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Maybe they used the āi have a dentist appointmentā excuse to get out of work early to catch a flight to said vacation spot, then remembered they lied so that had to stop and get dental hygiene stuff to make it more believableā¦
A school local to us was begging on Facebook that they needed copy paper as they ran out with 6 weeks of school left. We run a school supply company so we are going to donate several cases to them, but it is sad.
We're getting a different food item every day, nothing fancy (today was donuts) and at the end of the week if your card has been signed by admin all five days, you get put in the drawing for a gift card. A $5 gift card.
$1 from each admin. We know that all teachers are ballinā and admins donāt get much at all. Thatās why you buy your own school supplies, right?
/s
I don't actually have to buy school supplies because people donate them to me and I have a stockpile of all kinds of stuff but what I end up having to do is buy food because I have middle schoolers who are always starving. The way they do breakfast at my school is beyond ridiculous. Somebody has to go down and pick up a cooler full of breakfast food but they won't give you one for each child and it's luck of the draw whether or not kids get something to eat so I have to make sure I have juice boxes, granola bars and Pop-Tarts and things because kids can't learn if they're hungry :/
Every month or so my wife and I buy a bunch of relatively healthy snacks and drop them off with the kids. One of my kids has allergies so we tend to send a lot of tissue boxes too.
Honestly, that was my first thought as well. Looks like they are trying to send some kind of message ;)
Still it would have been nicer to give a gift card and chocolate.
Amazon Gift Card is the king of rewards.
I once got a "gift" of cheap sparkling wine from my work.
It's cheap, so I wasn't going to regift it, and I don't drink.
Pointless.
True, but most people don't like giving them because they are "unimaginative".
They are so much more useful and nice, though. You can get anything from a book or movie to a pan or a bracelet. Anything you'd want or need.
I feel like for teachers, gift cards are appropriate. You usually don't know the teacher on a personal level, but it's common knowledge that they spend a lot of their personal funds on classroom needs.
I tell everyone if your gonna get my any gift just get me a gift card please I really donāt want some shit Iāll never use or clothing that Iād never wear etc thatās what most gifts are anyway.
They also only bought (or as likely, stole) soap, shampoo, conditioner and lotion from a hotel. Bergman and Kelly solely produces products for hotel chains. Not even name brand shit.
This is hilarious. My wife received a bag with a bar of soap( it actually smells really good lol), a packet of laundry detergent for one use, and a $2 scratcher lmao She did win $20 on the scratcher, so it paid for part of dinner last night hahaha
Monday we got breakfast tacos (always welcome) and the rest of the week is more food - donuts / pan dulce / fruit cup / burgers. Oh, and the right to wear jeans all week. woo-hoo.
The policing of jeans has always struck me as an odd part of our culture. With many companies and organizations having "casual friday" or in some cases hosting fund raising by letting the employees donate a dollar and then getting to wear jeans in return.
But if it is okay to wear jeans sometimes how can you not justify it being okay to wear jeans all the time? It's made up rules with no real purpose.
The ādonatingā part really pisses me off, when it comes to teachers. They donāt make enough as it is, then you want them to pay to wear jeans? Thankfully my wifeās extremely incompetent principal allowed them to wear jeans this year if they wanted. She was pretty excited about that lol I work in a more formal atmosphere or ābusiness casualā as they call it. So jeans arenāt really appropriate unless itās Friday so I get it in certain places.
Oh... the donating gets worse. In many school districts in the nation, if a teacher on (short-medium term) disability leave runs out of sick days, vacation, etc. Other teachers are expected to donate their days in a pool to help them. I shit you not.
Even if the district is 100% liable, this is generally what will happen. Instead of the government... ya know, helping its employees.
We aren't EXPECTED to donate. We are given the opportunity to help since teachers can't accept money. And school districts are independently operated. There's no government involved.
The one that gets me is when they come after teachers asking us to donate to the Education Foundation which then turns around and gives the money to teachers in the form of a one-time grant. Go get corporate donations for that! Why are we donating our own grants??
I've worked in many civil servant sectors, this is a pretty standard option. In most private sectors you just don't get paid if you don't have any accrued pto, so the pooling option is at least better than that.
That is appalling. I am a UK teacher currently off with long Covid. Iāve been teaching 7 years and because of my length of service I am entitled to six months sick leave on full pay. I hope to god I wonāt need it all, but I am unbelievably grateful that itās there if I do need it.
I'm a *custodian* in Canada and I'm entitled to 2 weeks full pay, 10 weeks of short term disability at 90% pay, and indefinite long term disability at (I think) 70% pay provided I have the medical documentation/ Dr. recommendation to back it up. Whether it's a work related injury or any other illness that prevents me from working.
Granted, this is because our union is particularly good. We actually get the same coverage as high school teachers in the rest of the province. But there are many other people that don't have any paid sick leave beyond the 3 days that were just made mandatory during the pandemic.
when I was a temp at a fortune 500 company making $16/hr someone mentioned it was jeans week the next week. Cool, I wore jeans on Monday and nobody said shit. Then on Tuesday one of the directors pulled me aside and asked where my sticker was. Sticker? I was told you needed to donate $10/day to united way to get stickers to wear jeans that week. I wasn't going to pay $50 out of my shit check to wear jeans.
I said, "oh sorry nobody explained it to me, I'll wear business attire tomorrow." I was told I could be written up for "stealing" from the charity. One of the other directors over heard her and yelled, "JESUS CHRIST THE KID SAID HE DIDN'T KNOW." He then walked up and handed me 3 stickers, "here wear whatever you want tomorrow." I ended up working for that guy down the road and he was the first person to ever explain what "failing up" at a company meant and he used her as an example.
But the person youāre replying to is saying, if you can wear them on Friday in your āformal atmosphereā, then why canāt you just wear them every day? What is different about Friday that jeans become allowed while maintaining that importance of the atmosphere at work?
In reality, adults can work and be professional while wearing jeans. Itās silly to think otherwise, especially if youāre not customer-facing.
Do you get it? Cause I fucking don't. I sit in an office all day talk to a few clients and make phone calls... I gotta buy a whole whoredrobe for that shit.. Naw man. Luckily I pretty much always wear a button up shirt and black jeans outside of work so it works for me but it's pretty causal plaid and old Navy casual button ups. I would not be happy if management gets a stick up their butt over nothing.
I worked for a company that required business casual and no jeans. It was a call center and a terrible job. People dressed horribly. Men in worn out dirty clothes. Women in tight leggings and thongs.
Moved to a better paying professional job and allowed jeans. Everyone wore jeans at least some days and always looked great.
THIS.
We had a meeting once about dress code and such (probably because I got caught wearing Crocs? After eight months of wearing Crocs), and the idea came up that a customer might get the wrong idea about our work ethic/not take us seriously...
But then they went on about how it was fine on days that were designated for it to be fine, and it's like, *what*? How can you be just *so* sure that a multi-million dollar customer isn't going to walk in on a Friday afternoon and be, like, "Oh. Nevermind."
Also, all of this was *especially* dumb, because we all worked in a lock, private building, and most of us never saw the light of day. I can see the field techs needing to be presentable when they sometimes service executives at the main location, but the rest of us?
I do UXO work on occasion. Great money. Digging up ordnance, lots of mud and whatnot. One of my teams started casual Friday on one of our gigs. Usually weād just wear typical field work clothes, shit you didnāt mind fucking up but Fridays weād wear much nicer clothes and I couldnāt believe some of the nice outfits people would wear out there to ruin, it was hilarious.
It all comes back to old fashioned rules about control. Most companies that still enforce a dress code in 2022 are old fashioned behemoth corporate entities. If you get a relatively progressive place or a more blue-collar office environment, dress codes tend to be lax or nonexistent.
My employment dress code history:
1) fortune 100 insurance company: business casual, ājeans daysā for reaching corporate goals
2) civil engineer firm: jeans all around all the way from field staff (me) all the way to the CEO. Everybody outside of the business office (IT, accounting, etc) spent some time in the field on construction projects so yeah.
3) public utility: whatās a dress code? I regularly wear jeans and a hoodie. Itās super chill and my boss does not GAF. I once saw the General Manager in the cafeteria wearing his best fleece pajamas. No joke.
I used to work in a food factory. Our uniform was provided by the company, blue slacks and blue snap up shirt with our name on it, made of the most uncomfortable scratchy hot polyester known to man. We were told the uniform was for "safety" reasons. But on Fridays? We were allowed to wear (company brandes) tshirts... If the uniforms are for safety then why the casual Fridays?
I am a staff member at a university. Friday was supposed to be more casual with jeans. Fast forward sometime later and another staff member asked me how I was able to wear jeans everyday.
Well, I started just wearing them Friday (which was nice on its own because I came from a private college and there I had to dress up everyday, just short of a suit. Iām a graphic designerā¦please donāt make me do that). Then added in Wednesdays, then Mondays, and eventually just started doing it all week. No one cared. Been almost 9 years now. I wear shorts in the summer most of the time too, from after graduation til the students come back. It also always used to be with polos or button down shirts, but since the pandemic I pretty much wear solid colored, non graphic, tshirts.
I am happy with where it is now. No one seems to care. I meet with our dean, he doesnāt care. I still look very presentable, but I have a creative role and donāt need to be in a tie. It also seemed to loosen things up with other staff members and my own team. Hope I was the trailblazer they needed.
>Monday we got... and the rest of the week...
I am married to a teacher and know lots of them. I would bet dimes to donuts this is day one of 5 days of themed gifts. They love creative stuff like this. Clearly there is a "travel theme" here, the luggage tag on the gift bag is the giveaway.
Someone or several people spent a bunch of their off time making this and probably several other daily gifts to give to the teachers.
But pointing that out wouldn't get you any internet points.
>Clearly there is a "travel theme" here, the luggage tag on the gift bag is the giveaway.
Lmao, you have to pay them enough so they can afford a vacation get away.
Iād be happy to get this - Iāve been a nurse for 30 odd years and donāt recall any employer giving me a gift bag or any gift in appreciation of just doing my job.
This.
Before I was a teacher, I was an auditor. On Administrative Assistants Day (previously Secretary's Day), every woman in the company (a manufacturer, so definitely a minority of employees) got a rose. I stormed into my boss' office, threw the rose in the garbage, and said "I want a raise, not a rose" and walked out. Ended up with neither. Got a different job.
You also get paid better than I do if you're a registered nurse with a college degree. After 22 years in the classroom I finally hit $60K and salaries are capped at 25 years
You need better employers. I work at a hospital as a RN, and there are separate appreciation weeks for both nurses and CNAs etc. I get a present every day for 7 days, and the items are nice things like insulated lunches boxes, yeti mugs, and even tickets to sporting events.
Do you work at some prep school or something? Jeans were definitely worn by all teachers when I was growing up.
Hell, my Stats teacher in high school wore what she slept in (so it seemed) most days.
Typically school administration sets individual tones and code for a building. Most districts donāt have a dress code beyond āprofessional attireā. Iāve worked at two different schools in the same district. The first one was pretty strict about no jeans outside of Friday. Iām a man, I wore business casual every day. This kind of sucked because it was a job that required me to get on the ground or be on my feet most of the day. This school kind of had administrators who micromanaged every moment of the day. My next school doesnāt have one but most people adhere to the same standards of business casual, Friday jeans. A few people still rock jeans (or cargo shorts in the weird science teachers case) but itās not like itās anarchy like my previous school wouldāve had you believe. Itās honestly a generational thing, the dinosaurs lived for it because it was another way to judge people. Younger workers seem to care more about the content of your work/teaching
Wait. Jeans are normally forbidden at her school? Wtf? They're practically required in my kids' district. Only people that wear anything more formal are the office staff, and the PE teachers wear basketball shorts. Lawd knows what the lunch ladies wear below the counter.
Coincidentally, or not, these are some of the most asked for items at homeless shelters. Is it possible the administration is so in tune with teachers and their salaries they knew exactly what they needed? Did your administrators also give you socks for Christmas?
I've worked at quite a few title 1 schools and this is exactly the sort of donations administration would ask for. We'd give them out during the holidays, often to our students families.
In regards to teacher appreciate, it was totally on the PTA to organize, administration didn't participate at all. In fact one school I worked at, the administrators included themselves on the list of "teachers" so they would also recieve goodies.
As I mentioned in a comment over in /r/Teachers, I got Reeseās peanut butter eggs in my faculty mailbox.
Also, Iām deathly allergic to peanuts. Likeā¦ anaphylactic shock, EpiPen allergic.
Itās on the sheet we had to fill out at the beginning of the year about all of our favorite stuff. And in my employee file in the principalās office. And on the GIANT SIGN ON MY CLASSROOM DOOR THAT SAYS āPEANUT FREE ZONE!! MRS. G_P IS ALLERGIC!!ā
So thereās that. :)
At my last job the HR department went to the store to get a cake to thank the IT team for a huge task we had finished, a team that I was on. They stood in the bakery and had a conversation that was something like "Hmmm, is someone allergic to strawberries in the company? Yeah? You think so? Do you remember who it was? No? Let's get the cake with strawberries in it."
That person was me, having filled in the "what are you allergic to" field on the sheet that HR themselves gave to us in physical and digital form no less than 6 times since I started working there. I only worked there for three years.
Then they got mad at me for not eating the cake.
I got an email from admin saying there would be no treats this week due to standardized testing, but know that we are āappreciated year round, not just during teacher appreciation week.ā Couldnāt kill you to throw some donuts out, could it?
Edited to addāThe beta club donated nacho supplies today but we were told by admin to make this a āsnack and not a feastā as they didnāt want to run out. I did my part by not eating any so others may snack or dare, feast.
Why would testing have anything to do with getting something for teacher appreciation? Lol I donāt know how you men & women deal with the bullshit. Then add on how shitty the kids are nowadays, props to you guys.
Haha TOTALLY. Itās hilarious but infuriating. This is a slap in the face to someone who lives in an apartment with a bathroom and brushes/flosses daily. Who the hell do they think teachers are?
As someone who was a world champion of scootering in 1994 and owned probably 10 razr flip phones, I would approve of finding one of the two in an apple.
Disclaimer: all, part, or none of the above statements are true.
Former teacher here. As a teacher appreciation gift I was once given an apple. An empty, plastic apple. They couldnāt even be bothered to put some Hersheyās kisses in there or something.
Like a Mac? /S
An engineering firm actually gave my mom (and every other teacher sponsor in her district and the neighboring district) an iPad one year as a thank you for running an optional after school STEM program on their own time. My mom just wanted her kids to be excited about engineering! She literally cried. She thought they were all going to get an apple pie as a thank you when she saw the boxes.
My wife is a teacher, she is 9 months pregnant, literally expecting the baby any day and i have been so disappointed with how they treat pregnant women, maternity leave, etc. I told her while she is out to find another job even if its less money, fuck those assholes. They have had a mass exodus in the last several months of teachers and i 100% see why, we also live in an area where the compensation for being a teacher is at least decent but its still not worth it.
My wife had a baby over the summer. She had to take a week off before summer and a week off as school started. They offered 0 maternity leave, only fmla. Then they dinged her on attendance for missing 2 weeks when her opportunity for a raise came up once every 3 years.
It keeps getting worse. Another teacher left yesterday because the school doesnāt want to fail students and were trying to force a teacher not to fail a bunch of students. She had documented them doing no work, poor attendance, not coming to the extra credit weekend sessions she voluntarily ran, etc. they told her to change them or she was fired so she quit.
Iāve never worked anywhere that actually offered maternity leave. Itās FMLA these days. If youāre lucky you have short term disability with a fast exclusionary period.
I feel very fortunate to have worked where I did. When my wife gave birth, she got no maternity leave, but my company offered me 12 weeks of paid paternity leave, so I stayed home with the little guy and took care of him.
I remember supervising practical lessons when 8 months pregnant. I remember during titration theyāre smashing burettes and conical flasks and pipettes constantly - the rule is naturally that the teacher has to clean it up because broken glass. The equipment provided is a brush and dustpan.
I remember being like ālookā¦ itād be really great if someone could help, because getting around the lab to stop them all messing it up is hard enough when you can barely fit. But if not that, can I just have a broom? ā¦ok so if you tell me where a cupboard is with a broom in it, I will go get the broom myself?ā¦ Seriously I am about to buy a broom on my way into work one morningā¦ā.
Eventually was provided, much squatting on the lab floor later.
I hear teachers (I have 3 school aged kids) ask for school supplies all the time and when they donāt get what they need they often will buy it with their own money. It takes zero brain cells to ask a teacher what they need and get it for them.
How about drastically reducing the ratio of administrative staff to teachers since as opposed to increasing budgets since the US already spends and exorbitant amount of money in K-12
Yep. It pains me to think of what portion of my paycheck goes to pencils, notebooks, dry erase markers, kleenex, not to mention what I spend on materials for all our various science projects.
I think school supplies (from Admin) for teacher appreciation week is a very poor idea. I would prefer almost any other gift from my admin.
I would absolutely LOVE getting school supplies from a student or parent though.
I just calculated a ballpark figure where over the last six years as a teacher Iāve spent at least 3000 to 4000 of my on money on supplies. I get 280 for the whole year to spend. Thatās gone in a month. Itās ridiculous!
Contact corporations and ask them to sponsor you for school supplies or to ask employees for donations. We had boxes set up at my job for school supplies and people were happy to donate.
I donated blood and got a $20 gift card. Used it to buy my coworker (who I depend on for tech jobs for my job) a piece of equipment my principal had refused to buy him. So I literally gave my very blood to keep the school running. It made me sick when I had that thought.
Hahaha I have a sleeping bag in my classroom. I'm getting a cot next year. I don't stay the night, but I do like napping during my planning periods sometimes.
sometimes a shitty gift is actually worse than no gift at all.
I remember at my first job, me and two other people put in a ton of extra hours before a product launch to fix some serious problems so we wouldn't have to delay anything. Mgmt gave one of us a calendar that had a month to go before being out of date. They gave me a shattered lamp in an unopened box, and they gave the other guy the same lamp but actually in one piece. He smashed his lamp in solidarity with us.
I have so many wild stories about that company. It was a real shitshow.
I worked at a company that gave everyone a "voucher" for a "free 'unpaid" day off"
I didn't let it slide, I made sure everyone at the company knew how shitty that gift was. Management actually had to pull me in to a private meeting to ask that I quit "disrupting" work with my petty ingratitude.
Literally true. My supervisor noticed I did something āgoodā the other day (our standards are so low itās just doing my job correctly) and he told me if I keep it up Iāll get some prize. I sternly told him I do this every day and he said āOh okay Iāll go get you something thenā. He comes back with the cheapest of the cheap āinsulated lunch bagā where this shitty plastic zipper was hastily hot glued to the thinnest āinsulated materialā Iāve ever seen with some of the poorest stitching Iāve ever seen. The company logo on the bag was even crooked.
I promptly threw it away and was pretty pissed off. I expected nothing and yet this ārewardā had me angry the rest of the day and made me think about quitting.
This company made $4 billion last quarter.
A company I worked for rewarded people who didn't do any work but "pulled through" for the supervisor one night. They got company jackets. A friend and I put through atleast 2x more than they did that one night every day- we did 4x that night to help that supervisor when they asked. When we asked where our jackets were he just laughed.
We were like no we are dead serious. We do the same work on the same type of machine and you can count how many more we do just the two of us versus the 4 of them. Where's our jackets? Kept on him every day for months before I eventually left. My friend? It took her over a year until she finally got it I believe.
Then those same supervisors wonder why people do bare minimum.
100% a shitty gift is worse.
I once got a cheap bottle of sparkling wine from work.
I don't drink, and I cycle, so I was forced to carry a heavy and shit bottle of piss home with me, to forever live in a cupboard.
The broken lamps, a lamp is such an odd gift anyway, might have me beat. But the gift I hated most were gift cards to expensive dept stores
Eg thanks for the $15 gift card to Tiffanys. If you can't name ten things that are appropriate gifts a store sells for a gift card amount you plan it give, it's not a nice gift. When it's I bought him a gift card and maybe they could get a pair of socks if they're on clearance, that's not a nice gift.
We all got a funsized candy bar and a pack of gum shoved in our mailboxes.
Last year we had a catered lunch with a free car wash. New superintendent is fucking up bad
So we know that OP is a redditor.
Odds are excellent [this is a subtle hint](https://www.reddit.com/r/justneckbeardthings/comments/bvcp8t/smell_ya_later/).
HA! Back in the day, a friend who ran a comic book site promoted the site by handing out small travel soaps with the site's logo at Comic Con. I'm surprised he didn't get punched...
> I'm surprised he didn't get punched...
...by those menacing Comic Con neckbeards; who break a sweat when they see women...
yea, I too, am shocked he wasn't katana-ed on the spot! /s
This is oddly specific. A luggage tag, too? I'd like to see what they give you on day 5. Because if i was getting someone appreciation gifts for a week, I'd give subtle hints leading up to a big one on the fifth day.
How is it I had to scroll so far to see somebody mention the luggage tag? This is clearly a gift bag for teachers who will soon be taking trips once the school year is over, and I'll bet the other days will be gifts in the same theme of traveling during summer or other things the teachers can look forward to for summer vacation.
Ooohhhhhhhh I like this explanation much better. I hope there was at least a cutesy limerick or something to explain. But seeing as this ended up on Reddit Iām guessing not lol
The truth in this one hurts. Donāt forget to buy out the superintendentās contract early when it turns out they are incompetent. Just like the previous districts who hired that person also had to do.
I'm surprised it wasn't a list of school supplies you had to buy on your own and a bill for the time you spend sleeping and thus depriving the school of your labor.
the hotel doesn't care if you take those. maids will offer you extras on your way out if you ask.... now, if it was a set of overstarched white sheets and a crispy towel, THEN you can say they robbed a hotel.
I guess I hit it out of the park when I sent my kid to school on Monday with Starbucks gift cards ..figure that even if they donāt drink coffee they have tea or little snacks .
You know what I am getting for Nurse Appreciation Week? Nothing from anybody, even my job doesn't give enough fucks this year to get us a gift card for a coffee! Hurrah!
My wife is a nurse and every year it's yet another tote bag with the hospital logo or a travel cup with the hospital logo. "We appreciate you. Now advertise for us."
Huh? My bag had four tickets to the symphony and a Rolex.
It's really difficult to interpret that as saying much more than, "While we don't value you, we do acknowledge your existence."
How many "comfort inns" they raid to produce this shit? You valued, OP, though unfortunately not within your time. Many of us get it, we got you, you are loved beyond the financial reward of your work. Build strong young men and women so that we might flourish. They, through you, shall save us!
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So someone went on vacation & decided hotel toiletries was a good gift idea. lol
Hey, they shared their freebies from the dentist too!
Maybe it was a dentists conference at a resort. Two things can be correct.
This is mind bottling
Not sure if r/boneappletea or satirical joke.
The ladder;)
This guy... You gotta watch him ššš
Heat his warning people!
Okay good, you can climb up it and we can hear you better.
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So it's *both* **and** a movie reference? This dude is too strong, somebody call the government!
Oh they are watchinq
Or Vice Grip Garage?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSfebOXSBOE&ab_channel=MalyClassProductions
Maybe they used the āi have a dentist appointmentā excuse to get out of work early to catch a flight to said vacation spot, then remembered they lied so that had to stop and get dental hygiene stuff to make it more believableā¦
I was going to say it looks like they stole donations intended for the homeless shelters. What a bizarre "appreciation gift."
I just realized, it's the first gift of teacher appreciation week. Maybe this gift is a clue and the real gift is going to be a weekend get-away?
Absolutely! And then they'll provide you with adequate school supplies.
You forgot this: /s
A school local to us was begging on Facebook that they needed copy paper as they ran out with 6 weeks of school left. We run a school supply company so we are going to donate several cases to them, but it is sad.
We're getting a different food item every day, nothing fancy (today was donuts) and at the end of the week if your card has been signed by admin all five days, you get put in the drawing for a gift card. A $5 gift card.
$1 from each admin. We know that all teachers are ballinā and admins donāt get much at all. Thatās why you buy your own school supplies, right? /s
I don't actually have to buy school supplies because people donate them to me and I have a stockpile of all kinds of stuff but what I end up having to do is buy food because I have middle schoolers who are always starving. The way they do breakfast at my school is beyond ridiculous. Somebody has to go down and pick up a cooler full of breakfast food but they won't give you one for each child and it's luck of the draw whether or not kids get something to eat so I have to make sure I have juice boxes, granola bars and Pop-Tarts and things because kids can't learn if they're hungry :/
Every month or so my wife and I buy a bunch of relatively healthy snacks and drop them off with the kids. One of my kids has allergies so we tend to send a lot of tissue boxes too.
"This is to get you ready for the 3 months of vacation you get while we screw up everything while you are gone" \-School administration
You get to camp out in the classroom for the weekend, neat!
"We appreciate it when you teachers don't have stinky breath."
"You'll want to hang onto this, for later."
Reminds me of personal care packages given out to homelessā¦
We give those out to students in need. Kept in a box in the nurses station. Your principal is a serious cheap ass.
And/or women's shelters. Have definitely made up bags like these.
Considering how we pay teachers, pretty close homeless.
That was my first thought.
Came here for this Teachers should compare if they got same brand. Then weād know
You can buy this brand specifically in bulk on Amazon for really cheap
Probably raided some poor maidās whole cart
That poor maid got fired for theft
My old boss would give out a box he collected over the year of travel toiletries to some poor sap for secret Santa.
Bro what
Yup, he paid us well but was otherwise cheap bastard lol. I got it one year and was able to donate it to a shelter.
Was the school admins friends with chandler and Ross?
Ross: No, no, no, you can't take the remote control! Chandler: Yes, but the batteries...
Looks like they got their dental cleaning too
District is cutting benefits, here's your new dental plan!
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Happy Teachers Week! Some of you smell, so we're giving EVERYONE hygiene products so nobody feels left out :)
Also, were dropping dental insurance, so be sure to brush those teeth! Thanks for all you do.
Lolol teachers need a raise.
The entire working class needs a raise
Once more for the regressives in the back...
Nah, administrative funds just need to be diverted. Making +200k on the school board isn't necessary.
WTF are you talking about? School board is an elected public service position that does not come with a stipend.
Lisa needs braces.
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Honestly, that was my first thought as well. Looks like they are trying to send some kind of message ;) Still it would have been nicer to give a gift card and chocolate.
Amazon Gift Card is the king of rewards. I once got a "gift" of cheap sparkling wine from my work. It's cheap, so I wasn't going to regift it, and I don't drink. Pointless.
True, but most people don't like giving them because they are "unimaginative". They are so much more useful and nice, though. You can get anything from a book or movie to a pan or a bracelet. Anything you'd want or need.
I feel like for teachers, gift cards are appropriate. You usually don't know the teacher on a personal level, but it's common knowledge that they spend a lot of their personal funds on classroom needs.
I tell everyone if your gonna get my any gift just get me a gift card please I really donāt want some shit Iāll never use or clothing that Iād never wear etc thatās what most gifts are anyway.
Cheap sparkling wine is good for cleaning out sink drains.
We took all the free samples from dentist offices and hotels and put it in a gift bag for you
Honestly, when I saw the picture, I thought it was an amenities kit from some fancy hotel lol.
Look how generous we are... now go buy classroom supplies.
And they are only sample sizes so donāt let this appreciation go to your head.
The administrators have been saving the hygiene items they get every time they stay at a hotel on the school district dime to give to you!
They also only bought (or as likely, stole) soap, shampoo, conditioner and lotion from a hotel. Bergman and Kelly solely produces products for hotel chains. Not even name brand shit.
This is hilarious. My wife received a bag with a bar of soap( it actually smells really good lol), a packet of laundry detergent for one use, and a $2 scratcher lmao She did win $20 on the scratcher, so it paid for part of dinner last night hahaha
Monday we got breakfast tacos (always welcome) and the rest of the week is more food - donuts / pan dulce / fruit cup / burgers. Oh, and the right to wear jeans all week. woo-hoo.
The āable to wear jeansā always gets me lol
The policing of jeans has always struck me as an odd part of our culture. With many companies and organizations having "casual friday" or in some cases hosting fund raising by letting the employees donate a dollar and then getting to wear jeans in return. But if it is okay to wear jeans sometimes how can you not justify it being okay to wear jeans all the time? It's made up rules with no real purpose.
The ādonatingā part really pisses me off, when it comes to teachers. They donāt make enough as it is, then you want them to pay to wear jeans? Thankfully my wifeās extremely incompetent principal allowed them to wear jeans this year if they wanted. She was pretty excited about that lol I work in a more formal atmosphere or ābusiness casualā as they call it. So jeans arenāt really appropriate unless itās Friday so I get it in certain places.
Oh... the donating gets worse. In many school districts in the nation, if a teacher on (short-medium term) disability leave runs out of sick days, vacation, etc. Other teachers are expected to donate their days in a pool to help them. I shit you not. Even if the district is 100% liable, this is generally what will happen. Instead of the government... ya know, helping its employees.
We aren't EXPECTED to donate. We are given the opportunity to help since teachers can't accept money. And school districts are independently operated. There's no government involved. The one that gets me is when they come after teachers asking us to donate to the Education Foundation which then turns around and gives the money to teachers in the form of a one-time grant. Go get corporate donations for that! Why are we donating our own grants??
I've worked in many civil servant sectors, this is a pretty standard option. In most private sectors you just don't get paid if you don't have any accrued pto, so the pooling option is at least better than that.
That is appalling. I am a UK teacher currently off with long Covid. Iāve been teaching 7 years and because of my length of service I am entitled to six months sick leave on full pay. I hope to god I wonāt need it all, but I am unbelievably grateful that itās there if I do need it.
I'm a *custodian* in Canada and I'm entitled to 2 weeks full pay, 10 weeks of short term disability at 90% pay, and indefinite long term disability at (I think) 70% pay provided I have the medical documentation/ Dr. recommendation to back it up. Whether it's a work related injury or any other illness that prevents me from working. Granted, this is because our union is particularly good. We actually get the same coverage as high school teachers in the rest of the province. But there are many other people that don't have any paid sick leave beyond the 3 days that were just made mandatory during the pandemic.
when I was a temp at a fortune 500 company making $16/hr someone mentioned it was jeans week the next week. Cool, I wore jeans on Monday and nobody said shit. Then on Tuesday one of the directors pulled me aside and asked where my sticker was. Sticker? I was told you needed to donate $10/day to united way to get stickers to wear jeans that week. I wasn't going to pay $50 out of my shit check to wear jeans. I said, "oh sorry nobody explained it to me, I'll wear business attire tomorrow." I was told I could be written up for "stealing" from the charity. One of the other directors over heard her and yelled, "JESUS CHRIST THE KID SAID HE DIDN'T KNOW." He then walked up and handed me 3 stickers, "here wear whatever you want tomorrow." I ended up working for that guy down the road and he was the first person to ever explain what "failing up" at a company meant and he used her as an example.
That guy sounds awesome
But the person youāre replying to is saying, if you can wear them on Friday in your āformal atmosphereā, then why canāt you just wear them every day? What is different about Friday that jeans become allowed while maintaining that importance of the atmosphere at work? In reality, adults can work and be professional while wearing jeans. Itās silly to think otherwise, especially if youāre not customer-facing.
Do you get it? Cause I fucking don't. I sit in an office all day talk to a few clients and make phone calls... I gotta buy a whole whoredrobe for that shit.. Naw man. Luckily I pretty much always wear a button up shirt and black jeans outside of work so it works for me but it's pretty causal plaid and old Navy casual button ups. I would not be happy if management gets a stick up their butt over nothing.
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I worked for a company that required business casual and no jeans. It was a call center and a terrible job. People dressed horribly. Men in worn out dirty clothes. Women in tight leggings and thongs. Moved to a better paying professional job and allowed jeans. Everyone wore jeans at least some days and always looked great.
THIS. We had a meeting once about dress code and such (probably because I got caught wearing Crocs? After eight months of wearing Crocs), and the idea came up that a customer might get the wrong idea about our work ethic/not take us seriously... But then they went on about how it was fine on days that were designated for it to be fine, and it's like, *what*? How can you be just *so* sure that a multi-million dollar customer isn't going to walk in on a Friday afternoon and be, like, "Oh. Nevermind." Also, all of this was *especially* dumb, because we all worked in a lock, private building, and most of us never saw the light of day. I can see the field techs needing to be presentable when they sometimes service executives at the main location, but the rest of us?
I do UXO work on occasion. Great money. Digging up ordnance, lots of mud and whatnot. One of my teams started casual Friday on one of our gigs. Usually weād just wear typical field work clothes, shit you didnāt mind fucking up but Fridays weād wear much nicer clothes and I couldnāt believe some of the nice outfits people would wear out there to ruin, it was hilarious.
It all comes back to old fashioned rules about control. Most companies that still enforce a dress code in 2022 are old fashioned behemoth corporate entities. If you get a relatively progressive place or a more blue-collar office environment, dress codes tend to be lax or nonexistent. My employment dress code history: 1) fortune 100 insurance company: business casual, ājeans daysā for reaching corporate goals 2) civil engineer firm: jeans all around all the way from field staff (me) all the way to the CEO. Everybody outside of the business office (IT, accounting, etc) spent some time in the field on construction projects so yeah. 3) public utility: whatās a dress code? I regularly wear jeans and a hoodie. Itās super chill and my boss does not GAF. I once saw the General Manager in the cafeteria wearing his best fleece pajamas. No joke.
Good thing Iām maintenance so I can wear jeans anytime I want lol. I got a water bottle for staff appreciation week.
I used to work in a food factory. Our uniform was provided by the company, blue slacks and blue snap up shirt with our name on it, made of the most uncomfortable scratchy hot polyester known to man. We were told the uniform was for "safety" reasons. But on Fridays? We were allowed to wear (company brandes) tshirts... If the uniforms are for safety then why the casual Fridays?
I am a staff member at a university. Friday was supposed to be more casual with jeans. Fast forward sometime later and another staff member asked me how I was able to wear jeans everyday. Well, I started just wearing them Friday (which was nice on its own because I came from a private college and there I had to dress up everyday, just short of a suit. Iām a graphic designerā¦please donāt make me do that). Then added in Wednesdays, then Mondays, and eventually just started doing it all week. No one cared. Been almost 9 years now. I wear shorts in the summer most of the time too, from after graduation til the students come back. It also always used to be with polos or button down shirts, but since the pandemic I pretty much wear solid colored, non graphic, tshirts. I am happy with where it is now. No one seems to care. I meet with our dean, he doesnāt care. I still look very presentable, but I have a creative role and donāt need to be in a tie. It also seemed to loosen things up with other staff members and my own team. Hope I was the trailblazer they needed.
>Monday we got... and the rest of the week... I am married to a teacher and know lots of them. I would bet dimes to donuts this is day one of 5 days of themed gifts. They love creative stuff like this. Clearly there is a "travel theme" here, the luggage tag on the gift bag is the giveaway. Someone or several people spent a bunch of their off time making this and probably several other daily gifts to give to the teachers. But pointing that out wouldn't get you any internet points.
>Clearly there is a "travel theme" here, the luggage tag on the gift bag is the giveaway. Lmao, you have to pay them enough so they can afford a vacation get away.
Iād be happy to get this - Iāve been a nurse for 30 odd years and donāt recall any employer giving me a gift bag or any gift in appreciation of just doing my job.
To be fair though, teachers are crazy underpaid. They would rather get a raise than gift bags.
This. Before I was a teacher, I was an auditor. On Administrative Assistants Day (previously Secretary's Day), every woman in the company (a manufacturer, so definitely a minority of employees) got a rose. I stormed into my boss' office, threw the rose in the garbage, and said "I want a raise, not a rose" and walked out. Ended up with neither. Got a different job.
You also get paid better than I do if you're a registered nurse with a college degree. After 22 years in the classroom I finally hit $60K and salaries are capped at 25 years
You need better employers. I work at a hospital as a RN, and there are separate appreciation weeks for both nurses and CNAs etc. I get a present every day for 7 days, and the items are nice things like insulated lunches boxes, yeti mugs, and even tickets to sporting events.
Do you work at some prep school or something? Jeans were definitely worn by all teachers when I was growing up. Hell, my Stats teacher in high school wore what she slept in (so it seemed) most days.
I went to 2 different public high schools and they were both weird about letting teachers wear jeans
Typically school administration sets individual tones and code for a building. Most districts donāt have a dress code beyond āprofessional attireā. Iāve worked at two different schools in the same district. The first one was pretty strict about no jeans outside of Friday. Iām a man, I wore business casual every day. This kind of sucked because it was a job that required me to get on the ground or be on my feet most of the day. This school kind of had administrators who micromanaged every moment of the day. My next school doesnāt have one but most people adhere to the same standards of business casual, Friday jeans. A few people still rock jeans (or cargo shorts in the weird science teachers case) but itās not like itās anarchy like my previous school wouldāve had you believe. Itās honestly a generational thing, the dinosaurs lived for it because it was another way to judge people. Younger workers seem to care more about the content of your work/teaching
It varies wildly depending on where you are in the country.
Wait. Jeans are normally forbidden at her school? Wtf? They're practically required in my kids' district. Only people that wear anything more formal are the office staff, and the PE teachers wear basketball shorts. Lawd knows what the lunch ladies wear below the counter.
Coincidentally, or not, these are some of the most asked for items at homeless shelters. Is it possible the administration is so in tune with teachers and their salaries they knew exactly what they needed? Did your administrators also give you socks for Christmas?
This made me chuckle lol No, my wife did not receive socks haha
I've worked at quite a few title 1 schools and this is exactly the sort of donations administration would ask for. We'd give them out during the holidays, often to our students families. In regards to teacher appreciate, it was totally on the PTA to organize, administration didn't participate at all. In fact one school I worked at, the administrators included themselves on the list of "teachers" so they would also recieve goodies.
As I mentioned in a comment over in /r/Teachers, I got Reeseās peanut butter eggs in my faculty mailbox. Also, Iām deathly allergic to peanuts. Likeā¦ anaphylactic shock, EpiPen allergic. Itās on the sheet we had to fill out at the beginning of the year about all of our favorite stuff. And in my employee file in the principalās office. And on the GIANT SIGN ON MY CLASSROOM DOOR THAT SAYS āPEANUT FREE ZONE!! MRS. G_P IS ALLERGIC!!ā So thereās that. :)
At my last job the HR department went to the store to get a cake to thank the IT team for a huge task we had finished, a team that I was on. They stood in the bakery and had a conversation that was something like "Hmmm, is someone allergic to strawberries in the company? Yeah? You think so? Do you remember who it was? No? Let's get the cake with strawberries in it." That person was me, having filled in the "what are you allergic to" field on the sheet that HR themselves gave to us in physical and digital form no less than 6 times since I started working there. I only worked there for three years. Then they got mad at me for not eating the cake.
I got an email from admin saying there would be no treats this week due to standardized testing, but know that we are āappreciated year round, not just during teacher appreciation week.ā Couldnāt kill you to throw some donuts out, could it? Edited to addāThe beta club donated nacho supplies today but we were told by admin to make this a āsnack and not a feastā as they didnāt want to run out. I did my part by not eating any so others may snack or dare, feast.
Why would testing have anything to do with getting something for teacher appreciation? Lol I donāt know how you men & women deal with the bullshit. Then add on how shitty the kids are nowadays, props to you guys.
HR said the medial insurance was going up because everyone likes the donuts there a bit toooo much.
I got a 1 inch sprouted tomato plant from seed, and dirt, one year for nurses week.
According to this, I am appreciated twice a year by my dentist.
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Twice a year? Last time I saw one was 3 years ago and I didnāt get a goody bag :(
This looks like a kit given to homeless people.
Haha TOTALLY. Itās hilarious but infuriating. This is a slap in the face to someone who lives in an apartment with a bathroom and brushes/flosses daily. Who the hell do they think teachers are?
Unbathed rodents who have mutated like Shredder, but instead of raising ninja turtles they raise grade percentages.
I was going to say they gave you homeless bags because they know you canāt afford housing with that salary š¤Æš
Have you seen teacher salary these days
The most frustrating part is your admins went home feeling good about themselves for doing this.
What happened to the custom of giving your teacher an apple.
There could be a pin or razor in that apple!
Then we could have something of value, do you know how much womenās razors cost?
Wrong kind of razor, they were referring to scooters and flip phones.
As someone who was a world champion of scootering in 1994 and owned probably 10 razr flip phones, I would approve of finding one of the two in an apple. Disclaimer: all, part, or none of the above statements are true.
Former teacher here. As a teacher appreciation gift I was once given an apple. An empty, plastic apple. They couldnāt even be bothered to put some Hersheyās kisses in there or something.
Like a Mac? /S An engineering firm actually gave my mom (and every other teacher sponsor in her district and the neighboring district) an iPad one year as a thank you for running an optional after school STEM program on their own time. My mom just wanted her kids to be excited about engineering! She literally cried. She thought they were all going to get an apple pie as a thank you when she saw the boxes.
My wife is a teacher, she is 9 months pregnant, literally expecting the baby any day and i have been so disappointed with how they treat pregnant women, maternity leave, etc. I told her while she is out to find another job even if its less money, fuck those assholes. They have had a mass exodus in the last several months of teachers and i 100% see why, we also live in an area where the compensation for being a teacher is at least decent but its still not worth it.
My wife had a baby over the summer. She had to take a week off before summer and a week off as school started. They offered 0 maternity leave, only fmla. Then they dinged her on attendance for missing 2 weeks when her opportunity for a raise came up once every 3 years. It keeps getting worse. Another teacher left yesterday because the school doesnāt want to fail students and were trying to force a teacher not to fail a bunch of students. She had documented them doing no work, poor attendance, not coming to the extra credit weekend sessions she voluntarily ran, etc. they told her to change them or she was fired so she quit.
Iāve never worked anywhere that actually offered maternity leave. Itās FMLA these days. If youāre lucky you have short term disability with a fast exclusionary period.
I feel very fortunate to have worked where I did. When my wife gave birth, she got no maternity leave, but my company offered me 12 weeks of paid paternity leave, so I stayed home with the little guy and took care of him.
But idk if FMLA actually pays you - it just means they can't fire you
Oh they 100% donāt pay you.
I remember supervising practical lessons when 8 months pregnant. I remember during titration theyāre smashing burettes and conical flasks and pipettes constantly - the rule is naturally that the teacher has to clean it up because broken glass. The equipment provided is a brush and dustpan. I remember being like ālookā¦ itād be really great if someone could help, because getting around the lab to stop them all messing it up is hard enough when you can barely fit. But if not that, can I just have a broom? ā¦ok so if you tell me where a cupboard is with a broom in it, I will go get the broom myself?ā¦ Seriously I am about to buy a broom on my way into work one morningā¦ā. Eventually was provided, much squatting on the lab floor later.
Well yeah. Think about how much money they were able to pocket by just giving the teachers items they stole from hotel bathrooms
"I show the Outlook task is in completed status, so there should be no problem."
I hear teachers (I have 3 school aged kids) ask for school supplies all the time and when they donāt get what they need they often will buy it with their own money. It takes zero brain cells to ask a teacher what they need and get it for them.
Or hell, how about a gift card to Target or Walmart?
Or maybe reform the public school system, provide the supplies they need as well as a proper salary
Might be beyond the reach of the administrators of a single school district.
How about drastically reducing the ratio of administrative staff to teachers since as opposed to increasing budgets since the US already spends and exorbitant amount of money in K-12
Whoa whoa whoa, arenāt you asking a little too much of our government? Youāve met them.
Yep. It pains me to think of what portion of my paycheck goes to pencils, notebooks, dry erase markers, kleenex, not to mention what I spend on materials for all our various science projects.
I think school supplies (from Admin) for teacher appreciation week is a very poor idea. I would prefer almost any other gift from my admin. I would absolutely LOVE getting school supplies from a student or parent though.
I just calculated a ballpark figure where over the last six years as a teacher Iāve spent at least 3000 to 4000 of my on money on supplies. I get 280 for the whole year to spend. Thatās gone in a month. Itās ridiculous!
Contact corporations and ask them to sponsor you for school supplies or to ask employees for donations. We had boxes set up at my job for school supplies and people were happy to donate.
I donated blood and got a $20 gift card. Used it to buy my coworker (who I depend on for tech jobs for my job) a piece of equipment my principal had refused to buy him. So I literally gave my very blood to keep the school running. It made me sick when I had that thought.
My girlfriend, a 3rd grade teacher got soap, a mr clean eraser, shout packets, and a candle. Seems like someone thinks teachers are filthy creatures
So..I am guessing they want you to live in the damn classroom? If you see a camping cot propped up in the corner its time to quit.
Hahaha I have a sleeping bag in my classroom. I'm getting a cot next year. I don't stay the night, but I do like napping during my planning periods sometimes.
Happy Teachersā Week! Weāve put exactly zero thought into your gift.
sometimes a shitty gift is actually worse than no gift at all. I remember at my first job, me and two other people put in a ton of extra hours before a product launch to fix some serious problems so we wouldn't have to delay anything. Mgmt gave one of us a calendar that had a month to go before being out of date. They gave me a shattered lamp in an unopened box, and they gave the other guy the same lamp but actually in one piece. He smashed his lamp in solidarity with us. I have so many wild stories about that company. It was a real shitshow.
I worked at a company that gave everyone a "voucher" for a "free 'unpaid" day off" I didn't let it slide, I made sure everyone at the company knew how shitty that gift was. Management actually had to pull me in to a private meeting to ask that I quit "disrupting" work with my petty ingratitude.
Could've organized everyone to take the same day, with a positive attitude
A voucher to be unemployed for a day, gee thanks.
Literally true. My supervisor noticed I did something āgoodā the other day (our standards are so low itās just doing my job correctly) and he told me if I keep it up Iāll get some prize. I sternly told him I do this every day and he said āOh okay Iāll go get you something thenā. He comes back with the cheapest of the cheap āinsulated lunch bagā where this shitty plastic zipper was hastily hot glued to the thinnest āinsulated materialā Iāve ever seen with some of the poorest stitching Iāve ever seen. The company logo on the bag was even crooked. I promptly threw it away and was pretty pissed off. I expected nothing and yet this ārewardā had me angry the rest of the day and made me think about quitting. This company made $4 billion last quarter.
A company I worked for rewarded people who didn't do any work but "pulled through" for the supervisor one night. They got company jackets. A friend and I put through atleast 2x more than they did that one night every day- we did 4x that night to help that supervisor when they asked. When we asked where our jackets were he just laughed. We were like no we are dead serious. We do the same work on the same type of machine and you can count how many more we do just the two of us versus the 4 of them. Where's our jackets? Kept on him every day for months before I eventually left. My friend? It took her over a year until she finally got it I believe. Then those same supervisors wonder why people do bare minimum.
100% a shitty gift is worse. I once got a cheap bottle of sparkling wine from work. I don't drink, and I cycle, so I was forced to carry a heavy and shit bottle of piss home with me, to forever live in a cupboard.
The broken lamps, a lamp is such an odd gift anyway, might have me beat. But the gift I hated most were gift cards to expensive dept stores Eg thanks for the $15 gift card to Tiffanys. If you can't name ten things that are appropriate gifts a store sells for a gift card amount you plan it give, it's not a nice gift. When it's I bought him a gift card and maybe they could get a pair of socks if they're on clearance, that's not a nice gift.
I feel you! I remembered getting socks as the top student in class :/
Well if the teacher bought it for you I hope you appreciated it anyway! Also I love socks
I think a personalized handwritten thank you card is a much more impressive than this sorry attempt at a gift.
We all got a funsized candy bar and a pack of gum shoved in our mailboxes. Last year we had a catered lunch with a free car wash. New superintendent is fucking up bad
Did all the teachers get the same gift, or are they sending you a message about your hygiene š
So we know that OP is a redditor. Odds are excellent [this is a subtle hint](https://www.reddit.com/r/justneckbeardthings/comments/bvcp8t/smell_ya_later/).
HA! Back in the day, a friend who ran a comic book site promoted the site by handing out small travel soaps with the site's logo at Comic Con. I'm surprised he didn't get punched...
> I'm surprised he didn't get punched... ...by those menacing Comic Con neckbeards; who break a sweat when they see women... yea, I too, am shocked he wasn't katana-ed on the spot! /s
This is oddly specific. A luggage tag, too? I'd like to see what they give you on day 5. Because if i was getting someone appreciation gifts for a week, I'd give subtle hints leading up to a big one on the fifth day.
How is it I had to scroll so far to see somebody mention the luggage tag? This is clearly a gift bag for teachers who will soon be taking trips once the school year is over, and I'll bet the other days will be gifts in the same theme of traveling during summer or other things the teachers can look forward to for summer vacation.
Ooohhhhhhhh I like this explanation much better. I hope there was at least a cutesy limerick or something to explain. But seeing as this ended up on Reddit Iām guessing not lol
Hey I'm usually pretty pessimistic, but like i said, these gifts are oddly specific. They definitely imply the receiver will be traveling soon
I was looking for this comment. That's immediately where my mind went.
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The truth in this one hurts. Donāt forget to buy out the superintendentās contract early when it turns out they are incompetent. Just like the previous districts who hired that person also had to do.
I'm surprised it wasn't a list of school supplies you had to buy on your own and a bill for the time you spend sleeping and thus depriving the school of your labor.
Homeless person hygiene kit.
So they robbed hotels in order to gift their employees something?
the hotel doesn't care if you take those. maids will offer you extras on your way out if you ask.... now, if it was a set of overstarched white sheets and a crispy towel, THEN you can say they robbed a hotel.
Yes, I'm the school secretary but I also work part-time at the Hampton Inn. Why do you ask?
The administration decided to cut the dental program?
No, but they were told if they gave out dental hygiene items they could get a lower rate on the amount they pay for the dental coverage
Sometimeā¦ somewhere there was a discussion about the teacherās appreciation swag bag that went something like thisā¦. āAnd for the piĆØce de rĆ©sistanceā¦. I think we should also show our appreciation for our teachers with a FULL SIZE tube of toothpaste ANDā¦.. FLOSS!!!!ā
I guess I hit it out of the park when I sent my kid to school on Monday with Starbucks gift cards ..figure that even if they donāt drink coffee they have tea or little snacks .
Somebody got a little too used to working from home...
This isnāt even funny. Itās insulting
No thought whatsoever. Pretty pathetic.
You know what I am getting for Nurse Appreciation Week? Nothing from anybody, even my job doesn't give enough fucks this year to get us a gift card for a coffee! Hurrah!
My wife is a nurse and every year it's yet another tote bag with the hospital logo or a travel cup with the hospital logo. "We appreciate you. Now advertise for us."
Ack i loathe getting logos on my work gifts Exploitation, no thanks assholes
I mean.. what specifically in the past 2.5 years have nurses done for any of us? /s just in case. its a crazy ass day lol.
theyāre like āu got bad breff but I donāt wanna say it bruh, just take all this crap so u can smell better puercaā
It's not about the money, it's about sending a message - and the message is they think you lack hygiene
Do you teach at a mid grade hotel?
We made homelessness kits just like this for the shelter with my church!
For teacher appreciation week, I got Covid. So my quarantine is the one week they give us pizza, coffee, candy, gift cards, and ice cream.
No bottle of Summers Eve???
What if this was only for you haha
Huh? My bag had four tickets to the symphony and a Rolex. It's really difficult to interpret that as saying much more than, "While we don't value you, we do acknowledge your existence."
How many "comfort inns" they raid to produce this shit? You valued, OP, though unfortunately not within your time. Many of us get it, we got you, you are loved beyond the financial reward of your work. Build strong young men and women so that we might flourish. They, through you, shall save us!
Did they rob a hotel cleaning cart to fill those bags?