The Water Cooler

8:51 AM

@enderland Just wanted to know, whether the winterbash hats are applicable to Beta sites too? (This'd be my first EB experience, so no idea about it)

Lilienthal

12:43 PM

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A: How should we handle potentially offensive questions?

This question disgusts me personally and I don't believe it should be part of the stackexchange network. Outward, blatant and unapologetic misoginy should not be permissible on Stack Exchange as a whole. Im sorry but the fact that not only has this user not been banned already, but that this ques...

This is just downright sad.

And I just know he's going to spend the next few days arguing with me in the comments...

@enderland Thoughts?

enderland

@Lilienthal sigh

@Dawny33 yeah, I'm pretty sure its any SE site

Lilienthal

Yeah that about sums up my thoughts on the matter.

I've given up responding for now, I doubt it'll accomplish much.

enderland

12:59 PM

I tried. I failed. I'm.... going to drive to work and hope that he does contact SE :P

Dawny33

1:15 PM

@Lilienthal That's some heated discussion there. Haven't noticed it!!

Magisch

@enderland came here to say I contacted SE directly and consider this discussion finished.

Lilienthal

2:02 PM

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Q: How to not talk about a previous job in an interview

I had worked for a company which turned out to be family business. Because I did not want any part in certain business activities, I quit - and surprisingly was even allowed to do so, but of course under obligation to never talk about it. While I had jobs before and afterwards, this is my only ...

resume

I'm choosing to believe that this isn't real.

It's too funny to consider it might be (deadly) serious.

enderland

2:57 PM

@user987654 - Actually how the OP phrases it, if he follows this advise, the interviewer may feel they HAVE TO hire him. — blankip 18 mins ago

lol

Dawny33

3:18 PM

That's super fast closure. Took just ~4 mins :D

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Q: Personnel or Confidential file?

Where do you keep employee acknowledgment (policy sign off) in their personnel file or confidential file?

human-resources

Lilienthal

yep, noticed that as well :)

Huh, just checked but we apparently only have 14 20K+ users on the site.

3 being mods

Though interestingly, all are active.

Hey @Dawny33, since you're our resident expert on all things India: do you happen to know any good bollywood dubstep artists/remixes/compilations? :)

They seemed to be quite popular in the bars/clubs I went to in Mumbai but I can't really find much on youtube that sounds the same. ;)

enderland

if you look at the "recent reviews" you will see a lot of the 20k+ users too, even those who don't write answers often

StackExchange

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Q: Book suggestions

Is there a place on the Workplace.SE where we can get book suggestions? I am thinking of an example question at StackOverflow here in the C++ tag, which has a nice long list of good introductory/medium/advanced books; the "question" is locked (to indicate that this isn't a good question on the si...

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StackExchange

3:50 PM

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Q: Can the tag "resume" be changed to "résumé"?

There are a lot of items tagged resume, however the proper spelling is résumé. Is it possible to make the resume tag be an alias of a résumé tag? I know that the é is supported in taxonomy because I can see those characters in http://french.stackexchange.com/

discussion

Lilienthal

No problem, keep in mind that I'm not sure your question is on-topic there either! I'd normally advise you to join the chat there to find out but as a new user you won't have the rep for it. A moderator can give you access to this site's chat where we're not so strict about stuff being on-topic. — Lilienthal 21 secs ago

@enderland Can you drop Laura a superping in case she wants to join chat?

enderland

@Laura I think you can chat now here? Not sure

Lilienthal

+1 to the proposal — Dawny33 1 min ago

Dawny33

@enderland Added the link to the chatroom, just in case she doesn't receive a notification

@Laura Link for the chatroom — Dawny33 36 secs ago

Lilienthal

@Dawny33 FYI: that's what the vote button is used for :)

Dawny33

4:01 PM

Ha ha I've voted too. I wanted to propose that some time back. Owing to my lack of fluency at English, I thought I was wrong :)

But, I really liked the way that guy was making a living out of editing resume spellings :D

Another one :D

workplace.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/37508

Lilienthal

Uh @Dawny33

These should all be rejected as too minor if that's all he's changing.

Time to monitor the review queue for a bit I guess...

Dawny33

4:18 PM

@Lilienthal Hmm yeah. You're right. Would keep in mind :)

And btw, those dubstep compilations are generally heard in those dingy bars in India. Haven't been to a lot of 'em.

The ones in Delhi, mostly have Freddie Mercury playing :D

And yeah, I confess I had to use a dictionary for understanding this! :D

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A: Can the tag "resume" be changed to "résumé"?

No As in: we can, but we shouldn't. In modern English resume and résumé are pretty much interchangeable. Over time, loan words in American English seem to lose their diacritic marks as they lose their link to the original language. British English generally prefers CV over either. Since both a...

Lilienthal

Was something unclear?

Dawny33

Nope. It's just my English which is poor

Lilienthal

Ah, fair enough. Don't worry about it though, I tend to use more pretentious words than is good for me. :)

As for the bars, in my defense they were far from dingy. They actually played some good music but mixed in Chennai Express remixes and stuff like that in occasionally.

Which sounded pretty good, though that could have been due to the alcohol I guess. ;)

enderland

I think this is a "technically true, but not really that important" thing

I don't really know if making lots of edits changing "resume" to "re'sume'" isn't really great either

Lilienthal

@cwallenpoole Updated my post: diacritic marks break tag syntax in questions and answers. Enough of a reason to go for a firm no on this in my opinion. — Lilienthal 16 secs ago

This is a pretty big oversight.

@enderland Yeah I'm really not a fan of edits like that.

enderland

4:33 PM

I just edited your question with "résumé" as a tag and it... seems it was auto convered to "resume" :) — enderland ♦ 5 secs ago

Lilienthal

Especially since it's not actually incorrect.

@enderland Haha

Dawny33

@enderland Isn't it a bug? Or did I miss something?

Cause, they do appear in the French SE

enderland

they probably have extra special characters enabled or something

Lilienthal

@enderland Can you try creating a tag with not non-accented equivalent? Like café for instance?

We'd need to figure out if it's a special character limitation that only affects non-extant tags or even proper tags.

enderland

maybe I'm just being negative but I feel like this is a pointless thing

I'm going to always type "resume" 100% of the time, never r'esume' except maybe on my mac

Lilienthal

4:42 PM

@enderland Agreed.

I'm hoping the lazy vote wins out on this one.

Sadly they might be too lazy to upvote my answer... :)

Dawny33

@Lilienthal Okay. You get my vote there.

Typing resume is better than r[long press e]sum[long press e], and the word resume makes sense after reading your answer.

enderland

you must have a mac :P

windows is a magical alt code no one will know

Dawny33

Oh is that so? Then, a double no for the french resume!

Lilienthal

The only ALT code I know is that for ™

:)

I actually have a company laptop with a full numpad so it's actually worth using alt codes now I guess.

But I always run a US keyboard instead of International.

My time is too precious to hit space after the damn quotes to prevent them from turning into silly characters.

enderland

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A: Can the tag "resume" be changed to "résumé"?

My thoughts: As a non-French speaker, I do not have an easy way to make the é character on my Windows keyboard I use at work (at home I have a mac and mac users can fairly easily if they are savvy, but most probably don't realize this?). I will still type "resume" 100% of the time, both for the ...

Lilienthal

5:12 PM

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Q: Is it disrespectful or wrong to leave before being dismissed?

I'm sure it's happened numerous times. One time is in "Night Terrors," where Data is talking to Picard in the captain's ready room. Picard is slowly losing his mind (just as the rest of the crew is), and he is speaking to Data about this: PICARD: It appears that I am not immune to the strange...

star-trek star-trek-tng

I thought the Workplace logo was looking weird for a second there.

Dawny33

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Q: Why are diacritics not supported in tags consistently?

Recently, it came up that there does not seem to be a way to support é in the tagging syntax. This seemed like a bizarre unicode bug at first (something which would be especially bizarre from a company which was founded by Spolsky) but then I ran an experiment. I went to create a question in stac...

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