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I am ignorant and unwitty - I don't get it. I thought pavlov was a game.
on a job interview in IT, an interviewer asked me if I understood the difference between TCP and UDP. After giving the best technical explanation I could, I ended with
I could tell you a UDP joke, but I'm not sure if you'd get it.
He said go ahead
I paused, that was it.
Kind of awkward.
I didn't get the job.
This is fucking funny.
I will also tell you a joke about TCP, and if you don't get it, I will repeat.
Unfortunately I don’t know enough about udp to get it, is it that you dumped the information before like, asking about it?
Tcp and udp are to sum it up, internet messaging protocols. UDP specifically is when you send a message over without guaranteeing your message was received. TCP on the otherhand is more like a handshake where you send a message and expect a response back.
The joke is basically UDP=I dont know if you would get it
There's pretty basic UDP, that sends without confirming receiving. And instead of fixing it, they just slapped another protocol, TCP, on top of it.
With only UDP, you don't know, if you get it.
Nothing boosts your impression on people like making them feel stupid. RIP
I wouldn't expect this joke to make someone feel stupid if they know what UDP is, so it feels like it was a safe bet
Interviewing is (ideally) quite a structured type of conversation, when is a job interview. A lot of people have to lock in pretty hard to deal with how unnatural it is, and they might not have the spare bandwidth to catch a joke.
Especially not someone from HR, they're fucking troglodytes.
I completely agree with your first paragraph.
But TheFogan was probably not explaining UDP to an HR person in this scenario.
Oh I've seen some pretty bad interviewing, where HR is sent in with a question sheet and a box to tick for which key words the interviewee mentioned per question.
Obviously a red flag and useless method of interviewing, but it does happen frighteningly often. Especially where the IT team is so understaffed, they can't spare the time to do interviews.
Oomph, ~~buzzword~~ keyword guessing sounds like great interview indeed
to deal with how unnatural it is
Red flag that you don't want to work there.
Well sure, but the context for my comment was the unnatural-ness of a structured job interview. If you're not just pantsing it, such interviews follow a script, and that's not how we normally talk to each other.
The thing is it is highly doubtful that Pavlov ever used a bell. Also the experiments were no fun for the dogs.
He redirected the animals' digestive fluids outside the body, where they could be measured.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_conditioning#procedures
https://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2022/12/the-shocking-and-gruesome-truth-about-pavlovs-dogs-and-how-the-results-are-commonly-misinterpreted/
the experiments were no fun for the dogs
I would really expect most experiments to be no fun for animals that are experimented on
Since Pavlow is so famous you see often the dogs depicted as cute and someone ringing a bell. Not as fixated pepsin machines. At least in the past that was my mental image. Might be a me problem.
No, you're right about the images, it's marketing as usual, but I never thought about this
Or everyone has heard that same joke a thousand times already
Assuming they all don't have a very-literal-interpretation-of-jokes-leading-to-no-sense-of-humour, I think people usually laugh appreciatively at someone trying to lighten the mood in settings like this, even when they've heard the joke before.
I've found that everyone at uni is like this. Humourless ~~weirdos~~fellows, maybe they just exhaust themselves with drink, drugs and dancing every night and can't process my jokes.
Maybe they just wanted to deny the positive feedback to him.
I've heard that same joke a million times. It's what I'd expect to find at the top of a Reddit thread.
It's a witty joke but a common one, so wouldn't chuckle tbh
Should have accompanied the jokes with treats
The only acceptable response is “I heard he was good at making bitches wet.”
No one laughed, I'm too witty for this class.
Given how the cookie crumbles in plenty unis, odds are most of the class didn't even know about the experiments, so they didn't know enough to even notice the wit.
I would hope the professor would have at least chuckled.
Imagine he hears this joke everytime he makes the question...
He could have salivated a bit then.
Well, they are there to learn after all, he didn't assume his students knew, and asked if they did. One guy in the class knew. Seems like it's working itself out, and he just needs to keep that one loaded for later in the semester when people are primed to get it.
That's fair, you're right. I guess my comment was a bit too bitter.
I always expected people starting a uni course to at least know the very basics of the subject. You know, out of interest. For psychology it would be the basics of Freud (something dreams, id/ego/superego), Pavlov and Skinner (experiments with other animals, focus on behaviour instead of "mind"), Piaget (child development) etc.
But then your comment made me remember psychology classes are rather common for people from other graduations, specially when they'll become teachers or professors.
Now I'm hungry
I just drooled all over myself and I have no idea why
Too obvious, don't reward someone for going after low hanging fruit...
It’s totally overrated compared to Eton Mess tbh
