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It is amusing that someone thinking London means London, Canada should be fired for stupidity, but someone who cannot compute what is the time in another place
by new2628 6y ago
It is amusing that someone thinking London means London, Canada should be fired for stupidity, but someone who cannot compute what is the time in another place by adding 7 (or 10 or whatever) hours to his current time and needs an elaborate device to do it is seen as smart and insightful. This is some pretentious BS.
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- ksec 6y ago> but someone who cannot compute what is the time in another place by adding 7 (or 10 or whatever) The whole point of asking is precisely because I dont know how many hours I have to add. And neither do I know if said country, region or city is having whatever DayLight Saving hours etc.
- erikbye 6y ago> The whole point of asking is precisely because I dont know how many hours I have to add You know, how about you learn it? Once. Instead of asking Siri or Google every time. In other words, learn to fish.
- molteanu 6y agoGood one!
- throwaway744678 6y agoThere are a lot of cities in the world, though.
- dusted 6y agoMy reply to the deleted comment by dkdbejwi383 > Haha yeah you're so much smarter than him. Somebody should give you an award! I think his post is motivated by the kind of pretentious assholery that emanates from the kind of world view, or view on other humans that the article rerflects, that assistants are objects to be fired over whatever opinion their "owner" has on what is to be considered stupid or not. "Oh! My assistant is so STUPID they didn't think about this thing the same way as I did, they should be fired, lowlife trash!" Yeah, first in class entitled assholery right there.
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- rschoultz 6y ago> who cannot compute what is the time in another place by adding 7 [...] As someone who frequently talks to colleagues across timezones that are -9, -2, or +3.5 hours from me, where each of these have different dates for summer time, or don't have summer time, and meeting recurrences gets skewed etc, I don't see how asking about the current time off a location could be seen as "pretentious".
- new2628 6y agoYes, I do this frequently too, and what I meant to be "pretentious" was not having this problem, but writing a post about it and discussing it on a news site. This is like writing a news story about the lint in my pocket.
- molteanu 6y agoI think this will be the downfall of the US. Close to 40 million unemployed, but still this "pretentious BS" takes front page.