Seems like a win for lazy students!

It all depends on the manager. A good manager (and good managers do exist) will find ways to use their time wisely, they will limit their time in meetings, and the meetings they do attend or run, will be productive.

Not everyone is good at absorbing written material. For that matter, not everyone is good at writing informative emails. Often, the conversation *is* the thing that has value.

There are some ingenious managers who will drag out a meeting, with or without chairs!

No managers, huh? How does that work when two people disagree, and can't come to an agreement? Who makes decisions about who to hire? Who decides when it's time to let somebody go, and who carries out that unpleasant task? Who decides what projects are higher priority? Who reins in executives who want everything right now? Who do you go to when you want to talk about your next pay raise?

You might have gotten rid of your managers, but I'll bet somebody is still doing all these tasks. In other words, somebody is doing the manager's job, without the title.

Yes, licensed physicians make mistakes, lots of them. And educated patients and their families *should* second-guess and question what their doctors say. But that doesn't make you qualified to determine that your son's psychiatrist "rubber-stamped" the teacher's hunch.

Further, as someone who has been an educator, I have observed that parents are often the *least* aware of their own children's behaviors and problems in school. That is, the parents that are being honest. It seems fashionable these days for parents to insist that their sweet little angel couldn't *possibly* be a mean brute to their classmates. The problems are always the teacher's fault, you know!

If you are being a responsible parent, and you disagree with the psychiatrist's diagnosis, get a second opinion. That's what you do when you disagree with a doctor, and the doctor doesn't back down. Doctors make mistakes, but they don't just rubber-stamp teachers.

Why would this be a good challenge? The woman in this story was *not* trying to entrap this guy. He was actually being obnoxious.

If a woman is being obnoxious (like trying to promote her influencer show) and a guy breaks her smart glasses in a similar way, I'd be just as happy for the guy, as I am for this woman.

No, grade school teachers are generally not qualified, and as a result, they are unable to provide a diagnosis. But a teacher, seeing many students, might recognize the symptoms and refer a student to a psychiatrist, which sounds like what happened here.

YOU are not qualified to determine that the doctor's diagnosis was a rubber stamp.

Are you trained in psychiatry? Do you have a license to practice medicine? If the answer is no, then you are not qualified to determine whether your son has ADHD, or to determine that the doctor's diagnosis is incorrect.

I don't know which one you are. But I'm confident that every single psychiatrist that diagnoses a child, is more qualified than you.

I wouldn't know, I haven't written a check in years. Clearly, these businesses are doing this electronically. Yet another indication that it's time to move on.

I have no doubt that some children have been misdiagnosed. But the claim of over-diagnosis is generally made by parents who are skeptical of psychiatry in general, believing it to be a bunch of mumbo jumbo. These parents are not well educated in the seriousness of the condition, and are not qualified to judge who is properly diagnosed and who is not.

Checks were great when everything moved slowly, and a 7-day wait wasn't a problem for receipt of funds. Today, that's a long time, and fraud is rampant. I've personally had money stolen when someone intercepted a check made out to me, and cashed it at a convenience store. A relative of mine had a check intercepted in the mail, somebody altered the amount from $450 to $4,500, and cashed it. The bank (Chase) cleared the check even though my relative put a stop payment on the check, because the amount didn't match. It took her months to get the money returned to her account, and required her to get regulators involved.

Personally, I'll use electronic forms of payment rather than checks, even if there's a fee to do so. Ideally, I'll use a credit card, because then if there's a problem, I'm not out the money until the problem is resolved.

There is a unified system, it's called Zelle. Most US banks offer instant, free Zelle transfers to any individual or business, which can be sent knowing only the recipient's cell number or email address.

Thankfully, in Texas at least, these convenience fees have all but disappeared. The state used to charge them for online vehicle registrations. Now they actually give you a small discount.

There are other ways to prove you paid for something.

How about a receipt? That's pretty easy.

And when you pay by credit card or electronic check, both mechanisms come with "proof of payment" mechanisms. If you want something physical, you can even print them out.