Real life reality tv, part whatever

[emmuzka]

(Mrs. Short Fuse arrives at least 30 minutes late every single day. The Evil Contestant have greeted her this far, but nowadays she is always so enchanted by the teaching going on at the same time that she “forgets” to greet the late arriving Short Fuse.)

The next coffee break:

Mrs. Short Fuse: ( making conversation) I just can’t arrive in time, it’s so hard for me to get up!
Evil Contestant: So, were you always late from your work place, too?
Mrs. Short Fuse: (proudly) No, but I was always the last one to arrive!
Evil Contestant: Uh. Okay.

(commercial break)

*The day’s teacher is a work place psychologist*

*people talk about healthy work environment*
Mrs. Short Fuse: (pours out a personal work place related trauma, thinly wailed as a question to the teacher)
Mrs. Always-on-the-phone: (pours out another personal work place related trauma, thinly wailed as a question to the teacher)
Teacher: (offers a suggestion for handling the situation)
Mrs. Always-on-the-phone: No!
Teacher: (Offers another suggestion)
Mrs. Always-on-the-phone: No! Get real!
Mrs. Short Fuse: Gets a bit hostile
Mrs. Always-on-the-phone: Gets hostile
Teacher: Gets frustrated
Mrs. Short Fuse: STARTS YELLING
Mrs. Always-on-the-phone: STARTS YELLING
Evil Contestant: Listen up, people! Would you please stop throwing your personal traumas to the teacher! He can’t solve your issues!
Mrs. Always-on-the-phone: You don’t have to defend him! And you shut up, you have no real work place experience!
Evil Contestant: I’m not defending him, he is totally capable for doing that himself! And woe me and boo hoo with no experience!
Everybody: AAAARGH!
Miss Sensible: Could we please give the teacher a chance to answer to the original question?
*people settle down*

*later*
Miss Sensible: What a work place simulation, huh? (throws a barb to the Evil Contestant for getting involved with the fight)
Evil Contestant: I think this rather as a group forming simulation. You know, first getting-to-know-you, then everyone is having “so much fun”, then fighting, then peace. We just did the fighting.
Miss Sensible: Yeah, there is that.

Comments

[linblad.livejournal.com]

Kun ammatin puolesta tekee välillä myös henkiseen työsuojeluun liittyviä juttuja ja ennen kaikkea seuraa lähimpien kollegojen pääasiallista työtä asian parissa, niin ei käy kateeksi. Ympäristöasioissa riittää, kun välillä osaa hiukan leikkiä psykologia, mutta työsuojelupuolella pitää olla päätoiminen psykiatri...

Ilmeisesti toisen kanavan kilpailevaa ohjelmaa (Real Work Place Interaction In Our Channel Now!) kuvataan joka päivä joillakin meidän osastoistamme. Mutta enemmänkin Mrs Always Positive - identiteetillä varustettuna en osaa kuvata sitä puoliksikaan noin hauskasti. Päivän piristys :)

[emmuzka.livejournal.com]

toisen kanavan kilpailevaa ohjelmaa (Real Work Place Interaction In Our Channel Now!)

Hahaha!
Mutta oikeasti, työyhteisöissä esiintyy sellasta riitelyä, kanamaisuutta, tyhmyyttä, kiusaamista ja vallanhalua että ei ole tottakaan.

[arye-sarin.livejournal.com]

Mrs. Short Fuse starts to sound like someone I know (=the person I have been ranting about in my own lj sometimes. One of the few people in this world that really makes me annoyed as hell)...especially with that part where she is almost proud that she is always late. But it's not her. So that means there are more people like that. Argh!!

I wonder when will your teacher suffer a burn-out? I would have quit that job a long time ago.

[emmuzka.livejournal.com]

Thankfully we have a number of teachers who rotate.

The problem with the world's Mrs. Short Fuses is that they first seem to be so nice. They seem to be interested in you and want you to be in in their "inside jokes", like being deliberatly late from lunch hour etc. But if you cross them? Not so nice anymore.

[omega-h.livejournal.com]

I have one in my class. She's always lare. For everything! And she's not even sorry about it :(

[emmuzka.livejournal.com]

I think that my contestant actually orchestrated a late-for-lunch-campaign, at least subconsciously..

[rikes]

Mrs. Short Fuse: (proudly) No, but I was always the last one to arrive!

AHAHAHAHAHA. I know people who are always late for class, but none of them are proud of it. ;)

[emmuzka.livejournal.com]

Oh, if only. I know people who have much more important things to do than being on time.

[tvillingar.livejournal.com]

I just can’t arrive in time, it’s so hard for me to get up!

My excuse for being late is that I seem to lack motivation and enthusiasm for my work. Or workplace. Whatever. It just doesn't seem worth the fuss anymore (and I'm not proud of it).

[emmuzka.livejournal.com]

I can understand that. I am, on the other hand, somehow inherited a gene that says respect the system, even when there is intellectually or emotionally no respect left. So, I tend to be on time at work, not taking sick leaves easily and being silent in class, just for the respect of the situation. Which is pretty weird compared to the diricule that I'm spreading in my lj...

[anglepoiselamp.livejournal.com]

*poke* When exactly are you leaving for Helsinki? I mean, I think I'll have your neckwarmer finished by Sunday, if you have time to come pick it up at some point. Sadly I'm somewhat crippled at the moment, otherwise I'd bring it over myself.

Also, I'm not entirely sure if it's wearable, but we'll soon see. I take no responsibility if someone's head gets permanently stuck in the damn thing and requires surgery. :D

[emmuzka.livejournal.com]

I left on friday already. Oh my neck warmer thingy! I will pick it up the next time I'm in Turku. I don't know yeat when that will be, but I'll let you know!

ps. No downloading of any kind for me for three months. How can I survive?!