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Gamajorba
Joined: 03 May 2015 Posts: 357
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Posted: Fri May 08, 2015 9:21 am Post subject: Workplace annoyances |
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So, is there anything about your workplace that irks you in particular?
For me, it's the severe lack of communication and organisation, and ultimately end up doing such things for the management team who seemingly haven't the foggiest about what's going on.
That, and the fact there's rarely any drinking water available in a country where drinking tap water is just not pleasant at all! |
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Sashadroogie
Joined: 17 Apr 2007 Posts: 11061 Location: Moskva, The Workers' Paradise
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Posted: Fri May 08, 2015 2:46 pm Post subject: |
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Newly-minted Celta teachers holding forth on Chomsky. Sets my teeth on edge. |
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spiral78
Joined: 05 Apr 2004 Posts: 11534 Location: On a Short Leash
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Posted: Fri May 08, 2015 3:19 pm Post subject: |
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Workplace? We have carpet and curtains in some of the classrooms that aggravate my asthma. And the elevators can be slow sometimes. |
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scot47
Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343
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Posted: Fri May 08, 2015 3:56 pm Post subject: |
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Colleagues stealing teabags. And toilet paper. When they have a net, disposable income of US$4,000 a month.
I mean if you are too stingy to buy sh*** paper,,,,,,,,,,,,,, |
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jaffa
Joined: 25 Oct 2012 Posts: 403
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Posted: Fri May 08, 2015 4:11 pm Post subject: |
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scot47 wrote: |
Colleagues stealing teabags. And toilet paper. When they have a net, disposable income of US$4,000 a month.
I mean if you are too stingy to buy sh*** paper,,,,,,,,,,,,,, |
You'd think they'd go native in the Middle East. |
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Gamajorba
Joined: 03 May 2015 Posts: 357
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Posted: Fri May 08, 2015 7:26 pm Post subject: |
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scot47 wrote: |
Colleagues stealing teabags. And toilet paper. When they have a net, disposable income of US$4,000 a month.
I mean if you are too stingy to buy sh*** paper,,,,,,,,,,,,,, |
Oh I know someone like that in Saudi Arabia. He takes sauce packets from restaurants because he doesn't want to buy ketchup and mayonnaise etc :/ |
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Hod
Joined: 28 Apr 2003 Posts: 1613 Location: Home
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Posted: Fri May 08, 2015 8:04 pm Post subject: Re: Workplace annoyances |
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Gamajorba wrote: |
That, and the fact there's rarely any drinking water available in a country where drinking tap water is just not pleasant at all! |
I can cut your workplace annoyances in half right now: Every day, buy some bottles of water on the way to work.
If that's 50% of your complaints, you must be living in a great place right now. |
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Gamajorba
Joined: 03 May 2015 Posts: 357
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Posted: Fri May 08, 2015 8:31 pm Post subject: Re: Workplace annoyances |
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Hod wrote: |
Gamajorba wrote: |
That, and the fact there's rarely any drinking water available in a country where drinking tap water is just not pleasant at all! |
I can cut your workplace annoyances in half right now: Every day, buy some bottles of water on the way to work.
If that's 50% of your complaints, you must be living in a great place right now. |
It's not, believe me. |
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water rat
Joined: 30 Aug 2014 Posts: 1098 Location: North Antarctica
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Posted: Fri May 08, 2015 11:43 pm Post subject: Re: Workplace annoyances |
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Gamajorba wrote: |
...there's rarely any drinking water available in a country where drinking tap water is just not pleasant at all! |
And yet. And yet! In Las Vegas where I last lived, where you'd think they had quite an advanced water filtration and distribution system because it is the desert, and it's an affluent city that must cater to well heeled guests from all over the planet, the tap water has an aftertaste. You can feel it in your body, you take on a metallic scent and are ever aware of your own soft palate - while here in this Gobi desert city in which I live that boasts a river the madmen Chinese installed by hand, I simply filter (filter 5 yuan) and boil my tap water (electric kettle 40 yuan) and it's far superior to First World water.
So what's the topic? Workplace annoyances? You want to mitch and bone about the horrid non-western country you went to live in on your own volition because they'll pay you more than you could ever make at home? Well, go ahead and do so, but be very careful about making generalizations. The world is just too vast and varied a place for that.
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Gamajorba
Joined: 03 May 2015 Posts: 357
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Posted: Sat May 09, 2015 8:07 am Post subject: Re: Workplace annoyances |
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OK, I *did* say that the water thing was only a minor thing, there are OTHER things that get me within a workplace, the water was just an EXAMPLE.
So we can drop the water thing now, and move onto something else
Another thing that gets me personally, is watching colleagues from different companies acting like they run the show and ordering other people around, then complain when they actually have to teach a class.
^ there you go, another example. No doubt that happens elsewhere too. |
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scot47
Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343
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Posted: Sat May 09, 2015 8:19 pm Post subject: |
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Honkies that complain all the time. |
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nomad soul
Joined: 31 Jan 2010 Posts: 11454 Location: The real world
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Posted: Sat May 09, 2015 8:32 pm Post subject: |
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scot47 wrote: |
Honkies that complain all the time. |
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Gamajorba
Joined: 03 May 2015 Posts: 357
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Posted: Sun May 10, 2015 4:03 pm Post subject: |
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scot47 wrote: |
Honkies that complain all the time. |
Hey, just trying to add some 'lively' debate here...different experiences from different people with different backgrounds and all! |
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Jultime
Joined: 25 Jun 2014 Posts: 113 Location: Mexico
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Posted: Tue May 12, 2015 6:00 pm Post subject: |
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Air conditioning....I really miss air conditioning.
But in the general scheme of things I'd rather have no air conditioning than endure a 6 month Canadian winter.
So I'm not complaining |
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Gamajorba
Joined: 03 May 2015 Posts: 357
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Posted: Thu May 14, 2015 5:52 am Post subject: |
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Jultime wrote: |
Air conditioning....I really miss air conditioning.
But in the general scheme of things I'd rather have no air conditioning than endure a 6 month Canadian winter.
So I'm not complaining |
Funny, I've been bearing the brunt about AC complaints from my students all week! |
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