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Job Corps Inanity
Nov. 24th, 2010 06:40 pmLast Thursday after school we had one of our assemblies. One of the staff women vented about incidents of bullying and how you're all adults and should act like it and not act like high school. I know it's not impossible for 16 and 17-year olds to act mature, but I'm not going to expect a mass of them to all act mature. Most of the people I've seen in Job Corps are in the 16-19 range instead of 20-24 range and only a handful who stayed past the 24th birthday.
At Monday morning assembly, a different staff woman told everyone her cell phone was stolen from her office when she was in a room over, helping a student pick-out professional clothing. (There's some racks of clothing and you have to go through her if you need an outfit to dress-up for job interviews and such.) She went-on and said she prayed to God that nothing good would come to the person who stole it. I wonder how'd she react if someone were to rob her life savings or a bank.
There was a previous week in which a security student had to sit in my class. The kid and my instructor got into a discussion where the instructor kept-on saying we're employees. Monday or Tuesday in conversation with the new basic computer trade teacher, he described us as students. Other class mates called him on the fact that this fits-in with the center calling us employees or students based more on their convenience than any actual sense.
Today's lunch was a family-style served Thanksgiving (as in, we sit at tables and pass the serving plates to each other instead of standing in line.) Before the meal, the same woman from Monday said a pray to the cafe. Instead of Amen, I said Cthulu loud enough for my table to hear. If I had slightly more nerve, I would have said it loud enough for the entire cafeteria to hear. Then if any staff had tried to describe me as rude, I'd just point-out I'm a non-Christian and this is a government facility, so there's no way in hell I'm saying Amen and I don't appreciate being part of a group of people being led in prayer. Next week when we're back, I'll ask my mentor who I should log a complaint that being led in prayer can be offensive to people of other practices or lack of practices.
At Monday morning assembly, a different staff woman told everyone her cell phone was stolen from her office when she was in a room over, helping a student pick-out professional clothing. (There's some racks of clothing and you have to go through her if you need an outfit to dress-up for job interviews and such.) She went-on and said she prayed to God that nothing good would come to the person who stole it. I wonder how'd she react if someone were to rob her life savings or a bank.
There was a previous week in which a security student had to sit in my class. The kid and my instructor got into a discussion where the instructor kept-on saying we're employees. Monday or Tuesday in conversation with the new basic computer trade teacher, he described us as students. Other class mates called him on the fact that this fits-in with the center calling us employees or students based more on their convenience than any actual sense.
Today's lunch was a family-style served Thanksgiving (as in, we sit at tables and pass the serving plates to each other instead of standing in line.) Before the meal, the same woman from Monday said a pray to the cafe. Instead of Amen, I said Cthulu loud enough for my table to hear. If I had slightly more nerve, I would have said it loud enough for the entire cafeteria to hear. Then if any staff had tried to describe me as rude, I'd just point-out I'm a non-Christian and this is a government facility, so there's no way in hell I'm saying Amen and I don't appreciate being part of a group of people being led in prayer. Next week when we're back, I'll ask my mentor who I should log a complaint that being led in prayer can be offensive to people of other practices or lack of practices.
