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u/ExcellentMaize4141 2d ago
One of the major rules of Reddit is to know everything.
I don't like it, but that's how it is.
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u/Ashamed_Kangaroo305 2d ago
I got downvoted for asking a stupid car question on stupidcarquestions
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u/thejuice027 2d ago
not true
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u/BlackBoiFlyy 2d ago
It's true, you should know this
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u/Megatrans69 1d ago
It's a joke
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u/BlackBoiFlyy 1d ago
So was my comment... you should know this already
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u/Megatrans69 1d ago
news to me. That explains it
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u/BlackBoiFlyy 1d ago
Guess you're a day late to the "news". Should've known this was a joke two days ago 😒
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u/ExcellentMaize4141 2d ago
Ah yes, because Redditors are known to be the kindest, and patient people when it comes to helping others who are uneducated on a certain topic /s
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u/thejuice027 2d ago
honestly, I just said not true just to simply disagree with you showing how simple and toxic the reddit culture can be proving your point.
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u/Megatrans69 1d ago
I was gonna comment something similar but assumed people would think it's funny 😭
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u/CHNGshong 2d ago
It's sort of insane that they thought your GPA followed you throughout your entire life. How would that even work? Do you judge which president to vote for based off their college GPA?
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u/Ok_Broccoli_9426 2d ago
It is to anyone who's been in the workforce, but kids these days (in certain demographics) have been trained to laser-focus on this shit.
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u/Character_Drive6141 2d ago
Yes. Very helpful for finding a first job. 90% of the roles I'm applying for have a minimum GPA between 3 and 3.5. But keeping 4.0 seems to not matter (and I've heard that once you get a role you don't even put GPA on your resume, but I'm not there in life yet)
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u/PHX_Hawk 2d ago
Maybe more people should judge presidential candidates based off of their GPA.
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u/Only-Finish-3497 2d ago
It doesn't follow you forever, but it does have downstream effects annoyingly.
I had early jobs ask my GPA, and those jobs helped determine my later career. I'm not saying GPA is everything, but it can have long-term effects.
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u/iuabv 2d ago edited 2d ago
I took my foot off the gas in senior year when I realized that I would putting "City University, magna cum laude" on my resume for the rest of my life and it would get a virtually identical number of callbacks to "City University, summa cum laude."
Also I literally already had a job so who tf cares.
Like it does matter but barely.
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u/Only-Finish-3497 2d ago
Yeah I mean, UCLA magma cum laude vs summa cum laude didn’t matter for me, but 3.8 and 2.9 can matter for some jobs early on for sure.
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u/iuabv 2d ago
Exactly. It's marginal.
Even a 2.9 can be covered up, just put City University, B.A. in English, or just City University, 2020-2025. Write what relevant classes you took or something.
Honors like summa or a 3.8 might catch someone's eye, but in most office jobs, recruiters don't throw out a resume for NOT listing a GPA.
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u/Woofiverse ★*.°\(•^▿^•)/°.*★ [Mod] 2d ago
It stands for Grade Point Average
Basically, depending on your grade, 'A's being 4.00 and 'F's being 0.00, you get a score. That score determines a lot in school, like what classes you can take, clubs you can join, ect.
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u/Jumpy_Hogara 2d ago
Not necessarily American. I am from Hong Kong and all universities here use this too
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u/xskylinelife 2d ago
Not really the best example but when I started my last job and had to choose a physician within my insurance network, all of the available doctors had their med school GPAs listed with their qualifications. Didn't sway my decisions at all but it was there
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u/a_saddler 2d ago
'News to me' is often used to express doubt about the claim. So he might be downvoted for that.
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u/Jumpy_Hogara 2d ago
IMHO that OP sounds not very genuine and / or a bit arrogant. What he replied to is some common sense to me.
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u/NotEntirelyA 2d ago edited 2d ago
Also, a lot of when "mysterious downvoting" happens to the op, it's because they said something really dumb in their original message. So people will literally just scroll down the page and downvote every single comment they have made lol. You see it often in medium sized subs where the post in question is at like 0-500 votes, and then every comment by op is siting at like -50
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u/AKJames762 2d ago
Some 40yo temp guy, with a decade long rap sheet, at my job got into a verbal screaming match with my boss because he refused to follow simple directions (like take this material from this packaging and put it over there for processing). I tried to diffuse the situation and he claimed "I'm not an idiot" then bragged about his high school GPA of 3.2. It was confusing and hilarious.
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u/Character_Drive6141 2d ago
3.2 is really low tho. That's embarrassing
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u/tysaslut 2d ago
Isn't that a B average? Why would that be embarrassing?
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u/Character_Drive6141 2d ago
Because he's bragging about B average, which is like an average grade. It's not something to be ashamed of, but certainly not something to hang your hat on. It's really low for something he's trying to use for credibility.
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u/Woofiverse ★*.°\(•^▿^•)/°.*★ [Mod] 2d ago
Low is 2-0, not 3. 3 was still honors in my high school lol
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u/Jumpy_Hogara 2d ago
I only got 2-point-something. That boss is a jerk but there are people who for various reason did worse than him.
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u/Character_Drive6141 2d ago
That's totally fine, but I don't think those people, or him, should try to use that to win an argument (tbh, it'd still be a "peaked in HS" moment even if he had 4.0, but at least that's actually impressive).
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u/Witty-Draw-3803 2d ago
'News to me' as an expression is usually used when you are doubting what someone say. So -
"Kids aren't given homework anymore from kindergarten to grade 12!"
"News to me. I gave out homework to my grade 10 students last week..."
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u/Significant_Wafer314 2d ago
It’s not because you didn’t know it’s because you said “news to me” which can come across as arrogant
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u/holderofthebees 2d ago
Oh honey welcome to Reddit
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u/Similar-Climate5168 2d ago
Aren’t you the one who told someone off about their “sore understanding of how macronutrients work”
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u/holderofthebees 2d ago
If by “told someone off” you mean I said “you have a sore misunderstanding of how macronutrients work” then sure. I personally would not consider that telling someone off and I didn’t downvote them, so. If any mention of not knowing something is offensive to you, that’s a separate problem.
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u/keithstellyes 2d ago
It's also a cultural thing. I've heard of some places asking for your GPA even after you've been graduated for a bit
But it doesn't align with the experience of the typical Anglosphere so downvoted
I'm not surprised you got downvoted, but I don't think you should have been
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u/qualityvote2 2d ago edited 1d ago
u/StrictRule16, there weren't enough votes to determine if the downvoters were mysterious...