Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Hold your skirts ladies....

Work Story # 19

I was talking to one of the female teachers today.  She was telling me that last year she was walking to her car in the staff parking lot, and the wind flipped her skirt up.  He happened to be walking by and said to her, "Hey it's a good thing I'm a leg man."

My internal dialogue at the moment I heard this story:  How has this man seriously never been sued?  Are you kidding me?!  Who says that!!!


Saturday, October 4, 2008

Oh don't worry... I don't have to catch a flight today!

Work Story # 18

Yesterday I had to leave work early at 1:15pm to catch a flight.  I had 4 days worth of work to finish before I left!  I had a stack of papers that he needed to sign before I left, so I called him into my office and said I only have 3 minutes to get this all done, and I've got to go, or I'm going to miss my flight!  He, instead of immediately signing the papers, sat down in the chair, leaned back and began talking about how much he loves traveling!  

My internal dialogue at the moment:  Are you kidding me?  I'm over here shaking from working so hard to finish everything, and I don't CARE if you like San Francisico!  I want you to sign the freaking papers so I can catch my flight!!!  CLUELESS!!

Saturday, September 20, 2008

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!

Friday, September 5, 2008

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.

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

The left hand turn....

Work Story # 13

He was talking to a teacher about making a left hand turn at a busy intersection near the school. He said "I'm always patient and wait before I turn there."  The teacher said, "I just never try to turn there" and  he said, "Yeah, me neither." 

My internal dialogue at the moment: Hilarious!  So, just so I can clarify...  have you, or have you not, made left hand turn there?