how many states are in the US?

Work story # 17

He was talking to me about how it's not fair that AZ has reciprocity with 16 states for fingerprint clearance cards and how one of our teachers cannot start teaching yet, because his fingerprints were cleared from 1 of the states that AZ doesn't recognize... He said to me, "I just don't understand why we have reciprocity with 16 states and don't recognize the other 16."  

Internal dialogue at the moment: Hmm... since when has the US only had 32 states?  

wow, that's a lot of people!

Work story # 16

We have something called "Opening Day" that the school district holds at the beginning of the year.   EVERY staff member from EVERY school in the district comes together for a pep rally sort of event to get everyone excited about the new school year.  We have 4 schools, with approximately 200 employees per school, which would be a total of 800 employees.  He said to a teacher, "I don't know how we're all going to fit in that ballroom at the hotel.  There will be at least 5,000 employees there."

My internal dialogue at the moment: Wow, 5,000 huh?  Apparently math is not your forte!

But I don't want to lose my job....

Work Story # 15

He was telling me about a quiz  that one of the Administrators put together for all of the students during the 1st day of school.  The quiz contains questions about the student handbook.  He said, "I think it's a really great quiz.  I just hope the kids don't think that if they fail the quiz, they'll lose their JOB." 

My internal dialogue at the moment: hmmm... I didn't know kids could lose their JOB by failing a quiz they took at school about the student handbook!

e-mails....

Work story # 14

He reprimanded a teacher in an e-mail that he had carbon copied ALL of Administrators in the WHOLE district!  

Internal dialogue at the moment:  Well, that's one way to piss off a teacher.