The New & Unproved Work/Job/Career Thread

[spike]

God, I am loving my classes this year. Last year’s seniors made me feel like an alien. This year’s seniors are so nice and full of personality. It’s like the love of my life just came back from rehab and it worked.

good to hear. would last year's class perhaps be the last lingering kids fully traumatized by the covid years? this class maybe too young to be fully cognizant or affected at the time (aka pre pubescent during covid)?

[daft twat]

God, I am loving my classes this year. Last year’s seniors made me feel like an alien. This year’s seniors are so nice and full of personality. It’s like the love of my life just came back from rehab and it worked.

good to hear. would last year's class perhaps be the last lingering kids fully traumatized by the covid years? this class maybe too young to be fully cognizant or affected at the time (aka pre pubescent during covid)?

I think that’s definitely part of it. I have a friend who teaches clear across the Minneapolis/St. Paul metro in an affluent school (mine is very much a free and reduced lunch population) who experienced the same thing. But sometimes you just have bad groups collectively - classes without discernible leaders. This was one of those. They were also super young. Like a lot of birthdays that were on the cusp and the parents sent them early rather than holding them back. It’s crazy what a residual difference in maturity that can make. My friends who currently teach juniors are so far saying their classes are even better than this senior class. I’d love for that trend to continue.

[daft twat]

On a side note, my sleep has been fucked. It’s restless, and even though I already wake up early (4:45), I haven’t needed the alarm yet because I’m unhappily up at 4 or just after. I genuinely think it’s ptsd from last year. I still have a sense of dread about school I’m sure it will go away soon if my classes continue as is, but man, last year really ruined the job for me.

[BurtReynolds]

Teaching sound stressful. I don't think I could do it.

[daft twat]

Teaching sound stressful. I don't think I could do it.

It’s a lot, but most of the time kids are the fucking best. And summers are great. Honestly, the worst part of the job is you can’t just go take a shit whenever you want to. It’s the main reason I wake up so early.

[spike]

God, I am loving my classes this year. Last year’s seniors made me feel like an alien. This year’s seniors are so nice and full of personality. It’s like the love of my life just came back from rehab and it worked.

good to hear. would last year's class perhaps be the last lingering kids fully traumatized by the covid years? this class maybe too young to be fully cognizant or affected at the time (aka pre pubescent during covid)?

I think that’s definitely part of it. I have a friend who teaches clear across the Minneapolis/St. Paul metro in an affluent school (mine is very much a free and reduced lunch population) who experienced the same thing. But sometimes you just have bad groups collectively - classes without discernible leaders. This was one of those. They were also super young. Like a lot of birthdays that were on the cusp and the parents sent them early rather than holding them back. It’s crazy what a residual difference in maturity that can make. My friends who currently teach juniors are so far saying their classes are even better than this senior class. I’d love for that trend to continue.

That’s stressing me out that it can linger, as ours is one of the youngest in her class as we decided not to hold her back…

As this year wears on (it’s nearly the end of third term of her first year of real school), I’ve had concerns about her younger age catching up to her. Her teachers say she is fine socially, and does have lots of mates, but it’s more the schoolwork that seems to be becoming very challenging for her, which she’s doesn’t always deal with well. Tantrums, etc at home and only once at school so far. We’ve met with her teachers and have made adjustments in her learning to hopefully quell any further incidents.

[daft twat]

God, I am loving my classes this year. Last year’s seniors made me feel like an alien. This year’s seniors are so nice and full of personality. It’s like the love of my life just came back from rehab and it worked.

good to hear. would last year's class perhaps be the last lingering kids fully traumatized by the covid years? this class maybe too young to be fully cognizant or affected at the time (aka pre pubescent during covid)?

I think that’s definitely part of it. I have a friend who teaches clear across the Minneapolis/St. Paul metro in an affluent school (mine is very much a free and reduced lunch population) who experienced the same thing. But sometimes you just have bad groups collectively - classes without discernible leaders. This was one of those. They were also super young. Like a lot of birthdays that were on the cusp and the parents sent them early rather than holding them back. It’s crazy what a residual difference in maturity that can make. My friends who currently teach juniors are so far saying their classes are even better than this senior class. I’d love for that trend to continue.

That’s stressing me out that it can linger, as ours is one of the youngest in her class as we decided not to hold her back…

As this year wears on (it’s nearly the end of third term of her first year of real school), I’ve had concerns about her younger age catching up to her. Her teachers say she is fine socially, and does have lots of mates, but it’s more the schoolwork that seems to be becoming very challenging for her, which she’s doesn’t always deal with well. Tantrums, etc at home and only once at school so far. We’ve met with her teachers and have made adjustments in her learning to hopefully quell any further incidents.

Just based on this text, I know she’ll be fine. Involved parents who keep their kids accountable rather than enabling them is, imo, the single biggest factor in a kid being well-adjusted and successful. My wife (also a teacher) and I went to every parent/teacher conference for both of our kids through elementary school and then went to none and just kept up with grades online and worked through school stuff with them at home. We do not have academic all-stars, but we have kids who can function. My oldest son scored very poorly on the ACT, but he’s doing 15 credits at community college, working 30+ hours a week, and went to the doctor on his own last weekend after he fractured his wrist at boxing. That last bit is what I’m most proud of. The youngest, meanwhile, is more academically gifted, but he had such bad anxiety about his AP history class this week, he couldn’t bring himself to go to class. He texted us, and then he went to his counselor and made a schedule change, I’m worried about him, but I’m happy that he did it himself. Autonomy. Underrated.

[spike]

Thanks daft, that helps. I’m hoping the adjustments we’ve made help her out and she finishes out the school year with a flourish. We’re already seeing positives signs this week, but early days. I’ve been pretty stressed since she had her incident at school; she did a total 180 on her OT teacher and showed her the dark side. Which happens at home, and is bound to, but can’t be having that going on at school.

[wease]

Had an employee get mad at me today for announcing their resignation for their full time position. She asked me later why I said she was stepping down and I replied “because that’s what you told me.” She then said she didn’t say that. And of course, I reply “yes you did.” So, she then produces her phone and pulls up the text in which she told me. It plainly states she will stay on full time until the end of December then after that she’d like to work 2 days a week if needed. She was adamant that that didn’t say she was dropping from full time. So I asked her what else could it mean? She got frustrated and left the room.

Afterwards, I sent the message to HR, pretty much to verify that I was reading it correctly and HR agreed that she had tendered her resignation.

So later in the day I talked to her again just to let her know that we considered it a resignation and it had been accepted. So she’s arguing and yelling again and finally just tells me I’m “reading it wrong.” I tell her that’s the only meaning that could be taken from it and that I wasn’t reading it wrong. She said “OF COURSE YOU THINK THAT!” then storms out and slams the door.

I found out that right before she sent me the message she told the Center Manager that she was sending me her resignation. For whatever reason she thought she could change her mind as if she never said anything. She was wrong.

[tree_]

Sounds like a melt down. Be more supportive if you can. You're not wrong. She's struggling.

[The Argonaut]

You accept letters of resignation via text message?

[tree_]

Yeah she didn't "say" anything if it was a text message

[tree_]

Wait, is this boob girl?

[daft twat]

Sounds like a melt down. Be more supportive if you can. You're not wrong. She's struggling.

Be more supportive of what? Her delusion? Team Wease.

[tree_]

It's not like she was sleeping on the job

[wease]

You accept letters of resignation via text message?

If that’s how they send them. What does the format matter?

[wease]

Wait, is this boob girl?

Not at all. I’ve not seen her in 7-8 years. Don’t even know if she’s still alive.

[Jorge]

You accept letters of resignation via text message?

If that’s how they send them. What does the format matter?

Here they make you send a resignation telegram. Very inconvenient

[spike]

Figured you’d have to place your hand on a Bible in Tennessee.

[wease]

So this lady called my boss this morning and tried to get me fired. She said I don’t have proper people skills and don’t know how to talk to people. She said I yelled at everyone during our meeting yesterday (I didn’t) and all I know how to talk about is negative things (the first thing I covered in the meeting was how proud I was of the team for getting a quarterly bonus). She then argued the same points to my boss and Boss told her the same thing i had.

After their call Boss asked me if she approved the rehire of this lady. I told her yes, you have to approve all our hires. She then asked me if I knew she had previously worked for us. I told her yes, and when I asked HR about her they told me it was so long ago that we didn’t have anything in our records on her. Well, this lady worked her under a different last name before and Boss didn’t recognize her with the new last name. She said if she had realized it was the same person she would never have let me rehire her. She was terrible before and basically ran all our patients away. Which is another issue I’m having with her now. At least I’m not going to have to deal with her much longer.