One thing they get wrong in films or TV dramas about your job

[KarlWrenbury]

In schools. That boyfriends (invariably ) could just turn up in classes
See. Bruce almighty. Yesterday. Cheaters.

Another teacher one - all you have to do to turn an unruly bunch of teenagers into your devoted disciples is to bring it to their level. Start rapping at them! Turn a maths lesson into a discussion about running a business! Etc etc. They will be rapt and then amazed and surprised that they were learning poetry and percentages all along.

Ha! As every teacher knows, having tried this once during the bright-eyed days of their PGCE, all that happens is they now hate you twice, once for having the temerity to try to teach them stuff and secondly for being total cringe. Also it makes you want to die.

(Recently seen in practice on schools in heatwaves thread where apparently any fule no that a Mini Milk and a game of Monopoly is regarded as a treat beyond words for your average year 10, and six hours of that in 38 degree heat will be a pleasure for all, if you just put your mind to it).

That all secretaries wear those straight skirts with heels.

Secretaries (everywhere where I worked at least) tend to be the first go-to person for all kind of technical and IT problems. I've spent enough time under desks, behind copiers and under a shredder fixing stuff. Comfortable clothes are a must imo.

That all secretaries wear those straight skirts with heels

or that everyone wears heels, if female.

heels in the lab, heels at the crime scene, heels in the hospital.

This was exactly DH's knowledge of child birth!! Oh how I laughed!!

It did make me laugh which wasn't a bad thing when I was feeling so rotten but it is totally mad. I don't think the average 5 year old would think it was a good idea.

As the mother of 4 I do feel cheated that I never had the dramatic waters breaking moment. I've had a normal hospital delivery, a home birth, an EMCS, a forceps delivery. Never had my waters break. I feel cheated.

My current therapist makes notes. And I hate sitting in silence makes me so uncomfortable!

That all writers work in houses with a beautiful view of the beach or countryside to look at wistfully for inspiration.

And that they are used on any dead people to just magically bring them back.

They are to regulate heart rhythms not to reanimate corpses, I have only in real life seen them used on very much alive and often concous arrythmia patients.

They do usually jolt in a quick spasm though and groan, squeek or let out a 'bloody hell' as I dont think they expect it to feel as 'shocking' as it does lol.

I phones 111 for an out of hours walk in appointment once as I have kidney issues and had an infection (common, I always have some level of infection due to damage but it was flaring up) and needed a course of antibiotics.

The 111 woman sent and ambulance, I was mortified at wasting their time (given I had lived with the condition without issue for 12 years) but the paramedics where lovely and just booked the appointment for me and said 111 are always sending them to non emergancies.

I went got my antibiotics and went home, then I took a horrible turn (fever, vomiting, irratic confusion) and was rushed in for sepsis (unbeknownst to us then I had developed antibiotic resistance so the medication wasnt working) and I was stuck on a gurney in the hall way for AGES.

Then all of a sudden the paramadic from 48 hours earlier wheeled in another patient in and spotted me, so he came over and sat with me for his lunch break.

He was really nice and I was shocked he remembered me given I was an unimportant 'time wasting' situation where he basically just made a phone call then left.

My waters went when I was shopping in Mothercare, they couldn't get me out of the shop quick enough and got me to skip the queue to pay for the maternity pads :)

Many years ago, I was a database administrator, working mostly with SQL - it's a coding role within IT.

A friend of mine was a research assistant for a film company and she was told to look into what a db administrator did - look no further, here I am!

I was given a fairly hefty wad of cash for a 20-something while my mate basically sat beside my desk and 'interviewed' me.

Of course, they used none of it, because db admin is incredibly dull in real life, but we did have several nice dinners off the back of the research fee.

Don't get me started on the portrayal of IS or most IT functions in TV or film.

So you did it like in the films, I'm just a bit of a failure.

@Quia 😁invisible staffs sound brilliant!

Oh yes. High-fiving kids. Looking relaxed and rested.

Laughing at the people who said I Was Being unreasonable 😀

That a PA essentially should be Pepper Potts and fawn over her principle. Mine hired me for my attitude because he knows he has underestimated women to the detriment of the company by hiring PAs who wouldn't say boo to a goose.

Today, him (I was concentrating and had my tongue sticking out the sofa of my mouth):
That's not an attractive face for me to look at!

Me: it's my concentration face, I don't exist for you to look at, you want the work or not?

In fairness to him he's taking everything on board.

Sofa? Sofa?! *side

In that case, it sounds to me like you were a particularly nice and lovely patient.

People being lovely to us is rare enough to be memorable unfortunately. So, thank you on my colleagues behalf 😊

Hope you're as better and mended as you can be

Hospital dramas. The re breathe oxygen mask bags which supply 100% oxygen should be blown up with piped oxygen but they are always flat. Drives me mad