Just because the teachers were smart enough to negotiate contract days for clerical tasks without students present doesn’t mean you have to get so nasty about it.

My husband works from 6 am until 530 pm at school mon-fri, and still ends up taking the grading for his 200 students home with him for the weekend. (High school math).

The summer has several required training courses. He does end up with about a month off during the 8 weeks of summer break.

He has missed more family events due to his job than I ever will…and I am an ICU nurse who works weekend and holiday rotations. In an inner city school he had his life threatened by a student. In another he had students confess drug addictions, abuse, the students confide in him. He makes all of 39000 a year after 8 years of his profession, I make almost double that after 5 years of mine. I work only 3 shifts a week (12 hours a piece).

Can’t we vent about our jobs in healthcare without slamming other professions?
All Right missy, why dont you just simmer down and re-read my post? There was not one word in that post that was slamming teachers or the work they do. You prove ONE NEGATIVE STATEMENT AND I WILL RETRACT IT. I said I would like to have a “pharmacist work day” without all the patients…so i can get some of my other work done. END OF STORY..

At one time, there really were hours called “bankers’ hours.” Bank lobbies would open at 09:00 and close at 15:00. Six lousy hours, and hours where their clientele would have to line up dutifully at their windows, and always with one window with a table sign that read, “Next window, please.” WTF? If you’re only working for six hours, folks, you better staff EVERY friggin’ window in the place so we don’t have to wait for you to print your little receipts.

The Angriest Pharmacist just posted the story of a lady who gave the pharmacy staff a very hard time about looking her record up by birthday (the “don’t ask a woman how old she is” thing, which I thought was something that ended with the burning of the bras in the 1970s). I read the post carefully, and saw how cruelly the pharmacy staff was being treated. What would happen if you treated your bank teller the same way? Would she/he not cash your check? I wouldn’t blame him/her.

And no, I’ve never taken one, either.