u/Ok_Mycologist2361

I see so many posts on here about how teachers enjoy their work with the kids, but incompetent SLT and admin are ruining their lives, making them miserable, and making them hate their job.

My question is, really, on a day-to-day basis, how much are you actually having to interact with SLT?  Like you spend 4 hours a day with the kids that you claim to love working with, how many minutes per normal day are you spending in the company of your incompetent principal? How many daily exchanges are you having with that person that outweighs the four hours a day with kids that you say you love being around?

I’ve worked with incompetent bosses, and I’ve worked with competent bosses, and neither of them affected me on a day-to-day basis. I just don’t understand. Are people sharing a desk with this person(s) who they hate so much? Are they having to eat lunch with this person? Is this person following them around their classroom all day every day?  Are you having long daily meeting with this person?

Both schools I worked at had PD/meetings after school on Wednesdays. That was a drag, that was the worst time of the week. That was when I hated my principal and didn’t want to be there… but that was 1 hour out of my entire working week. 

I just don’t understand people who claim SLT are ruining their lives, because actually SLT interactions are 'minutes per day,' compared to the 'hours per day' you spend in your classroom with your kids. 

Here me out,

When we’re talking about attacking players, we can see most of the great stuff they do watching highlights of games. Whatever team you follow, you’ll see Rooneys best work every week when you’re catching up on the PL highlights from the weekend.

But I don’t see the ten times John Terry headed a cross away, or the 5 times he blocked a shot, or made a tackle. I just see the 1 time he’s beaten in the air by a striker. Attacking players also have Goals/Assit stats, which, while they aren’t everything, they are something.

You can form an (imperfect) opinion on an attacking player by watching game highlights and looking at G/A stats. You can’t for a defender. In fact the more highlights you watch, the more times you see them getting dribbled past.

As a Liverpool fan, I’ve watched Virgil Van Dijk and Sami Hyypia play over 100 hours of football. I’ve watched Carragher play 300 hours. I can form a valid opinion on the best Liverpool defenders of the past 25 years. But I’ve probably watched Sergio Ramos a total of 8-10 hours. I’ve probably watched Maldini play a few times when I was a child. I never saw Baresi. I might have watched Chellini play 5 times. How am I supposed to make an informed opinion on them? I’d just be regurgitating other’s opinions.

You would have to watch so many 90 minute games across different generations of each defender playing to have any evidence of who was the better defender.

So, Just stop it. You’re making it up.

Why does every discussion on the internet have to be about "who was better". Or "Prime player X was better than prime player Y"?

When I'm watching a game with my mates, or we're talking about football in the pub, we're not talking down one player (or team), in order to build up another player (or team).

We can reminisce about how good that Man United 08-09 team was, without it descending into an argument about whether or not they were better than Arsenal's 1998 team.

We can fondly remember and reminisce about Eden Hazard, without needing to put down or devalue Mo Salah.We can talk about what a beautiful player Thiago was to watch, we can talk about how underrated we think Michael Essien is.

We all have disagreements. We clash, we remember things differently. But my point is we don't sit there arguing over who was better, or worse. I can talk about how brilliant a defender John Terry was, without comparing him to Rio Ferdinand. Similarly another person could talk about how overrated he thought John Terry was, without saying "Ferdinand was so much better".

You all talk about football like it's a tennis/golf/boxing ranking system.

You don't need to shit on someone else's favourite player in order to big up your favourite player. You don't need to insist that your favourite players are better than someone elses favourite players.

I’m Executor, and whenever I pickup Hand of Melania, I’m always underwhelmed by it, and the L2 skill in-particular.

Is this a me thing? Or are Elenora’s Poleblade and Rivers of Blood considered the better option?