Module 6 reflective essay
Shannon Lee Petitjean is a somewhat long name. I’ve lived my entire life with a basic American pronunciation of my surname as it looks: Pet-it-jean (all one word). However, it is a French last name but my ancestor came over here in the mid-1850s, originally from Burgundy, I’m not even sure if it was a part of France back then. So if I were to go to Europe I would give it the French pronunciation that means “Little John” (Petite Jean, basically)
The first roadblock for my name and enjoying signing my initials in my art was back in elementary school when the VCRs would have the SLP setting (Super Long Play) and some neighborhood kids thought that was really funny. Now, I realize only after I’ve registered this domain name, that it is also highly associated with speech language pathology, especially in the early childhood education niche.
Since part of SLP Stories will be geared toward stories and AI-assisted stories for small kids, I realized I’m going to get some cross traffic for Speech Language Pathology. I’m going to keep this in mind for accessibility when I create content geared toward the little ones, and I think the traffic from both will encourage one another.
Audience is key. My friends and I can all watch the same exact thing and have different views of what we saw. One example is this morning on ABC News, a US Forest Service person was being interviewed by the news for being laid off. The imagery in the ABC News article highlighted his firefighting efforts even though he said that firefighting teams took him away from his regular forest biology job over 60% of the time. I don’t have an opinion on the layoffs one way or the other but it seems like jaded information is being thrown around both ways. Why are tax dollars paying him a 13-year-long biologists salary when over 60% of the work he’s doing would be a regular fire crew salary. The news didn’t cover that aspect at all.
On the conservative side, before the election a show-Squirrel that was borderline being animal exploited to the tune of revenue of over $20,000 a month on social media had its life taken by animal control. I was made to have outrage at this action “Save P-nut” but it wasn’t until its owner was being interviewed the next morning that he started crying the most about losing his passive income and about his wife’s citizenship status. It’s always very subtle but if you really listen when people are the most emotive they’ll tell you what their real priority was. Of course this man loved his pet and his companion, but seeing his tears well up when he mentioned that $20,000 was something else.
Other government employee changes went viral last week for being let go but then if you read into it, they get benefits and stipend pay through September or they were probationary employees that didn’t meet attendance standards and would make public social media posts about their lack of productivity as recently as Fall 2024.
It’s hard to know the real story if people aren’t being accurate as possible from all of the angles.
USFS Layoff in Oregon:
https://abcnews.go.com/US/fired-us-forest-service-national-park-service-workers/story?id=119004068
If only we had all voted for P-Nut:
I am not saying the layoffs are justified but we need to know the entire story:
