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Originally posted by treelizard
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Probably would not have been good for your performance evaluation. LOL Good job on getting things done on time. -
You know, I think performance evals are a bit of a joke... It would only reflect on the evaluation if the person evaluating actually knew about it, and oftentimes the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing. There are a ton of factors involved in evaluations that have very little to do with performance. Also, nobody outside of the district ever even sees the thing, so it is very easy for teachers who receive poor evaluations to just switch districts. In addition, it is extremely easy for teachers to bring union reps to them for every meeting, making it difficult for the administration to do their job. People who should be fired or on improvement programs get any action towards them delayed because the union will decide someone in administration didn't dot their i's or cross their t's. I am soooo anti-union.... When people ask for water during their fights my MMA coach always says "Water. Good fighters don't need it, bad fighters don't deserve it" and I feel that way about unions and teachers...Originally posted by Hardball View Post
Anyway, I am supposed to be on vacation now so enough of my anti-union propaganda... I will go back to enjoying my Hanukristmas presents and drinking beer with my neighbor...Comment
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Well, I have to disagree with you on the union thing. They have reps that know the rules, regulations and rights of workers and when you need a rep the union provides them for free. For instance, management is known for clear cut violations like firing people they don't like. Without the union or attorneys we would all be delegated to being ass kissers for the sake of saving our jobs.
On my job (State Accountant), the performance evaluations determine if you get your annual pay raise and are a viable tool to measure pay for perfomance. Once again, if a boss doesn't like you it forces him/her to document the how, when and whys of the problem. Most of the time a honest worker comes out on top with performance evaluations and union memberships.Comment
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Originally posted by Hardball View Post
They're not free, they are paid for with all those union dues, just like the generous salaries of the union bosses.Comment
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I know of a teacher in another district who really SHOULD be fired, but because her assistant principal didn't return her performance evaluation within five business days, she had to get RE-evaluated and all this other crap. I guess the union decided the paperwork needed to get done within a certain period of time and because her asst. principal was probably busy with other aspects of her job, it took three more weeks to get her in process of getting fired. It's dumb because 1) she's still going to get fired anyway for very good reason so it is simply delaying the inevitable 2) the asst. princ. now has to do more unnecessary work when she could be doing things that would actually help teachers and students 3) the students are the ones that suffer because of it.
In addition, the union decided that we couldn't have any meetings during our grading day. That means that we couldn't meet for ten minutes to discuss a school-wide discipline plan that we were supposed to implement right after break. This creates a delay in a plan that not everybody even knows about yet and means we can not immediately implement it upon return from a 2-week break which would really make everyone's lives a lot easier. I've heard that 2 weeks of break are like a reset button and we certainly need the new plan which a lot of people have worked really hard on for months. Because the union said we couldn't do meetings we'll have to delay this really kick-ass plan. This hurts the administrators, teachers, students and parents. Go union.
On the other hand, I have a friend who is a first year teacher in another district who got in trouble because of some controversial content in his history class. He did not bring a union rep with him to the meeting with his administrators. He came out ahead. I think they really respected that.
I guess I wouldn't want to work for anyone that I'd need to bring a buffer person with to talk to. Though I will admit that I brought two teachers with me once to a meeting because I wanted them to document it... I did get the changes I'd been promised but I think it just made people angry and I later found out (by putting two and two together) the very good reasons those changes weren't made in the first place and the (legal, confidential) reasons I was not told about it...Comment
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Well, do you believe in the concept of "PrePaid Legal"?Originally posted by jubaji View PostComment
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I guess for me being an Accountant I wouldn't do without union membership. They expect perfection in my work and I don't know of any human that has achieved perfection. I've been helped several times over a 20 year period by the union. I even won a grievance against my Director on something that he was clearly wrong, yet he wanted to use me as a scapegoat.
Oh don't get me wrong, Union membership leaves you a "Marked" person and management has ways of getting even but all in all I think I've come out on top of management vs labor issues.Comment
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Our teacher union costs I think $500 a year or so. I couldn't afford to join even if I wanted to.Originally posted by jubaji View PostComment
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Well, it's Friday. What's on tap for the weekend? I need to work on kicking this weekend since it's been about 3 or 4 weeks since I last worked on kicks. I think I'll have time to work kicks on Sunday. Teaching a couple of private lessons this weekend. I got a handle on my leaf project but the yard still needs some touching up. Watch New England and the Giants saturday night and track the rest of the final week of the NFL. Will they go undefeated, will they play their starting players? Hopefully catch some boxing and UFC also. Then finally it's those dreaded chores that never seem to go away. Also, I need to find time to hit the track for some cardio this weekend.
The good thing about this weekend is that Monday I get to go home from work early and Tuesday is another holiday.
What's on tap with you?Comment
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The mother-in-law is in town! Gotta play host.Comment
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Oh she's very nice, and the last time she was even in the country was about 5 years ago, so I can't complain.Comment
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Buying weapons.Originally posted by Hardball View Post
Oh, and tasting a bunch of fruits I've never seen before.
Jubaji--have fun!Comment
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That's always interesting, both the weapons and the fruit. Are you buying new or used weapons?Originally posted by treelizard View Post
I just left the fruit market and I now have enough fruit for about 10 days, now only if I could buy my veggies that way. Dang, veggies are so much work.Comment
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god dammit, now i own matt blake a big apology, cause after reading the useless, inane drivel that some of you post on this thread, i need to go thank the dude who was pretending to be a handicapped guy for trying to liven up the forum with his endless jacket threads.....
on person is talking about buying fruits and vegetables at the farmers market, another one feels the need to tell us about his exciting night hanging out with his inlaws.......uh yeah.......sounds really exciting yall.....
someone make another jacket thread.....
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