One of my student aides last block did not show up so I marked them absent. Checked something later in the block and they were changed to present. I changed it back to absent. This block I go take attendance and they are again marked present but set in such a way that I can't change it. Someone else in the building was changing my attendance. I find out through their counselor that it was a secretary in the main office. Not the nice main one but one of the minor ones that just sits at the front desk. Apparently he arrived late and just hung out down there. This angered me and I sent an email asking her to not change my attendance and the aides need to be with me and that if they are needed they can be sent down.
She responded that I was being rude. So I just went and filled the principal in instead and told him how not cool I am with that whole situation. I am legally responsible for a student's safety if assigned to me and if they are marked present they should be in the library or doing something that I know about.
That secretary sucks. I'm going to avoid making further assumptions about them based on my experiences with other people in similar situations over the years, but IMO absolutely the right call is to go over their head.
Sorry you have to deal with it at all though. Have this validation though?
For what it's worth, my boss would lose her shit if someone in the main office was futzing with attendance that she was responsible for. Your note about safety in particular is why I would be fighting them for sure.
I'm pretty sure this secretary has been doing similar to other people. I know she was just letting a student skip whole blocks in someone else's class.
I just want to know where the people I'm responsible for are! Ignoring like liability issues, I want to make sure they don't get hurt or something.
Yeah, the simplest way to win this is just keep saying I have duty of care, and by her making your role incorrectly she’s saying that you’re responsible for that kid. She’s way out of line. At least in our school we have alternate ways of marking kids down without saying that they’re in someone’s class.
Yeah I know I’m in the right here I just hate conflict. Situations like this are what will randomly pop into my head at 3am for years or decades.
I wish there was a job out there for me to be like Luther, the rage interpreter, in those K&P sketches, but I'd work as a "I don't like conflict" interpreter.
my unemployment ran out so i got approved for food stamps. it's not enough to cover all of my grocery needs, but it's more than i expected as a single person without dependents. i know this is the job thread but i've gotta say that this support system around not having a job (or not having one that pays well enough, come to that) got me kind of emotional. i haven't been on explicit benefits for food/medical in a decade and going into a building meant for that and being helped by kind people who do that for a living and then getting a card that lets me buy food- it made me way more patriotic than any f-16 stadium flyover, or whatever.
i was born in a country with a stronger social safety net but still. hell yeah taxes doing stuff.
It is precisely how the state should be designed to work.
I remember 20 years ago, a work mate’s daughter was to be born with a hole in her heart. Dad and Pregnant mum were flown across the country to be seen by one of the world’s pre-eminent child heart surgeons, a month and half in the hospital for the birth/heart surgery/NICU recovery, meals accomodation for 4 weeks after discharge before the family could fly home. 0 dollars it cost them, literally nothing.
ShadowfireVermont, in the middle of nowhereRegistered Userregular
Boy that must be nice. We found out after our daughter was born that she had transposition, she was brought to Boston that night, we drove down the next day, and spent the next several hours split between trying to be with her and figuring out what the hell we were going to do about sleeping. Ended up with me off site at various hospital run hostels and the wife sleeping in the room near the baby.
The first bill I got was just for the surgery, not including the earlier surgery to put in a stint and balloon, any of the nursing staff watching and caring for her for three weeks, the ambulance ride, overnight stays, medications, or anything else. It was $460k.
I have a job now, finished my 2nd week. It’s just part time to start, but it’s doing HR Admin Assistant work, which is exactly what I needed. Since being laid off a few months back the biggest challenge I’ve felt has been having an HR degree, but no actual resume experience to point to.
So now I’m learning more about the whole process, and being in an organization now opens me up to any position that gets posted internally, so there’s at least a chance for possibility for advancement.
I’m just feeling a ton of relief because my severance is just ending, and this come at exactly the right time.
I can't say anything that wouldn't get me banned apart from I hope your kid is OK.
But I sure am fucking thinking those things.
Oh she's doing fine, her cardiologist has been real happy with how she's grown. And eventually almost all of the costs got discharged (which took a fair bit of "dude, look at this bill, you think we'll ever be able to pay that? Come on"), but just staying in Boston for three weeks was expensive enough. Even the parking cost us hundreds of dollars. Also I had to leave overnight one night because our dog went crazy and I had to go check on him, and when I got back I lost my good parking space and had to switch to a much worse one. Truly the worst.
Sigh I went to the hell known to men yesterday for a quick grocery run. Getting those few items I see someone to bemoans it's bad real bad. So I dread going back to work as I know they rely on me to cover up all the mistakes they make with my work ethic
I flipped the switches and let outlook upgrade or switch to the new version. I figured it's inevitable, might as well get on with it
This shit sucks, what the hell? It saves drafts like every minute, and then they just hang out for some indeterminate period? And it keeps pushing one drive over and over again, and it doesn't always load the whole chain of responses, or make it obvious if I already responded to an email.
Very frustrating
And search is worse now than it was in the previous version
What is going on with search functions getting worse?
my unemployment ran out so i got approved for food stamps. it's not enough to cover all of my grocery needs, but it's more than i expected as a single person without dependents. i know this is the job thread but i've gotta say that this support system around not having a job (or not having one that pays well enough, come to that) got me kind of emotional. i haven't been on explicit benefits for food/medical in a decade and going into a building meant for that and being helped by kind people who do that for a living and then getting a card that lets me buy food- it made me way more patriotic than any f-16 stadium flyover, or whatever.
i was born in a country with a stronger social safety net but still. hell yeah taxes doing stuff.
When the plague was raging and I lost my job near the end of it I got qualified for for the state version type medicaid and it was just such a relief after watching my savings carefully suddenly having a huge normal monthly cost drop to like 12 bucks a month. I felt a lot more like I could ride this thing out until the wheel turned again and I got a new job.
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ButtersA glass of some milksRegistered Userregular
Feels like I'm seeing way fewer applicable job postings on Indeed and ziprecruiter
In 2020 I was laid off and job hunting from late September through the third week of November. Activity got super stagnant in October and then exploded immediately after the election. A week or two after I had a new job, I started getting callbacks for applications I submitted months ago.
Sigh I went to the hell known to men yesterday for a quick grocery run. Getting those few items I see someone to bemoans it's bad real bad. So I dread going back to work as I know they rely on me to cover up all the mistakes they make with my work ethic
Honest question, because I've never been in the military:
When you were in the Marines, if you were part of a squad where everyone slacked off except you, and your sergeant and their immediate superiors were either too incompetent or too lazy to do anything, what would your next steps be?
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JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
I have just finalized my tenth and final annual performance evaluation. Now I'm going to go home, have a beer, and resolutely refuse to think about my minions for even a single second over the next fourteen hours.
So a miscommunication last night resulted in multiple texts from my boss.
Nice texts, but citing union laws and politeness.
Everyone's hands (i wasnt involved, i set them up to talk) are dirty and both sides could have done better. So now I am in bed, mentally approaching this cultural clusterfuck and trying to decide if its my circus even though both made choices that enabled the problem.
There's also a bit of faith in the water as well
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Librarian's ghostLibrarian, Ghostbuster, and TimSporkRegistered Userregular
I have just finalized my tenth and final annual performance evaluation. Now I'm going to go home, have a beer, and resolutely refuse to think about my minions for even a single second over the next fourteen hours.
Flash to Jedoc snapping awake at 3am: “wait I forgot about that one guy shelving books backwards!”
Sigh I went to the hell known to men yesterday for a quick grocery run. Getting those few items I see someone to bemoans it's bad real bad. So I dread going back to work as I know they rely on me to cover up all the mistakes they make with my work ethic
Honest question, because I've never been in the military:
When you were in the Marines, if you were part of a squad where everyone slacked off except you, and your sergeant and their immediate superiors were either too incompetent or too lazy to do anything, what would your next steps be?
I feel in large part my team building that I tried to be a leader and lead by example is why I made E 3 {Lance Corporal} basically a year out of basic
As I really do feel they made me a staff sgt to help the LT. I was told when I made sergeant I was a hell of a marine and they were damn impressed with me. I would hate being an officer with all the BS you have to take
Feels like I'm seeing way fewer applicable job postings on Indeed and ziprecruiter
In 2020 I was laid off and job hunting from late September through the third week of November. Activity got super stagnant in October and then exploded immediately after the election. A week or two after I had a new job, I started getting callbacks for applications I submitted months ago.
At least I have good news to tell baby bro
Edit: two women i would have endorsed as my successors are beefing after being bffs.
Make me unhappy as their leader because they are really fucking smart and get shit done. Monsters invade the city, i would send my mother with them. So, yeah
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Brovid Hasselsmof[Growling historic on the fury road]Registered Userregular
edited October 1
Was about to go to work, but as this is the current state of our driveway
And my van is the small white one with the ladder on top, I guess I won't be
Edit: enough of the vehicles left that I could get out, but my battery is dead. Womp womp.
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JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
Just got my flu shot and a heapin' armful of Bill Gates microchips. Will I make it to the end of my 12-9 shift today? Time will tell!
Woke up earlier than I intended to, decided to use the time responsibly and get an earlier bus. Waiting at the stop for ten minutes, and now the bus has vanished from the realtime schedule. Next bus, that i was originally going to go for, isn't for 35 minutes.
Trying to be a morning person is never rewarding, I need to remember that.
...AND I just realized i forgot something, and if I go back home for it I won't make it back in time for the next bus.
Put on my bluetooth headphones to join a meeting. Computer said they were connected, but I couldn't hear anything through the earpieces. Took them off and disconnected from bluetooth, now I can hear through the computer speakers, but nobody can hear me.
... eventually realized that despite being disconnected and apparently invisible to my computer, my headphones are being used as a microphone (but not a speaker). Holding them in front of my face like a 40s crooner.
I was hoping I'd accidentally leave my laptop on the bus, but once again my stupid brain failed me.
On the plus side, I did get to enjoy a good old fashioned reply to a massively cc'd demand for URGENT support with 'as per the attached, we did this for you in May, again in June and also in August'. So that was nice.
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Brovid Hasselsmof[Growling historic on the fury road]Registered Userregular
Currently got my van battery hooked up to the mains to charge. Had to do it last night as well but by this morning it was dead again. Hoping if I leave it disconnected overnight it'll keep its charge, and if I just disconnect it every time I get out I can at least keep using it without getting stranded, while I figure out what the problem is.
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I wish there was a job out there for me to be like Luther, the rage interpreter, in those K&P sketches, but I'd work as a "I don't like conflict" interpreter.
i was born in a country with a stronger social safety net but still. hell yeah taxes doing stuff.
I remember 20 years ago, a work mate’s daughter was to be born with a hole in her heart. Dad and Pregnant mum were flown across the country to be seen by one of the world’s pre-eminent child heart surgeons, a month and half in the hospital for the birth/heart surgery/NICU recovery, meals accomodation for 4 weeks after discharge before the family could fly home. 0 dollars it cost them, literally nothing.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better
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The first bill I got was just for the surgery, not including the earlier surgery to put in a stint and balloon, any of the nursing staff watching and caring for her for three weeks, the ambulance ride, overnight stays, medications, or anything else. It was $460k.
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197970666737/
But I sure am fucking thinking those things.
So now I’m learning more about the whole process, and being in an organization now opens me up to any position that gets posted internally, so there’s at least a chance for possibility for advancement.
I’m just feeling a ton of relief because my severance is just ending, and this come at exactly the right time.
Oh she's doing fine, her cardiologist has been real happy with how she's grown. And eventually almost all of the costs got discharged (which took a fair bit of "dude, look at this bill, you think we'll ever be able to pay that? Come on"), but just staying in Boston for three weeks was expensive enough. Even the parking cost us hundreds of dollars. Also I had to leave overnight one night because our dog went crazy and I had to go check on him, and when I got back I lost my good parking space and had to switch to a much worse one. Truly the worst.
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197970666737/
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Your new job is in Iceland?
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*guy calls out in next county*
Welp, sit on my ass and drink coffee until time for that
This shit sucks, what the hell? It saves drafts like every minute, and then they just hang out for some indeterminate period? And it keeps pushing one drive over and over again, and it doesn't always load the whole chain of responses, or make it obvious if I already responded to an email.
Very frustrating
And search is worse now than it was in the previous version
What is going on with search functions getting worse?
South Dakota. e- Iceland would actually have better weather, at least by my standards.
When the plague was raging and I lost my job near the end of it I got qualified for for the state version type medicaid and it was just such a relief after watching my savings carefully suddenly having a huge normal monthly cost drop to like 12 bucks a month. I felt a lot more like I could ride this thing out until the wheel turned again and I got a new job.
In 2020 I was laid off and job hunting from late September through the third week of November. Activity got super stagnant in October and then exploded immediately after the election. A week or two after I had a new job, I started getting callbacks for applications I submitted months ago.
Honest question, because I've never been in the military:
When you were in the Marines, if you were part of a squad where everyone slacked off except you, and your sergeant and their immediate superiors were either too incompetent or too lazy to do anything, what would your next steps be?
Nice texts, but citing union laws and politeness.
Everyone's hands (i wasnt involved, i set them up to talk) are dirty and both sides could have done better. So now I am in bed, mentally approaching this cultural clusterfuck and trying to decide if its my circus even though both made choices that enabled the problem.
There's also a bit of faith in the water as well
Flash to Jedoc snapping awake at 3am: “wait I forgot about that one guy shelving books backwards!”
I feel in large part my team building that I tried to be a leader and lead by example is why I made E 3 {Lance Corporal} basically a year out of basic
As I really do feel they made me a staff sgt to help the LT. I was told when I made sergeant I was a hell of a marine and they were damn impressed with me. I would hate being an officer with all the BS you have to take
I wonder what’s the Iceland of Iceland.
Orange Julius.
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197970666737/
At least I have good news to tell baby bro
Edit: two women i would have endorsed as my successors are beefing after being bffs.
Make me unhappy as their leader because they are really fucking smart and get shit done. Monsters invade the city, i would send my mother with them. So, yeah
And my van is the small white one with the ladder on top, I guess I won't be
Edit: enough of the vehicles left that I could get out, but my battery is dead. Womp womp.
Trying to be a morning person is never rewarding, I need to remember that.
...AND I just realized i forgot something, and if I go back home for it I won't make it back in time for the next bus.
... eventually realized that despite being disconnected and apparently invisible to my computer, my headphones are being used as a microphone (but not a speaker). Holding them in front of my face like a 40s crooner.
What's strong bad up to these days?
On the plus side, I did get to enjoy a good old fashioned reply to a massively cc'd demand for URGENT support with 'as per the attached, we did this for you in May, again in June and also in August'. So that was nice.
Any luck finding a pencil yet?