Career Development, Wednesday period 1

[sharp_man]

Hannibal grinned out at the students. They were in the Danger Shop today, and it was set up with computer stations for each of them. "Welcome. I am Dr. Hannibal Lecter, and I will be your instructor for today, and possibly other days as well. I suppose we could do introductions again, but that would quickly grow tedious.

"This week, we will be learning something that should help in any position you occupy or job you seek to undertake. The art of dealing with people. Particularly, annoying and rude people. They exist everywhere. Fortunately or otherwise, in this time and place, the internet brings them to us in massive quantities."

He pressed a few buttons and turned on the computers. "Your assignment for today is to create an account if you don't already have one on either Twitter or Tumblr - or both if you are feeling particularly ambitious or masochistic - and then engage in discussion. Your goal is to make your opponents as angry as possible while remaining outwardly pleasant yourself."

Yes, you were all going to be trolls.

"Should you have any questions or need any pointers, please ask. I can also point you in the direction of particularly odious posts if you would like a place to begin."

Comments

Sign in!

[sharp_man]

Like a troll.

Re: Sign in!

[amitragic]

Ulysses Zane

Re: Sign in!

[notfinishedyet]

Enola Holmes

Re: Sign in!

[white_oleander]

Astrid Magnussen

Re: Sign in!

[mylandmyrules]

Nell Ingram

Re: Sign in!

[sexy_giraffe]

Tahani al-Jamil

During the lecture

[sharp_man]

Ask questions if you've got 'em.

Re: During the lecture

[notfinishedyet]

Enola raised her hand. "I'm sorry. I'm technology challenged. Would it be okay if I was just rude to my roommate? He's quite deserving of it, I assure you."

Re: During the lecture

[sharp_man]

"I'm pleased to hear you can hold your own," Hannibal said. "We can overcome your technology challenge, however."

He brought a chair over to where she was. "Have you used a computer before, or is it entirely new?"

Re: During the lecture

[notfinishedyet]

"I've used the one in the library before," Enola said staring at the monitor. "And I've recently discovered Wikipedia which is absolutely the greatest thing ever made."

Giant nerd here, Hannibal. Giant.

Class assignment

[sharp_man]

Be a troll! Feel free to use actual threads or make them up entirely, then go to town. Ask Hannibal if you need pointers.

Re: Class assignment

[amitragic]

Ulysses was creating a Twitter account - although using one on a computer? what ridiculous boomer nonsense was that - and then he was going to find one of those annoying people who couldn't stand having their favorite underground music act actually become popular.

Look, he knew where his niche was.

Re: Class assignment

[sharp_man]

Well, it was slightly less creepy if your instructor looked over your shoulder at a computer screen than if he got close enough to see your phone.

"How is it going?" he asked, doing just that.

Re: Class assignment

[amitragic]

It also made it way too stressful for Ulysses to try and sneak onto more interesting sites, so that was just another tick in the con column, if you asked him.

"Uh, fine," he said. There... actually weren't much in the way of tweets on his screen. "Kinda not seeing the point of this, really."

Talk to Hannibal!

[sharp_man]

That's what he's here for!

OOC

[sharp_man]

So the OCD doesn't fall out!