Working Daze by John Zakour and Scott Roberts for April 02, 2024

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    Yakety Sax  7 months ago

    Lack-Of-Progress Reports NOT my story

    (My school is rather small, and there are only four core teachers in my grade, one per subject. Our science teacher is an older lady who, despite the grandmotherly persona, seems to have quite a subtle sadistic streak. Every other week, we get progress reports in each class, detailing all assignments since the previous one, which she often runs over class time handing out. On this occasion, the bell interrupts her lecture.)

    Science Teacher: “Sit back down, you all! I’ve got progress reports and you won’t get yours until everyone is in their seat!”

    (She took a full ten minutes to hand them out, wandering the room calling out names like she didn’t have all twenty of us last year, stopping to evict students in her next class who tried to enter the room after the bell for the start of their class. Half our class, my half, had algebra next on the opposite end of the building, and we were met at the door by our stern little math teacher who is quietly furious. She called down to the science teacher, who cheerfully confirmed why we were late, and we ended up having to walk all the way back to get a group tardy excuse note. The other half of the class was just leaving with theirs, but the science teacher still waffled around whether we actually needed ours signed as well, and her current class was getting very confused. Our math teacher was too angry to give us a coherent lecture in the 20 minutes she actually had us in the room.)

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    Cactus Jack Fan  7 months ago

    Love the Monty Python reference (from the episode with the killer sheep for those interested)

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    phritzg Premium Member 7 months ago

    Dana’s not falling for it, Ed. This is like the scene where Jabba said to Luke, “Your mind powers will not work on me, boy”.

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    P51Strega  7 months ago

    Rita says poor Ed is so over worked he doesn’t have time for progress reports.

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    Steverino Premium Member 7 months ago

    Well, that’s progress.

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    bikamper  7 months ago

    We had a GM early on in my last job who was a stickler for progress reports. I never had to do them in any previous job so I told him progress reports or progress, pick one. If you want progress reports, come down to my shop and we’ll talk while I’m working cuz I’m not filling one out.

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    rickmac1937 Premium Member 7 months ago

    Quit picking on poor Ed, Dana you’re not the big boss,Rita is just remember that

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    ladykat  7 months ago

    Move it, Ed.

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    ChessPirate  7 months ago

    For a fairly short time in one of my jobs, I had to fill out a form accounting for every minute. Didn’t bother me. I just filled it out like I figured he wanted to see it. Let him prove any of the numbers wrong… ☺

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    willie_mctell  7 months ago

    Progress reports impede progress. You could be getting stuff done instead of documenting what you’ve done.

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