Professionalism

There are two groups of people who are really irritating me right now — one of my fellow teachers in my school district and one is a set of people involved in computer science.

First set — teachers in my school district

I went to a make up meeting for district test writers on Friday.  I’d gone to the real meeting on Monday but was 2 hours late since I was teaching meeting school so I went to that meeting off the clock and the make up meeting on the clock.

I was really disappointed by my fellow teachers because one group was behind me talking so loud I couldn’t hear the speaker.  And then a few minutes later a cell phone rang, a teacher answered it and had a conversation.

<sigh>

Second set – computer science professions that use sexually explicit images in presentations

This has happened twice now, in recent months.  Once at a Ruby on Rails Conference – http://www.sarahmei.com/blog/?p=46 and even more recently at a Flashback conference – http://www.geekgirlsguide.com/blog/2009/06/11/98/prude_or_professional_by_courtney_remes

I asked my husband about it and he agreed it was wrong but didn’t know what he would do about it.  I think that is the problem, everyone agrees it’s wrong but they don’t know what to do.

<sigh>