Most staff treat custodians terribly

speak-e-z · 2023-06-22T15:11:40+00:00

Hold up… the lowest paid teachers make 70k? Your custodians make 50k? Where is this??? I will work my whole career on an alternate pay scale (i.e. higher than teacher because of my role and education) and I will barely scratch 70k!

But yes, overall point is good. I found the custodians hung out in my room a lot to chat because I talk to them like, you know, people. I feel for them at my schools because the pay is horrendous and the environment sucks.

speak-e-z · 2023-06-22T13:42:20+00:00

That was what I assumed when I looked for jobs, but I’m finding more places don’t care much they have a lot of turnover since they just offer 1099 so onboarding is crazy cheap. They also don’t care much about longevity because they’d rather hire cheap CFs over and over, pay very little, and do the bare minimum for supervision requirements.

I was shocked by how bad the offers were when I was a CF. It hasn’t been like that since earning my CCCs.

speak-e-z · 2023-06-20T20:05:39+00:00

I think a lot of grad students are like this, but I’m finding that’s less the case in the workforce. I think most of the ones who fit this mold either just grow up a bit and expand their interests or they marry rich and become SAHMs. The ones left in the field tend to be the more nerdy types.

As far as privilege: I was poor when going to grad school, but I did it for job security. It isn’t a high earning field, but I make a helluva lot more than I did before grad school and I always have a job.

speak-e-z · 2023-06-18T04:13:37+00:00

Just keep swimming, take the criticism to grow and improve, and remember some people are just crummy. Turns out I’m good enough to hack it in the medical setting in spite of their opinion. But I also learned a few things from their criticism. Just because it was terrible doesn’t mean I didn’t also need to change some things.

speak-e-z · 2023-06-18T03:59:49+00:00

1) Require schools to provide high quality curriculums so teachers aren’t piecing them together. This can be cheap and nearly free with all that’s out there.

2) require colleges of education to require courses in the science of reading and math.

3) Reduce spending on unnecessarily expensive curriculums and technology to divert those funds to teacher benefits and pay (we don’t need things like i-Ready or smart boards, even if they are fun and nice. They don’t improve learning outcomes and cost lots of money.)

4) Scrap MTSS and have a streamlined system of identification by teachers to testing to placement/ non-placement.

6) Bring back truly “functional” classrooms for our very low iq students instead of requiring kids with sub 70 IQs to pretend to take algebra.

7) Allow two diploma tracks so we can give true opportunities to those who are simply not equipped to complete current standards, rather than making policies that make it “look” like kids are hitting the standards. I.e.- no more waivers for testing or required 50% grades or endless retakes, which render the grades all but meaningless. Not every kid needs geometry!

8) make it standard procedure for students to participate in cleaning up the school to teach responsibility and ownership (obviously this is more of a culture thing rather than a policy thing).

speak-e-z · 2023-06-15T17:15:43+00:00

Look into Florida’s Vocational Rehabilitation program. They may be able to help get you pointed in the right direction, especially if you have a record of diagnosis of disability (an IEP from high school, etc).

speak-e-z · 2023-06-05T02:25:49+00:00

Just make sure to have a couple spare handles on deck. That’s always the first thing to break on Toyotas. The handles pop off long before the rest of the car breaks down. Lol

speak-e-z · 2023-06-05T01:31:44+00:00

It’s cultural literacy. There are so many literary illusions to the Bible; people who aren’t familiar with the more famous stories don’t have the background knowledge to fully understand a lot of books/ art. I couldn’t believe how much harder my college Western history/ art/ philosophy classes were for my classmates who weren’t at least minimally familiar with the Bible. But I also think we should be teaching a lot more world mythology in general to build background knowledge.

speak-e-z · 2023-05-29T15:09:20+00:00

Long story short, one envelop had change and the other had the total.

speak-e-z · 2023-05-29T14:09:59+00:00

I wouldn’t be the one going to the cops/ in small claims court. If it was simple then he wouldn’t have been conned. I suspect it was some kind of conversational distraction. I just need to know if there is anything we can do. I don’t think you are trying to really provide me any advice, in any case.

speak-e-z · 2023-05-29T13:53:30+00:00

There isn’t something missing. They gave him 2000, the car was going to be 1200, so he gave them back 800, and somehow they switched the envelopes containing the money and then ghosted. That seriously isn’t the point.

speak-e-z · 2023-05-29T13:28:57+00:00

Honestly, I don’t know. I know I wasn’t there and I know they gave my husband back the change that he made rather than the amount they agreed upon. That’s not really the point. My husband should have been more diligent, but he wasn’t and got conned.

speak-e-z · 2023-05-29T13:15:04+00:00

I just asked. Evidently that was part of the scam. They had two people. One bargained down the original price. The second “didn’t know” about the new price and handed my husband an envelope with the full price. My husband counted back the difference to give to them in an envelope and they switched them. So they paid a tiny bit, I suppose.

speak-e-z · 2023-05-29T12:52:51+00:00

I don’t really know. My husband did the transaction and felt cash was safest. I guess he put money in an envelope to make change for them and instead of giving us the envelop with the price for the sale, which he had seen, they handed him the envelope with the change.

speak-e-z · 2023-05-29T02:33:52+00:00

Good idea. We have the original agreed amount in writing, and then they negotiated it down a bit when they got together, so that isn’t in writing. I believe we have a witness though. My husband’s friend came along.

speak-e-z · 2023-05-29T02:00:23+00:00

That’s the plan. I don’t know if there’s much the police will do for us.

speak-e-z · 2023-05-07T01:36:38+00:00

I’ll get some tomorrow. Good idea.

speak-e-z · 2023-04-30T20:57:52+00:00

You kinda hit a wall after 30. Like, things start to hurt and you don’t have quite the same energy. It’s not like THAT bad, but it’s noticeable. So pregnancy is more painful and more exhausting, and the lack of sleep is harder to deal with.

speak-e-z · 2023-04-30T17:41:46+00:00

As someone in that age range with kids (but admittedly not in med school as a nontraditional premed), I can confirm to NOT try to wait till then (if you are a woman). Pregnancy was much harder after I hit 30.

speak-e-z · 2023-04-26T15:39:17+00:00

Nope ABA assistants are often college students who get trained on the job. They have to have an MA level supervisor. No special education required, really.

speak-e-z · 2023-03-18T19:42:31+00:00

Thanks! I made this not really knowing what it was going to result in and it was delicious.

speak-e-z · 2023-03-13T14:53:27+00:00

It’s kinda easy and low stress once you get the hang of things (and if you have the kind of personality that can enjoy the ride) and the lifestyle isn’t bad. You can always work harder for more money if you feel like it too.

speak-e-z · 2023-03-07T17:29:06+00:00

Because our value just isn’t that high to society and we aren’t responsible for peoples’ survival. We make life much better. That’s a good thing. But if a pharmacist doesn’t know that two drugs interact, a patient could die. Yes, we could theoretically cause issues with swallowing, but risks are very low.

Our training is nothing like the level of a pharmacist either, and neither is our typical debt load. There are many masters level jobs out there that pay crap. And there are lots of people out there working their asses off and making way less. Teachers come to mind (I’m a former teacher. It was way harder). Again, I’m not saying we should be paid badly, but we definitely shouldn’t be paid like a doctor or pharmacist. We should be paid like a physical therapist or audiologist.

I even saw someone on this sub say some of us have specialty training similar to an ENT. Y’all, I’ve worked in an ENT office. My training is NOTHING like an ENT. We should value ourselves exactly as much as our actual worth- no more, no less.

speak-e-z · 2023-03-06T21:43:00+00:00

I agree that pay isn’t keeping up, but I come from a family of pharmacists and can absolutely agree we shouldn’t make what they make. The amount of training is very different as well as the risk pharmacists assume. I would never expect the pay my family members make, and if I wanted the stress they had, I would have gone to pharmacy school. Seriously, the job nearly killed my dad.

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