Why bother?

Setting: High school history class
Deaf Student: not paying attention
You: interpret anyway
Hearing student who sits behind you: "He ain't even looking at you, Miss. Why you keep doin' that?"

Your options--
1. agree and quit interpreting
2. explain role in idealistic terms
3. chat with hearing student
4. ...what would you do?

I hate my agency!

Your team goes on and on about the interpreting agency that placed you both on your current job. You share a few choice experiences you have had with the agency.

+Was it really appropriate to dis on your agency?
+What would have been another option?
+How can you be empathetic to your team while still remaining loyal to your agency?

Been there, terped that

You interpret for a college class with a team. The professor tends to repeat himself, saying the same concept over and over. You play with the various ways the professor explains concepts interpreting one concept in different ways. After one concept has been discussed at length, your client looks down to text and you decide not to interpret the last sentence of the thoroughly debated concept. After all, client isn’t looking and the information was already provided. Your team feeds you your un-interpreted sentence.

--Do you go ahead and interpret the fed sentence?
--Do you ignore your team's feed?
--Do you say, I've got it?

I can see

You are team interpreting in a college class on-going. You are in the off chair providing support, when necessary. If the client looks down, your team turns to you and signs, “looking down, reading”. If the client is texting, your team signs to you, “texting.” You can see what your client is doing. You don’t need your team telling you the client is not paying attention.

--Do you let your team know you don't need to be fed the client's actions?
--Do you ask your team if they want the same information when they are in the off seat?
--Do you let it go; chalk it up to teaming idiosyncrasies?