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DrPizza

DrPizza

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*yawwwwn*, been at the school since 7:15 this morning; went home to cook dinner and feed the goats around 5. Been back since 7. ..|.. to those who say "teachers only work 8 to 3." That is all.

Still have to prepare a presentation to the board, have to prepare a presentation for some tech group meeting (looks like I get a dinner out of it), and have about 30 more labs to grade before morning. (The presentations can wait a day, I guess.)

At least it's test, teach, review, test, test, test tomorrow; I can go on autopilot.

But, what's killing me is that from my desk, the motion detector can't see me. Every 120 seconds, the lights go out unless I'm sitting elsewhere in the room.

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DrPizza said:
*yawwwwn*, been at the school since 7:15 this morning; went home to cook dinner and feed the goats around 5. Been back since 7. ..|.. to those who say "teachers only work 8 to 3." That is all.

Still have to prepare a presentation to the board, have to prepare a presentation for some tech group meeting (looks like I get a dinner out of it), and have about 30 more labs to grade before morning. (The presentations can wait a day, I guess.)

At least it's test, teach, review, test, test, test tomorrow; I can go on autopilot.

But, what's killing me is that from my desk, the motion detector can't see me. Every 120 seconds, the lights go out unless I'm sitting elsewhere in the room.

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I had one college class in a room like that. IIRC, the lights went out every five minutes.
 
BoomerD said:
I had one college class in a room like that. IIRC, the lights went out every five minutes.
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There was a bathroom like that at a previous job. Really sucked when the lights went out just as I was dropping the kids off at the pool. Had to sit up a bit and start waving my arms in the air so the lights would come back on. :thumbsdown:
 
Can you swivel the motion detector to face you? Move the desk to it's line of sight? Rig a fan on low speed in it's line of sight? Would it detect the spinning fan blades as motion? Inquiring minds want to know.
 
Nobody seems to complain more about having to work extra than teachers. He's a clue, a lot of jobs suck and require you to work late, weekends, and, gasp.. SUMMERS.
 
Teachers need better pay...that's a fact..every great person in this world had a worthwhile teacher in there life..yet we barely pay them better than manual labor...shits skewed.
 
disappoint said:
Can you swivel the motion detector to face you? Move the desk to it's line of sight? Rig a fan on low speed in it's line of sight? Would it detect the spinning fan blades as motion? Inquiring minds want to know.
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I actually have one of those battery powered planes that you can hang on a string from the ceiling, and will fly around in circles. Sadly, I was out of AA batteries. But, never fear! I can stick a wad of aluminum foil as a spacer (and use the AAA batteries that I have piles of for graphing calculators.) Crap, I was out of aluminum foil too & decided it wasn't worth the bother to come up with something else.

I wish I could find the model of the motion detector somewhere - there are some dip switches; and I'm hoping I can reconfigure it for every 5 or 10 minutes or something.
 
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Fear No Evil said:
Nobody seems to complain more about having to work extra than teachers. He's a clue, a lot of jobs suck and require you to work late, weekends, and, gasp.. SUMMERS.
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Your legendary inability to comprehend text has struck again. I was NOT complaining about working late. I was complaining about assholes who complain about teachers. I see I found another one. (Oh, and I was also complaining about the damn motion detector. I got a full workout flailing my arms, jumping up and down from my seat, etc.)
 
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I just got home from work. I'm on my final few days of 5-2. Have to be up in three hours to get the boy off to school. I don't like being a grown up.

How are the goats?
 
DrPizza said:
Your legendary inability to comprehend text has struck again. I was NOT complaining about working late. I was complaining about assholes who complain about teachers. I see I found another one. (Oh, and I was also complaining about the damn motion detector. I got a full workout flailing my arms, jumping up and down from my seat, etc.)
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The only flailing I see is a teacher flailing around trying to make people think that their job is somehow different than every other job out there. Don't like it being called complaining, call it whining, call it whatever you want if you makes you feel better.

But seriously, why is it that teachers always want to point out how tough they have it? You don't see any posts about firefighters complaining that they had to work late because they had to go put out a bunch of fires, or policemen complaining that they had to work late because a bunch of teachers decided to march on the state capital to complain about having to pay 15% toward their healthcare or pension costs. It just seems to be the teachers who seem to feel the need to justify themselves.
 
zanejohnson said:
Teachers need better pay...that's a fact..every great person in this world had a worthwhile teacher in there life..yet we barely pay them better than manual labor...shits skewed.
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That's the problem, people had a FEW worthwhile teachers and a whole bunch that were on, and I quote: "Autopilot". The unions protect the autopilots while the true great teachers get the same pay as those who don't give a crap. Act like a professional and get paid and fired based on your performance instead of acting like the 'manual labor' and hiding behind a union and they might get paid better.
 
DrPizza said:
I actually have one of those battery powered planes that you can hang on a string from the ceiling, and will fly around in circles. Sadly, I was out of AA batteries. But, never fear! I can stick a wad of aluminum foil as a spacer (and use the AAA batteries that I have piles of for graphing calculators.) Crap, I was out of aluminum foil too & decided it wasn't worth the bother to come up with something else.

I wish I could find the model of the motion detector somewhere - there are some dip switches; and I'm hoping I can reconfigure it for every 5 or 10 minutes or something.
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Obviously the school doesn't have a lot of instances of people working late or this probably would have been resolved already.

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But seriously, lighten up.. I'm just screwing with you. BTW, its 3AM and I just finished up some stuff for work as well.. will head back in at 8 as well.
 
Soccerman06 said:
Ive been working 5x10s and 8 on sat for a few months now, must suck only having to do the occasional 8
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Yep. If you're used to it, its just part of life. I've been on six days for a couple months and its looking like that won't change before the new year. Its not any kind of a big deal anymore. Talk to me in February when I'll be complaining about working 40 hours. (PS: doc works crazy hours all the time IIRC)
 
rudeguy said:
Yep. If you're used to it, its just part of life. I've been on six days for a couple months and its looking like that won't change before the new year. Its not any kind of a big deal anymore. Talk to me in February when I'll be complaining about working 40 hours. (PS: doc works crazy hours all the time IIRC)
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Yeah, Im use to it by now, but it sucks none the less having no life outside of work.
 
I think a broad sheet of paper, hung from the ceiling on a string would generate enough movement to trigger a motion sensor. No batteries needed ;^)
 
On most models you can change the sensitivity and range for the OS. In all reality though, that's just bad design by the EE.
 
Fear No Evil said:
But seriously, why is it that teachers always want to point out how tough they have it?
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Because people who have never done a full school year of teaching like to try and point out how 'easy' it is.

You don't see any posts about firefighters complaining that they had to work late because they had to go put out a bunch of fires, or policemen complaining that they had to work late because a bunch of teachers decided to march on the state capital to complain about having to pay 15% toward their healthcare or pension costs. It just seems to be the teachers who seem to feel the need to justify themselves.
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Or it could be because people use teachers as a central idiological arguing point far more often than police and firefighters and come under fire FAR more often
 
Just putting it out there, but if there weren't the regularly scheduled breaks there wouldn't be any teachers. You absolutely need the time off as a teacher to recharge.
 
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