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Post by Village Idiot on Oct 7, 2015 21:49:18 GMT -5
Iowa Prison Industries is now producing Braille worksheets, charts, etc. for blind students in our state. I worked hard last year to help get this off the ground, and now we've got a large network of schools able to get very quick turn-around results from a group of dedicated people, meaning that blind students are getting materials in the same timely manner as their sighted peers. And the schools pay nothing.
Unless you have a brain the size of a walnut and you manage to use that free service in a way that a small school district gets presented with a bill for five hundred and thirty dollars.
I had explained to this lady how to use the online order form. I gave her the web address and as I sat with her, she goes to google and types the address into the google search box, and wasn't sure which site to choose from the list she got. A grueling hour later, I had to go.
A week later a string of questions from her on email leads me to discover that she had racked up a bill for over five hundred bucks from this free service.
I managed to get the order cancelled, and went to explain again to the lady how to make orders. I gave her the web address so, as I was watching, she goes to google and types the address into the google search box, and wasn't sure which site to choose from the list she got.
It's going to be a long school year.
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Post by drlj on Oct 7, 2015 22:37:26 GMT -5
I am so glad I retired from public education. I love being retired from public education. I do not miss public education. Did I mention how glad I am to be retired and from where?
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Post by Cosmic Wonder on Oct 7, 2015 22:48:30 GMT -5
I feel your pain. We are a large district, for Oregon. We have 270 assigned bus routes. That means out of 270 daily drivers on any given day a percentage are going to be out sick, or on FMLA, or on some sort of leave. Some every day we need at least 20-25 spare drivers who can cover anyone's route at a moments notice. For years we had certain standards that you have to meet in order to be a spare. You had to work for the district for five years, you had to know the district so you wouldn't get lost, you had to be flexible, a team player, yada yada. Then someone in management got the brilliant idea that we should be more inclusive and democratic, and opened up the spare position to anyone. Sigh.
We have a newish driver, who became a spare this year. She is so focking clueless, constantly lost, won't take directions and parents are freaking out when there kids are an hour late and we can't tell them where they are or when they will get home because of this incompetent moron who is so stressed out she won't answer the radio. Good idea to open up the spare position. Not.
Mike
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Post by Don Clark on Oct 8, 2015 6:47:06 GMT -5
I am so glad I retired from public education. I love being retired from public education. I do not miss public education. Did I mention how glad I am to be retired and from where? Yes, LJ.....you did. We have all now been publicly educated.  |
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Post by drlj on Oct 8, 2015 6:49:37 GMT -5
I am so glad I retired from public education. I love being retired from public education. I do not miss public education. Did I mention how glad I am to be retired and from where? Yes, LJ.....you did. We have all now been publicly educated. I had hoped I was being clear about it. |
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Post by theevan on Oct 8, 2015 9:34:41 GMT -5
Yes, LJ.....you did. We have all now been publicly educated. I had hoped I was being clear about it. Can order the "clear" you speak of...online? My budget is $500 |
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Post by Doug on Oct 8, 2015 10:22:04 GMT -5
Loved teaching hated the teaching environment.
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Post by RickW on Oct 8, 2015 10:31:47 GMT -5
I tend to be kind to most folks. I tend to be forgiving. I tend to believe that people can function and do simple jobs well.
But really, there have been some remarkably stupid people who have wandered through my life over the years.
When I used to work in a data center, we had 24 hour security guards at the front. Not real security guards with guns, just someone to watch the door. Minimum wage, adults. Most of whom seemed like normal, intelligent folks. I used to wonder why someone in their 30s and 40s, capable functioning was doing working shift work in a deadly boring job for minimum wage. Then I started to talking to them, and you realized, that they all had issues, issues of the weird kind that you couldn't quite put your finger on, but they were just enough for them not to be able to deal with simple situations.
So, I still give folks the benefit of a doubt. But no, we are not all born equal.
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Post by fauxmaha on Oct 8, 2015 11:37:44 GMT -5
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Post by Rob Hanesworth on Oct 8, 2015 11:42:49 GMT -5
Nancy's favorite t-shirt reads:
I don't always enjoy being retired from teaching... Oh wait, yes I do.
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Post by TKennedy on Oct 8, 2015 12:01:14 GMT -5
I was lucky to have worked with people that were smarter than I was most of my life.
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Post by Dub on Oct 8, 2015 12:53:56 GMT -5
I tend to be kind to most folks. I tend to be forgiving. I tend to believe that people can function and do simple jobs well. But really, there have been some remarkably stupid people who have wandered through my life over the years. When I used to work in a data center, we had 24 hour security guards at the front. Not real security guards with guns, just someone to watch the door. Minimum wage, adults. Most of whom seemed like normal, intelligent folks. I used to wonder why someone in their 30s and 40s, capable functioning was doing working shift work in a deadly boring job for minimum wage. Then I started to talking to them, and you realized, that they all had issues, issues of the weird kind that you couldn't quite put your finger on, but they were just enough for them not to be able to deal with simple situations. So, I still give folks the benefit of a doubt. But no, we are not all born equal.  |
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Post by Rob Hanesworth on Oct 8, 2015 13:05:20 GMT -5
I used to envy my friend who was a security guard at a Chrysler plant. He made a decent living and the work never piled up. He never called home and said he had to stay late to catch up on his guarding or that he was bringing home a briefcase full of guarding he needed to get done over the weekend.
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Post by Dub on Oct 8, 2015 13:10:14 GMT -5
Forty-five years or so ago I was working for a company who had one of the computer operators hand deliver certain reports (wide, continuous feed, green-bar) to high-level directors and such. One morning after making his delivery rounds he got a call from the accounting director complaining that his report had not been delivered as expected but there was a different (wrong) report on his desk and he wanted it replaced with the correct one immediately. The operator was sure he'd delivered the report and walked to the director's office to see what had happened. The director handed him the report that had been left on his desk. Not only was it the wrong report but it had been left on the wrong corner of his desk.
The operator apologized and took the offending report back from him. He left the director's office, made a complete circuit of the hallway so some time would elapse, and returned to the director's office with the SAME report, this time laying it on the CORRECT corner of the director's desk. The director picked it up, looked it over, and said "Yes, this is the report I wanted. Be more careful next time."
This is an absoutely true first hand story. I shit you not.
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Post by lar on Oct 8, 2015 13:21:20 GMT -5
I think it was Ron White who summed it up nicely, "Stupid is forever."
No cure. No do-overs.
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Post by RickW on Oct 8, 2015 23:33:22 GMT -5
Forty-five years or so ago I was working for a company who had one of the computer operators hand deliver certain reports (wide, continuous feed, green-bar) to high-level directors and such. One morning after making his delivery rounds he got a call from the accounting director complaining that his report had not been delivered as expected but there was a different (wrong) report on his desk and he wanted it replaced with the correct one immediately. The operator was sure he'd delivered the report and walked to the director's office to see what had happened. The director handed him the report that had been left on his desk. Not only was it the wrong report but it had been left on the wrong corner of his desk. The operator apologized and took the offending report back from him. He left the director's office, made a complete circuit of the hallway so some time would elapse, and returned to the director's office with the SAME report, this time laying it on the CORRECT corner of the director's desk. The director picked it up, looked it over, and said "Yes, this is the report I wanted. Be more careful next time." This is an absoutely true first hand story. I shit you not. Brilliant. |
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Post by Village Idiot on Oct 9, 2015 22:04:16 GMT -5
Forty-five years or so ago I was working for a company who had one of the computer operators hand deliver certain reports (wide, continuous feed, green-bar) to high-level directors and such. One morning after making his delivery rounds he got a call from the accounting director complaining that his report had not been delivered as expected but there was a different (wrong) report on his desk and he wanted it replaced with the correct one immediately. The operator was sure he'd delivered the report and walked to the director's office to see what had happened. The director handed him the report that had been left on his desk. Not only was it the wrong report but it had been left on the wrong corner of his desk. The operator apologized and took the offending report back from him. He left the director's office, made a complete circuit of the hallway so some time would elapse, and returned to the director's office with the SAME report, this time laying it on the CORRECT corner of the director's desk. The director picked it up, looked it over, and said "Yes, this is the report I wanted. Be more careful next time." This is an absoutely true first hand story. I shit you not. Several years ago they came up with a new document that nobody would ever read. I sent one in to the system, and it came back with "if you could change this, if you could tweak that, consider mentioning this..." I waited three days, sent the document back completely unchanged, and the reply was "Nice job, thank you!" |
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