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Post by Icctrombone on Dec 18, 2023 21:53:07 GMT -5
We had to say goodbye to our best buddy Bear today. He was diagnosed with Kidney disease around Thanksgiving and took a big turn for the worse this weekend. We had to take him to the vet today, and there wasn't anything we could do for him and he was struggling, so we let him rest. Goodbye Dig Dog, we love you, Bear! I'm going to be away from the forums at least today, maybe tomorrow as well. I'll catch up on the 12 Days when I do get back. -M This breaks my heart. So sorry MRP.
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Post by Icctrombone on Dec 18, 2023 21:56:29 GMT -5
So sorry shax. I pray in Jesus name for your full healing. I fought off body aches over the weekend myself.
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Post by shaxper on Dec 18, 2023 22:17:07 GMT -5
So sorry shax. I pray in Jesus name for your full healing. Thanks, my good man. I had a feeling you gave this to me!
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Post by Prince Hal on Dec 18, 2023 22:49:41 GMT -5
shaxper, I’m so sorry about all of this, and I certainly hope you make a dramatic recovery tonight. Am I missing something, though? Are you no longer teaching? I ask only because all this crap about your sick days and personal days and a supervisor threatening to fire you because you are too sick to work doesn’t sound as if you are in a teachers’ union. No sick bank from which you can borrow? No accumulated sick days that you hadn’t used? No union rep you can talk to about this? I’m pissed for you. Good luck with all this. If you go in tomorrow, make it Hug Your Supervisor Day and get the bastard good and sick.
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Post by shaxper on Dec 18, 2023 23:06:40 GMT -5
shaxper, I’m so sorry about all of this, and I certainly hope you make a dramatic recovery tonight. Am I missing something, though? Are you no longer teaching? I ask only because all this crap about your sick days and personal days and a supervisor threatening to fire you because you are too sick to work doesn’t sound as if you are in a teachers’ union. No sick bank from which you can borrow? No accumulated sick days that you hadn’t used? No union rep you can talk to about this? Still teaching. Ran down all of my sick days during Covid and with my son. Honestly, we get a very generous amount of sick days under normal circumstances. My circumstances have just been less than normal. My HR director is actually an incredibly nice guy. I trust him and feel our district is lucky to have him. But he has a responsibility to enforce the contract. My union, on the other hand, is utterly useless. I'm a big believer in unions, but mine is too big to have much concern for anything that affects only one teacher. LOL. Thank you.
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Post by Prince Hal on Dec 18, 2023 23:55:15 GMT -5
Good luck, shax.
We only had about 8-900 members when I was union rep and officer, but, man, yours is the kind of predicament that we would have been in the administration's face about. And, in fairness, they never really raised a stink about illness in employees and/or families.
I wish I could help.
Best to your son, too.
Illegitimi non carborundum, pal.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Dec 19, 2023 3:19:41 GMT -5
Sorry to hear about all of this shaxper; and Prince Hal expressed many of the questions and feelings that ran through my mind as I was reading your post. And yeah, best wishes for your son.
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Post by MRPs_Missives on Dec 19, 2023 10:39:54 GMT -5
shaxper sorry to hear about your ordeal. Hope it works out, that you feel better soon, and things turn for the better for your son. To everyone, thank you for the outpouring of sentiment over Bear. It is much appreciated and a help through difficult times. -M
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Post by shaxper on Dec 19, 2023 10:58:54 GMT -5
To everyone, thank you for the outpouring of sentiment over Bear. It is much appreciated and a help through difficult times. I'm at least glad that you were back while this happened so that we could be here for you. Again, I'm so very sorry.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Dec 19, 2023 11:02:05 GMT -5
Here's hoping you get better real soon, shaxper. Owen too! I don't think a peaceful and happy holiday season is too much for your family to ask. You'll be in my thoughts.
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Post by Prince Hal on Dec 19, 2023 16:02:38 GMT -5
Hey, shaxper, how did it go today? Feeling any better?
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Post by shaxper on Dec 19, 2023 16:16:32 GMT -5
Hey, shaxper, how did it go today? Feeling any better? That's so kind of you to ask. No snowday, but I'm fortunate to have pretty amazing kids this year. I left instructions on the board, told them to email me questions (I couldn't talk) and used the text-to-speech function on my macbook to speak to them whenever necessary. They gave me absolutely no problems and genuinely appreciated my making the effort to be there two days in a row. The was absolute hell for me and seemed to last months, but I had nothing but kindness and cooperation from my students. One of my seniors even wrote me this, and it kind of makes everything I went through worthwhile today: She's not even a brown-noser. Probably the most "real" kid I know. Wow. I'm doing a lot better since I got home. Hopefully I'm through the worst of this and will be able to function within relatively normal parameters tomorrow.
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Post by Prince Hal on Dec 19, 2023 16:44:59 GMT -5
Jeez, I hope so.
Your student's note is the fuel you'll use tomorrow. And she respects you for the same reasons we do: great lessons in reading and wisdom! Smart kid!
Keep doin' what you're doin', Shax.
Your feckin' supervisor and HR person don't have a clue. They should see this note and know how you dealt so well with this dilemma and see the regard your students have for you.
Of course, they'd think you concocted it.
Glad you're back kickin' it, pal.
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Post by impulse on Dec 19, 2023 16:55:26 GMT -5
Oh, my goodness, I am so sorry to hear about all of the trials and tribulations you guys are going through. MRPs_Missives, I'm so sorry to hear about the loss of your furry family, Bear. The universe is cruel to make their lives so much shorter than ours, but I am sure he was well loved in the life he had. shaxper, I am both so sorry and absolutely appalled at what you have had to endure both for your own sake and for your son with sick days and illness. First, I wish you a speedy recovery and miraculous improvement for your son. Second, I wish your employer comes to their senses and lets human empathy, compassion and common sense shine through and does not punish you for being sick, as if that is in your control. Personally, I think that the idea we are only "allowed" to get sick so many days a year, as if that is remotely controllable, is absolutely ludicrous. I hope there is a transformational change in how our country treats the health of its people. I cannot possibly share my full thoughts and feelings on this topic without blasting right through this forum's stomach for politics, so I'll leave it here. I am just outraged for you and hoping it works out in your favor. Best wishes to all of you, and I send whatever combination of good vibes, thoughts, prayers, well wishes or otherwise that you are most open to receive.
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Post by Batflunkie on Dec 19, 2023 16:59:53 GMT -5
Some days it just feels nice to write, you know? Picked back up on solo version of "The Mighty Mucaloids" that I introduced in my abandoned "Urban Decay: The Fairpount Diaries" story. It's sort of about these teens that live in the ravages of post-nuclear America who are later killed and for some reason reincarnated as tribal Muck-people on Mars. The main villains are the sinister Venusians who sort of look like Skeksis from the Dark Crystal
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