The Umbrella Rantolution

[Caryh 5,206]

Ok, it's time to do Brit homework with the kiddo. And I'm going to use that Brit line....

"If you don't do your homework, you con't have any pudding! How can you have pudding if you don't do your homework!?"

I thought you couldn't have any pudding if you don't eat you meat! *que in busy signal.*

Vajazzle.

I seriously just saw someone go by my window on a snowmobile. There isn't even a half of inch of snow on the ground.

And just call her Vaj for short

I told that guy he couldn't leave early from work today. I've got a machine to complete!

[SAT 9,609]

Yeah well it's homework time, not lunch time....

[kitthekat 1,317]

so, i just had my three month review with my boss (4 months after i've been hired, since she has been very hard to pin down and schedule a meeting with)...

one of the questions on the review form was "what do you think we can do to improve our processes and/or services?"

i wrote, more strategic planning so that we can anticipate and prepare for changes, instead of reacting to them at the last minute. her reply was, "you can't plan for everything, in this business, you have to learn to go with the flow."

ok. fine. point taken.

so, a month ago, she over-enrolled one classroom which has a maximum capacity of 8. the teacher-student ratio is 1:4. well, guess what, the new kid started today and now there's two teachers, and 9 kids. at 4pm, there will be 1 teacher, and almost definitely more than 4 kids. no substitute teachers were called, the next classroom up was not asked to prepare to take in another kid if necessary, nothing, zilch.

right. go with the flow...

[SAT 9,609]

From both a municipal and private sector perspective. She's not entirely wrong. There are intangible situations that arise that you cannot plan for.

However, what you just mentioned is foreseeable. But in the field of education, that's often a tough call. Because your resources are limited.

In the private sector, the pressure is on to show profit, and make it grow year over year. And sometimes that'll call for doing more with less. The financial institutions are a perfect example. Every time they miss the target, they lay off thousands. They do turn around quickly.....

[SAT 9,609]

Brat I don't know you well, but I think you're better suited in the private sector. Not at an organization. Nor government....

[SAT 9,609]

You're wasting your breath at that place. they're not looking to change, or maximize, or profit. Put your ideas to use, that's what a private company wants.

[Jacque67 7,328]

Years ago, at the hospital where Tiff is, there was a nurse in the ER. She wanted to marry me I tell ya.....

Oh boy!

[SAT 9,609]

Kind of reminds me of my ex a little. The only reason the behavior is continued is because they let it.

Why you guys keep talking bout my friend Darklar like that huh?

[Jacque67 7,328]

Ok, it's time to do Brit homework with the kiddo. And I'm going to use that Brit line....

"If you don't do your homework, you con't have any pudding! How can you have pudding if you don't do your homework!?"

As long as you don't tell her she can't have any spotted #######!!

[SAT 9,609]

Oh boy!

Well she's probably not there anymore. And she's probably short and fat with 3 kids.....

[kitthekat 1,317]

From both a municipal and private sector perspective. She's not entirely wrong. There are intangible situations that arise that you cannot plan for.

However, what you just mentioned is foreseeable. But in the field of education, that's often a tough call. Because your resources are limited.

In the private sector, the pressure is on to show profit, and make it grow year over year. And sometimes that'll call for doing more with less. The financial institutions are a perfect example. Every time they miss the target, they lay off thousands. They do turn around quickly.....

i agree that one should be flexible enough to adapt quickly to changes, because you cannot always anticipate everything, but you must always be able to find a solution, and that's why i told her, point taken. but maybe i should have rephrased my review suggestion to "plan more (as opposed to not at all)".

it is not a matter of resources because we have substitute teachers. we have a pool of early childhood students that are hungry for practicum or work study hours, and they are cheap if not free. we often find ourselves with substitutes and no kids especially in the early morning, because of miscommunication or bad planning once again.

also, this is a licensing issue. we simply cannot do more with less here. there is no wiggle room - if you are over capacity, you need to move a kid, or risk losing your license.

[Darnell 8,479]

Why you guys keep talking bout my friend Darklar like that huh?

oh shush, you. My parents raised me, never had any coddling what-so-ever. Dad was handy with his belt - got my last @ss-whooping the 3rd day before school was let out , my senior year.

The only thing my father 'coddled' me about - was my love for self-learning and research. Think of it, city boy stuck in the wilderness, and we convert an outbuilding into a darkroom lab, where I developed all of my own film for almost 7 years. Who does that? I guess if you look at the 'give-and-take' - he got a couple ten-thousand hour blocks of free labor out of me, but I learned all I know about construction from him - so where did I lose out?

Then there was my library. Each time some distant relative died, Dad made sure I got the books from that relative's collection, between my ages of 10 to 17. After college graduation, I had the collection assessed, then the valuable pieces put into another collection. My Dad didn't have the money to put me through school - but he knew about my love of books and did what he could to make sure I had some. It was a hella thing to learn that the valuable pieces were worth over 500K back in 87. I sold em, and used the funds to jumpstart a business in 92. Thanks, Dad.

Then there's chores, aye? Sheesh. Daily and weekly, never relenting. So, come on, fess up, you weren't really trying to nudge me into that group of folk whose parents coddled them, right?

No, I ain't gonna spew any stories of walking 10 miles uphill in a snowstorm, daily for school - but come on ?

Edited December 9, 2014 by Darnell

[Jacque67 7,328]

So if a woman considers herself a traditional wife, you're calling her dumb?

My wife considers herself a traditional wife. She see's certain things as her responsibility. She will ask me if something is OK before she considers doing it. Things that I actually think she doesn't need to ask about. When I asked her why she does this, her answer was its a matter of respecting me and she knows what the answer will be anyway.

On the opposite side of this, she expects me to also be responsible for certain things. She'll come out a say its my job to look out for this or take care of this. All very traditionally divided. This division is not any simple I'll sit on my butt all the time and expect to be served. Yes she will serve me, but at the same time I will serve her. Also the division or doing traditional things isn't locked in a fixed mold. She cooks most meals, I always do the dishes so she can relax after dinner, I also bring her a cup of tea while I'm doing the dishes. As to cleaning the house, I have no yard work to do, so I jump in and have taken over certain parts of the house for me to take care of. But making sure the house is clean she still considers her responsibility. She decides when it will be done, and I better jump in and do my part when she decides its time.

I think you're all taking what is a traditional wife completely the wrong way, based on a few idiots that think having a traditional wife means they can sit on their butt. A true traditional wife needs a true traditional husband and that means they both work together to balance getting things done. They both show high levels of respecting each other, and giving 100 percent consideration to their partner in everything they do, and every decision they make. There is no sitting on your butt issuing orders on either side of the traditional relationship.

Sorry, my sarcasm font must be missing on my computer today. I was taking that as serious. I have met a few of those, although I usually just call them azzholes.

Wrong end of the stick. I was referring to the term, not the person.

[N-o-l-a 7,168]

I just had 2 very rare steaks for dinner. Yummy.

[kitthekat 1,317]

end of the day could not come sooner today.

also, aaawww https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GU417HvFGXo