"Why won't people stay at work and wait for meeee?!"

[RootedPhoenix]

^ I'd hope so!

[XCashier]

Why do people assume that everyone in the world hates their jobs? I seriously love my job at the moment. I had a tonne of photocopying to do, as well as preparing lots of letters for the registers and memos for the teachers. I was quite happily doing this, while letting people in for evening classes. I was surrounded with paperwork, but I'm a freak and I find sorting out papers relaxing.

Me too! I prefer dealing with paper over dealing with people. I know, it's weird, but it's the way I am. That's why I left the fabric store job for the office job.

The old goat probably couldn't understand that concept. Or, being a miserable person, won't be satisfied until everyone around him is as miserable as he is.

[wolfie]

Tuesday

7pm Tuesday night, the buzzer goes, and I let a parent in. He has a very sulky looking teenage girl with him, who I recognise from one of my classes.

P: I am here to collect Sulky Girl's phone. It was confiscated earlier today. I have the signed letter here.

He goes to hand me it.

Me: I'm really sorry, but I am afraid I will not be able to get the phone for you. All confiscated items are placed in our safe overnight, and I do not have access to it.

Sulky Girl stamped her feet and made a noise that sounded like "Maaaaaaaarrrr"

P: What?! Well, she needs it back! Who can I speak to so I can get the phone?
Me: I am the only member of school staff in the building at the moment, all the office staff who have access to the safe will not be back in until tomorrow morning.

Alternate answer: You need to see Dr. Emmet Brown and ask to borrow his DeLorean.

[Kogarashi]

Thank you, Sarah V, for the compliment on my avie. I agree 100% about not allowing phones in the classroom. As a tween my daughter does not have a cellphone at all: if she's going somewhere she might potentially need one -- you know, for *emergencies* -- we give her an old one that doesn't have a sim card. It'll still call 911, and a pay phone will still make a collect call. So she doesn't get why her friends have to have their phones grafted to their hands because she's never been allowed to acquire the attitude.

I know! That's why Hubby and I have decided that unless things are way different by the time our Oldest becomes a teen, she's not getting a phone until she's driving, and only then so we can keep in touch with her (and it'll probably be something like a Tracphone or whatever, rather than a big shiny phone on our plan). And heaven help her if we ever find out she's using it to text in class or the like. If that were the case and her phone confiscated like Sulky Girl's, I'd be going into the school just to ask if they can leave it in the safe for a week for me.

[PepperElf]

I'd hate to think how Sulky Girl's grades are, given how slow the learning curve is in her gene pool.

now at least we know where Sucky Girl picked up the inability to hear instructions from...

[taxguykarl]

I'm on the side with deliberate. SG will definately learn not the use her cell in class if she's teachable in the first place.