Mentoring consists of a long-term relationship focused on supporting the growth and development of the mentee. The mentor becomes a source of wisdom, teaching, and support, but not someone who observes and advises on specific actions or behavioral changes in daily work/life.
Someone in my real (read: non-Glib) life, recently commented that I am their mentor in a specific area of my professional endeavors. I was surprised by this, as I certainly hadn’t thought of myself or our relationship that way. Sure, I offer excellent advice when asked, and am a truly great listener (I get it from my mother), but it had never occurred to me that this person held that view.
So. Do you have/have you had a non-family mentor in any area of your life? Was it an acknowledged mentoring relationship? Did it start out that way or did it evolve?
Have you been a mentor? What was the experience like for you?
Discuss!
Never been mentored and never mentored. As the de facto family patriarch the young should be coming to me for advice but they would probably relflect back on my own life and say, “Hell with it, let’s go get a beer”. In truth, they’d be better off
Never? Not even your honey partner? (no euphemism)
My honey partner is more knowledgeable than I am and we are a cooperating team. Plus he’s younger and stronger and neither of us drink anything these days more than coffee.
I’ve mentored a number of people through my life. Most of them new employees, or people looking to promote. I had people do that for me, early on in my career, so I just considered it paying it forward.
I don’t think I ever officially mentored anyone. I did a lot of engineer training overseas though. Most of it amounted to “Get out of your office and onto the production floor to find out what’s going on. “
Sounds to me like a ploy just to get into your pants.
Do grad school advisors count? My advisor and my other committee members were mentors to me. I also think I’ve had a mentor at my current job.
Ditto on the grad advisors. I still seek advice from my diss director.
Mentors, the Fresh Maker?
Ja, klassisch
That’s one neutral-smelling guy, if she got that close and didn’t smell any kind of grooming product or detergent.
Every time I try to mentor a beautiful young lady they call the cops, but at least I try. *leers*
“the last time I showed my dick to a woman, she got up and moved 3 seats away on the bus”
Away? Yer doin’ it wrong.
And then the bus was hit by Bruce Jenner in his Escalade.
I love irony.
I never thought of training someone as mentoring. By teaching/training I wanted to make my own job easier. “If something breaks at night I want everyone here to be able to fix it and get it up and running without calling me”.
Yeah, I’m not sure if showing someone the ropes rises to the level of “mentor” myself, but I suppose I had that at the beginning of my career, and am more than willing to do it for any juniors that come asking although it is not really in my nature to actively seek out such a role.
I don’t think of training as mentoring. It’s more an ongoing relationship where you can ask questions that don’t necessarily relate to something you are directly working on together. I have asked my mentor for advice on my own projects that he is not involved in.
My last boss at my engineering job was a good mentor. He was very good at showing my what my strengths were and how to improve my weaknesses. I feel bad comparing my current boss to him in my mind, because my current boss is a nice guy, but not great from the mentorship /career development part. We have a mentorship program in place, but a 30 minute group meeting each week isnt exactly conducive to quality relationships being formed. Again, really nice guy, but the system is set up to fail. The guy I most want to emulate is the guy who doesn’t give a shit. He does quality work without letting the stress and drama get to him. I want that poise.
I’m too junior to be a worthwhile mentor at this point, but us junior attorneys are all pretty close, so there’s a fraternal aspect to it.
On the personal side, I can’t really think of anybody who is a mentor to me or vice versa. There are aspects of certain people that I want to emulate, but I’m not really close enough with anybody to consider them a mentor. I’m a man of very few friends and a whole bunch of acquaintances.
I was mentored by the engineering director of my first job out of college. He was technically my bosses boss. My direct engineering manager was not very good at his job.
My mentor Larry taught me a great deal about science and engineering, but more about thinking critically. He rarely gave me direct answers to my questions, instead he pointed me in the right direction and encouraged me to answer them on my own. I was also given a great deal of freedom to make mistakes and work independently.
I did the same with a Jr. engineer 10 years later and try to do the same with others.
To be honest, i need to do more of it theses days.
One of the best pieces of advice I’ve been given and that became one of my operating standards for the people I was responsible for is, “don’t come to me with problems, come to me with solutions and then we’ll figure it out”.
I remember going to my program director with an alternative schedule because we had 7 graduate level finals within 2 days. Because I came with a plan instead of whining, we got 7 finals over 3 days.
Always a good approach, even if the solution is not what I would do or the “right” one. Show me that you thought about it first.
I suppose, I had intern that I taught more stuff about video production after his internship was up, and got him into watching Penn And Teller’s Bullshit. So maybe? Or we just became friends? I dunno.
Could be some of both. Good on you, either way.
I’ve been on both sides of that practice at one point or another, and my experiences have all been positive. Right now I’m mentoring a young colleague who came to me asking if I’d be comfortable mentoring her, and I’ve been pleased to do so, even though it’s been almost exclusively by email and phone.
It can be very rewarding on both sides.
it’s been almost exclusively by email and phone
Smart.
It can be very rewarding on both sides.
Indeed it can.
Bow chicka bow?
I probably had a couple of lawyers who more or less consciously tried to sporadically mentor me. It certainly wasn’t a formal or organized thing.
I always try to mentor my direct reports, although I’m not entirely clear what the difference is between mentoring and coaching. Perhaps coaching is to help you do your current job, and mentoring is to help you get a better one? My Associate GC and I are actively conspiring for her to get my job when I retire (she’s my officially designated successor, so its cool). My Compliance Officer has no upward mobility in this organization (not unusual for people in that role), so maybe I’m more coaching her (although what I help her with will definitely help her get a job somewhere else).
Perhaps coaching is to help you do your current job, and mentoring is to help you get a better one?
I like that.
I do too. Well said, RC.
I trained a lot of student CRNAs in the past. Now that I’m slipping slowly in nihilism, plus working second shift, I just tell them to go home when I takeover a room.
“Now that I’m slipping slowly in nihilism”
I warned you against giving up alcohol.
I’m back to drinking daily, but not as heavy. I noticed my HDLs dropped when I quit drinking, so really it’s medicinal.
I don’t really have any mentoring anecdotes. However, I did meet two Glibs tonight. Thanks guys (DEG & Caput Lupinum) it was a pleasure to meet you.
I’ve met a few, all were great guys, hope to meet more. Still haven’t met any of the lady glibs though.
Fourscore i’m Looking at land for the vacation/ future retirement home. I found something very appealing, but I need to walk the property and do some soil sampling.
Here (MN) there are so many laws but a site survey by a BS trained local can prepare a site plan with drainage samples, etc. to determine percolation rates for septic systems, setbacks, etc. I didn’t have to use any but the county did a walk over before issuing a building permit. That’s a whole different story but can’t be avoided these days, I guess.
Don’t delay in thinking vacation/retirement, it comes fast. If I can help give a shout
Thanks. I’m early in the process. I found a nice mountain top with tons of trees and utilities Very close by. I’ll need septic and a well.
Sounds good, even though I’m not a mountain guy I know there is a spot for each of us. Water is a priority
Meet girls on the internet?
You trying to lose a kidney??
Philly meet up?
More like Bucks county.
Hey this isn’t a poll!!
I’ve had a few mentors. Some more acknowledged than others.
One that stands out was briefly our boy scout leader. I came into boy scouts when most were working on their eagles, so I kind of worked backwards. But he took a lot of time out and really showed me a path. He was involved all over town. Volunteer fire, first response. He was more inspiration than any specific things, although the specifics were pretty nice. He owns a deuce and a half, and showed me a lot in truck upkeep and repair.
He also guided me on my original desire to help our town, I went with him one evening to a town meeting about the town hall front steps, which had been horribly redone after a flood.
I was 10, but he actually listened when I had an idea for replacing them. he spent a lot of time after getting me connected to architects and builders, talked me through some ideas, and helped me present my drafts and model.
We cut the ribbon when it was done.
The written word version of how I make the cartoons. You had it all in there, I just brought it out like a sculptor.
So there was this priest…
Conservatives do have a point on the “social cohesion” thing. Nobody cares about that kind of stuff if the gubmint is supposed to take care of it.
When I was in the work force we had a profit sharing plan with all employees. Profit sharing was paid monthly, usually about 60 days after the fact. Every month I would get the P & L statements and review them with ALL the employees of the 4-5 stores I was responsible for, to explain how to get the most value out of their expenses which would then translate into a greater take home pay check for each person. Profit sharing was done by the individual store so each person would understand how wasting time/material could affect them.
Most employees were very receptive and in some cases profit sharing would add 15-20 % onto their pay checks.
I used to be very a very efficient employee, then they pulled my profit sharing and I stopped caring.
I think my previous employer did the same thing or consolidated at company level. % of profit went down when local control disappeared.
Amazing how that works.
All managers at my agency are expected to take part in the official mentoring program. I recently brought up the fact that I wasn’t doing this to my deputy director, and she told me that it was fine that I wasn’t part. She told me that I’m a rabble-rousing, pain-in-the-butt firebrand and she didn’t want me influencing the younger staff. She said it with a smirk, and I’m sure there was some jesting in there, but I firmly believe there is a bit of truth as well.
I’m happy with that comment though – it gets me out of a mentoring program designed by the most sadistic bureaucrats known to man. One hour of conversations between the mentor and the mentee per month, followed by several hours of documentation of the meeting, planning topics for the next meeting, tracking progress from the last meeting. Filled out in specific forms designed by someone who has no concept on how to create fillable forms in PDF…
I see we work at the same place.
*has waking nightmare of unfillable pdfs*
god bless Human Resources, they need to justify their existence. I once did an eval on an employee, “Cannot hit an inside fast ball”, no one in
Personnel ever mentioned my sarcasm. I made corrections on the spot instead of waiting ’til eval time. I called it “Going to the woodshed” where I did immediate counseling in a grown up manner, explaining exactly the problem and what I thought was necessary to prevent it from happening again, then I never brought it up again, not at eval time, never. If I made the same correction action again it was time for the employee to make a career change.
HR in my last job was a total nightmare. They were always furious at me for not following their guidelines on interviewing. I’d toss their scripted cliche questions and start asking things like, “What’s the pH of a 0.5 molar solution of acetic acid? I can give you the Ka if you don’t remember it offhand.”
Whenever they’d start giving me shit, I’d point out that of the eight people in the 400 employee division marked as superstars, I hired 7 of them.
Not a chemist, but is it 2? That’s table vinegar isn’t
Vinegar is 5% acetic acid. I don’t remember enough from AP Chem to do anything with molarity or molality.
I was having a Rodney Dangerfield in Back to School” moment.
I’ve worked in a lab in The past and used to have a good knowledge of the basics, but it’s been a while.
Close. About 2.5. It’s a ten second calculation if you understand fundamental acid-base chemistry. If you don’t, it’s wild guessing or scribbling fruitlessly on a scratchpad. If they got that right, I’d throw out something that’s polyprotic like phosphoric acid.
But it’s freshman chem. All of my interview questions were freshman chem- if you understand that, everything else is learnable.
Yeah. When I interview all I want to know is do they want to learn. OK, and are they not an obvious asshole.
“Concealed asshole, it is.”
/prepping for the interview
Exactly. You can be an asshole on your own time, I don’t care.
I was thinking that involved cultivating rather long body hair. I was kinda intrigued by that idea.
Also, the thought of a CCA: Concealed Carry Asshole
See… I would be willing to do it my way, informally. Making it mandatory and well, just like work, is the fastest way to make me not want to do it at all.
We had a lot of de-centralization but some company rules were non negotiable.
You’re a bad seed!
LOL good one
It’s things like this that make me reconsider the non-aggression principle.
That’s not even the worst of it. When I got fed up using the agency’s internally developed form for annual appraisals that wouldn’t allow text to flow from one page to the next, I developed a completely indistinguishable copy that fixed the problems with their pdf. I shared it with some of my coworkers, who shared it with their friends, and eventually about 75% of the managers were using my form. When upper management found out, they sent out a group email to all managers instructing us to use only the official form.
I responded to that email with four identical appraisals, asking that they identify which had been done on the official form and which were done on mine. To my surprise, they actually answered. Not surprisingly, they didn’t get a single one right (they assumed that the form with the typos and bad grammar was mine, but I had corrected those on my form).
Even after that they still told us to use the official form, and had a chat with me about insubordination…
I had no idea that the concept of pulsed power engineering existed. I exited UNM with a degree in EECS and tried to find a job in the recession market of 1979. While working at my first job I encountered Jeremy Stein, pulsed power engineer and my mentor, who proceeded to direct me to my Purpose In Life. I had always wanted to harness lightning and pulsed power showed me how.
I’ve made measurements of MegaVolts, kiloAmps, nanoAmps at ranges from seconds to nanoseconds.
So, when do I get the plasma rifle? I don’t care about how many watts.
I’ve got one, IYKWIM.
Hey, just what you see, pal.
That was the correct response. Can you be my comment mentor?
Rhywun is strict, but fair. How do you feel about paddlin’s?
“Buzz off. I’m busy.”
Starts with a test, eh? *Sits stoically on Rhywun’s porch, wagging tail*
I once tried to get Rhywun to adopt me. If this works, will you mentor me?
I have a crush on sempai.
This probably wasn’t meant to sound ominous.
https://mobile.twitter.com/abbyvesoulis/status/1139526436568649729
I wonder if they bother to investigate the regulatory climate and corporate/business tax rates in areas with large black and Hispanic populations.
Look up ‘Operation Compliance’ from the once-great city of Detroit if you want to see some explicitly anti-business policies foisted on a heavily black population.
My undergraduate adviser was a great mentor to me, and was responsible for me changing my career goal from electrical engineering to chemistry. Super guy, scary smart.
Grad adviser was great at giving me freedom to operate and set an example for me on what a good human being looks like.
And my first job after my postdoc, my boss was a true mentor and taught me tons about the real world of science outside the university.
I’ve never forgotten these guys and remain hugely grateful to them. And I have tried to do the same for the people who have worked for me over the years. Most of them have gone on to very successful careers, and there’s at least one multi-billionaire in the bunch.
Can you take me under your wing?
It’s pretty hot here, so it won’t smell so good.
Newbies to Wisconsin bitching about the cold or newbies to Arizona bitching about the heat: Which is more interesting? Disqus.
I loved the cold in WI when I moved there. Loved. It.
Really? Can’t stand it, so I never go back in the winter. My wife said only one word when she stepped out of the airport in MPLS/STP in January on her first trip to the states. “Uso”.
Is that Japanese for “I’m horny”?
“Divorce”?
The Japanese word for “horny” is “iiyada “.
“And my first job after my postdoc, my boss was a true mentor and taught me tons about the real world of science outside the university.”
So he had worked in the private sector, and knew they expected results?
+1 Something strange in your neighborhood
One of the most libertarian movies.
I’m currently mentoring a young IT guy on my team. Teaching him the ropes, how to deal with clients, and how to work with UCCE and CUCM.
I don’t know if the guy I’m working under now is being mentory or just like to talk. He talks a lot about the work in a philosophical way, which is beyond helpful because it’s given me a much broader understanding of the job than I’d gotten training under the previous tech. (Even though she outranks him and probably knows more than he does.) Maybe I’m just a misogynist. One thing I like about the guy is that he dumps a lot of his work in my lap, but doesn’t spend all his time peering over my shoulder, and doesn’t mind taking questions.
I’m surprised nobody has asked, is there any money in it for the mentor?
To be fair, that’s my immediate thought whenever I see that word.
Ah, Monocle is working again. thanks Trash.
Glad to help!
No, I’ve never been a Sugar Daddy. Not yet, at least.
I was supposed to be mentoring the new hire, but he took adifferent job after accepting our offer. Dodged a bullet if you ask me.
“Dodged a bullet if you ask me.”
By you not mentoring or by going with a different job/company?
Probably both. He rubbed me wrong during the interview, and probably vice versa. Also, he was credentialed but not qualified, imo.
My group just lost a great engineer and we will not likely get a replacement any time soon, so I’ll be mentoring two Jr. engineers until we get a replacement.
I can help them most with dealing with customers and general problem solving, but I’m not an expert in the subject.
I could never do anything like a mentorship. In order to do my best work, I just need to be independent and interruption-free. It doesn’t mean I have to be completely isolated, just that I’m in control of all my own work (e.g. when I worked at a factory, I was much more productive running a single machine by myself than being on the assembly line).
I wouldn’t say I’ve “mentored” anyone before, but I definitely don’t like training. It’s nothing personal against the trainee, but I just feel like they’re a burden to me.
Training/mentorship requires a people person – that sure as shit isn’t me.
Depends. I’m very much not a people person but I like sharing “expertise” in something I’m “passionate” about (to use a revolting HR buzzword).
The first true buyer/shop owner I worked with in the used book industry. Taught me more about commerce than any econ class I ever took, more about antiquities than any road show or picker program, and more about what really matters in getting through life. Too bad I have had to stray from that to raise a kid, but I am looking to get back into some version of the trade.
Here’s to foxing.
/hands cards around. Puts latex glove on head.
Rufus. Mentor. Call.
Is this some Carnac routine?
Sounds like his Canadian mentor is Howie Mandel
Rufus, Rufus, dear muppet. The gloves don’t go on your head.
*sigh* He never listens.
A little bit of thought – I hate the term “white privilege”. It’s always referenced as a notion about libertarian notions of individual rights. And it’s always referenced by the most elite in society. But, “white privilege” almost always proves to be universal individual rights. The complaint shouldn’t be “white privilege”, but “black denial”. The complaint shouldn’t be that white middle class people have these rights, but that, all too often, black or brown people are denied their rights as free men and women.
Any thoughts?
Transphobic trash!
Sorry, but that’s bullshit. Most trans I’ve ever known think of themselves as one sex.
They’ve decided that absence of oppression equals privilege. It’s how they can claim dibs on a perfectly innocent person’s cash while thinking they are virtuous. Notice how they don’t apply the standard globally or they’d be the ones getting screwed.
Not being aware of your privilege is a privilege.
/you can’t win, don’t even try
But, “white privilege” tells the blacks and browns that they don’t have a right to achievement. Living in oppression becomes the standard.
Agreed. It makes all white people out to be villains, even the ones who are just as powerless as any black person born in an inner-city slum. You can’t bring about racial harmony by stirring up racial hatred.
And I’m not denying that there’s a huge racial divide in socioeconomic circumstances, but I think the more important distinction is between those who are politically connected and those who are not. Just look at any of these major metro areas with large populations of impoverished blacks – most of them have significant representation of blacks in all levels of government and even the police force. But unfortunately, a lot of these politicians ride into office on a wave of support from the black community, then use the position to enrich themselves rather than make any kind of progress on poverty or police violence (see: Kwame Kilpatrick).
That’s the last thing SJW’s want.
Racial disempowerment favoring whites is what SJWs most want. It makes the battle lines clearer, makes their client castes more dependent, tightens up their fiefs. Racial comity is a speedbump they blow over in order to get there.
Which is why they hate Trump with a burning passion. He’s the Sammy Davis President (black and Jewish). Working class black pep[e are about restricting immigration.
You can’t bring about racial harmony by stirring up racial hatred.
That gets to one of my biggest problems with GayJay. He was asked by a BLM advocate what he thought about the whole situation. As a libertarian, he could have knocked it out of the park. He could have talked about how excessive policing oppresses both blacks and poor whites. About how, we, if we’re a free and honest society, this should be front and center to all of us. And about how libertarians have been screaming into the wilderness about this for decades. Instead, he offered more government charity for the inner cities.
I’m more partial to the libertarian argument that nothing good comes from having government choosing which race to favor.
It didn’t need to about which race to favor. It could have been about recognizing a universal.
So sell the idea that some whites are oppressed along with some blacks? That’s factual and provable, but kind of defeats why they are separating people on race in the first place. Or am I misinterpreting how you’re using “universal”?
No. It’s dead on. But, its the truth. And it would create a more powerful coalition in favor of change.
Jim Goad has been making that case for years. He’s widely considered a raving racist now. Tough sell. Doesn’t mean it’s wrong. Just that they’ll take out the long knives.
The new NYC schools chancellor is such a racist shitbag* that even several of the 51 city councilcritters – as reliably leftist a bunch of hacks as you could get – are raising objections. I have some slight hope that people are starting to get tired of this shit.
*It made news recently when he held mandatory “white supremacy” struggle sessions
Another thought. If you want to right historical wrongs by placing the burden on people who supposedly benefited from the wrongs, you have to find an empirical way to only target those who benefited. Anything else is a further miscarriage of justice. It’s interesting to note that “reparations” is a term widely associated with Germany post WW1. How’d that work out?
All I know is I redid my grass today and my neighbour decided to act like a complete dick about it.
Where muh mentor at?
White privilege (i.e., the advantages of being middle class) exists to conceptually erase the older concept of privilege, or private law — a codified or practically codified legal regime where two different classes were obliged to live under different laws. IOW, Jim Crow or the old world aristocracies. The term is under assault because the nomenklatura is attempting to establish just such a system for their benefit, and would prefer it either not be defined, or to at least muddy the waters.
OT: I watched a video about failed communes and it just made me mad that they can do that, but a community run under a libertarian system would get raided and siezed by police. Adding more rules, sure go ahead give it a spin, ignore rules and we’ll break up the party.
Obviously the communes mean well, while the libertarians are just trying to get out of paying taxes.
Wypipo aren’t comfortable with double murderers only when they’re a POC.
https://mobile.twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1140644090167595008
Uh, they did?? I’m not a sports guy, so correct me if I’m wrong, but it seems like every time I catch a glimpse of ESPN on the break room TV, it looks like there’s no shortage of black athletes in the NBA or NFL.
I wasn’t aware that white people had gone back to the pre-Jackie Robinson days and re-segregated professional sports. Thanks Washington Post!!!
Uh, they did??
No, only if you want to include working and middle class black people as “white”.
We aren’t that different. We have the same heroes. And race warriors aren’t part of it.
Damn – comments are nailing it.
Some good ones. One reminded me of the real tragedy of the Simpson murders: Norm Macdonald was fired from SNL.
This might be my favorite.
Funny stuff. And SNL audiences laughing at it — how unwoke.
I’ve had a few. Most of them at the time didn’t realize they were mentoring me but given their personalities it is probably better left that way.
A couple in the Air force that I didn’t particularly like, and they not particularly liking me either, but I am better off having known them. Another in the Air Force that I am still friends with today, about guy from Dallas about 10 years or so older. Without realizing it showed me I was was a lot better at things than I tend to think I am, and to stop being quick to criticize myself. Mostly because he was the guy that was on his third wife and was going to retire a TSgt…
Toronto Strong!
*cough* bullshit *cough*
And my dick is estimated to be up to 9 inches long.
“Asked if it was a targeted shooting or terrorism-related, Sparkes said the investigation was underway.”
That’d have to be one stupid terrorist. The drunk at the end of the bar could come up with a dozen ways of doing more damage.
Actually they claim more. I’m just watching it now. Toronto pop. is about 3 million. GTA is 6 million.
https://globalnews.ca/video/5399541/raptors-victory-parade-2-million-fans-now-the-lower-end-of-estimates
The other day I was watching the St.Louis Blues parade from a Fox affiliate and they claimed it was bigger than any parade for the Cards or Rams.
Sure, Jan.
lol
https://archive.li/CF4DT/7d5d26b565871c126a8b82ff44e3be27ef9729c9.jpg
NSFW.
https://archive.li/COyrw/a9382ae354479bf3a2b58e91eb8f3b061302d579.jpg
NSFW.
https://archive.li/BiU5K/ac3dd7abdced107c3046dfb8d36b70eb7af633b4.jpg
NSFW.
https://archive.li/pebPp/7f584c1d27e15e095f6ce9d1676f698c8ea4c9b8.jpg
NSFW.
Holy Cow! She is a dead ringer for a gf of mine in 1976-77.
^The luckiest bastard to walk the face of the earth in 1976-77
Starbucks is haven for racists and their sympathizers.
https://mobile.twitter.com/catastrophicook/status/1140115913175437312
Post video. Otherwise bullshit.
Even that didn’t help the Covington kids. First to get the narrative out wins.
One person questions the Obvious Hoax Is Obvious narrative… and someone springs to her defense by referring to Kitty Genovese.
lolgfy.
Geez, the NYT even admitted they lied about that and people are still quoting it? SMDH
Yes, America is such a terrible place for Muslims to live. If only Muslims had their own country somewhere on Earth where they could just live in harmony with other Muslims… I’m sure it would be a peaceful utopia.
The problem is Islam was a reaction to Arabic barbarity. In its purest form, its entirely compatible with liberalism.
FWIW, I can imagine a “Muslim libertarianism”. It would be incredibly skeptical of state power and very reliant on social mores. It would insist that the coercive power of the state should be curtailed and the power of people to demand better should be allowed to flourish.
That’s interesting. I’ve wanted to read an overview of Islamic ideology and history for a while now, but like so many other things I just haven’t gotten around to it.
I’ll do it right after I read the 37 other untouched books that I bought because I thought I would become a better informed person by reading them.
I’d recommend Benard Lewis. He explains it very well.
He is incredible.
Purest form, huh? Well, it’s only been 1500 years, give it another 1500 and I’m sure it will be purified enough to be compatible with liberalism.
Kudos to you, doctor of whatever:
Yes, just let the police handle the tough part–no need for you to be responsible for your own safety*. And, of course, just assume cameras in every location that can capture your beating/murder on an HD somewhere.
*yes, she (supposedly) had two small children with her. It’s still her responsibility.
I am an ass as a mentor
(college internships). Generic talks about what we are doing, mindless repetitive tasks with follow up discussions on the task and how it relates to the goal in their words until they make the connections themselves.
(Existing employees) it’s all about making my life easier. I will help people learn and expand if I think they will continue on their own otherwise f-em.
Being mentored…lol, started small company with lots of hats and tesponsibility, now in my third situation of explaining to my bosses what is what for various reasons
My slightly buzzed head keeps seeing “I am an ass mentor”.
Don’t dream it. Be it.
That’s a shirt to wear with the ‘Hoof Arted’ trucker’s cap.
“ass mentor”
Go on…
His anaconda don’t want none
Unless she’s got buns, hon
John Cusack steps on his own dick. Keeps stepping on it.
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2019/06/17/this-is-disgusting-actor-john-cusack-retweets-anti-semitic-image-says-a-bot-got-him/
Do you have/have you had a non-family mentor in any area of your life? – no
Have you been a mentor? – no
Good morning glibs
Goddamnstupid server farm reset fucked up my workspaces. Gah.
Are you hanging out with Nephilium?
What I was wondering. That, and, maybe I was getting two glibs confused, and the problem was ongoing.
Apparently Dave Mustaine has spent some time down at the Y.
https://www.dailycaller.com/2019/06/17/dave-mustaine-announces-throat-cancer-diagnosis/
Well, considering his wife…
I mean, I’m sure he had fun creating his daughter.
Hot damn. Good for him.
Daughter has a voice, from what I’ve heard. I love me some Megadeth. And, I respect Dave’s frontmanship. But his voice does lend (to me, at least) the distinct possibility that this would happen. Not that metal singing causes throat cancer, per se. Just…you know.
If metal singing caused throat cancer then Rob Halford would have died decades ago.
Pipes of British steel.
I knew there was a reason (drink!) I liked you.
Right. But, that comparison then becomes a “who’s voice is better/do you prefer” debate. I would think most people consider Rob’s voice more melodic. Although that quality probably wouldn’t be the culprit in Metal Singing Leads to Cancer-itis.
I don’t know: It’s late, and I’m working. I can’t be expected to think rationally.
You’re working? I thought your shift ended at midnight?
Oh, no–10p-6a. I’m a nite-owl.
That’s why I get started commenting so late (except my off days, now that I’m doing a bit of that)–I get settled in, and, apart from checking emails, I get over and make my mark.
I’m like a loyal dog that pisses in your yard.
I’m a very selective fan of the genre. Big Priest fan. Loved Metallica before they lost their way. Couldn’t pick a Megadeth song out of a lineup.
Well, you listen for the sorta-warbling voice that leads to throat cancer.
I’m very disappointed at the lot of you. SP posts and we can’t even manage 200 comments. For shame people. For shame.
At = with.
I’m here , now. I can shit up a polling thread, too, you know.
Look, evening posts are just less active.
And it has passed 200 comments.
Nancy, there’s a reason your name is used as an insult.
By your logic, I should be hot for you, if I like pornstar-looking women.
She knows me so well.
Of course she does. And, I bet she has a large callous on her back, from where she’s been patting it for providing all those things.
Sorry, late to the party. Like an idiot I agreed to go to a baseball game. Because of my presence, the Twins lost, so I promise all (both?) of you Twins fans that i won’t set foot in Target Field for the rest of the year.
I struggle with the non-family part, because a few of mine have taught me a shit-ton.
But since I follow directions (at least SP’s):
My first non-family mentor was my boss when I was a lot kid at a high line European car dealership. This meant taking care of the vehicles, prepping them for delivery, doing dealer trades all over the country, etc. It was a glorious job for a 16 year old yeti who liked cars.
My boss (who ended up becoming my brother-in-law) really helped me grow up and navigate the world of business. When I went away to college, he was there. My jobs during college, ditto. My first couple jobs after college, he was the guy that kicked me in the ass, talked me off the ledge and bought the beers when good shit happened.
We definitely drifted apart later, but I will always credit him for pushing me and holding me accountable. He was an important part of my life.
I’ve never considered myself a ‘mentor’ but through years of coaching, volunteering and just plain working I’ve definitely had those experiences. As I’ve always been a small company guy, there have never been formal programs. When I volunteered for the high school robotics team, they referred to us as mentors, but that always seemed a little weird to me. It is cool , though, when a kid you coached, or one of the parents, comes up and tells you how much they appreciate your mentorship.
As my son gets older, it feels like our relationship is changing to more of what you describe. After reading the responses here, I’m definitely going to seek out more of these opportunities and maybe even find someone to mentor me as I move through the next phases of Spawn-absent life.
Great poll, SP!
If you’re late you have to provide NSFW links. Those are the rules.
Oh, right: The poll!
Uh…mentor TO me? Not exactly. Nothing really medium-, or, long-term. But I had a pastor from a while back (RIP) that comes close.
Being a mentor? Eh…kinda sorta, in my current position. But it IS really more the, “someone who observes and advises on specific actions or behavioral changes in daily work/life.”
So, overall–not really.
Get fucked, Eric.
I want to make fun of his name. He’s really begging for it, now.
Good lord. That’s just more of the same from him. No wonder he isn’t getting anywhere.
Me and My mentee were assigned to the night shift on a stakeout of Latina waitress Maria McGuire. Maria’s former boyfriend, Richard “Stick” Montgomery, had escaped from a prison following a brawl with several guards, with help from his cousin, Caylor Reese, who helped him escape in a truck.
The FBI asked us for cooperation in capturing Montgomery. They believed Montgomery may return to an old girlfriend, Maria McGuire, who lived in Seattle. Meanwhile I was going through a divorce from my wife. I came home and found out that she moved out and took my furniture, leaving me in despair.
Montgomery telephoned McGuire but the line got cut off so the calls couldn’t be traced. Turns out, he had a large amount of money that he secretly hid in an armchair prior to his incarceration. Me and my mentee spied on McGuire, hoping Montgomery would turn up at her door so we could arrest him. I pretended to be a telephone lineman, in order to get close to McGuire. I also helped McGuire’s brother Ray to get a job so he can stay out of trouble.
Fate took a turn for the worse as I fell in love with Maria, and the Seattle police suspect I’m one of Montgomery’s allies. While I was asleep in McGuire’s bed, Montgomery and Reese broke into her house, with Montgomery shooting me in the face. When I wake up, however, I find out it was only a nightmare. Realizing I slept in, I left the house without being seen. At the police station, Reimers scolded me for sleeping with Maria, and reminded me that I’m a good cop who made one mistake.
After killing a cashier in a gas station, Montgomery and Reese have a run-in with several officers waiting for them outside Seattle, causing a shootout and having their car to crash into the river. Montgomery manages to escape from the vehicle before it sinks, with Reese wounded and dying in the sunken car. I told my secret to Maria, but she started to get upset, only to run into Montgomery, who told Chris and Maria that he stashed half-million dollars in a couch that he bought for her years prior. He was hoping that he and Maria would have a great life together in Canada, but I ruined it for them.
After capturing Reimers, Montgomery planned to murder both cops. The climax of the story takes place at a paper mill, where me and Montgomery had a shootout. I shot Montgomery in the chest. The broad and I started a relationship.
So what happens to you and Maria?
You’ll have to watch Stakeout 2 to find out.
I will stay tuned for the series.
He makes her take dictation…
*cues R. B. Greaves*
Daaaamn! Gustave FTW!
I even saw this, and have no recollection of the movie. Except for Dreyfus crawling around someone’s bedroom(?)…living room(?)
/yeah, I know about the marquee poster
Wait…there was an attempted massacre at a Dallas Fed court building??
Guy put in two years in the ‘military’, but, couldn’t get laid? I feel confident in saying the problem was him. All him.
I’m going to speculate separated early. Powerball is he should have had a bar to background checks but it slipped through the cracks.
Random drunk thoughts
Someone was shooting wild. Look at those strikes on the wall near the photographer.
There’s a snarky comment about the Screaming Chickens (see shoulder patch) but i haven’t figured it out
That guy looks like a milsim cosplayer. Even his body armor seems a little off. Then things like his boots.
I agree about the milsim thing. He does look like a surplus warrior. Did he not pick anything up at the PX? I also realize what you mean about the wild firing. It seems all he knew was he was going somewhere with long gun and bang-bang. Even the ’16 shooter had a better tactical sense than this guy.
I don’t get the ‘Screaming Chickens’ thing, though. What am I missing? Whose shoulder patch?
101st subdued shoulder patch on his armor.
Screaming Eagles = Screaming Chickens
Amazing that it was 25 years ago that the Juice made his LA freeway reality television premiere. At the time I was a teenager working on various apartments and houses, from the top end mansions to complete shithole dives. When the property got sold they had to do a bullshit energy conservation upgrade whether it was needed or not. About six months after the chase, when the trial started, we were working on the most beat down large building I had ever been to. It was myself and my buddy Mick, an illiterate Irish man that was a mechanical genius. We knock on the first door and there is no response. We wait a minute and then try the key on the huge ring we were given. Before we can get the right one a gruff woman answers and tells us to piss off. We point to the notice on her door and squeeze in. She tells us she hasn’t seen her sink in a year and we believe her. We go to the next place and a naked guy with a towel asks us to come back in an hour. We agree. The next place a guy is dying in a room with more nicotine than I could imagine over 40 years. The next place has two hookers and a ten year old kid. A crack pipe is on the table and an open bottle of vodka is being passed. It’s 9:20 AM. They ask us if we want to party. We say we just want to change the showerhead. O.J. is on trial on a 16 inch color television on a crappy table. Johnnie Cochrane is making some point on the tv and the kid is trying to leave with us. Mick is freaking out and we beat a hasty retreat. They grab the kid as he tries to exit when we do.
I was smoking crack in Venice Beach. But then I quit.
Crack is whack.
Word!
Now that I’m up this late without any drinking, lets see if I can get any sleep tonight. Usually the answer is ‘no’, but perhaps tonight…
Well, good luck with that. Should I cross my fingers?
Everything is fine unless you cross the streams.
Meh–they did just that, and it was still fine. Unless crossing the streams unleashed Vigo.
They should have explored that idea in II.
I only got a couple hours in as well. Woke up at 3:15…extra early morning coffee it is, I guess…dammit.
My breakup letter sent to Twitter:
‘Aaaand, I’m done with Twitter. I only kept an account to follow a news orgs and a few friends of my choosing but, that wasn’t good enough for you. You decided to backdoor the ads I muted through celebrity promoted content and put that on my wall. Then you start putting tweets in my feed from people I don’t even follow, they’re just people who are followed by people I follow. They didn’t like the tweets, retweet, or comment but you’re throwing this shit in my face anyway, against my will. Well, fuck you, Johnny Chinese. Between this shit and your hypocritical censorship I’m out.’
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/git-r-done-trump-opens-1-4-million-federal-acres-to-hunters-anglers
Find me a Glib who doesn’t like this. Emphasis added.
I’ve been looking for specific examples of the regs removed.
Also, who controls whether the fed sells off the land they should have parted with decades ago?
Official Mentor? Ah no. In my early days after college, I did learn a lot from another. more senior co-worker: EDI systems, translation, etc. But that was more training than anything else. It’s given me a good living though.
I had a great mentor who was a manager at my first job. Even after we went our separate ways we found ways to meet up every so often to discuss things. We also had a weekly racquetball game for years that always had one of us fucking up so badly that we had to stop to laugh at ourselves.
The last few jobs before this, I think I was a mentor to several young developers. I mostly passed along some great advice that my mentor gave me: