RL Anger
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Fuck you, guy who rear ended me and drove off this morning after assuring me that you weren't hurt.
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Did you get his license plate? Or call it in?
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@RightMeow No and yes, respectively. There isn't much they can do. The damage was minor, there weren't many witnesses, and what they thought might be a traffic camera -- they weren't sure, since I was about a block from the township border and the light was just beyond it -- is actually an opticon used for emergency responders to forcibly change the light.
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Ugh, mad again at my old LARP and people who still play after knowing it's run by raging antisemites. Whee.
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Having reason to call CPS.
I was having a good day till then. But no day that ends in calling that number can be called good.
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@silverfox Yeah, my wife just had to do her first mandated reporter event last week after 15 years as a teacher. It broke her.
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I will say, part of why I'm really really glad to be doing through the classroom management sections of my certification stuff is that the childhood psychology section (which included all the legalities around when/what to report) was depressing, so I'm glad to be moving onto something that feels more... fun and productive.
I know the other was important, but.
Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.
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I know the other was important, but.
FWIW a bunch of my clients lost at trial (and face significant challenges in post-conviction) because of the testimony of mandated reporters. So it often does help children who need it.
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I know the other was important, but.
FWIW a bunch of my clients lost at trial (and face significant challenges in post-conviction) because of the testimony of mandated reporters. So it often does help children who need it.
I know.
I really do.Look, I went through some shit in childhood because my parents were reported to CPS (and managed to get out of it and proceeded to make my life a living hell because even though I wasn't the one to report it they were and still are convinced I did). It's....... it's a messy system. In so many ways. Reporting is important. People being willing to report. People being willing to follow through.
And I think/guess my own experiences are why those sections were so difficult. It was difficult to read about the reporting. It was difficult to read about stuff like ADD and think 'jesus christ why did no one ever recognize this in me' but I guess/hope/pray I'll be better for the kids I teach someday.
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FWIW a bunch of my clients lost at trial (and face significant challenges in post-conviction) because of the testimony of mandated reporters.
I hate being a mandatory reporter.
Granted, I do have a psychology degree and an education degree, but you really don't want a lawyer evaluating whether someone is doing something bad or nefarious to their children, especially me.
Because I believe in the evil in everyone.
“It is better to live doing the things that you like. It is foolish to live within this dream of a world seeing unpleasantness and doing only things that you do not like.” -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo.
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It sucks. I've called maybe 8 times in my career (half of those being in one school I was only at for a year). It doesn't get easier. Just... you know what to expect eventually so you are ready for the questions. I've also sat with a few other teachers while they called so.
@Auspice
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@silverfox said in RL Anger:
@Auspice
Finish your teaching degree and you get to revisit it every year.And spend so much time teaching it... I was teaching case law around deprivation of liberty and safeguarding yesterday. The students left like rabbits in headlights as they realised they must report shit.
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I very much cherish the almost total confidentiality that I'm required to uphold. The few exceptions in which I may report (and the even fewer in which I must) are so absurd that they've never come close to happening. I'm sure they will soon, though.
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I bought my SO tickets to the Red Sox/Rangers game this week. The day before the game, work cancelled her scheduled vacation day due to a shortage of teachers and not enough substitutes in the district.
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@silverfox Seeing the Red Sox play in Fenway is one of my SO's dream/bucket list things. I was aiming to do the next best thing by taking her to the Ball Park in Arlington. Anyway, I had gotten Wed and Thurs off to take her to the game on Thursday. She had taken Thursday and Friday off. They told her in a meeting on Tuesday that all leave and vacation was cancelled unless it was an emergency.
She wouldn't let me call in and say Great Uncle Wally had passed away.
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@SabotKick72 Seriously not okay. I get we get quite a few days off more than the normal person, but if you have an event planned you do it.
If I was on her team I'd be telling her to go and I'd figure a way to absorb her class/classes with my teammates.
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Hey, asshole. Just because you are CEO of a 47 million dollar company doesn't give you the right to try to treat me like a servant. Threatening to have me fired because I don't break the rules for you? That is trashy.
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This is an e-mail I just sent to Uber Eats. The meal was from a new 'recommended' restaurant, badly packaged and rather bad, but the complaint I sent was about the actual hair found in it as well.
Hello folks,I don't care about adjustments to that one meal at this point, but could you please explain what I was expected to do here?There was a hair in my food. I tried to take a picture of it - but it's a hair - so I did the best I could yesterday, when I had it.This morning you are asking me to send a better picture, I suppose, clearly showing that hair. How would I do that? How do you even suggest I keep the hair overnight, so that I take a better shot of it today? How would you know it's the same hair as yesterday?Regards,
<Me>My best guess is they try hard to make people drop their complaints.
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I would have responded for them to place their own order and get their own hair, so it would be timely and not over 24 hours. Tell them you have faith the restaurant will deliver.
