simply going to read the slide to me, just let me read it for myself…
Then again I do understand why people do this, it’s because the see everyone else do it, and what else do you fall back on when you’re nervous?
The best slides are sparsely filled with a keyword here and there, mostly as cues or conversation starters.