Read at own risk. The cut tag was properly typed at first but the rats liked it better this way, and since they *are* my pets, I thought I would leave it.( my pet .hates )
It really is brilliant, most of the time. There's always at least one awesome person or group who make up for all the bad stuff that goes down. People often say "Ooh, I'd love your job," and in a year or so of working there has only been one occasion where I've wanted to say "Ok, here you go, here's my badge and my torch." instead of "Yep, it is kind of awesome!"
It is annoying when bats pee in your eyes and ears though. Or shit on your clean shirts. Or in your pockets. Or crap on you somewhere you can't see it and then no one tells you so you walk around streaked in shit for the rest of the day.
Sounds brilliant, and you have a legit reason to wear these, unlike me. Last time I wore them to work the reaction was mixed. My male colleagues liked them. My female boss told me I needed to grow up. :)
Ah, if only... it does amuse me how many people come through with Batman gear on and then panic. And I totally get a kick out of little kids asking me where Batman is (middle-aged dudes, not so much).
Yes, all of the above. In the zoo/animal placement setting I particularly hate people that can't comprehend the important function of a double door system in a walk through enclosure. One trip to Argentina I went to a zoo with a group of friends and we were coming out of the bird house and there was this family that weren't with us, that walked through one door and then proceeded to hold the second door open while people were still coming through the first. I shouted "NO!" at them very sternly, which thankfully translates in English and Spanish, and my friends were all a bit o_O at me for the rest of the day XD
People assuming I am a failed zoo keeper (this one is more from colleagues, sadly) and only do my job because I couldn't get an animal position.
Oh, animal people are a smug, horrible lot to each other sometimes, aren't they? I get exactly the same thing, but in reverse - the assumption I'm a technician/keeper because I'm not smart enough to be a full lecturer.
Oh god yes, the failure to understand double doors/the purpose of ropes/Arco strips. I did seriously once have a kid hold all the strips wide open and ask me very seriously "How do the bats get out?" as bats were zooming through the doors around him. I think I managed a smile as I said "When people do that."
We really can be. One of the boons of working in education is that people tend to have above average communication skills so you get slightly less of the simmering resentment that can fester in other places. And I just wish people would not make weird judgements about people's intelligence based on their career choices. By far the most intelligent person I have ever met working in a zoo was a keeper. Not even a team manager/2nd in command. Didn't stop him getting multiple PhD offers.
You did well there. I think I'd have been a lot more snarky at them.
A few of the people at my current workplace have come from zoo backgrounds and have told me that the atmosphere in zoos can be horrible. I think people that could get high paid jobs sitting behind a desk and suffering from stress, but instead chose to do something more manual and probably lower paid are the truly smart ones. So much is put on careers, position and salary in this society, people forget how important happiness is too.
We haven't talked for aaaages, so what exactly is it you do? The stuff I got from this post sounds pretty cool... well, except for how you only mentioned the stuff that irritates you, but I managed to read between the lines ;P
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It is annoying when bats pee in your eyes and ears though. Or shit on your clean shirts. Or in your pockets. Or crap on you somewhere you can't see it and then no one tells you so you walk around streaked in shit for the rest of the day.
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People assuming I am a failed zoo keeper (this one is more from colleagues, sadly) and only do my job because I couldn't get an animal position.
Oh, animal people are a smug, horrible lot to each other sometimes, aren't they? I get exactly the same thing, but in reverse - the assumption I'm a technician/keeper because I'm not smart enough to be a full lecturer.
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We really can be. One of the boons of working in education is that people tend to have above average communication skills so you get slightly less of the simmering resentment that can fester in other places. And I just wish people would not make weird judgements about people's intelligence based on their career choices. By far the most intelligent person I have ever met working in a zoo was a keeper. Not even a team manager/2nd in command. Didn't stop him getting multiple PhD offers.
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A few of the people at my current workplace have come from zoo backgrounds and have told me that the atmosphere in zoos can be horrible. I think people that could get high paid jobs sitting behind a desk and suffering from stress, but instead chose to do something more manual and probably lower paid are the truly smart ones. So much is put on careers, position and salary in this society, people forget how important happiness is too.
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