marie2005 wrote:

Well working at a Daycare (with 3 year olds):

* If a child sneezes directly into your mouth; you will get their cold.
* If a child drinks from a urinal and then sneezes on you; you will get their cold.
* If you ask a child to wash their hands after they sneeze, they will touch you first and you will get their cold.
* If you sit next to a child during meal time they well sneeze on your food and you will get their cold.
* If you hug a child they will wipe their snot on you and you will get their cold.
* If you wipe a child’s nose and then wash your hands somehow, you will get their cold.

True stuff! Sometimes I don't think you need to be stood near them to get their cold!

Thing's I've learnt whilst volunteering for Oxfam:

Volunteer for Scope.

Akra wrote:

I was reading something on another forum called "things I have learned as a nurse" and I was in stitches all night last night from reading them! Unfortunately, I'm no nurse. I'm a bio teacher, but I have my own share of "things I've learned" from my students. So here I go.

- Biology is not synonymous with "sex ed."

- When you skip my class, I'm less likely to believe that you "overslept" when you have a status on your Facebook that says "don't feel like school today..." at 7:00am.

- Oh, and while I'm at it, it's probably a bad idea to add me on Facebook while you're taking my class.

- Teachers DO take roll. So your excuse of "I had clinicals today at the trade school" will work until your trade school instructor sends me an e-mail asking for a copy of your doctor's excuse you claimed I had.

- Just because we happen to be pregnant at the same time doesn't mean that I will stop what I'm doing and skip over to the reproduction chapter to make you "feel better about yourself."

- When I give you my personal cell phone number (I have since stopped doing this) to call in case you need help with homework, DO NOT call said phone to tell me that "My dad thinks you're cute and would like to ask you out." Even worse when said dad is still married to his estranged wife.

- I like when you apply your learning to real life. Just don't come up to me and ask who I think the father of the baby you're pregnant with is, and then proceed to give me the day of your last period, when you slept with your boyfriend, and then when you slept with his friend.

- If you think something has gone wrong with your grade or I have entered it wrong, feel free to correct me. But don't get in my face and threaten to sue me for "racism" because you "believe" that you deserve a higher grade. I just MIGHT forget to correct your grade.

And these are just a few of oh so many. What have you learned from your field of work? Any crazy clients/patients/students (etc.) that you have learned from?

This is more like what your students have learned from your profession, or what you've taught them, lol.

brandedastar wrote:

The number one thing I've learned from being a substance abuse counselor:

The majority of people in treatment fit into one of the following categories: thankless, ungrateful, selfish, sense of false entitlement, or inability to accept personal responsibility.

Hey! I don't need your help, and I don't owe you anything! Give that to me!, that's mine!. I didn't do anything wrong!

^^ in a nutshell. 

Oh noes, I accidentally missed one in my nutshell

"I deserve it"

brandedastar wrote:

The number one thing I've learned from being a substance abuse counselor:

The majority of people in treatment fit into one of the following categories: thankless, ungrateful, selfish, sense of false entitlement, or inability to accept personal responsibility.

I would say that sounded harsh if I hadn't seen it for myself...and you're right.

I miss seeing you around here.

These are the things my Husband and his coworkers have learned as gas station employees and what I've learned while waiting for a ride home there:

* Drunks are just as amusing as they are irritating.  I quote from a quote told to me by the night shift cashier, "Was mickey Mouse a Cat or a Dog?"

* When already high, drug heads have no grip.  Day shift found a 1/2 ounce cocaine rock in a 5 dollar bill on the floor by the candy.

* Most of those that work in Gas station have no shame about where they get extra money.  Day shift worker that found the rock, tossed it and kept the 5.

* Lady's between the ages of 30 and 55 like getting carded for cigarettes if they are not in a bad mood.

* Just because the employees SAY they swept the bathrooms, doesn't mean they actually did it.

* Public toilets are a favorite hiding spot for Drug dealers to make drop offs.  Over $10000 in heroine have been found in the back part of the girls toilet alone so far.

* Just because you spend three months of pay on lottery tickets doesn't ensure that you'll at least break even.

There are many, many more, but I can't put them into conceavable lessons at the moment.

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I learned the hard way as a graphic designer that...

1) Some customers can be so stupid as to choose such an ugly and plain looking design for name cards even after everyone in the company and myself told them that it's hideous...

2) That my supervisor can be so particular and fussy even when it's obvious that the customer doesn't care about the details as long as they want the printing done immediately...

3) That even if I intended to do a design based on CMYK colours, it will came out as RGB colours just because my computer's screen setting is in RGB...