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Cambion
I didn't want to start a whole new topic for this since it's related to work, but holyshit I wanted to puke when I saw just how much food gets wasted in the cafeteria every day. I mean, I knew kids were wasteful little shitsacks, but I didn't know it was to the extent I've seen.
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Re: How to deal with child-centric job when you hate kids October 28, 2015 | Registered: 13 years ago Posts: 1,735 |
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Cambion
I didn't want to start a whole new topic for this since it's related to work, but holyshit I wanted to puke when I saw just how much food gets wasted in the cafeteria every day. I mean, I knew kids were wasteful little shitsacks, but I didn't know it was to the extent I've seen.
On multiple occasions, I have seen kids throw away untouched portions of their food (usually fruit), and on just as many occasions, I have seen other kids throw away their ENTIRE uneaten lunches. I don't know if that was because they packed a lunch that day, they felt sick or something else, but earlier this week, I watched a kid dump his lunch in its entirety in the trash. None of it had been touched or opened - everything, including an unopened carton of milk - went in the garbage. The usual thing is the students will get a normal lunch with all the fixins, pick at a tiny part of it (like eat the meat off a sandwich) and throw away everything else. So why take it if you aren't gonna eat it?! Are they required to take the bowls of fruit and vegetables?
Re: How to deal with child-centric job when you hate kids October 28, 2015 | Registered: 18 years ago Posts: 9,992 |
Re: How to deal with child-centric job when you hate kids October 29, 2015 | Registered: 13 years ago Posts: 1,603 |
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Cambion
I didn't want to start a whole new topic for this since it's related to work, but holyshit I wanted to puke when I saw just how much food gets wasted in the cafeteria every day. I mean, I knew kids were wasteful little shitsacks, but I didn't know it was to the extent I've seen.
My mother is bothered by that quite a bit at her school as well. She collects the leftovers and uses them as chicken feed. It wouldn't be allowed commercially or for the school to have chickens, but private people can always take it. I hear some schools have community gardens and maybe they could at least use that for compost.
Large-scale feeding is always going to have some waste due to inaccurate prediction, and little kids are especially bad about sitting down and eating and from what I've observed they always waste a lot (hence breeders talking about eating leftovers from their children's plates) but the schools could probably reduce this problem by serving small portions and then allowing seconds if the first food has been eaten. I don't know why kids need some nutritionally complete warm lunch when I got by with sandwiches and carrot sticks. I remember Kim's rants about what the little porkers in her district receive and it sounded unbelievable.
Re: How to deal with child-centric job when you hate kids October 30, 2015 | Registered: 12 years ago Posts: 1,788 |
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mrs. chinaski
I think that it is also about Cambion's preferences -
what she REALLY wants.
Sometimes, the options available just don't match your personality
f.e. you cannot join military when you are some
kind of hippie "make love not war" person.
Re: How to deal with child-centric job when you hate kids October 31, 2015 | Registered: 13 years ago Posts: 12,045 |
Re: How to deal with child-centric job when you hate kids October 31, 2015 | Registered: 13 years ago Posts: 1,735 |
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Miss_Hannigan
Well, your name IS "evilchildlessbitch", after all!
We all have different skills, backgrounds and personal issues that can get in the way of progress. What's important is that Cambion is taking steps to move ahead, and is using this board to blow off steam from the frustration of working with children. She's not begging us for cash or looking for pity so where's the harm. I think you're more upset that she's not doing exactly what you're telling her to do, and that's your issue, not hers. Surely you're experienced enough to know that you can't change people's behavior.
BTW Cambion, I second the recommendation for drugs to help you endure the workplace. (Just not illegal stuff because you never know when you'll have to take a drug test.) I like Xanax, it softens reality enough that you can get through the workday without crying or choking somebody. And if you have no access to drugs, booze is still legal and here's how to use it while on the clock. For the majority of us, the work world is an understaffed, broken nightmare that you survive for eight hours a day just so you can enjoy your other sixteen, so there's no shame in medicating.
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Re: How to deal with child-centric job when you hate kids November 02, 2015 | Registered: 13 years ago Posts: 5,716 |
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Miss_Hannigan
Well, your name IS "evilchildlessbitch", after all!
We all have different skills, backgrounds and personal issues that can get in the way of progress. What's important is that Cambion is taking steps to move ahead, and is using this board to blow off steam from the frustration of working with children. She's not begging us for cash or looking for pity so where's the harm. I think you're more upset that she's not doing exactly what you're telling her to do, and that's your issue, not hers. Surely you're experienced enough to know that you can't change people's behavior.
BTW Cambion, I second the recommendation for drugs to help you endure the workplace. (Just not illegal stuff because you never know when you'll have to take a drug test.) I like Xanax, it softens reality enough that you can get through the workday without crying or choking somebody. And if you have no access to drugs, booze is still legal and here's how to use it while on the clock. For the majority of us, the work world is an understaffed, broken nightmare that you survive for eight hours a day just so you can enjoy your other sixteen, so there's no shame in medicating.
Re: How to deal with child-centric job when you hate kids November 02, 2015 | Registered: 9 years ago Posts: 951 |
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Re: How to deal with child-centric job when you hate kids November 02, 2015 | Registered: 13 years ago Posts: 2,975 |
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Cambion
Just because someone applies for a job at a school does not mean they automatically know how to deal with kids. That's what training is for. I understand that teachers will most likely be equipped with the skills needed to manage classes, but supporting staff may not have those same skills, especially when previous experience working with kids isn't even a requirement (and apparently not even a preference, as evidenced by me being hired at all). At best, the school's inability to train me (or any supporting staff) on all aspects of the job is lazy, and at worst, it's irresponsible. But boy, they're sure ready to bitch in my ear about what a useless employee I am for not magically learning the child interaction half of the job overnight.
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