When I started teaching at university, I noticed that the female students tended to ask to be excused for 'stomach problems' pretty often, but male students never did. I always let them go, but was puzzled as to the gender disparity in the requests.
Then one day it dawned on me that "stomach problems" is a euphemism for period pain. Glad I never refused to let them go. You just have to try to look at things from the other's perspective sometimes.
I had a co-worker who seemed stand offish. Not unfriendly necessarily but certainly not engagingly friendly. We worked in a prison and she was the equivalent of internal affairs. She not only investigated staff misconduct but inmate crime as well. An unpopular job to say the least. She was professional and serious, generally all business. I had to go to her office to put a bullet I'd taken out of patient into evidence. I took 4 bullets out of inmates in my 9 years in the prison. Bullets left in the body work their way to the surface and when they broke the skin I'd take them out to preserve them as evidence and to prevent infection in the open wound. Just before I went to her office my wife died of breast cancer. So I'm sitting there across her desk from her, ready to sign my statement of where the bullet came from and she says, out of the blue, "I wanted to offer my condolences on the loss of your wife. I lost a husband and a son so I know how hard it can be." You could have knocked me over with a feather. Not in a million years would I have guessed she'd suffered such emotional loss. We never do know what others are going through or have gone through.
PlzTyroneDontHurtEm on October 26th, 2019 at 00:07 UTC »
Bruh just skip a class if you need to. Unless there’s mandatory attendance then just email the professor about the situation
ErwinFurwinPurrwin on October 26th, 2019 at 01:21 UTC »
When I started teaching at university, I noticed that the female students tended to ask to be excused for 'stomach problems' pretty often, but male students never did. I always let them go, but was puzzled as to the gender disparity in the requests.
Then one day it dawned on me that "stomach problems" is a euphemism for period pain. Glad I never refused to let them go. You just have to try to look at things from the other's perspective sometimes.
phil8248 on October 26th, 2019 at 03:43 UTC »
I had a co-worker who seemed stand offish. Not unfriendly necessarily but certainly not engagingly friendly. We worked in a prison and she was the equivalent of internal affairs. She not only investigated staff misconduct but inmate crime as well. An unpopular job to say the least. She was professional and serious, generally all business. I had to go to her office to put a bullet I'd taken out of patient into evidence. I took 4 bullets out of inmates in my 9 years in the prison. Bullets left in the body work their way to the surface and when they broke the skin I'd take them out to preserve them as evidence and to prevent infection in the open wound. Just before I went to her office my wife died of breast cancer. So I'm sitting there across her desk from her, ready to sign my statement of where the bullet came from and she says, out of the blue, "I wanted to offer my condolences on the loss of your wife. I lost a husband and a son so I know how hard it can be." You could have knocked me over with a feather. Not in a million years would I have guessed she'd suffered such emotional loss. We never do know what others are going through or have gone through.