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One of my students needed to be narcaned.

The kid was so fucked up looking that I called for a nurse. We had to evacuate the classroom while police and EMT came. Apparently the kid was on the floor and not responding. The Narcan didn't work and they needed to take the kid to a hospital. It turns out the kid wasn't on heroin like we all thought. She had mixed marijuana with hardcore SSRIs and is like 90 pounds. She was so barely responsive that they considered putting a breathing tube down her throat at the hospital.

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That was the 2nd time I had security alert in my classroom this month.

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Earlier a kid came into class and pointed a cellphone at me like a gun. I had him removed and long story short we had a meeting with the parent and the parent straight up said to me "You have PTSD and you shouldn't be a teacher." So this lady basically berated me for like 15 minutes while I just stared at her.

The case worker later came to apologize to me for that whole situation.

SuperJail Warden wrote:

the parent straight up said to me "You have PTSD and you shouldn't be a teacher." So this lady basically berated me for like 15 minutes while I just stared at her.

that's pretty insensitive of her to belittle karkand like that. i still remember the rain of hand grenades!

you jest, but it seems the current administration's war plans are based on a mixture of Claud vibe-coding and power fantasies from too many FPS games.

if the rumours are to be believed, there's an actual belief in the WH that dropping off a bunch of special forces operators deep inside iran will somehow spontaneously summon into being an organised MEC alliance.

There was a techno song from a BF2 video I heard 18 years ago I wish I could hear again.

Work is a complete clownshow.

The Exec Gen Manager got himself and 5 marketing geeks stuck in Dubai.
"Hey, the largest military build up since 9/11 is happening in the ME, now would be a great time for a business trip."
Literally watching missiles flying past their hotel.

The CEO promptly cancelled all travel.
One of my colleagues was just landing in Singapore and was told to turn around, but nothing was available so he had a night in a hotel then flew back.
As he landed the CEO changed the policy again, travel was allowed, just not to the ME.

One of my colleagues, Engineer Y, let an intern loose on some equipment with minimal training and no safety advice and walked away, guy was lucky not to be maimed. When things blow up and you're not wearing safety glasses its pure luck, although the first step is to not have things blow up.
There was no available remote off switch, the isolator is in a ceiling in a different building. I managed to flick the switch on the machine with a pole.
Writing the report on that brought me a lot of joy "The only thing in this company more dangerous than this piece of equipment is Engineer Y"

I've told the supersmart chinese junior engineers literally 10 times to fucking wear safety glasses, each time they just giggle.

Fun times, still not sure why I haven't retired.
Really looking forward to being replaced by AI.

Last edited by Dilbert_X (2026-03-05 02:51:46)

Manufacturing has had a 20 year desert since everything was shipped to China, and slowly shipped back.
Now we don't have manufacturing engineers with 20, 15, 10, 5 years experience, those people all went and did something else.

Other fields are probably going to have a 10 year AI hiccup and start over.
I don't really care if irrelevant mid-level reporting positions get axed, they just annoyed everyone and delivered nothing.
"I'm going to need your numbers by COB Sunday for the corporate off-site" Nope don't care.

AI makes project management so much easier. At the very least getting the thing to proofread your email before you send it out saves you time and mental energy.

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I have one of those teacher desk calendars.

Anyone who sees it when I am not there probably thinks I am the Zodiac killer. Every entry is in code.

It is not just emails between teachers. I want my emails to be as precise, polite, or to the point as I need when I email a campaign director or ask for a meeting with an assemblyperson.

ChatGPT can also give you advice on what to add, remove, keep etc. I needed to submit a plan for a meet and greet. ChatGPT created the plan and then gave excellent advice on what to add. It then asked if I wanted some tips on how to manage the event. I didn't need to watch a youtube video on 'hosting a meet and greet' to get great advice on how to manage one. I didn't need to ask a more experienced leader and thereby give us some influence to them.

I understand you wasted the better half of the last decade traveling around Asia with little to show for it besides losing your home to a cat.

My emails are often to important people and have a genuine impact on people's lives. I may not have as much money as you but I certainly have a bigger impact on the people around me. And I want my emails to be perfect since my words can carry weight and show up in reports and agendas.

SuperJail Warden wrote:

I understand you wasted the better half of the last decade traveling around Asia with little to show for it besides losing your home to a cat.

i had the best chapter of my life travelling the world and living without any boss or work emails to even reply to.

you spent the same period living at home and hooking up with mentally defective 4 outta 10s because you knew they were weak, ugly and lonely enough to be manipulated by your sleaze.

you've only sprung out of your broken familial nest because you've found a girl autistic and dumb enough to just roll over and accept your shit. and now you're complaining that your slick little lifestyle as an NJ gigolo has been ruined because your other-half's mother is pressing on you and determining where you live, constantly keeping one eye peering over her shoulder for the next opportunity to cheat or runaround on the poor girl, or to embark on another sordid little spree of text flirting that impotently goes nowhere but lets you feel like The Man for 15 minutes.

to escape the fact you've 'settled' for basically mediocrity, you've convinced yourself that you're now embarking on an obama-like character arc as a democrat fundraiser because you attended a few tombolas at the elizabeth, NJ townhall or whatever. i'm sure you're a Very Important guy that needs an AI email assistant to cut through the noise of his constantly buzzing inbox.

there really must be something in the water over there when a high-school teacher, the career specifically designed for the least ambitious and most risk averse graduates in any graduating year, thinks they can loftily talk down about their peers' life choices. congrats: you've stayed exactly where you were born your whole life, and fell into a career traditionally reserved for gossiping schoolmarms and the kids who never made it onto competitive graduate schemes.

Last edited by uziq (2026-03-06 01:48:58)

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

with what little i've dipped my toe in public education behind the scenes, i'm pretty sure they'd have eaten up chatgpt's style and adherence to stuff like carefully unpacking and pausing for a moment and taking steps back.

i don't blame someone for not wanting to write that manually dozens of times a day. chatgpt needs watched like a hawk though. way worse stuff than an embarrassing autocorrect.

i get it. schoolteachers try their best to Make An Impact but quickly get buried by the workload and swallowed up by the bureaucracy. job dissatisfaction kicks in hard after the youthful idealism and good will has burned off. automated LLM tools are great for getting through all those tiny day-to-day tasks that require the performance of care/thoughtfulness. but let's not pretend it's some technological revolution that autocomplete can write basic business emails for you. being able to compose a cover letter for a job or to present yourself professionally in email communications is a very, very low bar for adult life.