Speaking the truth over and over and over again to the same people doesn’t make me crazy, it makes you deaf, or unwilling to hear, or perhaps you just don’t care. But know this, the truth doesn’t go away, ignoring it doesn’t make you right.
You have children at your school who stole from my son, to the tune of $1700. Writing a check to make it go away doesn’t make it go away. Making those kids Captains of sports teams only shows that your community standards are nonexistent. That’s your problem. But I will always take an opportunity to point out your double standard.
What were you thinking when you sent over 10 boxes of See’s candy to our house? The kids aren’t here much anymore, and we don’t want to eat it, really. I love you, but I don’t need you to keep buying us stuff. I wish you would have saved the probably $250 or more you spent on all that for your own retirement. You can not afford it and we don’t want it.
1.Yes, prestige matters. But, I am going to keep telling people it doesn’t because it is so annoying that y’all feel the need to rub it in everyone’s face!
2. No, you are not unique and entitled to admission to an elite school just because you had 36 ACT and a 4.0 gpa.
3. Really want to know why you were denied… if your application reads anything like your post it’s because you came off as an arrogant, entitled, ass. Social skills are just as important as academic prowess.
4. B Students are not failures, doomed to mediocre lives.
5. Not everyone wants to work for a Fortune 500 company, in IB or consulting or be a freakin engineer or doctor!
6. That fact that you have melted over a denial is an indication of a much bigger issue.
7. Wanna know why schools sometimes take lower stat kids…because those kids know how to fail and get up and keep going. Resilience matters!
8. No one ever said life was fair.
9. Sometimes you are denied, even though you have great stats, because they just don’t like you. It happens. Sometimes qualifications don’t mean a hill of beans. See #8.
10. Got denied? Prove them wrong…it’s the best revenge!
You are NOT just like a single mom because your husband is away on a business trip. You are NOT just like a single mom because he works long hours.
I’m sure its inconvenient to have your spouse out of the house, but take it from a widow with children… If you can call him on the phone to chat about your day and look forward to his coming home, you are NOT a single mom.
I hate this job. If there were anything else I could do in this small town and make similar money, I’d be gone. Thirty years is too long but I am up on the pay scale and vacation time and don’t want to (and can’t afford to) start all over again. Too young to retire and too old to start over makes for a miserable existence.
I wish people who rave about the community college system had more facts about the realities, and that they could see the bigger picture that overglorifying CC’s allows for the underfunding of state universities. See the big picture!
I’ll add myself to the people not feeling my workplace/tasks this week. Wishing I had a pile of $$$ right now so I could take a sabbatical from the grind.
I love my job, but good god there are some people I have to deal with that are harder to herd than cats! Why do we need to send a third reminder about the drop dead date into the black hole of your email?!
One of my jobs as a coworker is to find at least one thing to like about every one else on the team. For the first time ever, I just can’t find anything to like about you and clearly the feeling is mutual. How did we get to this point? Sad thing, I don’t care. 1 year, 9 months, 1 week to retirement.
I try hard not to be passive aggressive. But some times I just can’t resist, dear church organist, who always points out my typographical errors. This time when you complain about “my” mistake in the anthem title I shall show you your email and state that I carefully typed it exactly the way you gave it to me. “Gates or Glory” it shall be.
Darn it, darn it, darn it. My daughter’s very favorite professor, who has been a wonderful mentor, just sent out an email that the university didn’t give her tenure so next year will be her last one there. D is devastated. She said the prof is the best one in the department, by far, in her opinion. And D is studying abroad next fall, so she’ll have just one more semester with the teacher.
Rant alert
There is no such term as “tab” used in regard to excel folks. The file is a workbook made up of worksheets. Excel is spreadsheet software. You have to adapt to correct terminology. I do not have to join you in using incorrect terminology. Please do not make me be rude about it when you are sending directions out to thousands of people.
She said the prof is the best one in the department, by far, in her opinion. And D is studying abroad next fall, so she’ll have just one more semester with the teacher.