The Work Thread

[Roz]

A colleague on my team mentioned at our weekly team meeting yesterday that she had to go to a meeting at 8:30am

scheduled by an Account Director

to talk about the concern he had heard

that he’s calling too many meetings.

[Derp]

@roz said in The Work Thread:

A colleague on my team mentioned at our weekly team meeting yesterday that she had to go to a meeting at 8:30am

scheduled by an Account Director

to talk about the concern he had heard

that he’s calling too many meetings.

I would set that AD on fire.

Luckily neither I nor my current boss roll in until almost 10am so.

(This is an exaggeration, I am usually there by 8:30, but only because I have actual stuff to do.)

[Roz]

@derp said in The Work Thread:

@roz said in The Work Thread:

A colleague on my team mentioned at our weekly team meeting yesterday that she had to go to a meeting at 8:30am

scheduled by an Account Director

to talk about the concern he had heard

that he’s calling too many meetings.

I would set that AD on fire.

Luckily neither I nor my current boss roll in until almost 10am so.

(This is an exaggeration, I am usually there by 8:30, but only because I have actual stuff to do.)

lol yeah my boss's immediate reaction was "tell me what account and what AD."

[Sunny]

I meet with my entire team twice daily on zoom and have since the start of the pandemic. We have an individual miss one on occasion, but.

Yeah. Since the start of the pandemic.

I am not complaining TOO much, because it means the WFH folks (myself and another high risk person) stay REALLY connected and don't feel isolated like has happened to a lot of WFH people. But oh man.

(ETA: to be fair we're IT so we have things to talk about this much but oh my god so much of my life is in meetings now)

[silverfox]

Had my mid-year evaluation and my evaluator said that it seems like my position was made for me. I laughed but didn't say,

"That is because you guys didn't write a job description. It was, "we have covid dollars for learning recovery so we can hire someone." Everything beyond that I wrote for myself. Everything I do (beyond coverage) is what I have decided needs done. Having autonomy is a HUGE part of job satisfaction. A majority of what I do I enjoy and even the things I don't like I can do the way I feel best does them.

So yeah. My job is literally tailor made by me and for me.

.... also I want to be utterly invaluable so that somehow they find ways to keep my position when the grant ends at the end of next year. I don't know how I could ever go back to the classroom full time.

[silverfox]

My little sister got a job at my school this year. WE LOOK NOTHING ALIKE BEYOND BEING SHORT.

She has nice rounded body and I'm all sharp edges.

She has RED HAIR and mine is a muddy blond.

She wears BRIGHT EXCITING colors and I wear nice muted autumn colors.

ALSO I AM EIGHT YEARS OLDER THAN HER. I have so many gray hairs I can't cover them with hair dye any more!

AND YET

Kindergartener today, "Are you and Mrs. <> twins?"

NO WE ARE NOT I AM OLDER.

(this is amused anger.)

[Pyrephox]

@silverfox Although not a relative - on my first day of work in a high school (during the school year; I'd actually started in the summer but most of the staff wasn't there), I was heading to my office before the first bell.

I was twenty eight. I was in a suit. I still had someone stop me and try to make me leave the building because students weren't allowed inside before first bell.

[faraday]

@silverfox That's amusing. I worked on the same team as my brother for many years. We also looked nothing alike, and our last names didn't match due to marriage. One day a coworker was in my cubicle and just stared in confusion at an old family picture I had on my desk and was like.... "Wait... is that <brother>?" They were thrown for such a loop

[Ganymede]

@silverfox

Well, you sound hotter, so --

[Arkandel]

@faraday Waaait a sec. More information is needed here!

How is working with a sibling? I can't imagine working with my sister on a regular basis. We get along quite well... unless we spend too much time together too often, at which point the grumbling begins.

[silverfox]

@arkandel

I think you meant to tag me!

I honestly was worried about it (but wanted to get her out of her previous job and she's high anxiety and might not have made the jump without the cushion of me being able to say I'd put in a good word for her) but it has been FANTASTIC. We may differ on the little things, but we agree on the big ones. (Kids first, it's important to let kids fail safely for them to learn, etc). It's a lot of fun to have someone I 100% trust to be able to go "wtf was this shit" to. (I do trust my other coworkers, but we're teachers!) Also it's fun to be all "omg remember this random thing that literally only makes sense because we have a similar point of reference" to babble to.

I don't think I could do it with all my siblings, but so far so good with this one!

[Arkandel]

@silverfox I meant to tag you, sorry. It's been one of those days.

[silverfox]

@arkandel

I feel you. Due to ice we had a late start day (kids arrived 1.5 hours later than normal) which just threw the day into utter chaos. (Plus 1/4 of the kids aren't here between Covid and not having transportation for the late start...) So I'm just... doing professional development and staying close to my phone if they need to pull me somewhere.

[Macha]

A new chair has been ordered. I am stupidly excited. It is not any that have been linked, because I am a nerrrrrrrd

[Macha]

New chair has arrived, days before expected. So excite. Putting that bad boy together later.

[silverfox]

lol - district can't figure out when to and or not to call a snow/late start day.

First late start it cleared up by the time kids arrived. So alright. Next late start it was gone before kids would have normally arrived. Today we've already got 2-3 inches with no sign of it stopping and no late start or snow day.

It's fine. We just have a few more absent than we've had since January.

We can teach like normal with 2/3 attendance every day, right?

[Too Old For This]

@silverfox My son walks to school (there are bullies on his bus that he wants to avoid and he's familiar with the route). Yesterday, the day where the skies opened up and dumped like 4-5 inches of snow? He chose to wear his hoodie and sneakers because 'it didn't look that bad out'. People suck at judging the weather. XD

[WildBaboons]

@too-old-for-this said in The Work Thread:

@silverfox My son walks to school (there are bullies on his bus that he wants to avoid and he's familiar with the route). Yesterday, the day where the skies opened up and dumped like 4-5 inches of snow? He chose to wear his hoodie and sneakers because 'it didn't look that bad out'. People suck at judging the weather. XD

That just sounds like standard kid. We got maybe 3" of snow today and I saw at least three kids walking to/from school in t-shirts. It isn't cool to be warm. You just don't understand.

[Derp]

@wildbaboons said in The Work Thread:

@too-old-for-this said in The Work Thread:

@silverfox My son walks to school (there are bullies on his bus that he wants to avoid and he's familiar with the route). Yesterday, the day where the skies opened up and dumped like 4-5 inches of snow? He chose to wear his hoodie and sneakers because 'it didn't look that bad out'. People suck at judging the weather. XD

That just sounds like standard kid. We got maybe 3" of snow today and I saw at least three kids walking to/from school in t-shirts. It isn't cool to be warm. You just don't understand.

Kid? I'm still 100% this guy. It's 23 degrees and I'm in a polo.

I don't like stuff touching my arms.

Or my legs but I still haven't convinced them that shorts are totally work appropriate.

[silverfox]

@too-old-for-this

whoever judged you for letting your kid walk to school can go fuck themselves. Yes there are dangers... but there are dangers EVERYWHERE. I totally support kids walking. (Full stop, no qualifiers.)