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Robbie Moubert Byrne Robotics Member
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Joined: 16 April 2004 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 1484
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Posted: 14 August 2018 at 9:55am | IP Logged | 1
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The most common misconception I get is people thinking I do lighting. Perhaps I don't explain what I do very well!
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Michael Penn Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 12 April 2006 Location: United States Posts: 12447
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Posted: 14 August 2018 at 10:03am | IP Logged | 2
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The most common misconception: "Oh, you're a law professor? Let me ask you a legal question..." -- no law professor knows all the law!
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Robbie Parry Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 17 June 2007 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 12186
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Posted: 14 August 2018 at 10:08am | IP Logged | 3
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Michael, as I have stated before, I used to work for the civil service. And one verbally abusive dickhead had a go at me (member of the public) because I couldn't answer questions pertaining to ANOTHER department.
He got quite nasty and said, "I thought a civil servant might be aware of what other departments are doing." In my head, I'm saying, "Dickhead! How many government agencies do you think there are."
I may as well go and approach a military policeman on an army base and ask him a question about the City of London Police. After all, as a police officer, he'll know, right.
Okay, a little different to your example, but it happens. A friend who was a postman told me that people would come into his sorting office and ask questions about PRIVATE couriers. And when they couldn't help, some folk would get nasty.
People, eh?
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Valmor J. Pedretti Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 14 October 2011 Location: Brazil Posts: 786
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Posted: 14 August 2018 at 10:30am | IP Logged | 4
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"Stereophonic Sound Sculptor"
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Matthew Hansel Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 18 April 2004 Location: United States Posts: 3469
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Posted: 14 August 2018 at 11:40am | IP Logged | 5
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I spent 15 years working in local government (the majority of that time as Deputy Director of the County Planning and Building Dept)...but the politics and ruthlessness of it got to me and I left to pursue my dream...
...even though I’ve been “published” many times since my first comic strip in college (in 1998), last year I had my first COMIC BOOK work published, and this year I’ve taken over the art duties for the character that got me into all this comic book/strip/art thing...
...so I’m happy to say, fulfilling a life long dream, I’m a CARTOONIST!!
MPH
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Bill Collins Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 26 May 2005 Location: England Posts: 11250
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Posted: 14 August 2018 at 12:42pm | IP Logged | 6
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Robbie wrote "People, eh?"
Try working in retail! Oh the stories i could tell!
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Bob MacNeil Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 20 September 2010 Location: United States Posts: 34
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Posted: 15 August 2018 at 8:34am | IP Logged | 7
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I'm a "purveyor of hopes and dreams". Or as it says on my resume, I design slot machine games.
I'm a creative director and I currently head up a division of artists responsible for (a major film studio's unannounced game initiative). Our active fanbase is 60 million strong, so that's a lot of hopes and dreams I have to account for.
I also work for Marvel Comics (as an illustrator) and in television animation (as a background artist) in a freelance capacity.
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Bill Mimbu Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 14 April 2008 Location: United States Posts: 7359
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Posted: 15 August 2018 at 9:31am | IP Logged | 8
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Sub-category: biggest misconception about your job?
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"You work at [company name]? Then, you must know..."
Doesn't matter which city I'm in, I still get asked this.
Edited by Bill Mimbu on 17 August 2018 at 9:14am
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Eric Sofer Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 31 January 2014 Location: United States Posts: 4789
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Posted: 15 August 2018 at 9:51am | IP Logged | 9
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Mr. Byrne - Sub-category - what high-falutin' title would I use for my job? I think that instead of Technical Customer Service, I might be "High Level Technical Maintenance Public Interface Specialist.?
Robbie P: "Sub-category: biggest misconception about your job?"
In customer technical support - "Look, I don't have time to screw around. Just push that button you people all have and get my system working again!" That and, "I don't care what I did to my computer, or whether it's plugged in or not, or whether I'm sitting in front of it or not! Just FIX IT!"
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Robbie Parry Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 17 June 2007 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 12186
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Posted: 15 August 2018 at 10:16am | IP Logged | 10
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Bill Mimbu wrote:
"You work at [company name]? Then, you must know..."
Doesn't matter which city I'm, I still get asked this. |
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You see, I go from Bruce Banner to the Hulk when that is asked. I don't get asked it in my current role, but did in various other roles.
Because, yeah, whatever organisation I worked for, we were one big collective. Like the Borg. Of course I know John Cowshit, who works 110 miles away and working at regional office; of course Jane Cowshit, who works in sales 400 miles away, is a personal friend of mine.
Yeah. We know every employee intimately. We adopt a Dr. Strange pose and see "all possible realities". If Lord Muck of Cowshit Farm Street has put a complaint in about John Doe working in operations 400 miles away, we'll know about it.
It's not just about companies, either. I've seen people get on buses and ask for details of ANOTHER bus company. One driver told a guy he didn't know as it was a separate company, but the pig-ignorant passenger said, "But it's a bus, mate, why don't you know?" I'd have been tempted to say, "Because there are countless bus companies and no-one short of God could know every possible route!"
Sorry, I have become angry after working with the public over time.
Edited by Robbie Parry on 15 August 2018 at 10:18am
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Michael Casselman Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 14 January 2006 Location: United States Posts: 1220
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Posted: 15 August 2018 at 10:42am | IP Logged | 11
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Ugh. Used to get that all the time in the Army. Long-running military joke. "Oh, do you know so-and-so? Yeah, sure, so-and-so's in the Navy, and he's been on a ship for the majority of his time in the service... but you guys all know each other, right?"
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Steven Myers Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 10 June 2004 Location: United States Posts: 5626
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Posted: 15 August 2018 at 11:05am | IP Logged | 12
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Biggest misconception: an Art Teacher just does fun projects with the students, and doesn't teach anything. Mostly, they have Art so the real teachers can get a break.
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