teacher didn't submit recommendation on time; what to do?

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@Pizzagirl

And I have to tell you, it bugs the heck out of me when my junior employees who don’t have this mentality show up on Monday morning and spend the first hour sorting through things that have gone on over the weekend, whereas if they’d checked their emails once or twice they would know where they needed to be pointed or point themselves. I find it unimpressive and I do note it in performance reviews. It’s just part of the core competency of doing-what-needs-to-be-done and showing initiative that I rate employees on.

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<p>Again, “your” junior employees knew what they signed up for when they agreed to be employed in your industry…including its norms. In their case, they have clearly decided to not abide by the field’s norms and thus, are in the wrong. </p>

<p>On the flipside, if you’ve moved into an office/industry where the professional norms is not to expect employees to answer work emails in their off-hours on evenings/weekends and decided to impose that norm unilaterally and evaluate employees on that basis, you’re the one who’s probably going to be receiving some pushback from your employees and stern meeting with your supervisor underscoring that the norms you had at your previous employer/field DOES NOT APPLY here.</p>

<p>I’ve worked in offices with the 24/7 on-call expectations as you have and lived with roommates who had it as bad/worse(medical residents). </p>

<p>I’ve also worked in offices where the expectation was that barring extreme once in a blue moon emergencies, if you put in 100% during your scheduled work hours…it’s considered perfectly fine to leave your work behind once the workday/workweek ends and pick up where you left off on Monday. </p>

<p>With some friends’ workplaces, leaving your work behind at the end of the workday/workweek was mandated by the employer due to security factors peculiar to their company/occupation. </p>

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@poetgrl

And had a day of rest? I think around here the teachers simply respect that if they are going to ask the kids to work on the weekends, the least they can do is to answer a lousy email from them.

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<p>Teachers on equal/near-equal footing with students…especially minors in K-12?</p>

<p>Sounds like something the Maoists of the Cultural Revolution tried from 1966-76…with disastrous results. Allowing party hacks and schoolchildren be “equal” or “more than equal” to their teachers as was the case in that period was one major factor why all educational/research institutions were effectively shut down for a decade. </p>

<p>While I’m not for students being tyrannized by authoritarian-type teachers/admins, I’m also wary of granting K-12 students a presumption that they’re just as equal as their teachers considering the latter usually have much more education, life experience, and are more mature adults which should be given some respect.</p>