I do this alot but I alway follow up with "Do you know what blah is?" and depending on age/experience/acronym or term I ask them to explain it.

Sometimes I get assigned work with a senior engineer(where I learn) and sometimes I get asked to help a new person. For example right now I'm in a project being driven by a senior engineer but was asked to assist a professional development program employee(or pdp) to actually execute the project. As a result this is the habit I developed to 1. Make sure I don't confuse people with random acronyms or terms 2. Ensure we are on the same regarding definition(and they are not just saying yes I know when they don't).

I decided to move out of my mother's house. I found a place to rent, it was 1.7 miles from my job. It was just a room in a house but it was good enough. I decided to take it and called the owner.

We met at 5:00 at the panera bread after I got out of work. I signed my first ever real contract. It was my first big boy official legally binding contract.

Next day I go to work all excited and telling everyone about it. I hear there is a all employee meeting. Then all contractors get sent home early. I go to the meeting...

They announce they are closing the facility. Everyone will be let go. If we want to move to the new location we will be given priority otherwise it was nice to work with us.

Less than 24 hours after signing a legally binding contract I was going to be jobless.

Eventually I agreed to move. I have grown in my career. I live with my girlfriend who I met her. I still work with the same company.

Overall it's a improvement over my previous experience and it was 9 years ago...

I'm a real man... I'm going to work at Hitachi making large heavy construction equipment... Like cranes and back loaders... Wait what do you mean "personal massager department"????

my entire family has diarrhea it runs in our jeans....

I mean the white house did say we should start building with rust...

I've told this story before it's funny so I'll repeat it... It was the early 2000s and I heard a song on the radio where a man made a bunch of funny sounds with his voice and the only lyrics I remembered were "I'm the scat man". I was interested to see what else he made...

I went on to kazza and search "scat man", found a video I assumed was a music video and downloaded... Several hours later (56k modem)...

My childhood was lost forever.

Several years ago mountain dew had the following prices

20 oz - $2

1 liter - $2

2 liter - $2

1.5 liter - $1

It wasn't a sale, they had these prices on several stores for over a year.

This has already happened....

https://spectrum.ieee.org/bionic-eye-obsolete

I had a Microsoft support scammer once... I let him in to my system too..well not really.

I quickly spin up a quick fresh install of slack ware Linux in a virtual machine that didn't even have x11 never mind wine installed. When it was up I told him a friend uses something called tellynet (aka telnet but I was playing dumb) to help me on the computer.

He telnetted in and could not understand why any of his malware wasn't working...

The worst code I have ever seen, the truly horrible stuff that gives me nightmares was written by myself six months ago.

Why does everyone jump to murder?

"what did you do on purge night?"

"I took everything from the local Walmart and now drive a fararri on weekends and a Maserati on week days."

I think a boot camp would be really useful for cobblers