Dude, that's TOTALLY NOT FAIR!!!!

**kirbysprite** · 04-06-2009, 10:47 PM

Okay, sooo... let me tell you this story about my school.

Okay, there's a test that EVERY kid in the school has to take in order to graduate, let's call it an EXIT EXAM. This EXIT EXAM is for two days and you take this EXIT EXAM in the 10th grade, so freshmen cannot take in this year, also if you failed the EXIT EXAM, you must retake it the next year. During the day of exam, the 10th graders (and the juniors and seniors who didn't pass it) must take the test, and everyone that passed the test or all the freshmen must not come to school, UNTIL 12:00 P.M.

Well, we did that in March. I didn't go to school until 12:00 P.M. That was a happy day... ... ...until now...

The school distract has a law, that states there's a certain amount of hours a student must get in school. Turns out, that we're 8 hours behind, and if the school doesn't get in those 8 hours, they will get sued for 1,000 dollars. JUST BECAUSE OF THOSE TWO DAYS. So, now, next week (or what was supposed to be my spring break, we have to have a minimum day for two days... So, we get two minimum days, then the next 3 days off. And this effects ALL FRESHMAN, JUNIORS AND SENIORS WHO PASSED THE TEST. It doesn't effect sophomores, and the upper classmen who took the test again, then get a full week of vacation. Gee, I hate my life.

**Hraesvelg** · 04-06-2009, 10:53 PM

Harsh. Reminds me of something that happened to my sister in middle school. They promised the people who improved their standardized test scores by 2 percentile (from the previous year) a free day from the dress code and classes. My sister had scored in the 99th percentile both years, but she wasn't eligible for the free day. Seriously, WTF? One can't score higher than the 99th percentile, so she was in effect punished for doing well.

**kirbysprite** · 04-06-2009, 10:59 PM

Can't get higher than 99%, how about 100%? But that is very, very difficult to accomplish, so wow.

Man...I can't think straight now...

**Hraesvelg** · 04-06-2009, 11:00 PM

I didn't say 99%. I said 99th percentile.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percentile

**kirbysprite** · 04-06-2009, 11:02 PM

I still don't really get it, but okay...

Is it like a rank?

/ifail

**Hraesvelg** · 04-06-2009, 11:07 PM

In a manner of speaking. It very basically boils down to "this percentage of people scored below you." She may not have gotten 100% of the questions right, but she scored better than 99% of her peers.

**kirbysprite** · 04-06-2009, 11:14 PM

Oh, now I get it.

So, in order to get the 100 percentile, so have to score over everyone? Okay, get it now.

**Hraesvelg** · 04-06-2009, 11:42 PM

No, it's impossible to score in the 100th percentile. That would mean you had scored over everyone else, including yourself, which is impossible.

**kirbysprite** · 04-06-2009, 11:43 PM

Oh. NOW I get it...

/imsofail

**Lady-Loki** · 04-06-2009, 11:57 PM

Yep, life is not always fair.

I was in a job once that went through a title change during a Union contract period and as a result of the title change we were required to pass an assessment annually to retain the new title or we would be shifted to a different department that still carried the old title.

We also got a bonus for passing the assessment with better scores - there were three bonuses:
$1000 for 80% and up and you did not have to take the assessment again for another year.
$500 for scoring 60-80% and you take the assessment again in 6 months.
$250 for scoring 40-60% and you take the assessment again in 3 months.
Below 40% you got no bonus and you take the assessment again in 3 months.

If you did not make it to the 80% and up score after 2 retest you were transferred out.

Sounded decent because even if you scored 70% you got $500 and if you score 80% on retest you get the other $500, so in the end you got $1000, but no, actually, here is where the unfair part came in:
those who scored lower got the lower bonus and retested and got the lower bonus again and on the third retest scored high enough to stay in the position and was then given a $1000 bonus for achieving the required score.

Pissed me and about 4 other people off big time because we scored in the 80% and above range on the first round and only got $1000. So a couple of the dip-shits in the office got an extra $1000 for being stupid!

Of course when we had to retest we intentionally answered incorrectly just enough to keep us in the assessment pool and got more of the bonus money the next year.

Needless to say the company got rid of that process after the third year when the directors realized what we were doing.

Still sucks that I got gyppedin that first year of assessment though.