@sunny said in The Work Thread:
Asking somebody who wants "total" and "amount" on the same spreadsheet what the difference is between the two columns, and getting the word "amount" as the bulk of the total definition and "total" for the bulk of the amount definition.
THAT IS NOT HELPFUL, BRENDA.
(eta: think like, 'the amount is the total paid, and the total is the amount we paid')
@sunny Wow, I thought I was a bad communicator.
Just found out that I am making 56% less than the person who was hired a week before me, is ten years my junior, and who has demonstrably fewer responsibilities (and to be petty, who barely understands the job.)
Guess I inadvertently low-balled myself when I took the job.
Yay, capitalism.
@solstice fuck those guys.
Or say you can do 56% less and still be better than the person mentioned.
@solstice said in The Work Thread:
Just found out that I am making 56% less than the person who was hired a week before me, is ten years my junior, and who has demonstrably fewer responsibilities (and to be petty, who barely understands the job.)
You could report this to your higher-ups and indicate that you learned of this truth from said person.
It's under-handed skulduggery, but, y'know, capitalism.
I found out today that I've been given a $1/hour raise, effective from March 1st. This is nice. I am also thinking it is partially because they may be hemorrhaging people (I'm not positive though, I only know of one person who's leaving from our campus--but I am the only assistant who's still in position from the start of the year and who has been fulfilling or exceeding their contract hours). Admittedly I'm pretty sure I'm jumping to public school employment next year (I can get more $$ and benefits for 1/3rd of the cost I'm paying now even at .5 FTE, vs. my full time right now), but I admit I'm considering staying IF I get my preferred shift and IF I get to work with the teacher that's staying that I like (and who likes me too) and IF they give my school year (not year round) contract. I will also probably get about another $1 raise at the end of the school year (it was specifically said this suprise raise wasn't part of that) My work bestie is retiring next year, otherwise it'd be a no brainer that I'd stay, and I thought that it was already a no-brainer I was going since she's not. But apparently, I might be more cheaply bought than I thought.
Lost one of my students today (due to withdrawal, not like death), one that we've poured so much love and support into. It's not that I disrespect the parents' decision, but we didn't find out until right after they got picked up and I've been having some crying that I won't get to say goodbye/spend some more time with them like they could stay to the end of the week or whatever. And I worry, quite a bit. But mostly i'm going to really miss this complex, delightful, outrageous, funny, adorable little kiddo.
I'm relieved (ngl) I will no longer have to be on constant alert for needing to body block attacks on others and the like, or destruction of property and so we are less top loaded with kids that were ejected from other classrooms. But damn I'm going to miss this child and I wish I could have hugged them one last time and now I'm having a cry again. It'll be okay, just it's unexpected. it's been a hard day.
It literally doesn't matter what their behavior was. Losing them is the worst.
The only time I don't feel awful is when they legitimately move too far away for them to get to us.
As covid rises in the UK, my work has removed the mask requirement. As the government removes the free tests and isolation requirements, they have decided we move to face-to-face. I feel like I am in a twilight zone or idiocracy, where nobody else understands that we are in a pandemic and standing unmasked with 100 nursing students who have not tested and are working one of the biggest horse races in the country is a STUPID idea. Is it me? Has covid finished and nobody told me?
Sadly, I think yes.
"According to historians, pandemics typically have two types of endings: the medical, which occurs when the incidence and death rates plummet, and the social, when the epidemic of fear about the disease wanes."
@silverfox The problem with that is that the social end is historically and rationally supposed to come AFTER the medical end. A disease doesn't cease to meet the scientific criteria for being a pandemic via wishful thinking. And when people try to pretend it does, it just leads to more unnecessary death (currently still topping 1k people PER DAY in the US alone - affecting certain groups disproportionately) AND prolongs the actual pandemic (by generating new and potentially deadlier variants).
It does feel, as @JinShei said, like living in the twilight zone.
@faraday Exactly! I'm not even hanging around with uneducated people. These are university staff with advanced degrees in medical sciences...
@jinshei said in The Work Thread:
@faraday Exactly! I'm not even hanging around with uneducated people. These are university staff with advanced degrees in medical sciences...
Engage pedantic hat:
Because the human brain is very, very bad at sustaining a state of alertness over time. Just, biochemically, absolutely PANTS at it. This is adaptive, because it allows us to live in a risky world without being in a constant state of meltdown, but maladaptive, because it makes us willing to take dumb risks that we know are risks and feel good about it even if it WILL kill a certain percentage of us.
We're also just horrible at risk assessment, particularly if we're given too much warning. It's one of the reasons why things like traffic lights and railroad crossings have to be specifically timed, because if you give people too much warning, accidents go UP because our brain is filled with dumb ass reasoning like, "there's plenty of time for me to get through the intersection/crossing before a car/train actually comes".
It's stupid and frustrating, but it's just something we're bad at as a species.
Well, compliance has always been a thing in medicine.
This is where politics and slackitude trumps medicine.
@pyrephox said in The Work Thread:
Because the human brain is very, very bad at sustaining a state of alertness over time. Just, biochemically, absolutely PANTS at it. This is adaptive, because it allows us to live in a risky world without being in a constant state of meltdown, but maladaptive, because it makes us willing to take dumb risks that we know are risks and feel good about it even if it WILL kill a certain percentage of us.
Seconded. Being able to be constantly aware is often a symptom of some kind of unresolved trauma.
Doesn't make it any less frustrating that dumbshits gotta be dumbshits, though.
@greenflashlight said in The Work Thread:
@pyrephox said in The Work Thread:
Seconded. Being able to be constantly aware is often a symptom of some kind of unresolved trauma.
Who doesn't have unresolved trauma after the last two years? 
Doesn't make it any less frustrating that dumbshits gotta be dumbshits, though.
Dear god, no it does not.
It makes me sad to talk with people who, in more than ten years in our industry, hadn't heard someone tell them they did a good job before.
Does your job suck now?
It used to be worse than that. 
I just realized that it is probably not a sign of a healthy work environment to obsessively check the jobs board to see who has officially resigned for next year. Like, we all KNOW who is quitting, but when will they do the formal paperwork for HR to post the opening.
@sunny said in The Work Thread:
Asking somebody who wants "total" and "amount" on the same spreadsheet what the difference is between the two columns, and getting the word "amount" as the bulk of the total definition and "total" for the bulk of the amount definition.
THAT IS NOT HELPFUL, BRENDA.
(eta: think like, 'the amount is the total paid, and the total is the amount we paid')
