@Auspice said in The Work Thread:
I got the job.
But.
I got the 2nd slot and (due to budget) cannot start until January.
So it's a good news / bad news. Yay I got a job I really wanted! Boo I have to strugglebus another 2 months.
But I can do it. Knowing there's a light at the end of the tunnel makes it much easier.
Is this the technical windmill whatever?
@Derp said in The Work Thread:
@Auspice said in The Work Thread:
I got the job.
But.
I got the 2nd slot and (due to budget) cannot start until January.
So it's a good news / bad news. Yay I got a job I really wanted! Boo I have to strugglebus another 2 months.
But I can do it. Knowing there's a light at the end of the tunnel makes it much easier.
Is this the technical windmill whatever?
Yus
My admin need to stop asking me for my opinion and then being taken aback when I give it.
I have no fucks left to give and they should know this by now.
I'm gonna take the talk about 'professionalism' tomorrow as my just reward for being the only person on staff willing to give my opinion fully.
I'm not sure where this goes but it's work adjacent..
With all the remote learning going on I'm making a LOT of videos. Some are teaching a skill and some are just showing how to use a tool to complete an assignment. I usually use screencast-o-matic to make these videos and then do the direct upload from there to youtube so I can share the link. The youtube account I upload to is my school domain (@publicschools.org).
The downside to using the upload from screencast-o-matic to youtube is that it makes my videos 'public'. This would be fine except...
Within 5 minutes of uploading a video some bot posts a link to pornography as a comment to the video.
Thank god my learning management system shows the videos in isolation within the sytem vs sending them to youtube but GOOD GOD. I don't need porn attached to my videos kthanks.
Well there is going to be a vaccine soon! and I then I might start to work normal hours. Also excited for our community that was really hit hard with covid and my co workers who are all deeply exposed.
I am so blessed that after working like I have been, I get a little down time to recharge.
I am utterly shattered right now. We were suppose to go back in person starting Monday, but today they abruptly made the decision not to.
I just had a parent text me (yes, I did give out my cell phone number because parents need every fucking tool they can get their hands on right now) and tell me about how shattered her kid is. He was suspended before we went remote the first time and she just said, "He was so ready to be a good egg" and I'm just... heart broken.
@silverfox said in The Work Thread:
I am utterly shattered right now. We were suppose to go back in person starting Monday, but today they abruptly made the decision not to.
I just had a parent text me (yes, I did give out my cell phone number because parents need every fucking tool they can get their hands on right now) and tell me about how shattered her kid is. He was suspended before we went remote the first time and she just said, "He was so ready to be a good egg" and I'm just... heart broken.
We just closed all of our schools here through Christmas, and cases continue to spike. This is the new reality now. It sucks, but... I think we need to prepare for the long haul on this one.
@silverfox said in The Work Thread:
I just had a parent text me (yes, I did give out my cell phone number because parents need every fucking tool they can get their hands on right now) and tell me about how shattered her kid is. He was suspended before we went remote the first time and she just said, "He was so ready to be a good egg" and I'm just... heart broken.
Maybe all the boy needs to hear is that he's still a good egg, even if he's not in school.
That hurts to hear, I'm sorry.
If I thought my kids were okay then I'd be okay. But:
We could say "The kids are alright" in April.
The kids aren't alright any more.
@silverfox This is rough. This is really rough, and I want you to take what I'm about to say as reassurance, not dismissal of how shitty this is:
We are in the middle of a pandemic. Our job to keep our people -- our kids, our families, our friends, our students, our patients -- alive right now. Everything beyond that is extra.
We can aspire to more. We should aspire to more.
But the definition of 'okay' is radically different than it was a year ago. All any of us can do is our best, acknowledging that our best is going to fall far short of 'normal' for the foreseeable future.
@Cassite said in The Work Thread:
@Aria That actually really helped me to hear, if nothing else.
That's the thing. It's perspective and I think that this far into it, and with this much longer to go, a lot of us are losing that. Especially my friends with kids who are not handling this well because a) kids and b) seriously, who is handling this well?
Everything has to be adjusted to take circumstances into account right. Everything.
But for parents who might be feeling guilty, especially moms who always get the pressure to be 'perfect':
Are you taking the precautions you need to in order to keep your kid alive through this shitshow? Do they have a safe place to sleep? Do they have food to eat? Are you trying your best to make this less awful for them?
A+ pandemic parenting. Everything else is extra credit.
You are hereby absolved of a small sliver of guilt, by the power vested in me as a total stranger on an internet forum normally full of people judging you.
German Covid ads because they're funny and relevant.
I get what you're saying - I really honestly do. It's a good sentiment. But it's too simple.
My my kids are by every definition //clinically depressed// and several of them receive their professional counseling through the school itself. By being outside of school they're not receiving those services.
The kids are building the patterns in their mind that are going to last them for years. So many of us here know how hard it is to shake those patterns, and it's not any different for kids.
We're sacrificing one kind of safety for another.
I get it. I DO GET IT. I'll never judge anyone for making the choices they make. I can't get mad at my district for making this call.
But the kids are not alright. They're not anywhere close to alright. Yes, they're alive... but some of them are starting to think it would be better to not be.
That is fucking scary.
I mean, here's the thing as I see it:
Everyone is expecting that this is gonna go away when there's a vaccine. That might lessen the danger of the disease, but that doesn't account for the downstream effects.
Luckily, we've got some experience with that too. Polio had a vaccine, but we still had to deal with the physical effects of that after it went away.
It's not a magic bullet, it's a process. It's a process where we learn what damage was done, and we learn new ways to help cope with that. COVID-19 will restructure our society in the same way that polio did as the downstream effects of it become clear, and we create tools to help manage those scars.
It's not a perfect solution. But it's what we have. It's what we know. And there's only so much we can do at any given time. So no, the kids aren't alright. But they might be, eventually, when we learn the cost of what COVID does and start treating it the same way we treated the aftermath of polio, especially as we realize that mental health is as important as physical health.
But there are steps. This is a step. And it's a sucky one, but it's all we can do. You can't worry about what the smoke damage to the house is going to look like while the flames are still burning hot. You have to make sure that there's still a house to have smoke damage.
COVID isn't any different. Right now, it's a fire, and we have to get everyone out of the house. Even if that means that the place they're in is darker and colder than they're comfortable in. We can work on fixing that, later, once the fires go out.
Are they gonna bear scars from this? Yes, of course. The whole world is. But we can't prevent that. All we can do is respond to it when we get the fires out. Twisting yourself into knots about something that you have absolutely no power over and is completely unpreventable sounds like a good way to drive yourself crazy.
So my current employers have some very highly placed covidiots.
After multiple instances of positive tested Covid cases in the building, my actual boss has told me and everyone else (he is the safety and compliance VP) to work from home unless completely necessary. Additionally it is required to wear a mask at all times when in the building.
The senior program manager and program director though? View people working from home as slackers and essentially refuse to wear masks in meetings, they also keep asking when I will be in the office and only vaguely accept my 'when this stops and lockdown is over, or when I come in for individual days to give in person training to hanger floor staff'. It is just idiotic, I know people at work who have had immediate family members die to this disease and yet the top level on site managers do not take it seriously at all.
Fortunately I have just been headhunted by another company who want to offer me a twenty percent pay rise, six more holidays a year, a 12% pension match, better sick pay, private medical care and permanent work from home. I was not actually looking for another job but I am definitely going to let them know what lead to me talking to the recruiter in my exit interview.
@Packrat That's really awesome for you! Glad that you found something that works better!
I really need to stop avoiding this one work task I keep avoiding but I have a whole lot of don't wanna in me and I seem to generate more at every turn.
@Auspice said in The Work Thread:
I got the job.
But.
I got the 2nd slot and (due to budget) cannot start until January.
So it's a good news / bad news. Yay I got a job I really wanted! Boo I have to strugglebus another 2 months.
But I can do it. Knowing there's a light at the end of the tunnel makes it much easier.
Is this the technical windmill whatever?
