A personal rant against things that shouldn't be and when the revolution comes.....................................

 

1. SIMS patches - full stop

2. Conversations that start "Its only a quick question ......"

- I KNOW its the answer thats going to take me two days to find
- I KNOW but make it faster
- I KNOW a very quick answer "NO"
- I KNOW is this the time to run away

3. Conversations that start "Are you busy?"
Selected answers that go through your head

- NO, I look this stressed out for pleasure
- NO, the veins in my temple always pulse like that when I'm having fun
- NO, they pay me to sit here and pretend to be busy
- NO, I like collecting high piles of paper all around rme
- NO, I am not really here and I am a figment of your imagination

 

4. Conversations that start "I'm sorry but...."

- a sorry butt is what I`d like to give you
- please go and be sorry somewhere else
- sorry is not the hardest word when its attached to "bugger off"

 

 5. Meaningless disruptions. Anyone who

- comes down,
- gets your attention [away from whatever you are doing],
- usually by just hovering there not saying anything at first, [so you are not sure they actually want you]
- then
- just stand in front of you for a bit, smile and then say
- 'I can’t remember now what I came in for' and looks at you as though you should know.

Get a grip - yes I do have better things to do than be invited to read your terminally blank mind. [a definite 'come the revolution' moment]

 

6. Moving classes from one room to another especially doing it every week and then being surprised when some one complains they can't find your class because you aren't in the timetabled room.

WHY won't you tell me? All those emails sent about NOT moving your class without telling us - what is so hard to comprehend?
WHY do you say where you have taken them in such a way that implies 'surely everyone knows'
HOW will that happen if you don't tell them.

Get a grip. Stay where you have been timetabled or tell someone [me] and get the timetable changed. [yet another top candidate for 'come the revolution']

 

7. Students Timetables. Similar to No.6 but this time changing students. 'oh yes he's been in my group for the last week', 'I can't give him a grade as he moved sets three weeks ago'.

BUT they're on your register
WHY have you not mentioned this before.
WHY if you know they’ve moved but the register still has them on it, don't you think someone [me] needs to know? [another candidate for 'first to the wall when the revolution comes'].
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8. Duty rota. Two very short, quite straight forward little words.

'duty' to do something you are obligated to do.
'rota' - means it's your turn at some stage - probably today, but certainly sometime.

So what is it about putting these two normally innocuous Anglo Saxon words together which appears to drastically alter their meaning? To fulfill an obigation for a pre-arranged period of time, to be available when required.

No. It now means 'I'm off up the Leisure Centre', 'I've arranged a meeting with parents','I've got to go down the middle school now', 'I'll just dsappear off the face of the earth'.

Anything, but I'll be around, easy to contact on the usual number should you need me

 
9. Forms - which have a box that says "Please sign here" and as a heading which says 'Forms cannot be accepted without a signature' - and guess what? They come back unsigned having passed through at least one pair of hands. Are these words invisible to all but Admin eyes? Do these combination of words now have a hidden meaning in todays society along the lines of "Please ignore me", for "Please' read 'Don't", 'Signature' is a word of more than one syaball so ignore it.

10. The saving grace to all this is

a) pay day on the 24th,

b) a shorter day on a Friday - that extra half an hour is everything

c) the prospect of winning the office lottery one day

d) there are good kids, good teachers out there if you look hard enough

 

Seagull101/J.Lamb