She did it without my prior knowledge & before I returned home from a 14 hour shift.... I did however remonstrate with her.... It’s fine though he (the baby) is 19 now & strong as an ox (must get that from his mum & his dashing good looks from me)
I've always thought bin men, street cleaners, don't get enough credit. A horrible job but vital. Bravi binmen.
I thought you were going to round out this feel good story by saying your son’s 19 and has become a lazy bin man!
My grandfather was a road sweeper in his village after he retired from the pit got looked down on by the well-to-do types. No one replaced him. On the doctor front it's an issue in the UK working for free it needs to stop it's not a workable system
I will be putting in a few hours this weekend. I have to write about 70 reports by Monday morning. And, of course, I have to have a plan for each of the 25 hours of classroom teaching I will be doing next week. We get some planning and prep time built in to our timetable, but it gets eaten up quickly. If I set a piece of work for one class of 20 pupils and were to spend just 5 minutes reading and marking each piece, that would be an hour and forty minutes of work. Multiply that by whatever number you think would be appropriate to spend on looking at the work of the 100 kids I teach each week, bearing in mind that I am accountable for their continuing progress in my subject... I lost some time this morning talking to a pupil who was tearful, rather than going to print off some materials I needed later in the morning, so I had to spend half of my 20-minute break going to print that stuff out; my only break in a four-hour morning of contact time. I take shortcuts where I can and I don't stay at work from 7.30 am to 5.30pm so yeah I suppose I'm one of those lazy ones. There's lots I still enjoy about the job; being judged for my efforts by Daily Mail readers is not one of them... Today in a sixth-form class I found myself veering off the 20th-century poetry we were analysing because one of the pupils asked me a question about a detail from Act One of Hamlet. I don't teach the text, but such is the nature of the job that it is a matter of pride, credibility and professional competence to be able to respond knowledgeably. Part of why I get paid is because I can do that, because I have put in some serious hard yards developing a wide knowledge of texts, writers and critical theory through a BA, MA and PGCE at three different universities and beyond. How lazy of me. I know your post was supportive and I thank you for it. Apologies for getting into a bit of a rant. I love my subject and care about what I do; the fact that my work is not generally respected comes with the job. That makes me sad...
I respect your job, but then again, I’m not a Daily Mail reader…… perhaps there’s a connection there somewhere
indeed very true I seem to remember a similar post on here before , A guy who worked for me years back has now got his own business he has a contract with the local health centres, I am semi retired I lend him a hand now and then I’m happy to do the task of litter picking Collecting the empty cider cans scratch cards and discarded stuff etc from the hedge’s, Probably about one in ten people will bother to speak to me as they shuffle past to get the train I give them more thought than they do to me Funnily enough, remember that Deacon Blue song
our refuse collectors, run behind the truck from house to house, in rain and baking sunshine.. would you do that for a month ....before you judge them..?
Eddie Yates..20 years ago Our bin men were ace before we moved to the boat, my dads go get his bin from round the back if ever he's away.. and carry treats for his dogs who run out to meet them every week. Sent from my SM-G973F using Tapatalk
