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2*, 2018, bankers, bullying, management, performance management, public service, retirement, shoulders, teaching
you didn’t manage me
you just tried to shove me
to where you needed me to be
to get your next pay rise
while shrugging shoulders
and blaming the bankers claiming
someone’s got to do it
————w(O)rmholes________________________________|—–
management wormhole: listen willya
performance management wormhole: Teaching career: much like Monet’s ‘Impression: soleil levant’ or, in the long run, de Chirico’s ‘The Red Tower’ — Private
retirement wormhole: so / do I keep on writing now I’ve retired, or … / Rumplestiltskin
teaching wormhole: so where have I got:
mlewisredford 
This expresses work alienation well. I can sympathize.
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… but that this happens in education as well (something I know we share), and it should not be happening in education, but it does: where did we go wrong; even though I am retired now it still grates in my gills
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You are so right! This very question is one of the things I am working on figuring out!
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it may be of help, although based in a different education system; (however the UK system is usually always a good decade behind what is happening in the US, so these articles might be an interesting study in the beginning ‘culture’ of this virus that has riddled education); there’s a whole collection of articles at the top of my page under ‘Teaching Matters’; or …
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Thank you so much, Friend!
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