The Work Thread
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... my district just polled our staff asking "When the vaccine comes out, will you take it?" and almost 20% said 'no'.
That should be a LOT LOWER imo (not 0, because some people can't take it). I'm peeved about this.
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I know one nineteen-year-old who isn't taking it because she lives with her parents and they won't let her. Okay, fine, whatever. The rest of them are grown adults who heard somewhere that the vaccine causes sterility or whatever, stuff that's easily disproven by a cursory Google search, and I just... ugh. Y'all are medical professionals. How do you get into this business while being an anti-vaxxer?
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@greenflashlight She's nineteen. How would her parents know if she got a shot or not?
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@tek She lives with them. Do teenagers have the economic ability to not live with their parents where you live?
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@greenflashlight I mean, I was living with and dependent on my parents when I was 19 and they didn't want me to get the HPV vaccine, but I did anyway, because my doctor just did it and didn't tell them because of HIPAA, but I recognize that everyone's circumstances are different. My response wasn't well-considered.
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@tek Oh, I'm not mad or anything, I'm legit curious. I just took for granted that people would understand kids have to live with their parents well into adulthood these days, so you asking makes me wonder about my assumptions.
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@greenflashlight Nah, I was more thinking about healthcare privacy, but I know some parents are SUPER invasive in their adult children's lives.
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@tek Ah. In her case, it would be hard to conceal. She works nights and some evenings, with the vaccine only available during day shift, so she'd have had to come up with a reason to go to work at a weird hour, while also masking symptoms from the side effects.
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@greenflashlight that sucks. Poor kid.
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Tonight at pickup the parents of a kid notified the director that they found out yesterday they were exposed to someone outside their family who has tested positive, and that they'd be picking up their kid early tomorrow because the whole family was going to get tested now. When pointed to the health and safety policy, flimsy ass paper shield that it is, that has been in place since they first enrolled their kid they got pissed off, and said why should they not be able to use the daycare, if their kid doesn't have a fever.
Since the center I work at is a shitty corporate one, we have no janitorial service (the closers like me decontaminate stuff every nigh with our cheap ass stuff), and one break room that is not legally large enough for more than 1 person to be at a time as well as a single bathroom for the entire staff of 30. Did I mention that we have no sick leave, no PTO, no paid holidays, and if the center closes (as we will need to, for 2 weeks, if anyone in that family tests positive) nobody gets paid?
All because some entitled shitty people decided to not follow the quarantine policy if they travelled out of state (as per local health guidelines, also posted prior to thanksgiving) and didn't know to just lie about exposure. I guess I could have more empathy if this was a struggling family. They're not. They just don't want to hire a nanny. (They regularly flout pick up times/center closing time too, and laugh off the late fee, 'oh, is that it? that's cheaper than the hourly rate of the daycare at my gym!')
I guess it's better than the other center in my town operated by the same corporation, who had a mom who /had covid/ bring her kid in for days because she needed the rest, without notifying staff of her infection, until the kid was sent home one day for developing a fever during the day. (And no, that family wasn't kicked out either).
I'm not terribly worried about getting the virus from this incident because it's in a class way far away from me, I am religious about masking and hand sanitizer and hand washing throughout the day, and I don't set foot in the breakroom. But I'm so fucking tired. And in my state, child care workers under the age of 60 don't get vaccinated until April.
I'm just sad, angry, depressed, incredulous at how fucking selfish people are. And honestly, I'm pretty sure we already have many more people who are sending their kids after known exposure, or ignoring travel quarantine policies, it's just that they're not so brazen as to not even try to lie about it. And you know, oddly enough, it's /never/ the parents working two jobs who actually probably do need to keep puttng their kids in daycare beause if they don't work they don't get paid sick leave/PTO either.
Oh well though, still less stressful than fielding suicidal calls and helping distraught people watching their entire financial life obliterated or mourning the lost of both their parents in isolation, while being punched in the face with "why u not sell 100 credit cards this week" and "omfg your MPS score is only 85 why is it not 100" business morning huddles every morning at the bank!
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@mietze said in The Work Thread:
I'm just sad, angry, depressed, incredulous at how fucking selfish people are.
I've been feeling this for a while. Its something I've resigned myself to learning how to deal with on a daily basis. Both at my work and in everyday life.
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Every time my advanced degree gets me excused from a professional development I start singing. Thank god~~
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@silverfox said in The Work Thread:
Every time my advanced degree gets me excused from a professional development I start singing.
My advanced degree is the only reason I have to go to professional development sessions.
“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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"Do you want to do this FEMA course on grant management?"
The worst part is I COULD SAY NO.
...but I do wanna take it...
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I mean YES... I still have to go to MOST PD.
But the state of Colorado just decided all K-5 educators must also have a reading endorsement. So the entire elementary school is having to get their endorsement (taking a test, classes, etc) but I HAVE MINE. So when they go off to study and work on requirements I sit my pretty butt in my classroom and work. >.<
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i'm tired and my clients are dumb.
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We are switching from Smartsheet to Asana for project management software. Asana lets me post unicorns and confetti on completed tasks. This program is ABSOLUTELY the best thing I have ever seen.
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@sunny We used to use asana for game staffing a few years ago when I actually staffed games instead of barely remembering to RP. It's great!
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The best part is that my team is playing along. We might actually get this one adopted. They like the unicorns too! AAAAAH!
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Dear boss,
We had a procedure. I was following the procedure. You decided to throw the procedure out the window and go cowboy. I understand you THOUGHT you were being helpful, but it was not helpful at all. Instead I spent 40 minutes texting with you (when you SHOULD have been paying attention to recess duty...) with you using vague 'it' and 'them' instead of nouns and proper nouns which confused me even further.
So if we could please follow the procedure in the future, that would be great.
Thanks.
