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[Victorian Squid]

Good fucking grief I am sick of college students who are too stupid to know how to enter a wifi password on their own devices.

Bad enough you tell them the password, an author's name everyone has read by college, and they ask you how to spell it.

Get bitchy with me again, see where that gets you. If the only person in the room unable to access the wifi is you, that is because you are an idiot.

Aaaand, before I can even type this gripe, another team of two fine young academics can't between the two of them spell "Hemingway".

[bkthomson]

Great! Here is the the future!

[Chesscub]

Good fucking grief I am sick of college students who are too stupid to know how to enter a wifi password on their own devices.

Bad enough you tell them the password, an author's name everyone has read by college, and they ask you how to spell it.

Get bitchy with me again, see where that gets you. If the only person in the room unable to access the wifi is you, that is because you are an idiot.

Aaaand, before I can even type this gripe, another team of two fine young academics can't between the two of them spell "Hemingway".

Speling iz empoortunt.

[Guest]

Maybe they don't like the author? Although its pretty easy to access wifi...so perhaps they are dumb. You still sound like a dick for getting frustrated because they asked you how to spell....maybe you talk with a heavy accent or speech impediment?

/fahd'd

[S.F. Jude Terror]

Maybe they don't like the author? Although its pretty easy to access wifi...so perhaps they are dumb. You still sound like a dick for getting frustrated because they asked you how to spell....maybe you talk with a heavy accent or speech impediment?

/fahd'd

[outsider]

I recently encountered this next generation during a construction meeting, and the intriguing mixture of entitlement and infinite knowledge base. This young guy is in his early 20s and is working for his father's company. He had a really cocky attitude and acted like everyone in the room should be hanging on every word. I've always shrugged off the claims that the current batch of 20-somethings have that attitude, but this guy was the embodiment of it.

My boss and I were discussing this on the way back to the office. I said if the 20-somethings/recent college grads are as smart as they want us to believe, please please PLEASE tell us how to fix the economy. I'll gladly give them keys to the kingdom if they can fix it.

[outsider]

How else would you spell Hemingway?

Hemmingway?
Hemingwai?
Himengwei?

[Benderbrau]

But college chicks are hot

[Victorian Squid]

But college chicks are hot

The obvious counter-balance.

Full disclosure, the string of wifi goofballs I was having this morning were mostly guys and one older female grad student (40-ish). I was enjoying how few collegians can actually spell before she came back up. She kept insisting it wasn't her, it was the wifi service, which no one else, myself included, was having issues with. I suggested putting the password in again, and suggested mildly she might have misspelled it since that was the order of the day and everyone else was, but that's when she kind of got haughty with me and insisted it was the wifi.

The weird thing is, usually I don't mind going over to someone's laptop and entering the password without trying to make them feel dumb about it, but she had a small smartphone-looking device wired to what looked like a keyboard made of cardboard she'd scissored off of the back of a cereal box and folded. And I figured, if she can't work that mess, neither can I.

I noticed she seemed to have figured it out after a while, I suspect it was another earnest Heminway mistake. (Or Hemmingway, the other leader in misspelling as far as I can tell.)

[blah]

Maybe they don't like the author? Although its pretty easy to access wifi...so perhaps they are dumb. You still sound like a dick for getting frustrated because they asked you how to spell....maybe you talk with a heavy accent or speech impediment?

/fahd'd

I'd ask, "Maybe they never read the author?" instead, since they might dislike the author but still have read him and know how his name's spelled. Then again, they might be bad spellers anyway even if they read one of his works. And it might be the case that these guys are engineering students who wouldn't be required to read Hemingway in the first place.
I wouldn't call 'em dumb or call him a dick.
I like the accent part though, I don't think I would've come up with it on the spot since we're online; it's a good point.

[Victorian Squid]

True, that was really secondary to how many can't put the wifi password in their own laptops/smartphones.

[Kolimar]

[Dragavon]

Oh, they are fucking stupid.

I'm in a stats class, and the professor puts up this formula on the board (just to demonstrate a graph):

Distance = Speed x Time

The fucking genius next to me asks the professor if you can use that formula if you are given the distance and the time.

This smiley demonstrates what I wanted to do him. Fortunately I had nothing heavy within arm's length otherwise I would have been charged with assault.

[muddyglass]

Oh, they are fucking stupid.

I'm in a stats class, and the professor puts up this formula on the board (just to demonstrate a graph):

Distance = Speed x Time

The fucking genius next to me asks the professor if you can use that formula if you are given the distance and the time.

This smiley demonstrates what I wanted to do him. Fortunately I had nothing heavy within arm's length otherwise I would have been charged with assault.

no, of course you can't.

you need to use the completely unrelated formula: speed = distance / time

[Dragavon]

no, of course you can't.

you need to use the completely unrelated formula: speed = distance / time

Don't make me slap you!