What Peeves You?

01/18/2010

Life's most urgent question is: what are you doing for others?
Martin Luther King, Jr.

For the past two weeks our Exchange Insta Poll has been tracking what readers view as the most serious challenges facing our field. The top threats you identified are indeed very heavy issues:

State of the economy
Competition from Pre-K in public schools
Children with challenging behavior
Competitive pay for staff

Now we are going to lighten up and have you tell us your pet peeves in this week's Exchange Insta Poll. Wikipedia defines a pet peeve as "a minor annoyance that an individual identifies as particularly annoying to them." To get the ball rolling, I will share a few of my pet peeves:

When you are having a face-to-face conversation with someone and they stop abruptly to answer a phone call or read an instant message.
When you are calling a company and you get tangled up in their long impersonal automated answering system.
When I find myself spending all my work time responding to e-mails.

So relieve a little of your stress by off-loading some of your pet peeves in the Exchange Insta Poll.

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