Week 14: Day 1
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I'M SO FREAKING HAPPY!!!!
Today is the first day of my last week of classes FOREVERRRRRR!!!
I can't even believe it!!
I was practically singing when I arrived to class this morning, and I was singing when I got home, and I just want to jump up and down screaming!
I'm spending most of today studying for my Anatomy lab final exam on Wednesday, and am feeling pretty good about it!
Today in my Psychology of Work class, one of my class friends did his presentation (with 2 other group mates) on Motivation in Unionized and Non-Unionized workplaces. They showed clips from a video that made me cry with happiness. The employee who had complained about unsatisfactory working conditions on a factory floor, who actually passed out unconscious from lack of heat control, was given a $10,000 bonus. When she told her boss that her fiance had suffered a stroke the night before, her boss offered her another $10,000 to help with the medical bills. Her boss also gave her and her fiance a one-week paid vacation to Vegas!! WHY?!! Because when there is no union involved, and an employee gets treated poorly, the organization is put under more pressure to retain their employees. When a union is involved, the union takes care of these types of grievances, and as such while the employees *can* be treated better, they are far less motivated in their jobs. The employer also has no reason to improve things beyond what the union stipulates. I hated unions before this class but I hate unions even more now knowing there is research backing up my distaste of them.
(the clip was from a series called "CEO Undercover" or something...apparently, it was a compelling TV show?)
I finished another 2 units of material for my Human Growth and Development class. Now I'm only 2 units behind. :) When I went over the material with my tutor yesterday, she reassured me that things which I could not find answers to in ANY of the course material we were given was not in my head, these questions really did not pertain to anything we had learned. What a shit show has been. It's unfortunate that the material is so poorly designed and that the course supervisor (it's an online course, so we don't have a "prof" per se, just the tutor marker to talk with online) is a fuck wit who examines us on random useless shit that doesn't pertain to the central theme of the course, or any of the unit objectives and study questions. The material is actually pretty interesting! The one saving grace of this course is that we had 4 assignments to do, each worth 10% of our grade. The assignments are marked pretty easily...or I am just rocking the shit out of them. Basically, if I show up to the final, I should pass the course no problem. :P
Other very exciting changes are in progress or on the horizon, and that is also contributing to my SUPER STOKED feelings on life! :D :D :D eeeeeeeeee yay!
I'M SO FREAKING HAPPY!!!!
Today is the first day of my last week of classes FOREVERRRRRR!!!
I can't even believe it!!
I was practically singing when I arrived to class this morning, and I was singing when I got home, and I just want to jump up and down screaming!
I'm spending most of today studying for my Anatomy lab final exam on Wednesday, and am feeling pretty good about it!
Today in my Psychology of Work class, one of my class friends did his presentation (with 2 other group mates) on Motivation in Unionized and Non-Unionized workplaces. They showed clips from a video that made me cry with happiness. The employee who had complained about unsatisfactory working conditions on a factory floor, who actually passed out unconscious from lack of heat control, was given a $10,000 bonus. When she told her boss that her fiance had suffered a stroke the night before, her boss offered her another $10,000 to help with the medical bills. Her boss also gave her and her fiance a one-week paid vacation to Vegas!! WHY?!! Because when there is no union involved, and an employee gets treated poorly, the organization is put under more pressure to retain their employees. When a union is involved, the union takes care of these types of grievances, and as such while the employees *can* be treated better, they are far less motivated in their jobs. The employer also has no reason to improve things beyond what the union stipulates. I hated unions before this class but I hate unions even more now knowing there is research backing up my distaste of them.
(the clip was from a series called "CEO Undercover" or something...apparently, it was a compelling TV show?)
I finished another 2 units of material for my Human Growth and Development class. Now I'm only 2 units behind. :) When I went over the material with my tutor yesterday, she reassured me that things which I could not find answers to in ANY of the course material we were given was not in my head, these questions really did not pertain to anything we had learned. What a shit show has been. It's unfortunate that the material is so poorly designed and that the course supervisor (it's an online course, so we don't have a "prof" per se, just the tutor marker to talk with online) is a fuck wit who examines us on random useless shit that doesn't pertain to the central theme of the course, or any of the unit objectives and study questions. The material is actually pretty interesting! The one saving grace of this course is that we had 4 assignments to do, each worth 10% of our grade. The assignments are marked pretty easily...or I am just rocking the shit out of them. Basically, if I show up to the final, I should pass the course no problem. :P
Other very exciting changes are in progress or on the horizon, and that is also contributing to my SUPER STOKED feelings on life! :D :D :D eeeeeeeeee yay!