I’m going to edit this and replace “work” with “school”.
I mean, I’m self-employed and I am the only employee. I can only get so frustrated!
But school has offered up some frustrations.
The most recent one:
Last chapter, we had something like 5 practice assignments due. They all had the same due-date (Saturday) and I finished them all on Thursday and Friday.
I didn’t end up submitting two that I needed to scan, and I woke up Saturday only to discover that the submission deadline was 12:59 am on Saturday, while everything else was due at 11:59 pm!
(The 11:59 pm thing has been standard all semester.)
And of course the only two with that odd due date time were the exact two I didn’t submit.
Plus, I had them done the day before! I just hadn’t gotten around to scanning and uploading them.
Sigh.
This seems like a possible oversight on the part of the professor, so I emailed to inquire.
And just to be careful in the future, I will be sure to check not just the due date, but also the due hour!
With little kids at a school? Every day, for many reasons. But I’m very good at not showing it. 🙂
I’ve had to work mostly online now for a year due to the pandemic. I work with children and it’s frustrating for two reasons. One, because this is not the job I wanted and I do not like it. Two, because it’s not as effective for the kids. That’s really hard knowing that they aren’t making as much progress or can’t attend at all because of the logistics.
My mother is a Pre-K teacher and is doing remotely one day a week. She said it’s a complete waste of time and that all kids are suffering heavily because of it and that most of the teachers in our system don’t really care; they just want to do less work and get paid the same.
Some teachers really see how bad this is, though and they aren’t happy at all.
As a parent, I actually love virtual school. It is a taste of homeschooling with a teacher back up. I don’t expect my son to learn from the program fully, I have to step in and help him with hard concepts and practicing on off time. I know it doesn’t work for every family or child. And I definitely can see how it is frustrating for teachers!
There’s a glitch in the huge database where I work that prevents me from getting certain reports from last year. I have access to this year’s and all the years before 2020, but not last year’s. I have to ask other people for it and I find that frustrating, both because I have to wait, and because I’m giving someone else who’s already busy another task. I’ve been told that it’s being worked on, but I don’t know when it’ll be fixed.
Oh my goodness, I was so frustrated yesterday. My workplace schedule doesn’t use a 24 hour clock correctly–when they put in a 12am-7am shift, they put in on a day early–so I wound up showing up the the hospital at midnight, only to be sent home because my shift was the next day. I was all hopped up on caffeine, too, and had napped in preparation. Oh dear! But as I complained to my colleagues, I learned that two of them have been redeployed to the COVID ward, a duty which I escaped due to my pregnancy. So it put my frustration into perspective.
I get frustrated when I have more than 3 meetings in a workday. Since my company went fully remote, zoom style meetings became very popular. I find multiple meetings frustrating because it often means I work later to complete daily tasks.
Frustrated at work. Training. We just had a bunch of training. The frustrations it that those who are training us, have no idea what we do or what our access is to different programs. They show us all this cool stuff and then we go to try to do it, and we can’t. Or they are telling us a bunch of information that has nothing to do with what we do (or have control over).
I am pretty much retired but to keep my brain alive I do adoption home studies (some other court work also, but mostly studies). The greatest frustration is convincing people that love is not enough when you are adopting a child from the child welfare system. Almost all of these children have/will have behavioral difficulties and many have endured pre or post natal trauma, such as in utero alcohol exposure or traumatic brain injuries from beatings. These are good people trying to adopt but most of the time they really have no concept of what it can mean to a marriage or any children already in the family to bring in a youngster who may demand an inordinate amount of energy and patience, and who may never give back that reciprocal bonds of love that parents long for and delight over. I spend a tremendous amount of time doing education and still I feel like they are just waiting for me to finish up and go away so they can get back to their fantasies. I have been at the other end, seeing children returned to the system years later because the adoptive parents cannot cope or the couple divorces and no one wants the child. So that is my frustration, feeling like I am not getting through to people, good and loving people, about how hard it can be on everyone involved. A lot of the adoptions do work out but when I see one that does not I obsess about what could have been done— a better match between parents and children, or having the child placed as a foster placement first so that the parents could figure out if this is a child they can handle, or what. The only saving grace is that I am old enough now to see some of the kids around town as adults and have had some of them (the ones who were older when adopted so they remember me) stop and thank me for placing them with an adoptive parent or couple, so I know there are success cases.