» Driven to Madness

Experience above all else
Reading these posts has really stirred some deep seated issues in me. What irritates me is when people say "I have more experience than you, listen to me above all else". Being fairly young, I get this alot and don't get me wrong, I always have time to listen to my elders who have been there, done that and often get some easy, quick way to do a job that would of taken me years to learn. However, what I do hate is when people are so insistent they are right due to their experience, they themselves won't listen to reason or anyone else's opinion, even if what they are doing is so clearly wrong, it makes you foam at the mouth with rage. As I work in Civil Engineering, this happens more often that I drink cups of tea. Even things like driving around sites. "I have more experience in driving than you, I will drive around etc etc." No matter he drives like Stevie Wonder and has has crashed the car twice in a week. Still insists on driving. Even things like simple formulas etc. I will prove it on calculators, paper, computer etc etc that we need to lengthen this section of works etc but "I've done it like this before, you know nothing young 'un". Then I simple sit back and watch as the bridge he is building is too short and he sits there like an ape scratching his head puzzled.

I also hate it when people can't accept responsibility for their actions. I then get blamed for the bridge issues (because I am young and an easy target and don't have the experience so it must of been me)and when I get home my Dad blames me for locking him out even though he was the last one out of the house and he had my keys.

Still prefer listening to "Experienced" people over being in a room with teachers.
(Tue 9th Oct 2012, 15:23, More)

» Driven to Madness

Teachers doing teachery things
I get really annoyed by teachers. My other half is a teacher and I get exposed to the teaching world frequently. Ever been in a room with teachers? It is hell. They all moan about, surprisingly, kids and their shitty behaviour. About how they have to mark books, how they have to work past official working hours etc etc etc, basically everything about their job. If you don't like kids, don't become a teacher, simple. I have taken that route and have a happy kid free life. Everyone knows kids these days are little shits, it's not a surprise they are shits in schools. They even moan about their holidays, not enough apparently! I remember my other half talking to another teacher just after the summer holidays and they were moaning about how it was too much to deal with coming straight back into work and that they should have a staggered rotation start for the first 2 weeks. All in front of me after I had been working the entire holidays while she sat at home scratching her arse and getting up past midday. She is now going on her 5th holiday of the year to some exotic place and I am stuck here. Poor teachers.

Consequently, I try and annoy every teacher I meet with lots of articles from people like the head of the Exam board and Ofsted etc etc about how teaching isn't that stressful, such as articles like this; www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-19683920 -All I get in return is "You don't understand how stressful it is blah blah blah bullshit" Yes, there is no profession as difficult as being a teacher. Soldiers in Afghanistan, watch out!
(Sat 6th Oct 2012, 14:54, More)