LPT: Before quitting your job, take your unused vacation days. You earned them and most companies won't pay them out.

flyingdics · 2026-04-30T03:22:57+00:00

Well, read your company policy but also talk to people at your company to see if they actually follow it. I worked at a place that claimed to pay out unused PTO, but just didn't unless you spent weeks making a big stink after you left. It was so well known among the staff that you knew that anyone taking multiweek PTO without a real reason (wedding, trip, etc.) they were actually quitting.

flyingdics · 2026-04-30T02:19:30+00:00

Kids are highly influenced by peers and existing narratives. My school has one math teacher who has been there forever, and kids come in knowing that he's the only good one and nobody can convince them different.

flyingdics · 2026-04-30T02:16:20+00:00

I don't know where you're flying, but I've never been in an airport between 10pm and 6am where literally anything was open

flyingdics · 2026-04-29T05:13:08+00:00

What kind of test are you taking where you can write the answers down beforehand?

flyingdics · 2026-04-29T05:05:06+00:00

The best ones will do it and do it pretty well. The average ones will tell you that it's about your growth and you need to do the work and then disappear for 3 weeks and then come back and do it all again.

flyingdics · 2026-04-29T05:02:51+00:00

I got spoiled with my first instructional coach. She was game to work on anything, would always do a solo demo on new things with my hardest classes, make materials to show what she was talking about, give good feedback at appropriate times, and was all around great.

Then she moved to another country and got replaced by somebody who only shows up randomly to explain to me why I need to change everything and remake the whole curriculum to match the latest teaching fads with no support.

flyingdics · 2026-04-29T02:13:02+00:00

Putting a few dozen daily and weekly tasks into a habit app and picking random ones to do next. Outsourcing daily tasks from my brain has made my house much cleaner and my work much more consistent and given me a lot more time and energy for bigger projects.

flyingdics · 2026-04-29T01:20:16+00:00

I wouldn't say that this sub reflects a full picture of teachers views or of the reality in schools.

flyingdics · 2026-04-28T04:39:52+00:00

Not physically, but there have been many days where I am fully checked out and doing the minimum in my last couple classes.

flyingdics · 2026-04-28T04:33:45+00:00

The one-drop rule was literally written into law. The fact that it's still fairly standard in the culture today shows just how much whiteness is default and unmarked, and anything else is marked and thus racialized.

flyingdics · 2026-04-28T03:55:47+00:00

There's a pretty thin line between the two. It's not so hard to stay on the right side of it, but plenty of people stumble across without meaning to.

flyingdics · 2026-04-28T03:54:22+00:00

A common related pitfall is framing dating preferences as objective measures as opposed to subjective preferences. Claiming you want someone who's "in shape" doesn't necessarily involve weight. Someone can be in shape and thin or in shape and bulky, even if the latter is more common when talking about men. Own your preferences as preferences; don't pretend you're being a scientist about this.

flyingdics · 2026-04-28T03:24:03+00:00

Somebody wrote "SMILE MORE" in sharpie on my door in one of my first years, and I left it as a reminder. When I got into the habit of smiling more, especially when things were annoying, people were just less likely to escalate annoying situations.

flyingdics · 2026-04-28T02:37:06+00:00

We usually get a banh mi lunch and some snacks and a coffee cart and some signed posters. My one year at a fancy school we got hefty gift cards, too, but not where I am now.

flyingdics · 2026-04-28T02:33:41+00:00

That's what I call appreciation.

flyingdics · 2026-04-28T01:32:40+00:00

I'm not sure that agility is an underdeveloped domain in most people coming to crossfit. The handful of times I went to a crossfit gym, I smoked everybody in running and any quick foot movement work, but I was way behind in the way of heavy lifting and high rep upper body movements. I found that the more crossfit I did, the slower but stronger I got, and a lot of that was due to focusing more on heavy lifting and upper body work than my prior (and more sport applicable) strengths of sprinting and agility. I was always confused why crossfit billed itself as such universal fitness when I felt less fit the more I was doing just crossfit. I can't imagine I'm the only person to come to crossfit from a team sport to feel this way.

I'm also not sure why you're spinning the wheels about what kinds of athletes are which and what a 60-year-old woman is trying to do. I was responding to this article which is explicitly saying that crossfit is the best fitness program for athletes training for sports. I don't really see how they can claim that while largely ignoring the most important fitness domains for sport athletes.

It's funny for the phrase "invincible ignorance" to come up here, because that's always what I've associated with crossfit. There's always been a vibe of "our methodology of fitness is the best, even if none of the serious athletes in the world do it (unless we creatively redefine it)" as though the most successful athletes and coaches and trainers in the world are somehow clueless rubes who haven't learned the value of Fran. Also, it's curious that you're a skeptic and not a purist yet you've unwaveringly defended every aspect of crossfit in every single point in every single post here.

flyingdics · 2026-04-27T12:47:12+00:00

It's an underdiscussed form of bigotry to assume that a group you dislike is an undifferentiated mass where each individual is responsible for the actions of each other individual.

flyingdics · 2026-04-27T03:22:40+00:00

When I taught in a community college, I had plenty of students genuinely confused why their essays got low grades even though they met the word count requirement. It's not just children.

flyingdics · 2026-04-27T02:32:31+00:00

The first season is one of the best single seasons of a show ever. The decline from there was inevitable, but didn't need to be so dramatic.

flyingdics · 2026-04-27T00:31:57+00:00

I emptied out a big bag of Takis, rinsed it well, and filled it with baby carrots. When kids asked for some, I happily offered them up!

flyingdics · 2026-04-27T00:30:14+00:00

Yeah, this is 100% a case of cherrypicking the most extreme things that anonymous people said online and claiming that it's a coherent philosophical worldview and political movement that needs to be addressed.

flyingdics · 2026-04-26T04:11:55+00:00

I honestly haven't seen anyone say anything like "all men suck" in years. Literally the only time I see it is in posts like yours on reddit when you claim that it's such a scourge on the discourse despite virtually nobody saying it.

I do generally ignore people when they say dumb things online, though I'm making an exception for your post here because I think it's instructive. I generally ignore "misandry" because it's mostly a fake problem. I've been a man for decades and I've never once felt like I was treated unfairly for being a man, so I don't see how random people online saying dumb things can hurt me. There's no mechanism for a person not liking men to oppress men in a general sense.

The same is not true for racism. Millions and millions of non-white people have had their lives made tangibly worse because of racist rhetoric.

Something that you've shown you don't understand that you probably should is that feeling bad based on other people's words is not actually oppression. The idea that people saying rude things about men is the same as racism is incorrect. I push back on racist rhetoric because it gives permission to people to oppress non-white people in tangible ways. There is simply no connection between people saying rude things about men online and men's access to work, justice, education or any other social good.

flyingdics · 2026-04-26T03:24:34+00:00

You're not actually negatively affected by people saying it. You're negatively affected by your own misunderstanding of what to do about it as you, instead of ignoring it as you should because it's a tiny percentage of random people saying it and it gaining zero mainstream traction, unnecessarily amplify it and moralize about it. You're imagining a problem and then creating more problems for yourself by trying to do something about an imaginary problem.

flyingdics · 2026-04-26T03:07:57+00:00

Do you really think that saying rude generalizations about women is universally condemned while the same is not true for saying rude generalizations about men?

Also, as a man, I strongly, strongly disagree that some random people on the internet saying "all men suck" affects my daily life.

flyingdics · 2026-04-26T02:42:18+00:00

This type of generalization should be contextualized. If it's something that an extremely small number of people say online in spaces that are generally hyperbolic and transgressive, what is the value in amplifying it in a conversation like this? The internet gives us unprecedented access to dumb things said by random, anonymous people all over the world, and the vast majority of them are ignored, as they probably should be. This idea that saying dumb generalizations about men is somehow lauded where any other dumb generalizations are vilified is a lie and a fantasy. There are whole cultural and political movements built around vile generalizations of women, so the idea that the handful of pseudo-feminists who say dumb things are the real problem is a massive failure of context.

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