RANTING/VENTING MEGATHREAD 3.0

Oh my god. I'm gonna snap. It is a real pet peeve that people here have no regard for conserving energy. The aircon in our office is making the room nice and cool. Some bitch comes in, opens the door, turns on the fan, then proceeds to sit down and eat her stankin ass kimchi while the aircon is still running.

Unfortunately billions of people are also not using power very smartly. Know that as we speak there are huge numbers of people with their windows down blasting the AC in their cars, schools, stores, etc. I'm quite a pessimist, with some realism thrown in.

Hah, so this flyer thing isn't really a unique situation for me, is it? xD

Yeah, the flyer I taped down in front of his place is still there, but he's taken down another advert and tossed it on the floor in front of my door.

Seriously, the guy's an asshole. Maybe I should do what lifeisgood did. xD

This guy's behavior is just bizarre, but I guess not uncommon. Why would someone do this in the first place?

I keep asking myself the same thing, it really doesn't require that much more energy to carry the flyer in with him. He walks right into his kitchen where most people keep a garbage bag/can. Honestly, he's expelling a lot of effort just to be an asshole.

Also possible that in his head he feels like he shouldn't have to throw away something he never asked for to begin with... but then why force it on someone else who has nothing to do with it, lol? That includes the building super who comes in once a week and has to clean up any messes left by asshole tenants.

One guy leaves his used cigarette ash and butts in the indoor stairwell. Smoking isn't allowed in my building but someone's been doing it. A sneaky smoker doesn't really surprise me... but flicking your ashes and used butts on the floor? Who ****** does that? Landlord put up signs "reminding" tenants that smoking isn't permitted in the building and that all tenants are responsible for cleaning up for themselves, lol. It stopped the habit for a while, but it started back up again a few months later -- just not as frequent. Really wouldn't surprise me if this were also my neighbor, but I have no way of knowing. xD

I can't even believe the schooling system here sometimes. Working at a high school, in charge of my own grades and all that. One student came up to me to try and change his failing grade... for all 6 semesters of his high school career. The previous teacher failed him because he never showed up to class, I failed him for 2 years because he never showed up to class. He brought his friend to talk to me to ask for passing grades. I tell him he has to do some work, like anyone else that fails. I start giving him his assignments, one small task for every semester, and he starts complaining that it's too hard and please teacher-ing me. HE THEN TRIES TO BRIBE ME.

"But teacher I have a lot of money..."

Oh my god. I'm gonna snap. It is a real pet peeve that people here have no regard for conserving energy. The aircon in our office is making the room nice and cool. Some bitch comes in, opens the door, turns on the fan, then proceeds to sit down and eat her stankin ass kimchi while the aircon is still running.

Unfortunately billions of people are also not using power very smartly. Know that as we speak there are huge numbers of people with their windows down blasting the AC in their cars, schools, stores, etc. I'm quite a pessimist, with some realism thrown in.

You guys are funny.

I have worked in 20+ schools in my time here, and everyone uses AC the same way...with open windows ;)

Go figure.

And to be fair, AC is a recent phenomena in public schools, so count your blessings.  You could be fan only or nothing at all.

Eating that cereal this morning instead of last night's leftover steak was a mistake. I'm so hungry that I feel like I could resort to cannibalism right now.

Why did I do it? 

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Eating that cereal this morning instead of last night's leftover steak was a mistake. I'm so hungry that I feel like I could resort to cannibalism right now.

Why did I do it? 

PSA: What you are feeling is NOT hunger.  What you are feeling is sugar withdrawals.

Not semantics, but it is a physiological/chemical/??? difference with what is actually happening in your body.

True hunger takes weeks to kick in and it happens in your throat, not your stomach.

Eating that cereal this morning instead of last night's leftover steak was a mistake. I'm so hungry that I feel like I could resort to cannibalism right now.

Why did I do it? 

PSA: What you are feeling is NOT hunger.  What you are feeling is sugar withdrawals.

Not semantics, but it is a physiological/chemical/??? difference with what is actually happening in your body.

True hunger takes weeks to kick in and it happens in your throat, not your stomach.

omg stahp

Unless you give me some protein to help alleviate my "sugar withdrawal" pains because I ran out of my mixed nuts last week and haven't bothered to restock them yet for these in-between meal pangs.

I'm seriously going to eat everything at lunch today. Everything. I don't give a fk what it is.

I can't even believe the schooling system here sometimes. Working at a high school, in charge of my own grades and all that. One student came up to me to try and change his failing grade... for all 6 semesters of his high school career. The previous teacher failed him because he never showed up to class, I failed him for 2 years because he never showed up to class. He brought his friend to talk to me to ask for passing grades. I tell him he has to do some work, like anyone else that fails. I start giving him his assignments, one small task for every semester, and he starts complaining that it's too hard and please teacher-ing me. HE THEN TRIES TO BRIBE ME.

"But teacher I have a lot of money..."

This kid is going places, really. No sarcasm.

HE THEN TRIES TO BRIBE ME.

"But teacher I have a lot of money..."

Define "a lot"?

I would give him credit for shamelessness and honesty. Better than some sob story.

My Co-Teacher is giving the grade 5 class all the answers and prompts for the open class that we will have after lunch.

Last week, I had my students write a little skit from dialog I provided them. I encouraged them to be creative and write down their lines so they don't remember. Came into class today and started handing back scripts, and it turns out the students are not sitting with the same people. Instead of everyone going back to their groups, my COT just says to give them a random script to perform.

WTF. That defeats the whole purpose of them working together last week to come up with lines.

Eating that cereal this morning instead of last night's leftover steak was a mistake. I'm so hungry that I feel like I could resort to cannibalism right now.

Why did I do it? 

PSA: What you are feeling is NOT hunger.  What you are feeling is sugar withdrawals.

Not semantics, but it is a physiological/chemical/??? difference with what is actually happening in your body.

True hunger takes weeks to kick in and it happens in your throat, not your stomach.

This is it. This is the most Pecan post ever made by Waygook.org user Pecan.

I'm so #blessed that I was able to see it.

Not sure what that even means, but thanks, I guess ;)

Eating that cereal this morning instead of last night's leftover steak was a mistake. I'm so hungry that I feel like I could resort to cannibalism right now.

Why did I do it? 

PSA: What you are feeling is NOT hunger.  What you are feeling is sugar withdrawals.

Not semantics, but it is a physiological/chemical/??? difference with what is actually happening in your body.

True hunger takes weeks to kick in and it happens in your throat, not your stomach.

This is it. This is the most Pecan post ever made by Waygook.org user Pecan.

I'm so #blessed that I was able to see it.

  We shall all share a moment of silence 

I can't even believe the schooling system here sometimes. Working at a high school, in charge of my own grades and all that. One student came up to me to try and change his failing grade... for all 6 semesters of his high school career. The previous teacher failed him because he never showed up to class, I failed him for 2 years because he never showed up to class. He brought his friend to talk to me to ask for passing grades. I tell him he has to do some work, like anyone else that fails. I start giving him his assignments, one small task for every semester, and he starts complaining that it's too hard and please teacher-ing me. HE THEN TRIES TO BRIBE ME.

"But teacher I have a lot of money..."

This kid is going places, really. No sarcasm.

Yeah, probably so.  Makes me wonder if he will just get a classmate to do the assignments for him (probably).

Am I the only one whose school shuts all the windows and doors when turning on the AC?  It's like an icebox in here.  I had to go get a jacket. 

Eating that cereal this morning instead of last night's leftover steak was a mistake. I'm so hungry that I feel like I could resort to cannibalism right now.

Why did I do it? 

PSA: What you are feeling is NOT hunger.  What you are feeling is sugar withdrawals.

Not semantics, but it is a physiological/chemical/??? difference with what is actually happening in your body.

True hunger takes weeks to kick in and it happens in your throat, not your stomach.

PSA: You're not overly bright.

Am I the only one whose school shuts all the windows and doors when turning on the AC?  It's like an icebox in here.  I had to go get a jacket.

My schools do the same. Class is paused so that the students can close the windows. I prefer the cold over the heat though so I don't mind it freezing in the rooms. 

Not sure this belongs in the rant thread, but I feel really sick about what just happened right outside our school...

Domino's driver, I think he's dead.

The thing is/ he was "wearing" his helmet, but he wasn't "wearing" his helmet.

I see it too often.

They put it on, but they don't strap it/"clip" the strap!!!  Why?

Is it just law to put the helmet on, but you don't have to fasten it?

How in the heck is the helmet going to protect you without it being strapped on?

Your chances of survival are pretty low to begin with, but you are pretty much guaranteed to be a vegetable, if you happen to survive, as that helmet is going to go flying off, as it did to the poor Domino's kid.

Eating that cereal this morning instead of last night's leftover steak was a mistake. I'm so hungry that I feel like I could resort to cannibalism right now.

Why did I do it? 

PSA: What you are feeling is NOT hunger.  What you are feeling is sugar withdrawals.

Not semantics, but it is a physiological/chemical/??? difference with what is actually happening in your body.

True hunger takes weeks to kick in and it happens in your throat, not your stomach.

This is it. This is the most Pecan post ever made by Waygook.org user Pecan.

I'm so #blessed that I was able to see it.

Not sure what that even means, but thanks, I guess ;)

Whoosh

I tried to comment earlier, but I couldn't. It was truly bizarre. My waygook, open in chrome, told me I had been banned, and yet I could login on my phone and on IE. Had to clear all history for today on my chrome before it worked again. For a short time there though, I was completely panic stricken.