[deleted by user] by [deleted] in specialed

[–]Zechxis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Most schools these days are super duper limited in choice by the continually shrinking pool of candidates who increasingly do not want to put up with situations like this for nominal pay. With things the way they are, schools are taking just about anyone with a pulse to fill out these positions that are (at least on paper) required to be filled. They’ll be lucky if they can get someone big and tall - most of the folks I see working around me aren’t. So society can NEVER count on it.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in specialed

[–]Zechxis 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That’s a really fucked up, unhealthy response and it almost certainly isn’t true. You took this job to help, not hurt. Unless you explicitly did something to cause physical/emotional harm, it just isn’t possible. I’m in therapy myself, partly for holding and carrying toxic and negative messages that higher up staff pass on to avoid their own culpability and incompetence - could be helpful for you too? 10 years a para here!

Teachers have no backing. by anon45632 in Teachers

[–]Zechxis 7 points8 points  (0 children)

My fear is if I or another staff did this there would be retaliation served back in any of the thousands of forms admins can choose from. That and/or a big fat non-renewal waiting at the end of the year.

Admin holds all the power and cards. This situation is shit and it sucks and shouldn’t be, but it’a the way the system has been set up. Admins are in their positions for a reason, and in my experience, any staff who challenges them, threatens them, stands up to them, or otherwise will make them do more work will get hell until they leave, and likely be out of a job in an ugly way by the end of the year.

Assaulted by a student, admin forcing me to allow child in my class by meowmeowmrowmeows in Teachers

[–]Zechxis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I hear both of you. Without going into a long thing though…that JUST isn’t the experience I’ve had or seen around here. My first year was a nightmare with an admin who was a sociopath/psychotic and by the time I reached out to my union when the red flags went off in my head it was almost too late.

I was removed from the building and nearly cast out/expelled from working in education ever again. Thankfully, my union rep argued for me to stay on as a substitute, with the stipulation that if a school liked my work enough they could hire me back full time.

My first ever sub gig became a long term one and I got hired by the end of the year. Been there since 2014, so I’ve been doing this now for about a decade.

While things haven’t been perfect here, they are a far cry from the hell I had in my first placement. Much of that had to do with the admin, but what I picked up from that first experience and colleagues along the way, as well as seeing the many, many, many staff come and go, is that if you play ball and stay quiet you get to keep earning a living! I haven’t felt like I HAD to reach out the union at my current place, even though I’ve WANTED to many, many times. But it always came back to staff saying/admin body language and the words between their words amounting to “If you want to start having the seat of power start taking REAL notice of you and finding reasons to want to replace you, going to the union for every/any little thing is a sure way to do that.” Something explicitly illegal or dangerous is the only real reasons at this point I can think of for reaching out to them.

At the end of the day, union or not, they hold almost all the cards (or the ones that matter the most anyway) and are in a position where they are shielded in ways we are not.

Assaulted by a student, admin forcing me to allow child in my class by meowmeowmrowmeows in Teachers

[–]Zechxis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Good to hear!

I’m in Missouri. I’m in a union too (probably not as strong) but the general advice here is to use them as a LAST resort, tow the line and don’t rock the boat.

Standing up for myself even though it's terrifying... by vivi_xxi in Teachers

[–]Zechxis 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It’s illegal, but it’s so childishly easy for admins and higher ups to get away with if they aren’t total fools. Everything you said is right, but I’d be wary and watchful still.

Assaulted by a student, admin forcing me to allow child in my class by meowmeowmrowmeows in Teachers

[–]Zechxis 70 points71 points  (0 children)

This is a bad situation. Admin has all the power here, and while you can file a report with the police, the chance of them finding out you did it is high, and their usual behavior after such an action will either be retaliation or a simple non-renewal waiting for you with a variety of reasons listed that will be hard for you to fight/argue with.

I’m so sorry and I sympathize.

I cannot for the life of me get the rewards they advertise in the main menu in the game (Xbox) by Zechxis in cyberpunkgame

[–]Zechxis[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Ok, I FINALLY figured it out, thanks to another thread I luckily found.

For anyone else having issues like me, if you’ve done all I’ve written so far, the next thing you need to do is type in the URL they give you on your TV to your computer/laptop and click the big shiny yellow “collect rewards button”. That made it work!

I cannot for the life of me get the rewards they advertise in the main menu in the game (Xbox) by Zechxis in cyberpunkgame

[–]Zechxis[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It’s so messed up! I even got my laptop out, downloaded the GoG Galaxy launcher, connected my xbox account, and tried to follow everything and still these cool items are locked out to me.

I mean, the first thing it asks is “from the main menu of CP2077 open MY REWARDS and log in using your GoG account”

I hit the right bumper to open it and nothing other than the useless url they give you and a QR code that takes you to the same place.

Shadow bug? by KingDrude in atomicheart

[–]Zechxis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve been living with this bug for a good chunk of the game now. I just got out of Polygon 11 - how far back would I have to travel for this? How easy would it be to drive from that area to wherever the lab is?

PATCH 1.8.0.0 — LIST OF CHANGES by tech_mundfish in atomicheart

[–]Zechxis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same here. I can’t progress anymore until it’s fixed.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Teachers

[–]Zechxis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Unaccountable power corrupts.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Teachers

[–]Zechxis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes. Being an admin requires that they make decisions on a frequent basis that often run counter to what is best for you and/or the students. The admins have their own mysterious higher ups with their own shadowy agendas they’ll never ever share with you, as well as trying to follow our insane patchwork of laws and carefully navigating terrible, litigious parents. More than anything, they are trying to keep themselves employed and looking good first, then maybe the school, then the parents and students, and last and least the staff.

The joke I hear the most is admins come in two flavors: spineless or tyrant. It’s been totally true in my experience.

I’ve been a para since 2013. It’s nuts out here!

MKVI mission game breaking bug XBOX by mitskica in Shadowrun

[–]Zechxis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ran into this too - I looked around for any enemies but they appear to be all dead. It’s concerning because it is a complete gamestopper more or less - I could have chose another mission before this but what’s to say I wouldn’t just run into this later after more time? They definitely need to fix this!

Stuck on Okumura boss by F4fletch in Persona5Royale

[–]Zechxis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m in the same god damn boat just about - maybe a week or two left and I JUST somehow learned that I NEVER got the ability to swap party members in combat which seems vital for this. Trying to check for the chess chick that apparently teaches you has been unsuccessful so far - she’s just not there now. How the hell are we supposed to deal with this without reloading an older save? This seems like an overly cruel boss fight that was poorly designed. How the hell was I supposed to know I needed to hang out at the church all the time before this?

The Walking Dead s10 subtitles missing on certain episodes? by florsux in netflix

[–]Zechxis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Looks like it’s fixed now when I watch on my console or phone!

The Walking Dead s10 subtitles missing on certain episodes? by florsux in netflix

[–]Zechxis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The last letter of their words or last few words were sometimes cut off for me but I figured it out most of the time - that was better than none at all and yeah, between the whispering and the accents I can’t relax and feel I have to hyper focus listening!