Today, the power went out at school. As a senior, I don't show up until third period. When I got there, I signed in as usual. The office secretary waited until I signed in to tell me that if I hadn't, I wouldn't have to attend classes that day. Now I have to sit in class doing nothing. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, the power went out at school. If it's out for more than twenty minutes, standard procedure is to let us go home. They came back on almost nineteen minutes later. FML
Today, I woke up to find my power was out. After taking a shower in the dark and being unable to make myself lunch, my power came on two minutes before I had to leave for school. FML
Today, a strong storm knocked the power out at our office. I was dismissed five hours early, had my desk locked up and was walking toward the doors to leave when the power came back on. FML
Today, my parents got a call from my principal. I'd been lying that I couldn’t see the work I had to do in my online class, because I was behind and I needed to catch up. Tomorrow my parents are getting a call, telling them the dates I've been logged into the online learning. I haven’t logged in in weeks. FML
Today, I got sent out of the class for "inappropriate" behaviour. The teacher later forgot about me and sent a notice home to my parents stating that I skipped class. FML
Today, I was doing homework when had to leave to help my family out with chores. I didn't mind it of course, but it turns out I could get signed out of the science homework site, and now have no way to sign back in. FML
Today, I tried to charge my phone at school by removing the socket for the fan. All the computers in the room turned off. I accidentally removed the power cables for the computers and got suspended. FML
Today, I thought it was yesterday, I went to school for nothing. FML
Today, the power at work was out. This would be fine, if they didn’t make me stay for another hour to wait for it to come back on in the Texas heat. FML
Today, the power went out at work. As everyone left the building to go home, the owner came in to inform me that, since the phones were on a battery back up, I would be staying to man them. The phones rang 2 times in the 4 hours I sat in the dark by myself. Both times were telemarketers. FML
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nadene52 12
And that's when you cross out your name from the sign in sheet and go home.
persianjr 15
That's kind of a dick move on her part.. Sorry OP! Hopefully the rest of your day was not as boring as you predicted
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jazman195 20
At my school I never had to sign in when I came late or didn't have class... I just showed up to my next class and everything was fine. It's weird to me that you'd have to sign in. But hey, I did everything wrong in high school so that probably explains my confusion!
bl865ood 17
the power went out
Enkeria 30
Sleep all day. That's what I would've done. Lol.
Bman54 19
What is this signing in thing?
kaseyyeahh 7
i dont understand why you couldnt just leave? people say security but wtf if theres no classes why would they force you to stay? very stupid and american sounding policy.
hunteredmundson 17
Don't schools have automatic generators? I go to a public school on Long Island and they all do here.
greencurtains74 11
Why can't they still teach without power? Do teachers NEED powerpoints or something?
greencurtains74 11
Generally high school occurs during the day so it would be lit enough to see. A good teacher should always be able to teach even if their computer fails. You need to be creative and knowledgable in your subject as a teacher.
QueenSaru 28
@45 Not all high schools are set up with classrooms on the outer rim of the school... plenty of rooms at my school had no windows at all (it was a two story rectangular building) so if the power went out we'd be literally sitting in the dark. It's not necessarily a matter of teachers being lost without computers, but being unable to see the material to teach. Would you want a science teacher playing with chemicals in dim or no lighting?
hunteredmundson 17
Your school is stupid, mine just has courtyards that have gardens and a pond
greencurtains74 11
51. If that is the case here, then the teachers should be creative, have class outside depending on whether, join with another class who has windows and have some group work or discussions, have a movie day with educational films, etc...
QueenSaru 28
Have a movie day with educational films with... the power that's not on?
Soleia_Grace 15
we thought are power was going to go out yesterday and since their are no windows and the generator cant power all lights, just hall lights and essential stuff, if the power went out we were going to go into the hall and do math on white boards.
hunteredmundson 17
How can you not have windows, and why wouldn't they just put in a bigger or second generator
kerbear1232 16
Some of you are saying have school outside for a day... Do you not realize it's winter right now? And the highschool I went to has plenty of rooms with no windows, same with my college. Not every room can have a magic courtyard outside of it.
hunteredmundson 17
Don't design it as a square you can have different wings or courtyards. My school on Long Island has 2 courtyards and 5 wings, some of which interconnect.
sc3ptical 30
At my old HS if the power was out for... over an hour, I believe, we could leave. I never left because it would count as an absence xD
Danne696 14
How did the logic go there? Your first sentance makes it sound as if you are allowed to leave after an hour, but your second sentance indicates that you'd get marked down as absent if you do.
AlphaRobots 0
Wow, What a evil bitch she is!
FluffyPandas156 13
Reminds me a lot of that episode on Everybody Hates Chris.
ezio416 6
My power went out in school yesterday as well! However I only got to miss 5 whole minutes of class.
TallMist 32
5 whole minutes can feel like a life time.