Release Valve

Teacher...home sick. I have a folder in the main office containing 10 days worth of emergency lesson. I tell them to use them. STILL...I get a text asking what assignment my other class should be doing. The same assignment, from the emergency folder! It makes me wonder about the day when they came to me and asked me to come up with some assignment for the other teacher who had been out sick. Had they even bothered to check that teacher's emergency folder or did that teacher not have one? In nother countries, I believe this would be illegal, to contact people when they're sick at home. I don't even like that my coworkers have my phone number to be able to text me I was just such a cultural thing at this school that I gave in and gave it to them.

Reminder to self... don't let your employees run a con on you. Don't be dumb.

I can't be a did person. I can only be me. I'm being pushed to be different and to push my employees to work faster, and faster, but quality is suffering. We need to slow down. The boss wants to know why we have to go so slow. Because they aren't you, and neither am I. I need to reexhbit control over my position.

I AM good at my job. I am not perfect, but that's okay. It is also okay to change some of how I do things and it is okay to defend things that shouldn't be changed. I fear because I have to be rehired every year. My job is not guaranteed. I don't like constant monitoring, but I failed enough that now I am monitored constantly. They talked about me for 10 minutes with bigwigs and I don't know why. That sucks. Why did I fail? I lost ten days of work due to medical issues and 10 days due to weather and 2 days to meetings and side duties that are not my main job....22 days of work to catch up on, so I'm behind and look like a failure. I'm good at my job, not perfect, but good, but am I good enough to keep my job despite not being able to keep up due to things out of my control?

Greystar Avana Apartments Do you feel you are being undercharged fees? Move here! Our base rent is only the start! To ensure we take as much of your paycheck as possible we: pick up the trash from your door for the low, low price of $1 a day, sorry, you can not opt out. Parking spots? another $30 per month, isn't that cheap? Pets are welcome...rates...$300 registration fee per pet, $25 per year per website registration fee, $25 per month, and, if you fail to pick up your dog's poop, we will send it off for DNA testing, at your expense, so we can confirm which owner to charge for failure to clean, per your contract. But wait, there's more! We charge $5 per month for ineffective pest control, due to wide gaps under doors allowing roaches to walk in. Water and sewer, why pay for just your use? We take the whole water bill and divide it up evenly, even to those with out washing machines, fair, right? Just a low $80-90 a month? Afterall, it is quite reasonable to pay more for these than your friends and family with more household members and a house of their own. We're not done yet! For your convenience, we have removed the ability to pay by check, making it so you must pay on our app for the low admin fee of $7 per month. So if you want to pay more than our ass we cost, come on down to pay, on average $200 a month extra for rent. P.S. the pool and hot tub close at dusk, 10 minutes after you get home from work and we have given up on fixing the gate...drunk drivers broke it monthly until we decided to stop fixing it

There should be a federal law that for every dollar we send to help people in other countries it must be, at the very least, tied to a bill that puts at LEAST equal funding to help those in America. I'm frustrated with our tax dollars nonchalantly being spent by the billions on wars elsewhere, but never funding for roads, teachers or health care here. Fund America.

I’m tired. I tried something new and stumbled upon some speed-bumps today, which was cumbersome to deal with since I couldn’t pause and fox them at that moment, due to clients on a schedule. I fixed it later, but I keep working free over time, because there isn’t enough time to do everything. I’m behind schedule. I’m homesick, but home is really far away and we don’t have the time/money to go right now. Why don’t we have the money? Well, thank the god of finance that where I work does do an ‘inflation increase’ each year, BUT, in 15 years, only one or two of those years did the increase in pay cover the increase in rent/insurance premium inflation. The rest of the time, the pay increase fell short. It’s a government job, so the public has a say in our salary. If they vote that they dislike paying extra taxes for my job, then my pay will DECREASE $7,000 next year! Plus, the insurance is shit. High premiums; minimal coverage. Some may say, “such is life in the U.S.A.”, and I don’t deny it is a shit system, but I also know that comparable jobs have MUCH better insurance for lower prices. This year alone, we’ve had to pay $13,700 out of pocket for services, because certain services aren’t covered and don’t count towards the exceedingly high deductible. I’ve been with the company for 15 years. It requires a Bachelors degree. I make $2,300 more than newly hired employees. That’s it. 15 years a service has equated to an approximate raise increase of 10c per hour. And as I’ve said, the pay increases, at most, have just barely covered increases in rent and insurance. Everything else has increased too. So effectively, I make less now than when I was hired. Rent on 1 bedrooms in this area has jumped from $800 to $1,600 in just 11 years. Pay did not increase 50%. They owe us more. I like my job. I hate the pay. We shouldn’t have to be worried about basic survival if we dare to add the expense of a child. I fear loud, idiots and zealots will make our world worse. Despite the complaint list. I do have helpful people in my life, those I love, and enough free time to vent about all this. I hope it helps to put it out into the void

Rent is Insane! I haven’t moved in 10 years, due to not having enough savings to buy, moving is expensive, and rent everywhere else increased too. It has gone from $800 to $1425 in 10 years, a 75% increase. My pay isn’t increasing that fast. Who’s is? No one.

I hate that how I feel successful or unsuccessful about my job depends on the actions and behaviors of others that when they don't behave or act appropriately that I feel responsible for them not doing what they should do even though they're the ones that are making those poor choices and it's frustrating when ones that should be doing well do less well than they should and I need to learn to know when that is on me and when that is on them and to let it go and know they are responsible for them and I can only do so much.

Hush. That was the meeting I was ordered to give to my employees. Remind them that they should trust authority figures and ONLY share information about violent threats to those authority figures. Don't tell your fellow employees they might be in danger. I'm sorry, what!!!???? Why!!!??? I'm guessing it is to protect their reputation and to keep everyone showing up to work. It certainly isn't to protect us. If it hadn't been for rumors from my employees I wouldn't have been even slightly aware that my life could be in danger. The higher ups put nothing in writing and held no meetings to inform us of the threat. All they did was order us to hold a meeting with the provided PPT telling our employees to report to authority figures and to not spread rumors to anyone else. Sorry, I rather your reputation go down and you struggle with a low work force until people feel safe to work return rather than any of us risk our lives due to your insistence that the threats are unsubstantiated. I know the things you turn a blind eye to. Why should I trust your word on this.