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Post by Travis605 on Mar 17, 2021 8:30:41 GMT -5
Twenty + years ago I worked at a body shop fixing and painting cars. Real tough hard working guys. Except for one dude who was always jerking around. I’ll never forget the final straw was when he showed up an hour late on day lights saving day, claiming to have forgotten about the time change. He was obviously full of crap (and finally admitted it to me later). The boss canned him on the spot, but I’ll never forget his horrible acting job pretending to truly have forgotten about the time change while everybody else made it in on time. I bet a lot of people try that trick and fail. A friend that had a restaurant said one of his employees tried once. It wasn’t a Sunday or a Monday...but a Tuesday.
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Post by Gunslinger on Mar 17, 2021 8:37:05 GMT -5
Years ago, a friend and I were driving home from Chicago to St. Louis on the night of the time change. That extra hour of sleep doesn't mean as much when you get home at 7 AM.
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Post by stu on Mar 17, 2021 8:53:43 GMT -5
The older I get the less I like the time swaps...seriously, by the time I am sleeping what passes as normal for me, it's darn near time to switch. I understand why it was brought into use, but I do believe that it's not necessary any more - no one is "saving" any daylight, it's there all the time and we just mess with our bio-rhythm switching back and forth... (and I too am wondering what "retail" has to do with this topic?) Pete...I'm with you. The DST change messes me up for at least a week, maybe more (I know, I know....1st World problems! ). Just drives me nuts...let's just live in DST!
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Post by j on Mar 17, 2021 11:59:19 GMT -5
I voted no but this year it worked out nice. I started a new job this week and I start work an hour later than at my old job but with the time change its had no affect getting used to it.
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Post by Chad Olson on Mar 21, 2021 21:52:12 GMT -5
Snow days are definitely still a thing. Some of the teachers love them as much as the kids do. Our school district is having snow days even though there were online learning days on Wednesdays. They wanted the kids to have some normalcy to their school year. Some of the surrounding districts didn't do it, and if there were snow days, they were online learning days. I think that's incredibly hard for teachers to have to pivot and immediately make lesson plans in an online, instead of a classroom, environment.
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Post by Chad Olson on Mar 21, 2021 21:52:45 GMT -5
And I too, hate Daylight Savings Time. Screws up my sleeping schedule for at least a week!
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Post by Swarm on Mar 22, 2021 8:06:14 GMT -5
Snow days are definitely still a thing. Some of the teachers love them as much as the kids do. Our school district is having snow days even though there were online learning days on Wednesdays. They wanted the kids to have some normalcy to their school year. Some of the surrounding districts didn't do it, and if there were snow days, they were online learning days. I think that's incredibly hard for teachers to have to pivot and immediately make lesson plans in an online, instead of a classroom, environment. I agree. The twins started in one school this year where it was online teaching. The teacher struggled badly. She was a great teacher, just older and unfamiliar with online teaching. Some days it took an hour to just to get things going because of all the issues with online (on both her side and with some of the kids going offline, playing w the filters etc...). So we moved them to a school where they jump on a bus and attend regular school all week. So they had many snow days. At one point they 6 days off in a row. Luckily for us, both the wife and I have been working remote from home, so it isn’t a big deal. Not a fan of online teaching. When it’s one on one or the kids are in there smaller reading groups it was fine. But when all the kids are in a Zoom room at once it’s more like Galacticon. Just a giant free for all.
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