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Posts posted by UpperWestside
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1 hour ago, Cheeseweasel said:
Awesome. How is that Man from Nantucket doing these days?
Ha. I thought about using that one, but these kids would look at me cross-eyes. I made up one that started out talking about the Heights and some of them followed it really well because it was more recognizable to them using the neighborhood.
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Yesterday I presented a limerick to the class during ELA. I don’t think any of them had ever heard of this style of poem before. I wrote my own example of a limerick on the worksheet. I had some really interesting submissions which was awesome to see for a first try at it.
One student, who read the directions literally copied my exact poem because I said to use the example to see how to write a limerick. Stuff like that actually makes the day enjoyable and reminds me how differently kids see and read things at times.
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18 minutes ago, slorch said:
I’ve dealt with any number of stupid things and decisions by employees through the years. I get paid not to hang up on them, thus, my initial comment that I gave them a much nicer response than they deserved. They do shit all the time that I don’t like on a personal level. This shit is just so frustrating.
Oh I completely understood your initial post and giving a nicer response than the situation deserved. The frustration level is through the roof all across the country because of this. The solution is so simple, but propaganda is hard to overcome.
I went to work this morning and saw several people reassigned to different classrooms due to the anti- vaxxers being unemployed as of today. One teacher that is also from Texas was happy to see it happen. She said her classroom was better overall today.
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49 minutes ago, slorch said:
Had employee call me this morning all (allegedly) disappointed because they tested positive for Covid yesterday. In nicer terms, I reminded him, "Hey motherfucker, remeber last week when you were laughing about not getting the shot?"
I don't wish him harm or bad health. It's just so fucking stupid...and preventable. Frustrated as fuck about repeated FAAFO by these clowns, and by that I mean them getting Covid, not dying.
I think I would’ve just said “okay, cool” and hung up. I would not spend even one moment of a day dealing with anyone who still will not get onboard with the changes that are necessary to be a functioning part of society. I would wish them well and just go on about my day. What a time to be alive this is turning out to be.
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1 hour ago, PenelopeWitherspoon said:
And let's be clear, when they say disenfranchised, they mean not allowed to go to concerts, restaurants etc....
I have zero sympathy to offer to anyone not wanting to get a vaccination. The New York anti-vaxxers can go hangout with their spiritual leader, Kyrie “The Flat Earther” Irving, and enjoy not being able to live a normal existence in society because they WILLINGLY CHOOSE TO NOT GET VACCINATED. You mess around you eventually find out. Covid does not care what your skin color is or your place in society. Either do the right thing for the greater good of society or sit at home and be angry.
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15 hours ago, Js1 said:
What a boss
Cap is always spreading good knowledge when he speaks publicly. It’s a shame that the guy he is pointing the finger at won’t be more vocal about COVID.
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This week presents the possibility here in NYC that we will be without teachers and other school personnel due to not being vaccinated. Although there is a temporary injunction to keep everyone employed I expect the mandate to be put into effect sometime this week.
The losers here are the students. We have had a shortage of paraprofessionals due to lack of being vaccinated. I am the special education teacher for the elementary school classroom I am in up in Washington Heights and this class has two of the six children in our school (K-5) who are autistic. We have no para for either of these two students thanks to selfish behavior from adults who refuse to get vaccinated. I gave a reading assessment on Thursday and Friday and would have liked to have been able to take the two autistic students aside and worked with them on something separate from the rest of the class or been able to give a para something separate so I can better see where they are at in this area. Again thanks to adults making selfish decisions on vitally important vaccination requirements these two awesome young boys are starting to fall behind. My co-teacher and I are going to just have to take on their job as well and find ways to get them the individual attention they deserve. It’s one thing to be selfish, but it’s another when your decisions are now affecting kids who already have some socio-emotional issues due to missing about a year and a half of development in that area as well. We have got to quit caring so much about only ourselves and realize we live in a society. When you are part of a society you should be doing what is in the best interests of everyone and not what we are currently seeing instead.
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3 hours ago, VirginiaLonghorn said:
That was just amazing. Clarkson definitely took that really well.
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5 hours ago, WhatTheBuck said:
Just heard on the radio that flat-earther Kyrie Irving refuses to get vaccinated.
https://sports.yahoo.com/kyrie-irving-reportedly-unvaccinated-could-212035968.html
All I am doing is laughing right now. Kyrie is that person who not only thinks they are the smartest person in the room, but can’t wait to also tell you that they are. Ban him too if he doesn’t want to do the right thing.
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7 minutes ago, Kermit said:
Fuck Andrew Wiggins.
It is astounding that people can have access to more pertinent information than at any point in human history and yet there are still people like this living amongst us. The Warriors aren’t winning anything with him. I would terminate the contract and let this play out in the courts. This is just absurdly selfish and cowardly behavior.
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35 minutes ago, Your Mom said:
It will be spun. Hell it already is being spun. The focus is turning to addresses, people voting in the wrong counties, etc... The people who wanted there to be fraud aren't simply going to change their minds over these results. They'll just move the goalposts and continue blabbering on like idiots about some other circumstantial bullshit that they think proves widespread fraud. We're not done hearing about it.
I am done hearing about it. I was done hearing about it once the election was called for Joe Biden.
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15 hours ago, ROFL BOX said:
@Spider2YBanana, when I was little (up until maybe age 12 or so), ...example here... if i was to drop something on the floor & saw the route that it bounced or fell, I would have to return it back in reverse for the same route it went down. Example: bump a piece of paper & it rolled through one chair leg. I couldn't just pick it up, I had to send it back on the exact same way it went down.
You're not alone.
I identify with this as well although I am better about it as an adult. I had no idea why I did it as a child, but now that I know it is part of being autistic (not for everyone, but just my own reason why) it makes sense why I did this as a kid. My brother even remembered specific examples of me doing things like what you mentioned when we were kids.
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2 hours ago, Spider2YBanana said:
I decided to venture past the sports part and saw this. I actually suffer from OCD (legit OCD) and I was wondering if anyone else suffers the same? Mine is numbers and having to turn shit on and off repeatedly until it "feels right". I've suffered since my childhood and nothing works. No medication, etc. It causes me to have chronic insomnia, worrying constantly, obsessing over death, and really just a myriad of other shit that's too much to type. My BIL just passed away on Tues from COVID at the age of 40, and I feel like I'm falling apart mentally. Sorry for laying this shit on you guys.
You came to the right place and I am very sorry to hear about what has happened. Process this how you feel is best and if part of it involves sharing more here then do it and know you are not burdening anyone here. There are plenty of good listeners here that will read anything you write. The more you let out here or elsewhere the less burdened you will feel in what is an extremely emotional time in your life.
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This is something that made my week and it was pretty cool to watch. The school I teach at has six students that are confirmed as being autistic. Two of them are in my class. It was my birthday this week and one of them gets up while we are doing some class work and comes over to my desk. Before I can say anything he sings Happy Birthday to me. He also made me a birthday card as well. Those little things like that just make life so much better.
He also wished me a Happy Taco Tuesday as well. How do you not have a great day when a 9 year old says that to you?!?!
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23 minutes ago, JimmyJames said:
When I look back at my childhood I realize the TV shoes I watched the most by far were the dukes of hazard, scooby doo, and the smurfs.
My God tv sucked back in the 80s.
I was just wearing a Scooby Doo shirt so this hits close to home.
Thank you also for now getting the Smurfs song stuck in my head.
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Texit
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When I went to my hometown in Texas last month I saw people with "Texas Secede" shirts on. I saw more Duck Dynasty beards at the weekly Cornball League (The state champion is from my hometown and I grew up with him. I don't think he cares one iota about politics, at all. He can BBQ and grill some amazing food though.) than I have seen in the rest of my life combined and I had a friend who had a pistol above his fireplace that I am hoping was just a gift and not something he had made himself. I had a BLM hat that I wear often that I was advised by a good friend to put away or it would cause a fight. I was not there for any of that so I just put on my Yankees hat.
These people are grossly misinformed and are swimming in a sea of lies filled with grifters. I had not been home to visit, other than for my aunt's funeral in January, in almost 5 years. I cannot believe what I witnessed. That shirt though was just the height for me of how off things are there.
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9 hours ago, slorch said:
This seems trivial AF to me and if it is, please just have admins delete the post, and it's totally cool. Don't want to disrupt the flow of this thread, but I think this applies. I want to talk about something that I have been dealing with.
First off, I grew up extremely poor. Suddenly single mom in the 80's, with 3 kids, of whom I was the youngest. We seemingly always had enough to eat, but a lot of it was literally gov't cheese and the commodities they gave out at the time. There were many, many times where the end of the month was rice...or beans, but not both. We rationed that shit out just to make it. My clothes were mostly hand me-downs or donations. Caught a lot of shit at school because of it. I always hated it, even though I had friends because of sports and at church- I felt like I didn't have a chance with some people because of it, which I learned later in life was actually a benefit.
Joined the Marine Corps because I knew I couldn't afford college, even back then. Came back, went to school, got a job with a great company. Started putting in work and growing my career. 30 years later, we have no unreasonable financial risk. Much in the way Bodhi was never going back to prison, I have vowed to never face financial hardship remotely approaching what I lived as a child. So far, mission accomplished. We have a sound financial plan and I have worked my ass off to make sure we are there.
Howevah... the enticement of big, fuck you money has always appealed to me, and maybe it was in the past 5-6 years or so that I realized, yeah, I'm never going to earn "fuck you' money straight up. Hey, what if I won $1,000,000 on this lottery ticket? On the $50 tickets, it can be $10million. It could happen to me!!!!!!!!!!!
Well, I know you're on the edge of your seat; but let me just say it didn't happen. I was buying up to $1000/month in the worst times of something even I called "The idiot tax." There were literally no current scratchoffs in any denomination that I had not played. $10-$20-$50 a pop- didn't matter. I knew it was stupid. I knew it wasn't going to work, but hey, lightning can strike, right? So, $250 a week isn't that hard to hide, especially with travel for work/ meals/ transportation. I know how to build a 'run-rate' from work. I'm not a drugs/ whores kind of guy, so the wife wasn't worried about that front. The thing that stood out to her was anytime we rode somewhere in my truck, she'd comment about all of the dust, or little shavings from the scratchers that would go in the cracks and crevasses. She didn't ride my ass, but it was more like, WTF are you doing still buying scratch-offs?
September 1, I stopped and I haven't told anyone. Keep in mind, I work in the food/grocery industry, so I am constantly around the machines and customers who buy them. It's like an alcoholic who works in nothing but clubs and bars. I have felt shame. I have felt disappointment. I just finally decided enough is enough. Fuck this stupid shit. Yesterday morning, I was gassing up to go out of town. I go in and buy a soda for the road and see a new $10 and new $20 ticket in the case. I was waiting for this day...to see new releases, that before my decision would drive my buying. New games were fun and exciting, but seeing these made me say say, "Fuck yeah, there are 2 games I haven't bought in that whole damned case." It was like seeing progress. I felt good about it.
The other thing is that I am letting that money that I was blowing filter back into our accounts. Wife is going to eventually ask, "Where's this extra money coming from?" I am so fucking blessed with regard to my job/ income. Something in my head kept trying to convince me it wasn't enough. Maybe I wasn't enough... The lottery is the solution. LOFL. Holy fuck, it still seems dumb as hell, but hey, let's talk about it on a message board. It's the weirdly cathartic surly experience. Anyhoo, thanks for letting me share this. I'm probably handling it all wrong too. Maximum vulnerability on this thread.
As others have said there is zero that is trivial about this. This is what this thread is for. You open yourself up and share things like this. You ought to be proud of yourself for saying enough is enough. The people who read this thread are here to listen and help. We all share our setbacks as well as successes because as you said this is cathartic.
Please keep sharing things here. No one is going to shame you or make fun of you. We all have demons and you are confronting yours head on. That is pretty freaking cool man.
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2 hours ago, YChang said:
Please tell me you break into hip-hop and song with well choreographed dances while you’re teaching throughout the day.
Honest to God I am trying to figure out something to do along those lines as far as dancing. It’ll probably be sometime in November before I attempt it.
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On 9/6/2021 at 6:54 PM, Bozo_Casanova said:
One of my junior reps lives in New Orleans, and is currently staying with friends in another state because of the hurricane. He and his live-in, long term GF were in the process of breaking up, and are now stuck together. Maybe they are working it out and maybe not. It’s a very tough time for them both.
At any rate, he’s doing a great job and we’ve decided not to hire a more senior rep, and instead to promote him into the job. We also (after some hard conversations with HR) decided to pay him at the market rate like we had hired him externally instead of punishing him for developing too fast.
so I got to call him today and tell him that his variable pay is increasing by 25% and his base pay is increasing by 50%. Effective today.
He started crying. Feels good, man. I’m fucked up in a lot of ways but I’m a good boss, a good father and a good friend, and I need to create more opportunities to create joy and growth for others.
This is such a cool thing to read today! We need more bosses like yourself out there. You did real good here man.
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Thursday was the first day of school and it was my first as a teacher. I have a class of 25 students. It’s 4th grade and I am the special education teacher for the class. I have a really good general education teacher to work with that is helping me learn everything I need to know along the way. I also found that teacher voice fairly quickly which was cool.
I never would have thought I would ever enter the teaching profession after I decided to stop pursuing it years ago due to a family illness. I feel at home teaching ELA and attempting to impart a love of reading onto these students in Washington Heights. I think I have a really good support system of teachers I had that are giving me advice as well as some advisors I have. When you find the thing that fulfills you it makes life feel so much different. Having a clear purpose in life is a blessing and I can only hope everyone else in this thread will find their own if you have not already done so.
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4 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:
Assume the opposite to be true of what he said.
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10 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:
White people fuck up eveeything
I have said something similar to this for a long time in regards to a plethora of things. White people just can’t leave well enough alone.
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I had a great time in Oahu. I was able to hangout with a classmate that was in my 1st grade class. He has been in Hawaii for 22 years and loves it. His family was really cool and he was selling me on the idea of eventually moving there. I could definitely do it and be okay being that far away from the mainland. I was able to surf on the North Shore and among other things I got to free swim with some sharks. It was pretty cool having them come within three feet or so and seeing them up close while swimming. We saw a Galapagos shark, sand shark and a hammerhead which apparently can be difficult to see regularly as they don’t come around as often.
The locals were pretty friendly and the vibe of Oahu was something I really enjoyed. I want to get a lot better at surfing and I can’t think of many better places to be able to do that. I will be going back and will probably live there at some point. My profession also makes it easier for me to work there because there are a lack of teachers, especially ones that teach special education.
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Rando fireworks near Lakeway on 10-4-2021
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I think the last random fireworks I heard here in East Harlem were in late August. Summertime at night is not a good time to be a dog here.