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Swiss bus crash leaves 22 children, 6 adults dead

All of Belgium is still trying to cope with this. 22 children around the age of 12 dead, plus six of the adults accompanying them on their skitrip to Switzerland.

I don't even know anyone directly involved with this tragedy,and I'm still crying.

The annual skitrip is just this thing that a great part of the schools in Belgium have about once a year for all the kids from the last year of elementary school. You don't have to go, but if you don't, you end up spending the week, sitting in class, studying the stuff anyway and getting bored while your friends are having fun in Switzerland or Austria.

It's just this thing, and to think of those parents, getting ready to pick up their kids in the morning and then being called with this kind of news... It must be horrifying.

Professional pride is not just for high paid professions, thank you very much

Feeling somewhat annoyed.

I followed a link yesterday night and this morning to some outsider pov fics. What can I say, I have a thing for them. And the fic was a desk worker dealing with Dean and Sam pretending to be janitorial staff while on a case.

In the fic, the pov observes them and you then get this alinea:
If he knew anything about anything at all, he would put down cash money that these boys were not here for the reason they said they were. You would have to make a game show with some pretty grand prizes to find healthy white men in their youth willing to do hard labor for under five bucks an hour. His thoughts turned to the fresh plastic liner in his pristine garbage can and the well watered African Violets. No one paid to clean did their job that well. If watching bad movies like it was his second income had taught him anything else, it was that people did certain things so they could check out a place without being noticed. The correct term was ‘casing a joint.’

The part I've emphasized is the bit that really annoyed me. I mean, I work as a cleaning woman, that means I clean office buildings. So yeah, this might be weird, but I get annoyed when people seem to think that people like me don't care about our work. It's a matter of professional pride, that and the fact that I actually like what I do for a living. It might not be what I thought I'd be doing, when I was in school, but it's a fun and respectable job, I get responsibility over my own work, get to plan how I spend my time and as long as I'm finished, and the company doesn't have any complaints about the quality of work and Idon't leave before my time is done, no one orders me around about the specifics.

I've worked on a factory line and in a kitchen and compared to the two, I far prefer cleaning.

So yes, when I see something like that in a fic, I couldn't help commenting about it. This is the specific comment I made. ( see under the cut for details )

I'm not saying that everyone in my profession loves their job, or that they all care. (though even if they don't, they'll generally do at least a well enough job not to get complaints, which often helps when you do the little extra things like watering the plants. (not even going to start on the plastic bag things cause well that's basic every day stuff.) But we do get paid for it, so our employers expect us to do a good job, and to be told you're crazy just because you care about that... that kinda hurts.