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December 2011 Moms
iluvmylab
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Monday rants & vents
iluvmylab
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I really dislike Mondays. Anyone want to vent or rant about what's bugging you today?
I'm annoyed with all the emails I get from parents/students over the weekends about grades and them getting frustrated that I don't reply to them right away. I don't check my work email at all over the weekend- it's always been my rule. I leave work at work and I handle all my emails Monday morning.
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Re: Monday rants & vents
I find that complete BS that parents and students expect you answer emails on the weekend. Teachers have lives outside of the classrooms and parents should respect that...I mean, would they be expected to answer work emails over the weekend?? (Sorry if you cannot tell, this is a huge pet peeve of mine)
My vent- DH needs to stop hitting snooze on his alarm clock every.morning...it wakes me up and sometimes (like today) DD! If you are going to sleep for another half hour, then set your alarm for then! I was very cranky and PO this morning on top of this because DD had a rough night...
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I used to live this! Drove me nuts. Once the alarm goes off I'm wide awake.
My vent: The owner of the local cloth diaper/baby store is great. I love her. I can call the store whenever and get advice about washing, etc. If she has something in stock that I need, she'll pull it and set it aside for me. But...she really isn't good about following up with specific orders. For example, I ordered an infant insert for the Ergo back in November. Never got it. I ordered a nursing necklace a few weeks ago, and still haven't heard anything. Whenever I call the store and ask, I get the same "Oh, well, it's been ordered. I'll call you when it gets in". I don't want to be annoying and keep calling, but I also need to know that when I order something, I'm going to get it. I want to support a small, local business, but Amazon can get me my stuff in 2 days...
Warning: big long teacher vent ahead! I guess I got on a roll. Feel free to quit reading now.
Lab, Ccip, other teachers...I hear you about parents/students demanding that teachers live in front of their computers 24-7. I taught at a Christian school, and we were encouraged to create a "family" atmosphere by giving students and parents our home phone numbers in addition to our email addresses. 95% of the parents and students understood limits and respected my personal time. But, man, that other 5%...
I have so many stories...how about this... One Friday evening, DH and I had some of my colleagues/friends over for dinner. The phone rang, and we just let it go to voice mail. It rang again...and again...and again...like someone was just hitting "redial". Finally, I got up and checked the caller ID. It was one of my students. My colleague, J, knew this student and his family (they went to the same church). She insisted on answering the phone. She got on the phone and, all in Spanish, asked him what he wanted.
The student had called because he had a missing assignment. It was the first week of 2nd semester, so obviously one missing assignment dropped his grade to a D-. His parents had a policy that if his grades were below a certain level, he wasn't allowed to go out with friends. This student wanted me to go on our online grading program and CHANGE HIS GRADE...right then and there so that he could go out that night!!! He said he had the assignment done, he just didn't hand it in (yeah, right).
Anyway, my colleague, J, got this story out of him, forcing him to speak in Spanish the whole time.
Poor kid never knew he was calling a house full of teachers that night!! I didn't change his grade (obviously), and when I asked him for the assignment the following Monday, he still didn't have it. (I don't think he ever turned it in...)
Oh, and then, there was the mom who told me I was on a power trip because I gave her daughter a 0 for allowing another student to copy her assignment. Mom claims her daughter and the other student were "working together". Um...nope, I caught them in the act. She called me at home on a Sunday night and chewed me out on the phone for over 30 min. She was ranting that "all you teachers have accused all 3 of my kids of cheating!! My kids don't cheat!! I don't know what's wrong with that school!". Um...maybe it's not the school?
Oh, and then, there was the parent who came TO MY HOUSE (granted the lived just a few blocks over) to tell me that it was entirely unfair that I gave her son a 0 (on an extra credit assignment) because he didn't know that copying and pasting something from the internet was considered cheating (he was a junior in HS). She thought that I was being unreasonable, and that I should let him get off with a metaphorical "swat on the hand". It was an extra credit assignment...getting a 0 really is a metaphorical swat on the hand.
I could go on, but I'll stop...
and for the parent who came to your house...completely unacceptable.
I get the new philosophy in teaching where we need to establish a deeper connections with the student and we need to take on more roles besides the tradtional educator...but seriously...they do not pay us enough and you wonder why so many teachers become burnt out after a few years.
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I'm irritated that my two "team" members, one of whom is my boss, are never ever here until 11am. I think it is nice that our office (of about 20) is flexible with time, but I think this borders on ridiculous. It also annoys me because I feel like I have to do everyone's work. And I get annoyed that their days are always starting at my lunch time, so I feel guilty for taking lunch. It also seems like they don't want to do any actual work until 4:30 or 5--just when I'm ready to go home.
I'm also annoyed that my other team member (not my boss) takes excessive time off, and keeps getting away with it. I don't care what her issues are, she has a responsibility to be an equal player. It also annoys me that my boss won't put her foot down and hold her accountable, because she feels bad for her. I'm trying to take advantage of it, and use it as my time to shine, but that doesn't really seem to be working in my favor.
Two:
I'm frustrated with myself that I didn't push for the first shower today. I did say I wanted a shower break but didn't specify when. My husband is now taking the first shower. Not really a big deal but it kind of makes me want to flush the toilet again and again. BUT that would only waste water because we have temp./pressure control faucets
The T-shirt my husband brought back is a size S. I am currently a M
I love the idea of a Monday Rants/Vents... Our local TV calls it "Monday Buzzkill..."f
While I'm a SAHM now, when I worked it always annoyed the H out of me when places would expect me to check work email/messages on not only weekends but times that I was away on vacation/trips. Especially the company that I was a month ahead on my work and I literally was spending my time there climbing the walls just to get the 40 hours a week in and criticized for being that far ahead... Yea, glad I don't work there anymore...
Oh where to begin.. I'm so tired of dealing with the mess that my late FIL left behind when he signed over control of the family business to someone NOT in the family when he was going a bit, well, one flew over the coocoo's nest might be a way of describing it, when his medications got off and his medical problems rendered him unable to operate the family business... This guy has gone on a COMPLETE power trip and none of the IL's are willing to take him to court because the lawyers are the only ones that win in the end. I'm an IL so I have ZERO say over any of it, but as a SAHM it affects me greatly since this guy is making us live on peanuts (I'm a SAHM because DH needs all the flexibility in the world until things get to a light at the end of the tunnel, not because we really can afford it)... That all means, I'm having to deal with the kids and zero finances, I can't take a part time job because I can't work overnight shift then be functional to watch kids all day, and I can't go back to school to become employable again because I have no DC or $$$$$...