Working on Saturday
Oct. 12th, 2002 10:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
geminigirlAs if I'm not already grumpy enough about working on a Saturday...
1. My boss is puking her guts out. This may or may not be pregnancy related, but she's being obnoxious about it. I have a fair amount of patience for her most days, but today she's just in raging mode.
2. I'm fuming over starting an hour and a half late. We were supposed to start at 9 AM. We didn't. The co-worker who was going to pick up the peer educators didn't get them here until 9:30...and he had to make a second trip to get more of them. This means that even though we normally finish early, we're no going to today.
3. I've done homophobia and heterosexism training with high school kids before. I'm watching and listening to this presentation and thinking/wondering about how disorganized this one is, and realizing how confusing the statistics are when presented the way they were.
4. Argh argh argh! The speaker (a gay teen) just said something about "If it were a choice, I wouldn't choose it. I'd have chosen to be a normal person, with girlfriends and everything." Since when is gay not normal?
5. Disorganizitation in this training makes me crazy. The kids are doing an evaluation and they can't read. There's a huge amount of material that they need to be able to read. There's a whole entire binder. And I can't depend on peer educators who aren't going to be able to get through the materials they need. I can accept that these kids can't read, but I wonder if they're a good fit for this program...something I think my boss has no concept of. She can't certify peer educators who miss half the training, which she's going to do...etc. etc. etc.
6. Enough complaining. I have to teach STD 101 in a bit. And I should write more about everything else.
1. My boss is puking her guts out. This may or may not be pregnancy related, but she's being obnoxious about it. I have a fair amount of patience for her most days, but today she's just in raging mode.
2. I'm fuming over starting an hour and a half late. We were supposed to start at 9 AM. We didn't. The co-worker who was going to pick up the peer educators didn't get them here until 9:30...and he had to make a second trip to get more of them. This means that even though we normally finish early, we're no going to today.
3. I've done homophobia and heterosexism training with high school kids before. I'm watching and listening to this presentation and thinking/wondering about how disorganized this one is, and realizing how confusing the statistics are when presented the way they were.
4. Argh argh argh! The speaker (a gay teen) just said something about "If it were a choice, I wouldn't choose it. I'd have chosen to be a normal person, with girlfriends and everything." Since when is gay not normal?
5. Disorganizitation in this training makes me crazy. The kids are doing an evaluation and they can't read. There's a huge amount of material that they need to be able to read. There's a whole entire binder. And I can't depend on peer educators who aren't going to be able to get through the materials they need. I can accept that these kids can't read, but I wonder if they're a good fit for this program...something I think my boss has no concept of. She can't certify peer educators who miss half the training, which she's going to do...etc. etc. etc.
6. Enough complaining. I have to teach STD 101 in a bit. And I should write more about everything else.
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Date: 2002-10-12 03:01 pm (UTC)Re:
Date: 2002-10-13 01:07 pm (UTC)teens... *shakes head* i remember from when i was a teen (19 bizillion years ago), how easy it was for mass 'hysteria' (on a lower level, of course) to catch on, and how desperate 98% of the kids are to fit in, and how being different - drastically different in other teen's eyes - can .... *shudder*