- I practice crap detection in my everyday life by using common sense and morals to sense out whatever doesn’t fit the narrative of the situation. A story of when I detected crap is when I was working the fitting room in a retail store. We have a store policy where we’re not allowed to let the customers bring their shopping bags from different stores into the fitting room with them. One day when it was really busy, I told this one woman that she can’t take the bags in with her and told her to leave them outside her door so that it won’t get mixed with other people’s stuff, but she refused and said that she rather leave it at the front table with me and also said “please be careful I have an expensive perfume in there” extremely loudly to the point where a lot of people heard her. She left her stuff for me to watch, however, it’s not my job to babysit bags because I have to count the items and put them inside the fitting rooms for all the customers. Regardless, somewhere between when I was attending to other customers and when she came out of the fitting room, someone had stolen her perfume. Then she started freaking out and yelling at me and my managers saying how could we let this happen and to check the cameras and when we said we don’t have a camera in the fitting room she got even madder. It baffles me how she thinks it’s okay to have a camera in the fitting room when everyone knows that’s literally illegal like that’s basically like having a camera in a bathroom. Then she proceeds to call the cops who tell her the exact same thing we been telling her for the past hour and then she continues to whine about how my manager and I have to compensate for her $150, which then again, both the NYPD and the store manager tells her that we cannot do that because we are a corporate retail company, so the only thing she can really do is file a complaint which may or may not go through. Then she proceeds to tell me I should’ve told her to bring in her valuables with her which I was confused about because that’s not my responsibility and its just common sense to The whole situation was just “full of crap” because it could’ve been avoided if she had just used common sense and brought her personal valuables in with her or even if she just had avoided basically yelling out the fact that she had expensive items in the bag I told her she had to leave outside due to policy.
- A new tool Lunsford and Ruskiewicz offered me was google the publisher to see if it’s reliable because credibility and reliability are something that can make or break your research paper.
- A past rule I have been taught about writing that I now see as unhelpful is an extensive word count or an extensive page count because unless you’re an expert on a specific subject, then you won’t have much information about it that goes beyond the surface of what you learn through research. Someone who is just learning about it for the first time won’t know how to analyze it the same way an expert would know. So, therefore, dragging out a paper just to hit the word/page count is only going to make your paper seem less credible since it would just be repetitive to the point where you’re writing about the same thing over and over again.
- An unpopular opinion that I strongly agree with is that college isn’t a requirement to be successful in life. So many seniors in high school are stressing about college applications as we speak because that’s the socially acceptable thing to do in your senior year of high school. The idea of college is shoved down your throat throughout all four years of high school by teachers, parents, and even peers because every high schooler has gone through the “what college are you going to?” phase. I think teenagers, especially in the ages of 14-18, should be given the time to think about what they want to do post-high school without a bunch of adults telling them what to do. College is important obviously, but it’s not for everyone because even though some people find it extremely helpful in their chosen career path, it does that exact opposite for others. The need for college depends on the individual because no matter how many people tell them they need it, it could end up being the most useless thing for someone people depending on their career path. Also, I feel like a lot of teens a pressured into attending college because that’s what is expected of them as soon they reach the last two years of high school. I feel like it’s important to let teens come to terms with what they need in their own time instead of forcing the idea of college on them because college is a big commitment that involves thousands of dollars and four years of someone’s life.
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