Post by ProfessorArtNerd on Aug 22, 2022 9:45:33 GMT -5
Good morning!
I was talking to my mom this morning about what else I need to get the kids for back to school. They go back in two weeks (#Regional). I was doing my yearly “I can’t believe I have to buy two rolls of paper towels, two containers of wipes, Lysol and freaking SOAP?!” And she was being oddly defensive. But this is crazy, right?
I was talking to my mom this morning about what else I need to get the kids for back to school. They go back in two weeks (#Regional). I was doing my yearly “I can’t believe I have to buy two rolls of paper towels, two containers of wipes, Lysol and freaking SOAP?!” And she was being oddly defensive. But this is crazy, right?
For private school, I’d be pissed that my tuition doesn’t cover basic supplies for the classroom.
I am so ready for school to be back. One more week and my kid today is in a mood. No, brushing teeth is not optional.
ProfessorArtNerd, we've been asked for regular paper towels because the school ones are terrible. I haven't had soap yet.
The one thing I questioned was they wanted 3-4 boxes of expo markers. If there are 20 in a box and 20 kids in class, that's seems like A LOT of markers? I know they dry out and kids abuse them. I'm sending 3 boxes and keeping one on reserve for now.
I hate selling stuff on FB, but it's our old bedroom furniture, so I would like the few hundred it's worth.
ProfessorArtNerd I can see needing to buy wipes and Lysol, but shouldn't the school be providing paper products and soap? That is a little bit crazy.
My baby sister got engaged and I'm trying to plan a celebratory dinner. I knew that I should have just planned it and then invited everyone, but my H started giving me his opinions last night, and so I decided to open it up to the group (my siblings and my Mom) and now everything is all over the place. I'm annoyed.
I was talking to my mom this morning about what else I need to get the kids for back to school. They go back in two weeks (#Regional). I was doing my yearly “I can’t believe I have to buy two rolls of paper towels, two containers of wipes, Lysol and freaking SOAP?!” And she was being oddly defensive. But this is crazy, right?
I am okay with buying some supplies for the classroom, I would get a $75 stipend for school supplies a year as a teacher, doesn’t go far. I wish teachers got more for salary, supplies and all kids got free lunch.
I was talking to my mom this morning about what else I need to get the kids for back to school. They go back in two weeks (#Regional). I was doing my yearly “I can’t believe I have to buy two rolls of paper towels, two containers of wipes, Lysol and freaking SOAP?!” And she was being oddly defensive. But this is crazy, right?
I am okay with buying some supplies for the classroom, I would get a $75 stipend for school supplies a year as a teacher, doesn’t go far. I wish teachers got more for salary, supplies and all kids got free lunch.
I think it's bullshit that the school is unable to pay for absolute basics and families and teachers are expected to pick up the slack. It makes me so pissed off at the situation.
ProfessorArtNerd, We don't have that kind of stuff on ours. It's just classroom supplies like pencils, folders, binders etc. I do think the list for my 8th grader is wrong though. He has the same team of teachers my oldest had three years ago (1 teacher is different). He used 1 x 3" binder that he carried for all classes. This list is asking for 6 binders (3 x 2" and 3 x 1.5") and a ton of tabs, etc? He cant even carry 6 binders like that.
It does have "8th grade supply list" on top and is not team specific. I decided I'm waiting on buying them. I'm going to start with a 2" binder for now and a set of dividers for now and obviously the pencils and a couple folders but some of this stuff doesn't even make any sense. I figure I can just wait to hear if they actually need 6 binders. I feel like it might've been a typo and supposed to be 1 x 2" three ring binder. I'm sure they will let the kids know the first week what they actually need.
I took the head off a (junior) male colleague today who consistently leaves me out of planning for things that are under my direction. I have to miss a meeting today where he made sure that he's the only person presenting (leaving out another female colleague and me) and he said, well, it's not going to do with your area (false) and while we really appreciate your input, it's not like you have to be there. He's honestly lucky he's still alive.
We were very lucky and had a lot of fun vacations this summer - we just got back early AM from a few weeks in California and before that were on the Cape and Nantucket. Very fun but we have only been home for 3 days this month so the laundry and home stuff I have staring me in the face make me want to just go back to bed. Two weeks until school starts and DS2 has nothing planned…I don’t know what we are going to do.
In good news, our fridge is supposedly being delivered Thursday! Our fridge died on Easter Sunday and supply chain issues have meant we haven’t had a kitchen fridge for 4 months 😩 We do have a basement fridge so thank goodness for that but I’m really tired of going up and down to the basement constantly. I’m so excited for this fridge.
Also, I'm trying to figure out how to deal with a consistently toxic coworker. I have elevated to my boss multiple times and everyone keeps saying they're "working with her on it."
Working on what? She's mean, she spends more time being combative than doing what she's supposed to do, and really doesn't understand her job.
She keeps wanting to hire people with no skills because she thinks she can mentor them and yet, she isn't in a position to mentor anyone.
Post by sometimesrunner on Aug 22, 2022 10:17:18 GMT -5
We took family photos in Olympic National Park when we were in Seattle and our photos should be done any day. I am constantly refreshing my email inbox. Oh, and I need to have a productive week since I did not have one last week and we're leaving for NYC on Sunday. :/
ProfessorArtNerd since my kids have been in K we've always had to bring in 2 rolls paper towels, 2 containers Lysol wipes and 2 boxes tissues (each). Never soap. This is Catholic school. I feel bad for the teachers. So far with DD1's private high school no such request has come across.
We aren't required to provide any of this, but we were told DD1's teacher would gladly take donations of paper towels, tissues, hand soap, Clorox wipes, glue sticks, and gallon Ziplocs. I have mixed feelings about it. I can afford to help, so I always do, and I definitely don't think the teachers should be on the hook for this stuff (not because of their pay, which is quite high around here, but because it just shouldn't be on them). On the other hand, I had intended to buy some of everything and then consciously put back some Ziplocs and didn't grab any soap, because everything is so expensive! I have a bad habit of wanting to do it all, and I need to remember most or all of the families are sending stuff, too.
I do think it's funny how our district typically requires us to buy so few traditional school supplies (I need nothing for DD1 and only headphones, markers, and 2 notebooks for DD2), but now we're buying all the jan/san stuff.
My random is, we have some new friends who seem really keen on hanging out, and I don't understand why they like us so much. lol They seem of out of our league, we don't live in the same town, and our children's ages don't align perfectly. What do they want with us?
Is it a private or public school? If private, I'm on your side for sure. If public, there are no sides, really, it just sucks.
Oh yeah it’s a private catholic school. I should’ve specified
Then yeah, no thank you to paying for their maintenance supplies. Do they have to publish a budget or anything? I have no idea how schools, private or public, work. But I'd made a stink about this.
ProfessorArtNerd since my kids have been in K we've always had to bring in 2 rolls paper towels, 2 containers Lysol wipes and 2 boxes tissues (each). Never soap. This is Catholic school. I feel bad for the teachers. So far with DD1's private high school no such request has come across.
Oh yeah, I just was complaining about it, as I do every year. She was acting like I was wrong about it though. Like. What the hell? And the school WON’T pay for it? What?!
Yeah, I would expect a private school to supply all of that stuff. MAYBE paper towels I can see if they are for cleaning up messes in the classroom, but actual cleaning supplies and soap for the bathroom? Nope.
Today is my first day teaching a graduate school course! I am still kind of laughing that they are letting me do this. I know it takes very little to be hired as an adjunct, and I honestly do think I'll do a good job, but the part of me that dropped out of undergrad in my 4th year (and went back a year later!) finds it crazy that now I'm teaching college. Never would have seen that one coming.
It's also a super busy week - two concerts and I have to go to a networking thing for the graduate program where I'm a student on Thursday evening, too. Classes for that program start next week, so I'm going to be working full time, teaching a class, and taking a class myself. The next 8 weeks are going to be nuts.
She said “well the school won’t pay for it” and I was like “the mall pays for it, all public bathrooms have soap, wtf?”
Is it a private or public school? If private, I'm on your side for sure. If public, there are no sides, really, it just sucks.
I'm fully on the side of I'd rather pay than the teachers, but also I'd love to see more of a full accounting of what our schools (public) are doing with their money. And yes, it is obnoxious to ask for sanitation supplies for a school with a big, state of the art (for high school) football stadium.
The past couple of weeks I've been trying to take 10,000 steps a day. I don't know how on earth people regularly do this unless they have a job that requires them to be on their feet! It just takes so much time. Granted, I walk - I know I could save a lot of time if I ran instead, but that's a big nope from me. It takes me over an hour and a half to walk 10,000 steps.
Post by picksthemusic on Aug 22, 2022 10:48:09 GMT -5
We were woken up at 3:45am to our smoke alarms going off and not stopping. We tried to find the source and couldn't find anything, but they still were going off. So we got everyone out and called the fire department just to be safe - luckily they didn't find anything wrong, and they were really nice and reassuring to the kids (DD was panicking). I couldn't fall back to sleep, and DS was in our bed the rest of the morning. The only one who got any more sleep was DD.
So now I get to go buy 6 new smoke detectors. Whee!
Post by simpsongal on Aug 22, 2022 10:50:11 GMT -5
ssmjlm, I have someone like this in my group....there's so no good answer. I've tried to change her approach but she's self aware and has chosen her approach. The only formal thing I can think that could work is one of those 360' executive reviews, where people give anonymous feedback. If this person could see that the attitude is a hindrance to career advancement and perception in the workplace....maybe that would effect a change? IDK.... but I feel you!
My google pushed an article this week about passive aggressive email phrases/etiquette and I swear she was guilty of like a majority.
The past couple of weeks I've been trying to take 10,000 steps a day. I don't know how on earth people regularly do this unless they have a job that requires them to be on their feet! It just takes so much time. Granted, I walk - I know I could save a lot of time if I ran instead, but that's a big nope from me. It takes me over an hour and a half to walk 10,000 steps.
If it makes you feel any better, you probably don't need quite that many.
But the goal of taking 10,000 steps, which many of us believe is rooted in science, in fact rests on coincidence and sticky history rather than research.
...
Another, more expansive study last year of almost 5,000 middle-aged men and women of various ethnicities likewise found that 10,000 steps a day are not a requirement for longevity. In that study, people who walked for about 8,000 steps a day were half as likely to die prematurely from heart disease or any other cause as those who accumulated 4,000 steps a day.
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The good news is that upping our current step counts by even a few thousand additional strides most days could be a reasonable, sufficient — and achievable — goal, Dr. Lee said.
simpsongal, I don't think she's self aware at all. That's half the problem. Our old boss used to try and coach her on communicating and he said she always seemed surprised at the negative feedback.
I don't know. Our new boss is so out of touch, I don't know if she's actually doing anything or just telling me to get me to let it go. But when she bullies my employees, I'm not letting it go.
ssmjlm , I have someone like this in my group....there's so no good answer. I've tried to change her approach but she's self aware and has chosen her approach. The only formal thing I can think that could work is one of those 360' executive reviews, where people give anonymous feedback. If this person could see that the attitude is a hindrance to career advancement and perception in the workplace....maybe that would effect a change? IDK.... but I feel you!
My google pushed an article this week about passive aggressive email phrases/etiquette and I swear she was guilty of like a majority.
This reminded me of someone I used to work for. Our office reeeaaaally struggled when he came on board as the director and so we had all kinds of organizational behavior / workplace development sessions, which included a lot of management best practices and leadership development type sessions. He'd sit in on all of these and I always wondered if he was thinking "Good job, self! You're really knocking it out of the park on all of these," or, "Nah, these are dumb. My way is better!" Because he so flagrantly did the opposite of what you're supposed to do in almost every situation, I just really wondered - was he completely oblivious, or was it on purpose?
The past couple of weeks I've been trying to take 10,000 steps a day. I don't know how on earth people regularly do this unless they have a job that requires them to be on their feet! It just takes so much time. Granted, I walk - I know I could save a lot of time if I ran instead, but that's a big nope from me. It takes me over an hour and a half to walk 10,000 steps.
If it makes you feel any better, you probably don't need quite that many.
But the goal of taking 10,000 steps, which many of us believe is rooted in science, in fact rests on coincidence and sticky history rather than research.
...
Another, more expansive study last year of almost 5,000 middle-aged men and women of various ethnicities likewise found that 10,000 steps a day are not a requirement for longevity. In that study, people who walked for about 8,000 steps a day were half as likely to die prematurely from heart disease or any other cause as those who accumulated 4,000 steps a day.
...
The good news is that upping our current step counts by even a few thousand additional strides most days could be a reasonable, sufficient — and achievable — goal, Dr. Lee said.
I can't get to the article, so thanks for sharing some of the snippets!
I can't get to the article, so thanks for sharing some of the snippets!
Oh, well then here's the funny part about how we got to 10,000 in the first place:
According to Dr. I-Min Lee, a professor of epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and an expert on step counts and health, the 10,000-steps target became popular in Japan in the 1960s. A clock maker, hoping to capitalize on interest in fitness after the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games, mass-produced a pedometer with a name that, when written in Japanese characters, resembled a walking man. It also translated as “10,000-steps meter,” creating a walking aim that, through the decades, somehow became embedded in our global consciousness — and fitness trackers.
My MIL is being such a bitch to SFIL. Today he is being given a service medal for serving in a war by the VA. He is so happy about it and so proud and she is ruining it with her drama. She wants to go. but she doesn't want to go because he told HIS daughter about the ceremony and she is going. MIL is fighting with her and they haven't spoken in over a year.
She claims she is driving him and waiting in the car. I just want to yell at her to stop being so selfish and get your ass to the ceremony or move out already! I'm going to pick him up in case she decides she has a headache or is suddenly sick. I'm so tired of her need for constant attention. If it snot involving her or her favorite grandson, its not important and its drama
For those who don't know/remember, MIL is involved with a catfish and claims she is leaving SFIL after 35 years. They are not technically married but have been living together as a married couple for over 35 years. She claims she going to go through her hoards of shit and move. Its been 6 months since this announcement and she hasn't done anything.