http://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/2...cum-laude-on-graduation-cake-family-says.html
Actually, it's kind of sad. Uneducated.
Summa Cum Laude
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http://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/2...cum-laude-on-graduation-cake-family-says.html
Actually, it's kind of sad. Uneducated.
Think about that. Publix bakery isn't a single person operation - there are several workers in there, not to mention various managers. That means none of them knew what "summa cum laude" was.
And Publix is a good job, too. Benefits, advancement, this is not some dummy factory we're talking about.
And Publix is a good job, too. Benefits, advancement, this is not some dummy factory we're talking about.
My point exactly. Not one of them took the initiative to actually Google the phrase to find out what it meant. Just jumped to conclusions.
Freefaller
Active Member
If her son was "totally humiliated" by this, I hope he grows a pair before going off to college. It appears he is well on his way to being a snowflake! Just eat the cake and go on with your life.
transporter
Well-Known Member
Wow...did you read the article?
The cake order was entered online, not in person. The online application refused the "cum" in Summa Cum Laude and entered 3 dashes. The order read "Summa --- Laude".
What mom should have done was get off the couch and go order the cake in person. Entering info in the "special request" section rarely works anywhere.
The size of Publix is the reason for the issue...because they have an online ordering system.
The quality of Publix employment has nothing to do with the online order entry system.
This is great advice for a lot of situations where people get bent out of shape for the most insignificant reason.
Toxick
Splat
http://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/2...cum-laude-on-graduation-cake-family-says.html
Actually, it's kind of sad. Uneducated.
What a bunch of ####amamie nonsense.
Chris0nllyn
Well-Known Member
No. A number of businesses in this day and age of technical advancements are able to maintain, successfully, an online ordering process. Including Publix as evidenced by them oputting on the cake exactly what she includedin the online ordering form, minus what the actual piper decided to personally not put on the cake.
The only thing remotely the mother's fault (outside of whining to the media about it) is having someone else pick up the cake. Of course, she rightfully assumed these people were capable of understanding that it's (A), graduation "season", and (B) a common latin phrase associated with said graduation.
Fixed it for you.
A home-schooled "Summa Cum Laude". 
I wonder if she actually contact the media or if she posted it on social media and the press picked it up. You see a lot of times the media scans FB or Twitter to "find" a "story" - because apparently they have nothing better to do - that might amuse readers/viewers.
I can see me doing that if this happened to me, posting it on here or on my FB. What I can't see is me calling the Emptyprize to alert the press.
Chris0nllyn
Well-Known Member
Very true. She didn't have to contact the media for them to run the story, but she did give them comments.
PeoplesElbow
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As someone that was a teaching assistant in college, I have to say that home schooled kids were the worst. Most acted like they were still 12 year old and could not take criticism on their work.
GWguy
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http://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/2...cum-laude-on-graduation-cake-family-says.html
Actually, it's kind of sad. Uneducated.
Maybe that's how it got the nickname, "Pubix".