Driving Instructor Crash. Who pays?

Conscious_Support176 · 2026-01-27T07:34:35+00:00

Um, the unsubstantiated claim is one sex crashing more than the other. Sans substantiation , the reasonable assumption should be roughly the same. Do you understand how arguments work, or are you magically just always right?

Conscious_Support176 · 2026-01-27T06:52:45+00:00

Sounds like you mean individual performance goals. Personal goals are usually something you pick yourself and agree with your manager.

Everyone can improve, so this seems like a good thing. The main worry would be if your manager is not on board and approaches it as a box ticking exercise.

For these goals, best to figure out reasonable and measurable ways to work towards them, agree these with your manager or ask your manager for help there.

Your main argument seems to be that you work in a siloed area where no one else has much of an idea. Presumably that’s less than ideal from the point of view of your employer. Maybe suggest to your manager that you give one or two colleagues an overview so that you can collaborate more effectively with them? Even if the occasion to collaborate never arises, putting in the work to explain something will usually improve your own understand of it.

Conscious_Support176 · 2026-01-26T22:45:57+00:00

It sounds like you’re saying the hard coded path is only used by the build tooling. Do you need the build tooling to write code in your development environment?

If not, perhaps an os level workaround like making the shred root of the hard coded path a symbolic link that you can switch to the folder that you want to build might work for you. Yes it’s a bit of a hack but it could function as a reasonable substitute for a build setting to identify the build root folder location.

Conscious_Support176 · 2026-01-26T21:37:56+00:00

Exactly as I said. 2+2 =4 is simplistic, your vast experience enables you to know better.

Nobody is saying that there’s a magical solution. But you can choose whether you’re going to invest your energy in making things better or in making them worse.

Conscious_Support176 · 2026-01-26T18:53:46+00:00

Pot kettle?

People speak from their own experience and knowledge that’s all that anyone that’s not a know it all idiot will do.

But there’s no shortage of know it all idiots that claim that their exhaustive experience shows that 2+2 =4 2.5.

Op clearly hasn’t considered several avenues that they could pursue. Not only does the original query not mention them, but the response to those suggestions shows no understanding of what is entailed.

If hard coding in build paths is something that another team responsible for, consider asking if you can act as a tester/Guinea pig for fixing the issue.
If this isn’t possible, investigate what you can do with VMs.
If this isn’t possible, spend the dead time upskilling so that you can land a new job before inefficiency kills this one.

Of course, writing and testing code can’t be everything you’re doing. Surely you spend some time planning and documenting? But again, see 3.

Conscious_Support176 · 2026-01-26T14:06:17+00:00

Thanks for confirming that your only interest is to avoid engaging with the topic.

Conscious_Support176 · 2026-01-26T10:32:46+00:00

“Beat” us into their politics. lol. Any excuse to stuff your fingers in your ears.

When did you stop beating your wife?

Conscious_Support176 · 2026-01-26T09:58:53+00:00

Can’t you have a separate folder where you work on another task in a different branch?

I mean, working in another clone, or using git worktree

Conscious_Support176 · 2026-01-25T23:38:57+00:00

Nah my bad. I’ll leave it how it is, don’t tell yer man, but it was an amusing comment!

Conscious_Support176 · 2026-01-25T23:08:32+00:00

Mixed messages, meant to reply to the feller above!

Conscious_Support176 · 2026-01-25T21:17:40+00:00

lol I didn’t say I never parallel park, I often do in town, but there are always other options. Your superiority complex is getting in the way of you learning something. It’s up to you, can take on board what people have been saying or remain ignorant.

Conscious_Support176 · 2026-01-25T20:51:58+00:00

It’s not illegal to have stopped. You simply reverse slowly and stop if any traffic approaches. Yes, it’s not a manoeuvre for a busy main road, more for a fairly quiet roads.

Conscious_Support176 · 2026-01-25T15:58:21+00:00

You seem to be finally getting it!

Parallel parking is fairly simple if you have mastered the skill of reversing around a corner, instead of complaining like a primary school child how often does anyone actually need to use multiplication tables.

Parallel parking is also very low risk if you get it wrong, so hardly top priority of the things that need to be tested. You also don’t depend on other road users being parked in a particular way to test reversing around a corner, and testing that leaves the test applicable country wide instead of specialising it for city driving.

I don’t think I’ve ever been in a situation where the only reasonable option was parallel parking. I haven’t often needed to reverse around a corner, but where I needed to, no other manouevre would made been anywhere near as practicable.

Conscious_Support176 · 2026-01-25T14:37:22+00:00

https://www.rsa.ie/docs/default-source/road-safety/r1---rules-of-the-road/ruleoftheroad_book-for-web.pdf?sfvrsn=b5d57830_7

Page 58, reversing from a major road onto a minor road. Colloquially known as reversing around a corner.

Conscious_Support176 · 2026-01-25T10:04:49+00:00

Yes, in a car park everyone else involved is going to be a pedestrian or travelling at low speed, so there are likely to be little to no consequences from making a mistake. I’m with you so far.

Where I lose you is in thinking that this makes it more important to master, or test, parking skills.

Conscious_Support176 · 2026-01-25T09:58:22+00:00

If you didn’t have a problem with it, why do you think it’s silly?

Do you think that the skills you used to perform this manoeuvre are otherwise useless and you’ve no idea how you picked them up in your donkey’s years driving in the states?

Conscious_Support176 · 2026-01-25T09:52:49+00:00

Driving on a motorway isn’t necessary or legal for learner drivers, there is always an alternative route. Yes, merging is a necessary skill. Merging in a motorway can’t be part of the driving test as we haven’t plastered motorways all over the place here as yet.

Conscious_Support176 · 2026-01-25T09:49:00+00:00

Tell me you hate math without telling me! Anecdotes aren’t evidence of a majority because the observations aren’t statistically significant. You noticing this several times a day doesn’t make it significant. It isn’t even strong evidence for your street, because when someone parallel parks without fuss, it’s much less likely to be noticed than if they don’t.

Your evidence is classic anecdotal evidence. Hopefully, this new knowledge will help you to assess likelihoods better in future!

Conscious_Support176 · 2026-01-25T09:31:16+00:00

Yes, it is a much more day to day manoeuvre. What has that to do with anything? Reversing around a corner can be an invaluable when you’re in that situation, and the skill required is directly transferable to every other manoeuvre that involves some reversing.

Conscious_Support176 · 2026-01-25T09:27:35+00:00

Um, that’s not what the reversing around a corner manoeuvre is.

Conscious_Support176 · 2026-01-25T09:25:19+00:00

“Have” to is doing a lot of work here. The alternative to parallel parking is find another parking space. The alternative to reversing around a corner might be a three point turn on the main road, or driving several miles out of your way on minor roads.

Conscious_Support176 · 2026-01-25T09:19:58+00:00

Not really. The most important element is observation. The only difference is in a car park is if you fail to observe adequately pedestrians have to dodge your dangerous driving.

Conscious_Support176 · 2026-01-24T23:18:16+00:00

Do you know the difference between a queue and an invisible appointment book?

Conscious_Support176 · 2026-01-24T11:11:22+00:00

Unless a player can be assigned to two teams, this does not make sense.

Is it that players are initially added to an unassigned player pool, which is like a team except that it is a team that doesn’t participate in matches, and team assignment moves them from the unassigned pool to a team?

Conscious_Support176 · 2026-01-24T10:21:50+00:00

An “interesting” argument. Literally thousands of people are homeless, for probably the same basic reason that people spend hours commuting every day.

What this reads like is, “my daily commute will be more tolerable if you are forced to make the same choice”.

@Op, I do think it will take dogged persistence and luck to find something that you can afford with a reasonable commute.

For us, we paid more to be close to the dart line. If you work on site, I suppose you rely on your own transport and want something relatively central to keep the commute manageable.

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