The Work Thread

JinShei

@silverfox said in The Work Thread:

Also.

I'm not allowed to RP again until I grade the damn pile of essays on my plate.

I hate essays guys. I hate them. Even if they're only one paragraph long. I. hate. them.

Never did ELA, but did you ever try this method?
https://www.cultofpedagogy.com/rubric-codes/

Love the cult of pedagogy site.

Lisse24

I've been working on an online course for months. This is the course that our members are going to have to take before they become building reps, so it's a fairly important course and one that our president will absolutely want to look at.

So, after I finished my outline, I was like, "Do you want to have a look at this?" Silence.

Started putting up activities and wording, again asked if he wanted a walk through. Silence.

Offered another walk through during alpha testing. Silence

Beta testing. Silence.

On our team call Monday, I said, "Okay, we're ready to push this live this week, unless anyone can think of something I've forgotten." Nothing from him.

Now on one hand, I'm a bit flabbergasted at the trust this indicates, but I really do want his feedback. I'm also a bit relieved because our president is known for holding back projects and breezing through deadlines in his desire for perfectionism (which we're never going to get).

Last night, I told the director-level staff that I was going to notify staff today that we were live. An hour ago I got an email from our president asking how he logs in again and if the course was ready for review.

FML.

silverfox

Usually I am pretty chill on my fellow teachers. Our job is fucking HARD.

But we had a teacher last year that I have lost any and all pity for.

Her management was a nightmare. (Seriously, her kids were out of control.) Her assessments were a joke. She had a split 2-3 class and she just taught ALL of her 2nd graders 3rd grade stuff without even bothering to see if they needed 2nd first. More than anything else though, she was herself unreachable. Any coaching went in one ear and out the other. She never implemented anything.

Thankfully, she resigned at the end of last year before she could be fired. I elected to move down a level to her position simply so we could STOP having incompetence in that position. (We struggle to hire veteran teachers so most of our new hires end up being 1st year teachers.)

I would be able to put this behind me except that I am STILL finding shit from her that I have to clean up. She has one child she literally didn't put a single grade in for last year. Not a SINGLE GRADE. That is a huge issue since we are a mastery system. There is zero record of her achieving anything and so now we are going to have to do some serious assessments to figure out where this girl's placement really is.

#vent

Ghost

My coworker is a dumbshit. He also somehow became "team lead". Quick details. Our team at work is basically 2 skilled people doing all of the work and a gaggle of lazy workers who can't do the work because they don't have the skills (and refuse to learn the skills unless handheld). Boss doesnt like this. Probably need to fix this before people start getting let go.

Boss: I want you guys to start having 2 hour team skill workshop meetings.

Dumbshit, to me: "Yeah I dont know if I'm gonna do those. Theyre just another meeting. Waste of time."

Me, being a bro: "I'd pay attention. Way things are right now, if the boss says he wants something you're probably doing yourself a favor by listening to what he wants."

WEEKEND PASSES. MONDAY WE HAVE A CONFERENCE CALL WITH TEAM AND BOSS

Dumbshit, boss is on the call: "...oh and I wasnt going to host this meeting because I'm not sure if it's useful, but GHOSTNAMEREDACTED convinced me that if boss wants it, it's probably a good idea to get in line and do it. So be on a lookout for that next week."

(After the call)

Boss, instant message to me: "Hey GHOSTNAMEREDACTED, thanks for backing me on getting those meetings together. We got a lot of work to do and it means a lot that you're on board."

Me, to Dumbshit: "Dude. I gave you a layup. Why did you do that? Why didnt you say something like: "Hey, new meetings coming and it sounds like the team is excited about it"???"

FFS. He's gonna lose this Lead status and it's gonna end up being me. Great for my pay, but I dont wanna be responsible for kicking these dead horses into doing their jobs. If I built a team of people I'd keep ONE of them and pass on the rest. It would be like getting Stalin-appointed to coach the Miami Dolphins.

Ganymede

@Ghost said in The Work Thread:

It would be like getting Stalin-appointed to coach the Miami Dolphins.

I'm not sure what the problem is.

Auspice

@Ganymede said in The Work Thread:

@Ghost said in The Work Thread:

It would be like getting Stalin-appointed to coach the Miami Dolphins.

I'm not sure what the problem is.

Muttle

Tinuviel

@Ganymede said in The Work Thread:

@Ghost said in The Work Thread:

It would be like getting Stalin-appointed to coach the Miami Dolphins.

I'm not sure what the problem is.

The problem is that I don't know a thing about sportsball.

Ghost

The Miami Dolphins suck.

If a WW2 Russian Commissar appoints you to coach the Dolphins and says "Stalin is watching, you don't want to fail at this and live in shame" you're better off shooting yourself in the head.

My job is literally to write code, automate IT deployments, and to independently manage/orchestrate enterprise level code deployments across multiple teams.

I have one guy who has been on the job for 6 years who has never even attempted scripting, doesn't write plans, and makes the developers sit with him to walk him through the code release during the release because he doesnt want to write plans. I didn't hire him, and if the team needs to evolve we need to get rid of him and replace him with someone who wants to do the job.

That is what I would inherit. Fuck that.

Tinuviel

@Ghost said in The Work Thread:

If a WW2 Russian Commissar appoints you to coach the Dolphins and says "Stalin is watching, you don't want to fail at this and live in shame" you're better off shooting yourself in the head.

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Ghost

@Tinuviel Exactly

Not that I'm the best IT guy ever, but the all but 1 guy on my team are Bad News Bears level IT guys.

Auspice

My favorite coworker is out for a couple weeks for Sukkot.

Someone (there are people here who don't have assigned desks, so they'll borrow desks sometimes) is using his desk today and I have strong feelings about this.

Ganymede

@Ghost

I’m sorry, the Dolphins suck?

Right now, sure. But I live in Ohio. There’s a reason why most people are Buckeye fans.

Don’t you talk to me about the Dolphins sucking until you live in Browns/Bengals territory.

Auspice

@Ganymede said in The Work Thread:

@Ghost

I’m sorry, the Dolphins suck?

Right now, sure. But I live in Ohio. There’s a reason why most people are Buckeye fans.

Don’t you talk to me about the Dolphins sucking until you live in Browns/Bengals territory.

The Bengals are good roughly every other year at least.

ETA: Also, it could be worse. The Steelers have gone from 'solid team' to 'oh who left this dumpster fire in the middle of the road'

Cupcake

Dear Supervisor - if you know full well I have available time on my hands for other projects and actively pursue developing those projects for me to assist on, maybe you could not take forever on sending me the files I need to do the job? Otherwise, I'm happy to twiddle my thumbs and read MSB while waiting for work to come my way.

Auspice

Last week:
'Scrimmage is in November so let's get the main portion of this document done. And maybe some one pagers for reference.'

Me: Cool. Doable
After meeting, email everyone on team and ask what one pagers they think would be best. I, unfortunately, have been in a vacuum. During UAT, they only invited me at the tail end and only to reporting discussions. It wasn't useful for me. Not for my part of documentation.

So I get things third hand at best.

The guy I mostly work with went out of town for two weeks after the above meeting. No blame on him.

Today, my boss: hey next week we should put together a presentation to show <big boss> what we have for the scrimmage. The document, the one sheets.

Me: I don't have the one sheets. I asked for feedback on what people think we should have, but no one replied. I'll send a reminder.

Her: oh, well, <guy that's out> is the one that'd know.

Me: I figured the people in UAT would have thoughts, too, based on what they witnessed.

Her: Hmm. They should, you're right.

Like, by and far, I love my job. I do. But the way they handle documentation is garbage. And it is 100% a Whole Foods problem. Amazon actually has a dedicated tech writing department and method and it's great. I follow a guy who blogs about it (and does talks around the country). WF just brings someone in for a few months and lets the team they put them on figure it out as they go and it's....problematic.

I don't know what's going on if you don't tell me. If something is needed or changes...you gotta tell me.

At least the guy she supposedly wants to present to is super cool and he and I see each other in the kitchen one or two times a week and chat so it's not like holt shit oh no a boss I've only seen or heard of once before! But goddamn don't drop a presentation on me for materials I've literally had no chance to prepare because the person I require left the office for two weeks the day after I was asked to prepare them.

Pacha

I had the audacity to take a few days off of work this week! One of my customers took this less well than I hoped and so upon returning to the office I was treated to an ANGRY EMAIL. I will provide an excerpt!

"I'll leave you with this. I hope your partner drops dead and while you attend their funeral, I hope your house catches fire and everything in it is razed to the ground so scum like you can know what it feels like to be in a state of unending turmoil and distress because bastards like you deserve it."

So yeah, that eased me nicely back into the swing of things.

Rinel

@Pacha

Can you fire customers?

Tinuviel

@Pacha So... which part of the education field are you in, exactly?

Auspice

@Pacha said in The Work Thread:

I had the audacity to take a few days off of work this week! One of my customers took this less well than I hoped and so upon returning to the office I was treated to an ANGRY EMAIL. I will provide an excerpt!

"I'll leave you with this. I hope your partner drops dead and while you attend their funeral, I hope your house catches fire and everything in it is razed to the ground so scum like you can know what it feels like to be in a state of unending turmoil and distress because bastards like you deserve it."

So yeah, that eased me nicely back into the swing of things.

oof.

My sister apparently, while putting air in her tire, had a guy approach her.

'Hey, need help?'

Sister: 'Nope, I'm good.'

Guy kept approaching, telling her how to put air in, insisting he could do it.

Sister: 'Please stay back. I'm fine. I'm not comfortable right now, go away.' (esp. because this was AT NIGHT.)

Guy: 'FINE. I hope your tire fucking EXPLODES on you and you WISH you'd let me help!'

people are fucking fucked up.

Rinel

I know what I want to write in this application for a supervisory writ, but I don't know whether I should do it "professionally" (short with references to the record) or "safe" (copy pasting enormous chunks of my original motion).

Because I have little faith that the court is going to look at the record.