What Are You Doing Right Now
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
The prank I played at my highschool almost got me expelled actually (and I never got into trouble in school until it). I noticed when I drove past the school that the junior prom was going on--I was a senior at the time. So I came up with this plan to mess with the juniors. My friend and I bought poster board, a basket and some condoms and wrote "Free Condoms Please Have Safe Sex" on the poster board. Little did I know that the theme of the prom was the red carpet. So the couples would walk down the carpet into the building and their parents were outside of it taking pictures of them. That didn't go as planned. That didn't go as planned at all.
How could they expel you for that? What was even the point of contention?
The parents were so distraught over me ASSUMING their kids were having sex after prom that they basically tried to get me expelled
Random people asking for you to be expelled and being at risk of being expelled are not the same thing. Red Hat asked a Wall St. bank to fire me, doesn't mean I was in any way at risk of losing my job. Just a random third party with their own interests.
The principle told me I was going to be expelled but I guess he couldn't actually do it. It was a lot closer than just people asking for it
Did they ever give you a reason? Or just make idle threats? Public schools can't legally just randomly expel people, principles don't have that power. You have to break rules and have a precedent for the level of punishment.
Their reasoning was "you aren't certified to do that" and I was like you need to be certified to promote safe sex? They hated me after this happened. I couldn't believe the backlash
That's not a reason. Lying to you like that would be more protection against expulsion. A court would have a field day with that.
I told them they have no grounds for it. Prove that I wasn't looking out for my peers essentially.
Their issue is that the banner and material weren't sanctioned. Distribution of condoms is something that needs (sadly) approval. And was probably the kind of thing that pissed of many religious people.
As contraception was / is something the church said to not use for a very long time.
Was there a law saying that approval was needed? Unless the school had a rule about it already approved, it didn't need approval. They can't make it up after the fact.
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@scottalanmiller Never mind the joke went over your head.
Think male seahorses.
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
As contraception was / is something the church said to not use for a very long time.
If they stated that, they'd have another legal problem on their hands. NJ has no state religion and cannot have a religious body overseeing the law.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
As contraception was / is something the church said to not use for a very long time.
If they stated that, they'd have another legal problem on their hands. NJ has no state religion and cannot have a religious body overseeing the law.
But religious families could have complained that the banner was trampling on their religion is my point.
I agree it was wrong for the school to even threaten expulsion for it.
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
As contraception was / is something the church said to not use for a very long time.
If they stated that, they'd have another legal problem on their hands. NJ has no state religion and cannot have a religious body overseeing the law.
But religious families could have complained that the banner was trampling on their religion is my point.
I agree it was wrong for the school to even threaten expulsion for it.
People can complain for any reason. Schools (and other public institutions) cannot legally allow "complaints" to override rights.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
As contraception was / is something the church said to not use for a very long time.
If they stated that, they'd have another legal problem on their hands. NJ has no state religion and cannot have a religious body overseeing the law.
But religious families could have complained that the banner was trampling on their religion is my point.
I agree it was wrong for the school to even threaten expulsion for it.
People can complain for any reason. Schools (and other public institutions) cannot legally allow "complaints" to override rights.
And no rights were overridden, there was obviously the threat of it though.
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
As contraception was / is something the church said to not use for a very long time.
If they stated that, they'd have another legal problem on their hands. NJ has no state religion and cannot have a religious body overseeing the law.
But religious families could have complained that the banner was trampling on their religion is my point.
I agree it was wrong for the school to even threaten expulsion for it.
People can complain for any reason. Schools (and other public institutions) cannot legally allow "complaints" to override rights.
And no rights were overridden, there was obviously the threat of it though.
Threatening to break the law is itself illegal.
However, my original point was about if expulsion was actually imminent or not. Not that it wasn't threatened. I might threaten all kinds of things that I have no intention of doing. Like how my daughter threatens to never eat again... but breaks down the next meal time.
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SW had a post about how BI is rampant in the SMB and used at like 30% of companies and they wanted to know what tools people saw. I said I'd never see that in any SMB and asked what use cases were being seen.... instead of responding they deleted the thread. Argh.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
SW had a post about how BI is rampant in the SMB and used at like 30% of companies and they wanted to know what tools people saw. I said I'd never see that in any SMB and asked what use cases were being seen.... instead of responding they deleted the thread. Argh.
I can still see that thread... or maybe it is a different one.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
SW had a post about how BI is rampant in the SMB and used at like 30% of companies and they wanted to know what tools people saw. I said I'd never see that in any SMB and asked what use cases were being seen.... instead of responding they deleted the thread. Argh.
BI?
I'm thinking of the pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim
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Business Intelligence.
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@Minion-Queen Oh yeah SMB's don't have BI.
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Minion-Queen Oh yeah SMB's don't have BI.
Nope, ever seen it outside of hosting providers like SW and Change.org.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Minion-Queen Oh yeah SMB's don't have BI.
Nope, ever seen it outside of hosting providers like SW and Change.org.
Not true at all. One of the things our company does is assist with BI reporting.
It is certainly limited to more forward thinking SMB and that would be more like 5% or less. Certainly not any stupid high number like 30%.
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@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Minion-Queen Oh yeah SMB's don't have BI.
Nope, ever seen it outside of hosting providers like SW and Change.org.
Not true at all. One of the things our company does is assist with BI reporting.
It is certainly limited to more forward thinking SMB and that would be more like 5% or less. Certainly not any stupid high number like 30%.
What kind of BI use cases are you seeing?
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Minion-Queen Oh yeah SMB's don't have BI.
Nope, ever seen it outside of hosting providers like SW and Change.org.
Not true at all. One of the things our company does is assist with BI reporting.
It is certainly limited to more forward thinking SMB and that would be more like 5% or less. Certainly not any stupid high number like 30%.
What kind of BI use cases are you seeing?
In the SMB, it is typically just getting real time & historical reporting setup on whatever the business goals are, along with some KPI info.
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@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Minion-Queen Oh yeah SMB's don't have BI.
Nope, ever seen it outside of hosting providers like SW and Change.org.
Not true at all. One of the things our company does is assist with BI reporting.
It is certainly limited to more forward thinking SMB and that would be more like 5% or less. Certainly not any stupid high number like 30%.
What kind of BI use cases are you seeing?
In the SMB, it is typically just getting real time & historical reporting setup on whatever the business goals are, along with some KPI info.
I guess I see this regularly, but it's so common and old that I don't think of it as BI
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Minion-Queen Oh yeah SMB's don't have BI.
Nope, ever seen it outside of hosting providers like SW and Change.org.
Not true at all. One of the things our company does is assist with BI reporting.
It is certainly limited to more forward thinking SMB and that would be more like 5% or less. Certainly not any stupid high number like 30%.
What kind of BI use cases are you seeing?
In the SMB, it is typically just getting real time & historical reporting setup on whatever the business goals are, along with some KPI info.
I guess I see this regularly, but it's so common and old that I don't think of it as BI
It is pretty much the bare minimum, but it is BI.
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@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Minion-Queen Oh yeah SMB's don't have BI.
Nope, ever seen it outside of hosting providers like SW and Change.org.
Not true at all. One of the things our company does is assist with BI reporting.
It is certainly limited to more forward thinking SMB and that would be more like 5% or less. Certainly not any stupid high number like 30%.
What kind of BI use cases are you seeing?
In the SMB, it is typically just getting real time & historical reporting setup on whatever the business goals are, along with some KPI info.
I guess I see this regularly, but it's so common and old that I don't think of it as BI
It is pretty much the bare minimum, but it is BI.
Yeah, I get it now. Once you mentioned KPI... we run KPI SaaS for some of our big customers. We build the databases, reporting interfaces, data collection systems, etc. ourselves. So we don't think of it as BI because we use no BI tools and have been doing this one particular task since the 1990s. But, of course, it is a form of BI. In a way, just about everything is.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Minion-Queen Oh yeah SMB's don't have BI.
Nope, ever seen it outside of hosting providers like SW and Change.org.
Not true at all. One of the things our company does is assist with BI reporting.
It is certainly limited to more forward thinking SMB and that would be more like 5% or less. Certainly not any stupid high number like 30%.
What kind of BI use cases are you seeing?
In the SMB, it is typically just getting real time & historical reporting setup on whatever the business goals are, along with some KPI info.
I guess I see this regularly, but it's so common and old that I don't think of it as BI
It is pretty much the bare minimum, but it is BI.
Yeah, I get it now. Once you mentioned KPI... we run KPI SaaS for some of our big customers. We build the databases, reporting interfaces, data collection systems, etc. ourselves. So we don't think of it as BI because we use no BI tools and have been doing this one particular task since the 1990s. But, of course, it is a form of BI. In a way, just about everything is.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_intelligence is actually a decent reference.
