Jobs You aren't even Qualified for
Anyone been given a job for which they're not qualified for?
My wife's school get me to teach IT classes when their regular teacher is off sick and I'm not even qualified to teach!
(the wife tells me that it's because I set up their IT suite for them and know what I'm talking about - as it happens, I built in some safeguards into the computers so they WOULD have to call me in to sort any problems out.)
Normally, I just tell them to do something with a particular program, sometimes I would just give a lecture off the top of my head (normally thought of at the last minute).
My wife's school get me to teach IT classes when their regular teacher is off sick and I'm not even qualified to teach!
(the wife tells me that it's because I set up their IT suite for them and know what I'm talking about - as it happens, I built in some safeguards into the computers so they WOULD have to call me in to sort any problems out.)
Normally, I just tell them to do something with a particular program, sometimes I would just give a lecture off the top of my head (normally thought of at the last minute).
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I occasionally fly a Virgin Atlantic jumbo jet when the normal pilot's off sick. It's quite easy really with all the modern fly by wire glass cockpit, you just punch the destination airport into the gps autopilot and it flies there by itself.
:-P
and not had the correct pesticide qualifications for the jobs I was doing before too
Aye, that happened to me too, seems to be quite a regular occurrence in many companies.
lol insurance....
Oh - and 99.9% of project managers...
Yep, it's ridiculous how many so called 'I.T. managers' know very little about software and (especially) hardware - I'm not talking about things they needn't know about, I mean basics like commonplace malware protection or the difference between wired and wireless.
I will never understand why it is that you less you know or do at work, the more you get paid.
the mistake is thinking of them as "I.T. Managers". They're Managers. Doesn't matter what sphere of business they're in, they don't know anything about it :)
Jaysus! That sounds eerily familiar!
Absolutely right, mate.
It's like MPs, the way one of them will be Minister for Fisheries, then a few months later he's the Minister for Foreign Affairs, then he's the Minister for Agriculture, etc. He doesn't have to know a single thing about the people and processes he's supposed to oversee.
Amazing...
Watch "Yes Minister" and "Yes Prime Minister"...it's all explained in there! :smile:
As long as your CRB checked you ARE qualified to teach nowadays. Nowt personal of course but I don't agree with it at all. All teachers should have QTS and the last government totally devalued this by employing cover supervisors, TAs to teach long term etc.
That's what my "profession" should be striking over, not pensions
obviously its better if they dont fancy kids.
Its a mixture of both. I'm in secondary and have trained student teachers with PhDs but were bloody useless at explaining things and let the kids run riot. You still need the subject knowledge to teach A-level well though. I could teach anything to A-level, give me the textbook the night before, but I wouldn't teach it as well as a specialist.
Regards,
Shaun.
Apparently neither does zero or he'd not use capital letters at random for no apparent reason in his thread titles :)
I took my GCSE English exam twice. My first grade was D and the second was C.
As it happens, I got marked down a lot for the writing.