re: Corporate, industry conference pet peeves.

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FWIW these same Karen’s are always juiced up at the happy hour.

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Easy pickings I say

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if it was important you will be provided that info, I highly doubt anything granular will be presented

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No shite. It’s all boiler plate crap. You’re just showing everyone you’re the mark.

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It sounds stupid when you know what actual slides are.

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isn't it what they show on the overhead projector?

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It sounds stupid when you know what actual slides are.

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Back in the day with slide projector, one would have to place their slides in order in a stack before loading. The stack of slides is a deck.

Every industry gets together once a year to lie to each other, gather useless information and pretend to be interested in being there, although the food and booze aren’t bad if you can keep from committing a fireable offense.

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Going to a conference and not learning anything you don't already know.

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What’s worse is an annual conference we attend where there are multiple system “experts” presenting in a session that can’t answer audience questions. Then someone in the audience steps up and explains the solution they’ve developed as a result of the faulty system.

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Younger people call a powerpoint a slide deck. Get with the times.

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Hell, I'm only 37! It's just a powerpoint presentation

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I can't stand the know-it-alls who insist on asking challenging or super technical questions to try and one-up the presenter.

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LOL, I attended a conference in Orlando as a grad student to present a paper I had published (IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers).

I was nervous as hell.

My thesis advisor gave me the best advice - "You are the expert. No one else knows more about this than you." He was right.

Later, during my thesis defense, a visiting professor from Oklahoma State attended. He tried to do the same. One of my committee members turned around and blurted out "He already answered that!".

After we were done, the committee took me out for beers on Campus Corner. I had the coolest thesis committee members ever.

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The most recent version of PowerPoint contains a button to go into "Slide Show" mode. Always has.

Anyone who has ever given a presentation using PowerPoint should know this, no matter how old they are.

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Yep. I put one together this afternoon. I was referencing the old school slide projectors where you put on an actual slide show with a light source beaming through each slide to project on the wall, and when you take them out of the projector and stack them in their order, they are like a deck of cards, thus a slide deck. The terminology in power point comes from the media source that power point replaced. The same way we say "rewind" on something digital, nothing is being re-wound like tape or physical film, it's a legacy term.