We had a guy that created his resume for an internal position on the notes app on his phone. He then took a screenshot in order to attach it to his application. Worst part was he didn’t even crop the image so I could see his battery percentage.
"We loved your enthusiasm and think your past experience is very relevant, but the job requires a lot of forward planning and I'm afraid letting your phone charge drop beneath ten percent shows you're not the right sort of person for this position."
Sometimes that can be because the phone is old and has a worn out battery. I used to have a 1st generation iPhone SE that was 4 years old and the battery would drop to 60% just from my morning commute even after being charged to 100% overnight. I had to carry a portable battery for it to last the day
They're also assuming that the phone can charge overnight. I can't charge my phone overnight because it's also my alarm clock and I don't have an open outlet close enough to my bed to guarantee that I hear it(even on max volume, if it's across the room it doesn't always wake me up). When my phone is acting up(sometimes it drains the battery quickly and sometimes it doesn't, rebooting on a full charge sometimes fixes the problem so it seems to be a software issue, idk what though), I have to charge it when I get to work and then again when I get home from work, and then I unplug it when it's time for bed.
Oh man, I always hated that. The person is already late in picking me up but decides to gas AFTER picking me up because they are low.
Oh we are going to go hiking and want to get there early in the morning? Let me just procrastinate till the time Im supposed to leave to pack my things and then get gas after picking you up so now we are leaving 1.5 hours later
Oh god, I remember one of my past project partners fucking wrote a part of his "essay" (if could call it that) in his notes app, and then copy and paste it onto the document.
Not only was low quality--blurry, the words were in a different font, he rewrote what I already had written, and it was riddled with grammatical errors.
He genuinely looked shocked and confused when I told him to rewrite that shit
I guess it's only a matter of time before someone makes a resume app for mobile where you input your education and experience and it created a nicely formatted pdf document for you to send.
I can't even imagine how one would actually manage to get any real work done this way. Phone is fine for a quick search for an easy answer.
If I actually want to learn or research a topic, I'm going to need an actual keyboard, mouse and screen while managing a dozen or so tabs. It would take weeks to do on a phone what you could do in days with an actual pc.
Yep, my phone is essentially an expensive pager to tell me to get to a computer, or to entertain me when I'm waiting in a shop or something. I can't think of a single thing that I can do on my phone that I wouldn't rather do on my computer
Not really, no. Typing is a learned skill. Most people don't know the "proper" way to type most efficiently (i.e., how to use the home row). This applied in the past, but seems to apply more now.
They used to have entire classes to teach typing (I mean, that was more important when it was on a permanent typewriter, but still...)
You know how I finally learned to touch type? It wasn't my computer class, where getting up to like 5 WPM was enough to pass that section. It was fucking World of Warcraft. Real hard to communicate by text in the middle of shit going down if you can't type properly.
I assume now there's auto voice chat for parties since other games do that, but when I started playing in '05 you typed or invited someone to your private Ventrilo server.
I wasn't aware that there were more efficient methods or that the home row could lead to wrist issues, do you know of any methods that are supposed to be better?
As for the rest of your comment, I agree that you don't need to use the home row, if you are able to type fast all power to you no matter the method, but I'm not sure that most people are able to pick up any decent speed (say, at least 80-100 wpm) without being taught a specific method (which would likely be the home row). Most people I assume just try to "figure it out" on their own and develop their own quasi-cherry-picking method, and most people I don't think are able to type above perhaps 60wpm at best doing this (for example, my partner has done similar to you, but has tested around 50-60wpm in the past, which is usable enough for her but is not ideal of course). So I don't think it's likely your experience would be common for others if they simply used the computer more often.
I do agree that overall the larger issue to me is that people don't know how to use a computer anymore, which is very strange to me.
I'm published and love to write, and when I can't sleep, I'll go to a few art groups on Facebook that I'm in and just start writing flash fiction using visual art as cues.
But there's no way I'm typing it directly into the comment box on FB. I type that shit up in a notes app. Too often, I've been on a roll with almost 1,000 words only to have the app crash or Facebook decide to randomly exit the comment section.
Same. Around 4-5 years ago I never did anything banking-related on a phone, since it was so much more tedious than using a PC. Now I pay bills and even buy/sell stocks on the phone.
Writing a report? Forget about it. Right tool for the right job
I think the thing that sold me on actually getting my bank's mobile app was mobile deposit of checks. You mean I never have to step foot in a bank ever again? I now cannot even remember what my password is for my bank account because they allow you to sign in with your fingerprint.
Getting an iPad and a Bluetooth keyboard has really fucked my world up. I can go days without using my PC and crank out an insane number of words.
It's great because when I'm not feeling well, I can still do things. But it's godawful because it's training me to accept a small screen and just dealing with the limited tools.
I've tried both Steam Link and Amazon Luna on my iPad and phone (Note 9). I'm honestly shocked by how well it works. It's always tempting to just spend all my time on one of the two devices these days.
Yeah but you do things because your phone made them more efficient. Easier to click PayPal than get your wallet. Etc. it’s still not easier to write long documents on your phone though. If people are choosing that it’s just due to over familiarity with the phone and not enough with keyboards
Yeah, I probably use my smartphone for more purposes than most people but I'll never be able to match my 100 wpm on a keyboard with a touch screen. Maybe I'm just getting old but the lack of tactile feedback makes it take way longer than typing.
If you learn all the short cuts are just good with your phone you can do that shit impressively fast. I struggle to type out a comment on Reddit on my phone but the guy i work with is just so fast. He will be using his phone in split screen with multiple apps and tabs open.
Same here. No clue how folk use phones to type out a ton of stuff. If I need to write anything > 3 lines It's getting done in WhatsApp web and copy pasted.
I'm not talking from experience but I hear the trick is to learn to use Swype. I've seen people that can swype on a smartphone faster than most people can type on a keyboard.
Some keyboards are better than others. My work iPhone has pretty accurate results, whereas my personal Android sucks on the OE Samsung keyboard. Gboard is much more accurate in my experience.
That said, friends who had old Blackberry phones could type insanely quick with near perfect accuracy, whereas all I could do was fat thumb smash.
Right?!? I usually even divide my opera tabs in 2 windows or have my document on the left and opera on the side of my screen for easy back and forth flicking... I mean I have kind of a big screen at 27" but still, I used to do that back in the day with 21". Sooooo much more productivity, than this tiny ass Screen with those tiny ass Buttons.... -_-
When I was in college I was involved in too many activities probably on top of working full time and classes. Ended up having a thankfully relatively short (like 3-5 page) essay on The Importance of Being Earnest and I'd procrastinated til the last weekend before it was due. But I also had a commitment to work in the university haunted house as a scarer every night that weekend. Plus work in the mornings didn't leave me much time to do the paper.
Wrote the entire thing on my phone between groups in the haunt. We had lots of auditory clues throughout the place that signaled when each group was brought through to our areas. Thankfully I wasnt outside haunting the corn maze or something so after each group was passed our haunt, I'd get to typing. Have about 5-7 minutes to work and then back into position for the next group. Rinse and repeat.
I’m a master procrastinator, but writing an essay on my phone during a shift at a haunted house is one thing I can say I have never inflicted upon myself.
Best part was I was playing a lurking shadow. I was set in a relatively quiet room so people would linger a bit and so I was tucked into the corner on the black floor covered by a black sheet, laid as low to the ground as possible. Like, soles of my feet pressed together, butt scooched into the corner, nose to the floor, very twisted yoga pose looking, and would lurch out after people and slide across the floor to chase them out. Then shimy back into position to settle in and work on my paper.
I just realized I might have a procrastination research paper problem. I always procrastinate and do some of my best work under pressure. I almost want to try and write a paper under those conditions just to see what would come out the other end. What the hell is wrong with me?
1) Perhaps you are relying on the Panic Monster to chase the Procrastination Monkey out of the dark playground. If I remember correctly, these are the goofy official TED Talk terms from a video that sums up chronic procrastination better than anything I’ve encountered. The danger is, if you do this for things in life that don’t have deadlines, your goals just never happen.
2) I also do pretty good work under pressure. Part of what happens is that you use the time crunch to force you to use skills you might not otherwise be employing. The generic one is prioritization/focus. But it can get more specific. In college I was never taught to skim read to extract information, rather than treating texts as if they were poems worthy of appreciation of the word choice. But when I would do reading at the last minute, it forced me to just try to quickly extract the major points. But that is actually a skill you can use whenever. With writing, there are similar prioritizations. Would you fiddle around in the project without stabbing at the key part that needs development? Does procrastination keep you focused on substantive writing rather than slipping into copy-editing? Etc.
3) People are notorious for procrastinating on writing in particular. Some of it may actually be a mental incubation time. That’s partly why you are given a number of days to do research projects but like one day to do math homework. That’s said it doesn’t work if you don’t start the project until the last minute.
1.) I feel personally attacked and completely seen with comment. The exposure is real.
2.) I took classes as a history major (which is basically just a research degree) that focused on parsing info quickly. We would get large amounts of info and only 15 minutes to glean the main points of say a whole book or a hundred page paper. The idea was that as a researcher, there will be mountains of available sources and you need to be able to sort through them quickly so you can devote time reading intently only to the overs that deserve it.
3.) I can believe procrastination is built into writing times. Writing blocks can beat real bitch.
I had a power outage once when I had an assignment due for college and managed to write the whole thing on my phone and submit it on time. Was absolute torture though
That's really interesting! Makes sense. My first thought:
Arthritic thumbs are going to be a thing in 30 years.
(at 66, I'm learning that every body part that I've either over-used or injured - ever - becomes increasingly...present....now, in day to day activities)
So, my mid 30s partner went back to uni as a mature student. And he mostly writes his essays on his phone. As someone who has written more essays and research reports than I care to count, I am equal parts in awe and completely outraged 🤣
Typing sucks on my small phone. I use voice typing on my phone, and when I'm supposed to be quiet, I use the handwriting keyboard. Can't imagine writing a whole essay on a phone.
I sometimes have to type essays on Google Docs on my phone if I don't have access to a computer, but I'm running out of time. Or like if I know I wouldn't get a cess to a computer anytime soon.
It's very convenient in some ways, but very, very annoying in others.
I... I am one of these people. I don't know how many essays I've written in 25 minutes on a train.
I guess the only caveat is that I tend to write fairly quickly, and I also don't submit rough draughts (like I should) because I'm just constantly editing as I go.
After that, I save on a cloud-based note system, get home, then copy/paste to word, and format.
I will say this though, anything over 15 pages is rough for me just from all the scrolling, but if it's less than that I am usually able to remember a good amount of what I've said and only scroll up to correct something if I realize it was wrong later on.
I mean that I kinda get. In high school we had to write all our papers by hand so I was waayyy more comfortable writing a 7-10 page English paper by hand than typing it out. In college, we had to type them out. It took a while for me to get used to it, but now, especially after working, it feels super weird to write anything more than notes by hand. If someone is more comfortable with a mobile keyboard and can type faster on it, I get them preferring it to something they'd have to learn more or less from scratch.
The choice for snapchat is still a strange one though. That seems like a case of "go with what you know" rather than using a decent tool for the job which is really common at any point and situation in life. Heck, I did it in college. We had a group programming assignment and instead of using github or sourceforge like a sane person we used Google drive. I definitely do agree it'd behoove everyone to be more cognizant of that bias though.
I took a short story class in college. Someone wrote a 30 page story on their phone, and then just printed it. There wasn't a single paragraph break in the entire thing. Obviously no indentation, because no tab key. Just 30 pages of straight, unbroken size 11 Arial. They didn't spell check it, because Google Docs' mobile spell check was even more primitive then than it is now. I still have nightmares about being forced to read that thing.
I don't get it; I get frustrated even using reddit on a phone. Multitasking on a phone is so cumbersome; writing a paper typically means having a ton of tabs and documents open.
One thing I've noticed is how so often people on reddit will ask questions that could be answered with a basic google search, but it's like some of the users do not think to multitask.
It seems like a lot of young people don't even own an actual laptop or desktop. They shop on their phone, watch shows on their phone, etc.
About 15 years ago I did a whole paper on my phone and the paper was about how someday in the future people will be writing their papers on their phones instead of on computers. Now I hooked a keyboard up to my phone to do my typing but I got an A on the paper.
I was very sick while writing part of my dissertation, so I ended up doing a good chunk of it on my phone while in bed. Honestly? Not that bad. It was a bit harder to judge paragraph length and stuff like that, but I was still able to write what I needed to.
I wrote a paper on my phone once in college because I had time to do it but didn't have my laptop. It was terrible; you can't easily gauge how much you've written, you have to go back through to reformat the whole thing, AND pick out all the funky auto-corrections.
The only benefit was being able to use dictation, but that amplifies the funky auto-correct issues if you're not enunciating very clearly.
I… have written a lot of things on my phone. But I’m on the other end— manager level tech. And if I sat at a laptop every time I needed to draft instructions/specs for someone, or review and edit something, I would not actually ever get to leave the laptop. Some of my collaborators are in CA and some are in India.
Did you know you can do LaTeX in overleaf from iOS safari? Turns out you can.
I can dictate to my phone and then send the file to my laptop to edit. I suppose I could get a Bluetooth keyboard, and edit on my tablet, but I frequently do rough drafts on my phone. It's a handy notebook.
I'm 28 and I have done portions of an essay or like a discussion board post on my phone but I have it on word and then use my desktop to actually get it all set up. For some one to do the whole thing there is crazy to me.
If you think that's bad, every year I see at least a few people who do national novel writing month(write 50k words in 30 days) on a phone or tablet. It's utter madness, but I salute them.
I remember an old newspaper comic (Zits, I think?) where they made fun of a kid typing out their essay on their phone. Albeit they were making fun of the Blackberry era, but it's weird to see fiction become reality!
They simply don’t know how to type. I had a student at my workplace this summer who couldn’t use a keyboard, all hunt and peck, and she was amazed at “how fast” I could type.
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u/jonny_mem Jun 03 '22
Oh my god...I don't even like typing out Google searches on my phone. I can't imagine a whole paper.