@macha said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:
It's another thing to FUCK UP MY GODDAMN SPREADSHEET WITHOUT A FOREWARNING.
Pretty sure this should be illegal.
Then again, I am like a dragon protecting my gold when it comes to my spreadsheets.
My preciousssses.
I use Smartsheet in my work.
I love that I can have such granular permissions on it.
Edit my fields? Nope. You can view. You can comment. You can suggest a change. But you can't change anything without me approving it.
Lurve.
I am unsure if @Macha's comment was towards my post or her own, so please take this as more venting and not directed at you if you were talking about your job, not my comment.
I mean, I can't call my district assholes though. We already pay the most of any other district in the state. Like, SIGNIFICANTLY MORE. Plus we're under enrolled so we are also literally getting less money from the state this year. My little sister came to work for us from a district in a northern city and is making ten dollars more an hour than she did there.
I make forty thousand dollars more than my elder sister in another district on the far western side of the state.
We still can't hire for all our open positions and are utterly screwed once we lose our covid-vaccine refusers. No one wants the jobs already.
I heard today that another school in our district is shuttering their autism program completely. They just don't have the staff to cover it AND the regular classrooms.
I don't know what will happen to the kiddos enrolled in that program. Will they just be tossed into gen-ed? Will they get their needs met? Will this increase class sizes?
Just like - wtf is wrong with everything right now. This is a whole different kind of stress from last year.
@silverfox said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:
At what point can we just not... function any more?
At the point when workers stop letting management exploit us. If there's anything I can do to help with your situation, please let me know.
@silverfox said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:
Just like - wtf is wrong with everything right now.
In sports news, the Brooklyn Nets recently issued a statement regarding the un-vaccinated state of one of their star players, Kyrie Irving. The Nets have said that they will not let anyone participate in games or practices who wasn't a "full-time" participant in all activities. Mr. Irving is unvaccinated and therefore cannot play at home games in Brooklyn, meaning that he would essentially be "part-time" as a player who can only play in away games. Mr. Irving makes around $33M per year under his contract, but his employer has made it clear that he will not be with them unless he gets vaccinated.
We are at a point where a player in a team game making $33M annually won't get a fucking vaccination to play sportsball.
The absurd level of stupidity cuts through all classes. No one wants to give a shit about others. Some people will give up millions of dollars to play a sport based on shit they find on the internet.
Like any business, a good school runs on a team approach. Teachers that refuse to vaccinate are not good team players. They should be cut and the blame for that cut should be placed squarely on them.
@silverfox It's a generality. I'm sorry you have dickheads that will be leaving you in the lurch. I offer all the virtual hugs.
I mean - I don't feel exploited? I feel like there is just no win. We're a public service sector (a PreK-8 public school to be precise). We're dealing with children. We can't just... not do stuff.
So if we don't have the people then we just HAVE to make do with who we have without endangering out students?
I mean, the truth if it, spoken in generality?
A broken thing typically has to kill before anyone will bother to fix it, or throw it out and get a new one.
My job can go fuck itself. The project I'm being hounded to do, and told to prioritize over my actual job... is completely effed up. Nothing is actually ordered in the spreadsheet. FUCK THIS SHIT.
@solstice Hence the trying to interview. I'm dying to tell them to suck my big fat spirit dick.
My time is as finite as yours. Just because I am delivering food and not working in a hospital doesn't mean you can waste my time. Either let me leave the food at the drop off table or expediently come down to get it.
Also fuck you for not tipping. If you don't want to tip then lobby to make it so we get paid better and don't have to rely on tips to make money.
@cobalt said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:
Also fuck you for not tipping. If you don't want to tip then lobby to make it so we get paid better and don't have to rely on tips to make money.
Doordash recently did this big promotion where they removed the "delivery charges" and apparently everyone thinks that means they should opt out of a driver tip as well. It's infuriating when you're obligated to take those orders or risk losing the job because of the mandatory acceptance rate, but essentially wind up paying for the trip yourself because the base pay is so insultingly low.
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5 dollar tip minimum for me on DD, and 10 at the least if it's a long drive. I have plus so the fees get slashed (agoraphobia is expensive) but, like... these folks are doing shit for me I can't do. I can afford to tip them.
You're doing the lord's work.
It is 20% - at least. Which means it's never less than at least 5 bucks.
@macha said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:
It is 20% - at least. Which means it's never less than at least 5 bucks.
Same. I'm usually tipping 20-25% on DoorDash for my orders, and I order for 4. Sure, $80 is stiff for some Red Robin but when I don't want to fucking move, I pay the price for it.
@ganymede I don't go for RR, but I know it's easy 35+ bucks for the roommate and I to order Thai.
Ya'll: 30-100 bucks on food delivery.
Me: Two egg rolls from that place I like comes out to 3.27, and it's not that far to drive, so I'll pick it up and tip through BeyondMenu...
One of these days!
