The Work Thread

[WildBaboons]

In my town at least, partially thanks to COVID but also to long term planning this year is the first year that every student from 1 to 12 will get a device. Might be an old iPad, old chromebook or new chromebook but everyone will have something.

Whether or not students all have internet at home for some sort of cloud hosted textbook or whatever is a different story but everyone will have a device at least

[GreenFlashlight]

I just can't get my COVID symptoms under control, but none of them (separately or together) rise to the standard of going to a hospital and risking infecting others or exposing myself to whatever dangers would be in an ER. This is keeping me out of work, which is fine since I'm getting comp while I'm out, but I'm starting to feel bad about how work must suck for my coworkers since we operate on skeleton crews anyway.

[Auspice]

@GreenFlashlight said in The Work Thread:

I just can't get my COVID symptoms under control, but none of them (separately or together) rise to the standard of going to a hospital and risking infecting others or exposing myself to whatever dangers would be in an ER. This is keeping me out of work, which is fine since I'm getting comp while I'm out, but I'm starting to feel bad about how work must suck for my coworkers since we operate on skeleton crews anyway.

This is pretty much the only upside to being out of work still. I still have at least one day every week where I am just slammed with symptoms still. Exhaustion, breathing issues, etc. It'd be terrible to drag myself to work on those days.

[SixRegrets]

@GreenFlashlight said in The Work Thread:

but I'm starting to feel bad about how work must suck for my coworkers since we operate on skeleton crews anyway.

Please keep in mind that this is the fault of your employer, not you. All too often companies shame and guilt their employees for needing to take time off when they're ill (fast food, retail, etc. are the absolute worst for this kind of thing). Even outside of pandemic conditions, you shouldn't feel guilty for taking time off when you're unable to work in a manner that's safe for everyone.

[GreenFlashlight]

@SixRegrets said in The Work Thread:

Please keep in mind that this is the fault of your employer, not you.

Yeah, and I'm constantly angry about it. Constantly. It shocks and disgusts me that medical professionals who have nearly two hundred residents relying on staff to provide the basic cares and activities of daily life have run a cost analysis to determine the absolute minimum amount of staff they can get away with before they get sued for violating state law by understaffing; this perpetual state of being understaffed both destroys the morale of the people working, and creates undignified and dangerous living conditions for the people under our care.

Also, as I write this, it just occurred to me I've never heard anyone in management refer to them as people; just residents. Fuck me. Anyway.

This greed isn't my fault, but I'm one of the only people serving as a buffer between the dangerous inevitable consequences of that greed and the people who suffer because of it.

[Ganymede]

@GreenFlashlight said in The Work Thread:

It shocks and disgusts me that medical professionals who have nearly two hundred residents relying on staff to provide the basic cares and activities of daily life have run a cost analysis to determine the absolute minimum amount of staff they can get away with before they get sued for violating state law by understaffing; this perpetual state of being understaffed both destroys the morale of the people working, and creates undignified and dangerous living conditions for the people under our care.

something something Universal health care is bad something something mmkay?

[GreenFlashlight]

You are an RN, god damn it. You have been one for thirty years. You know that you do not text me gossip about our patients with their names and conditions! Now I'm a fucking accessory to your HIPAA violations!

[JinShei]

@GreenFlashlight Wow. Just wow.

[Jeshin]

800 physical orders a day (1-2 pages each) stapled by hand to 800 inventory allocations (1-3 pages each).

1-2 a day end up stapled to the wrong partner.

The geniuses say "need to pay more attention to orders"

I ask, "Oh how many were messed up?"

The reply, "Two."

I ask, "So what do you expect me to change to catch 2 out of 800 error when I am the start of the order process and it has to flow through 4 more areas before it leaves a building?"

[Alamias]

@Jeshin

[Ominous]

@Jeshin

You have a .25% error rate. Maybe ask them what their error rate is for their job, and see if they manage any better. I doubt it.

[tek]

600+ happy parents/students. 1 unhappy one? Fucks up my whole fucking day.

[Quinn]

We've been making 'pick me up' bags for teachers in our districts because yeah. That's gonna really suck hard this year.

[Lisse24]

I love having outside presenters come in for PD webinars. When it's crappy and everyone is bored, it's so less stressful for me, then when I need to present the content myself.

[SilentHills]

Had some white trash come into today from their dad's funeral and dupe me into giving a high school beer some malt liquor. Long story short, I feel stupid. I asked for proof of ID, girl showed me her sister's ID - they look enough alike I was like 'yeah okay cool' but my gut didn't feel right. I noticed them being really sneaky about the drinks though and that's when it set in.

My boss was already screaming at me like her name is Gordon Fucking Ramsey over dumb nothings. I had a major meltie in the office - and guess what, they just installed a camera right in my favorite crying place.

They'll enjoy watching my highlights reel later I'm sure.

[silverfox]

@SilentHills

That sucks. I'm so sorry.

My principal found my crying place today, so I can't use it any more.

[Ominous]

You just make clear to your supervisors that your crying place is off-limits or it will soon become the place where you hide the bodies.

[cyberdemon]

@SilentHills said in The Work Thread:

Had some white trash come into today from their dad's funeral and dupe me into giving a high school beer some malt liquor. Long story short, I feel stupid. I asked for proof of ID, girl showed me her sister's ID - they look enough alike I was like 'yeah okay cool' but my gut didn't feel right. I noticed them being really sneaky about the drinks though and that's when it set in.

My boss was already screaming at me like her name is Gordon Fucking Ramsey over dumb nothings. I had a major meltie in the office - and guess what, they just installed a camera right in my favorite crying place.

They'll enjoy watching my highlights reel later I'm sure.

Lol, gotta be careful about that. Kids love bypassing age restrictions. When I worked in a gas station in the 'hood, I had to become an expert at identifying fake driver licenses/IDs. I still remember that bullet proof glass from there, and I learned why it was necessary to have it multiple times.

[silverfox]

Our district's high school is closed because they had so many cases across the building that they no longer had enough staff to keep the building running.

My building has one class out.

That one class had a single student test positive, but none of the rest of her family (3 siblings in my building included) tested positive. I'm just waiting for the rest of the Dominos to fall now.

[JinShei]

At just past midnight yesterday the government changed the rules for unis in the UK... so we open on Monday. All my colleagues are scrambling to get their stuff online. I feel like Cassandra at times... (my teaching was designed for this)