I watched "Waiting." It's a comedy from a couple years ago about a bunch of restaurant workers. Honestly, it's not a good movie at all with the exception of some funny moments, but I'd recommend it to anyone who has spent more than a few months in the restaurant industry. I don't know how they managed to hit the nail so dead-on with the personalities of the characters and the dynamic of the job, but they did. The best jokes and themes are only fully understandable to the diner-style restaurant employee.
Alberta high-school students can take a very valuable lesson from Lynden Dorval's suspension by the Edmonton school board. After refusing to heed repeated warnings and deadlines to complete a certain task - giving the consequence-free mark of "not complete" to assignments not handed in, instead of zeros - he received meaningful disciplinary action. Setting aside whether this suspension and the policy behind it are just or practical, this is the real world and employees get in trouble when they don't follow the rules. He is being punished for holding his students to the same standard of behavior that he is being held to by his superiors, under the umbrella justification of doing what's best for the students. The lesson here, as students who passed their English classes by actually handing things in already know, has to do with irony. Of course being a students is not the same as being an employee, and nor are high schools me...
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