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I don't know if this exactly fits in this subreddit but I thought I'd put it up here.
So when I was in my final year of primary school my teacher kept punishing me over and over for silly little things, such as a singular spelling mistake in a three page piece of work bearing in mind I'm around the age of 11. For in my school we had a traffic light system, you had your name on a green circle on the wall and if you misbehaved your name would move down to either the orange or red circle (depending on how bad you'd been e.g. red for starting a fight in the playground). For my entire time in primary school I had never been moved down from the green circle until I went into this teachers class. When I made spelling mistakes I'd be moved to the red circle immediately but the worst part was it didn't happen to anybody else in my class (I know this because my friends would tell me if they made mistakes in their work) . This didn't happen once or twice, this happened over and over again until I'd come home everyday having been on the red circle.
Half way through the year my school started using a programme called dojos meaning our parents could then see what we did wrong and how many times, you'd either get a red or a green point and they would specify why you got them. Guess who kept getting red points for spelling everyday? If you guessed me you'd be right, we would even have to go up to an interactive board and have to put these on ourselves. This was the beginning of my panic attacks every time we'd have to do any kind of writing task, even getting me to beg my mum not to make me go in. It felt like public humiliation and I panicked about getting anything wrong even if I was trying my hardest.
As soon as the begging not to go in started (as well as some other stuff that would make for other stories about this teacher) my mum went to the headteacher of the school and showed her how many red points I was getting and explained how I begged not to be there. The headteacher had access to look at if she was giving any other student as many points as me and found that she wasn't, not even close. I was told it was too late in the year to move teachers though (still over a quarter of the year left but we couldn't be bothered to argue). This would not be the last time my mum would complain. There were some things that were put in place for me and these are some of them: I would be taken out of classes to help me deal with my anxiety and at the end of every day I would have to write down things that had happened in a journal which would be seen by my teacher, the headteacher and would be eventually used as proof not to rehire my teacher.
One thing about the teachers at my school was every year their contract had to be renewed and obviously this was a last straw with this teacher and her contract was definitely not renewed (there were very few reasons why they could be fired within the year). At the end of the year the teacher would announce she was leaving the school along with a few other teachers, only a few students got her a card and it was very obvious that it was forced on them by their parents and compared to other leaving teachers it was very obvious how unliked she was.
Not a hot take. Just the reality most IT admins are dealing with at scale.
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More devices, fewer resources: The global average is now 3.6 connected devices per person. Device counts go up, team size doesn't. Inventory accuracy suffers, tasks take longer, attack surface grows, and compliance gets harder to maintain.
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Threats are getting smarter: AI and ML aren't just tools for defenders. Threat actors are using them too. Supply chain attacks, APTs, nation-state activity, data leakage from generative AI usage. The threat landscape for Mac isn't what it was five years ago.
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Every tool in the stack has to pull its weight: It's not enough for Macs to work well anymore. Organizations want to see how they align with business objectives, reduce TCO and fit into standardized workflows alongside other platforms. Native support matters here. Cherry-picked feature support doesn't cut it.
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Heterogeneous environments create gaps: Mac sitting alongside Windows means the weakest link is still the weakest link. Unpatched vulnerabilities on one platform create risk for the whole network. Compliance parity across platforms isn't optional if you're in a regulated industry.
If any of these are keeping your team busy, this is a solid breakdown of what actually moves the needle.
matched energy
This has been my go to response for a bit and I figured others might like to use it, especially if you're not great with quick comebacks like me.
Long story short, I'm chronically ill and my drs and I are still trying to figure it all out, but one of my most annoying symptoms is sinus congestion at all times. It's literally been twelve years of my sinuses being locked and loaded every single day. Because I don't know what's wrong with me, but the drs suspect an autoimmune disorder, I never stopped masking. Certain people hate that.
So I was in a store that I don't work at while I was on my break. I forgot to take my name tag off before I went, so naturally a guy asked me where something was. I don't have a uniform so I don't know why he would think I worked there other than the name tag (which clearly said a different store).
Me: Sorry, I work next door, I don't know where they keep that.
Him, looking at my covered tits and then back up to my tag: Then why are you wearing that?
Me: I'm on break.
Him, to my tits: Those don't work you know.
Me: What?
Him: Fucking masks. They don't do anything.
Me: Okay.
Him: You look ridiculous with that thing on.
Me: Okay.
Him: You're not even sick. You people need to grow up.
Me: *opens the back of my throat and takes one of the most disgusting, loud, wet, chunky sounding sniffs I've ever taken*
Him: *gags and speed walks away*
It works every time.
traumatized
So this story hapend when i was in 3rd year of highschool, our class was relatively new since in my school they make you change class at the start of the 3rd year, so i only knew my classmates for some months.
One of them started leaving class once per week for an hour to go to the psychologist of the school, i knew it because i did it before and i recognised the way they were asking him to leave the class each week at the same time.
After some weeks more classmates found out that the reason he was leaving was to go to the psychologist and they started talking bad about him behind his back, one girl went:"I asked him if he was good and he said yes, so he even lied to me!"
I answered:"there are many psychological conditions that make you see your problems as not important, and maybe he has one, for example depression"
A different guy responded to me with a voice that was clearly meant to make me feel stupid and said:"Depression? He isn't 40 years old..."
At that point i got really mad and answered so fast i was surprised of myself and also with a tone that made all understand he touched an exposed nerve of mine:"I guess than my psychologist was wrong when she diagnosed me with depression".
His face was priceless, and he hurried up to say sorry to me, and they would never talk about it again.
Maybe they started talking behind my back, but for what i could see they didn't threat me badly after that.
It's not like they avoided talking to me so at least they were quite mature.
