Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.
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@tinuviel This has been a consistent issue with dealing with services for the disabled, most of whose providers just assume that we're home all day and ready to receive anyone. 1) I'm the one who gets us up and we're both disabled so that's twice the morning work, and 2) we get our own groceries and sundries and everything else, and 3) we work. But trying to get wheelchair repair people or aides (until we started directly paying one out of pocket) to come at specified hours has been a recurring issue for years. I've always been surprised at how hostile folks in industries catering the disabled are to actual disabled people (with opinions), they really do try to infantilize you-- home nurses are often the worst about this. Becoming more self-sufficient has been a real pleasure.
Today's gripe is the rodeo that invades town for two weeks and books up every hotel room on (and off) the Strip. As street artists, we are heavily reliant on tips and on-the-spot commissions, and cowboys offer neither, whilst crowding out every other type of tourist, who can't book anything in the meantime. Instead, they stare at you like you're circus freaks, are condescending and insulting, and spend almost nothing while they're here. From waiters to bussers to valets to performers, basically anyone who relies on tips for their wage, WE ALL HATE THEM, and it makes the two weeks before xmas a real financial struggle. The religious judginess about how we're all sinners (who should get 'real' jobs) is just icing on the shitcake.
IE, instead of eating out at the usual spots, I have to cook, and since my kitchen is not accessible, I try to limit that to a couple nights a week instead of ALL WEEK. I risk a fall or a faint every time I stand up for too long (this is how I broke my back to begin with), as neither my legs, back or blood pressure are particularly strong, and as our only aidecare now I've already got enough to do.
We have tried pre-prepared meal services (kind of glorified MREs in a giant box that gets delivered to your home), which were available for free when we used to go through aidecare agencies, and that ended up as a wash because, to save expenses, they ALL use soy protein in everything as an extender for meat-- and just one small shot of soy protein triggers my ulcerative colitis. This boggles me, because they charge you about 8-10 bucks a meal if you pay out of pocket, and their ingredient list is shittier than a two-dollar Michelina's frozen dinner and the portion isn't much bigger.
IE, cowboys suck. The hotels make money on them and the rodeo venue makes money on them but everyone else struggles at the most expensive time of the year.
Editedit: the extra workload means that I have been too tired to RP in almost two weeks. :<
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Oh hey. I have yet another one! I'm having a good week.
I teach history. How the fuck do you expect me to "keep politics out of the classroom" when political thinking and political goals are an integral part of studying history? And why is it only "politics" when it's the kind you disagree with?
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@tinuviel I presume it's code for "stop making us field calls from parents?"
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@insomniac7809 Nah, this was from a parent, unfortunately.
He/Him
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This is what I love about elementary school. If I can distract them quick enough then typically whatever it was that was controversial doesn't manage to get home. Like last year when one of my kids did a passion project in 9/11 that I failed to review all of the slides of before she presented... and informed us all that 9/11 was a government conspiracy.
We went to lunch five minutes early that day.
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@silverfox If my students aren't thinking about controversial subjects and discussing them with their peers and their families, then I'm not doing my job correctly.
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@tinuviel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
@insomniac7809 Nah, this was from a parent, unfortunately.
Don't you mean fortunately? A parent you can basically ignore. If the school administration told you to stop, then it would be unfortunate.
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@tnp To a point. I can easily explain things to the school executive (who, in this case, are fellow educators). Can't explain shit to people with custard instead of brains.
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@tinuviel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
@tnp To a point. I can easily explain things to the school executive (who, in this case, are fellow educators). Can't explain shit to people with custard instead of brains.
Eh, I've heard enough stories about parents from teachers to not be surprised by how stupid / bigoted / apathetic they are. Their precious little angels can do no wrong, are brilliant and deserving of all As, and should never, ever be taught anything the parents don't approve of.
The administration might also be teachers (hopefully) but once they cave to parental pressure, the war is lost.
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@tnp True. Most school admin-types cave under a slight breeze. But this one has been rather good about it all, so far.
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For upper levels for SURE. At 8-9 about as controversial I want to get is environmental (should plastic straws be banned?) or personal (how should we treat one another?). Mostly because there's so much nuance to many things and my kiddos just aren't old enough to be able to grasp most of it. We TOUCH on hard things, but unless we've studied it in depth they'll walk away with some serious misconceptions that then you have to convince them are not right.
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@tinuviel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
Oh hey. I have yet another one! I'm having a good week.
I teach history. How the fuck do you expect me to "keep politics out of the classroom" when political thinking and political goals are an integral part of studying history? And why is it only "politics" when it's the kind you disagree with?
As a former history teacher ...
Oooh, dish, what were you teaching??(Also, a reminder for you to give a general heads up to any administrators/union reps/etc. just in case things escalate)
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This flu is the worst.
Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.
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@auspice said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
This flu is the worst.
There's one going around that is terrible and awful and I am so sorry if that's the one you have. Ugh.
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@sunny said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
@auspice said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
This flu is the worst.
There's one going around that is terrible and awful and I am so sorry if that's the one you have. Ugh.
I've already missed two days of work and I think I'm about to miss a third.
I woke up like "Oh thank God the fever broke" and then the stomach cramps kicked in.Can't really work when you're doubled over.
So it looks like this paycheck is ramen while I hold over every penny to make sure I can pay rent next month. But at least coworkers don't risk me spreading germs.This shit is seriously why we need mandated PTO. Every day I've warred with myself over whether or not to work
Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.
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I am so sorry. That's rough in so many ways. I've been there, it sucks.
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In other news, anyone following along with me at home, they just found my kidney stone.
The one I have been literally begging them to take care of for a year that they told me didn't exist.
It's 3mm.
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@sunny said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
I am so sorry. That's rough in so many ways. I've been there, it sucks.
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In other news, anyone following along with me at home, they just found my kidney stone.
The one I have been literally begging them to take care of for a year that they told me didn't exist.
It's 3mm.
That's like the saga of my gallbladder. "Oh it's just stomach ache." aka"gosh women and their whining"
Years later: oh hey your gallbladder is trying to kill you.
Glad they found it even if it took them way too damn long!
This is why the doctors that go "you know your body because it's yours" are goddamn diamonds (I miss the one I had in Ohio).
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@lisse24 I am teaching the most controversial of subjects: "Racism is bad mkay."
We're just finishing the Boer Wars, more specifically.He/Him
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What the actual....
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@tinuviel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
@lisse24 I am teaching the most controversial of subjects: "Racism is bad mkay."
We're just finishing the Boer Wars, more specifically.I don't see the connection between racism and the Boer Wars.
