To feel the rage with “teacher tired” posts

[Rainbowsandglitterbullshit]

The season of teachers posting SM messages “no one knows tired like an end of term teacher/TA/dinner lady” is almost upon us.

I want to scream, what about the fuckers who work stupid hours all week and don’t get 6 weeks off in the summer, half term, two weeks Easter, two weeks at Christmas.

I wouldn’t be a teacher for all the tea in China but these people chose their career.

Grrr, actually don’t care if I’m BU.

I don’t have it harder than anyone else. I chose my career and the hours and stress it brings with it. I don’t post on SM about how hard my work is or how tired I am, no one is interested.

I just wish those bloody clown shoes weren’t so tight, they nip something terrible, I might post a meme about that.

Is it just me who sees these sharing things (for any job/interest/sport/hobby) and realises that the exaggeration is just a comedic tool rather than something to get irrationally uptight about?

The 'omg teachers' moaning is hilarious on this thread.

Not once have I seen any share thing exaggerating how 'literally nobody understands...' and thought fucking he'll, you have no idea just look at all this stuff I can write to prove that other people might understand, blah blah blah, get annoyed and grumble.

Gosh it's very worrying how many people seem to work 52 weeks per year on this thread and so take no annual leave whatsoever. Surely that is not legal? Plus I know plenty of teachers who would love to only work 8 til 6 every day. Most I know work from 7.30 or 8 until 6 and then 2 or 3 hours every evening after their own kids are in bed. Can't understand all the teacher bashing on here. I get 25 days holiday a year plus bank holidays and it's all paid. Teachers don't get paid for theirs and yet still go in to lesson plan, sort classrooms etc. If teaching is such a great easy job why do we have a massive teacher recruitment and retainment problem in this country?

So it appears the OP is content to hide behind a pretentious euphemism then.

And I too was away for 5 days last week with 45 other people's children. When I was on call 24/7. No time off in lieu. And not a thank you from more than half of students/parents. Expect some of you think I should be grateful for having a holiday 😂😂. And I too had a weeks worth of work to catch up on. Not winging, just explaining.
Back to the next few reports.

After 20 years of teaching in UK, the biggest difference is not just the extra holidays, pay and conditions but not being slatted by the public in Ireland. Not being made to feel grateful to be in a broken system and feel the searing heat of pedantic resentment wafting off every one of life's disappointed.

Teaching on the UK is the pits, a seething den of every which you look being disliked by parents, the media, the government and the students. Posts like yours OP are an insidious part of a cohort completely undermining the profession.

And now having a system that works I'm glad to be out of it. Try praising the educators.

poshfrock
52 weeks a year? Slackers! They have it made. I bet they only work 17 hours a day too.
Some of us are too busy working 53 hours a day, 9 days a week for 78 weeks of the year. You'd never see me having time to share stupid images on social media because I'm too busy working and telling mumsnet how much I work.

I'm with you OP! Teacher's moaning drives me nuts!!! It's not that I don't know how hard they work and appreciate all they do, many teachers are fantastic. But ... we ALL (well, lots of us anyway!!) work hard, are knackered etc... (But teachers are one of the few professions with the holidays off :)! so kind of lucky in some ways, and they chose their profession I presume .....

Quite right mumsneedwine but that’s not what your post said is it? Report writing into the early hours like the hard working teacher you are.

The reason I’m not giving away my profession is because it’s outing! It’s not very big and is very centric to a particular region! Does it really matter what I do!? I’m not a teacher, obviously.

Rainbowsandglitterbullshit

I just wish those bloody clown shoes weren’t so tight, they nip something terrible,

Don't wear them then.

No wonder we have a shortage of teachers

Yes @ilovesooty I love being a pretentious euphemism do you like being a goady fucker?

I could never be a teacher because I’d have to work with other teachers, and my god I cant imagine a more lazy and entitled bunch l. but everyone knows that teachers work 26 hours a day 8 days a week ( but still don’t seem to to manage to do any marking ) 🙄

Yanbu op. Teachers work hard, no doubt about it. But they aren't fucking unique!

do you like being a goady fucker?

Irony thy name is Rainbowsandglitterbullshit

@BoneyBackJefferson that’d be like asking a teacher not to have a non pupil day, they’re essential to my role and help improve my ability to do my job effectively.

Do you know what I hate (but have never seen the need to create a thread bashing them) mums who post things about how their kids eat them out of house and home and how they have to entertain them constantly for a one week long half term. As someone who would love children I get fed up seeing people bitch about how hard their own precious kids are (when I look after 30-odd of them and entertain/educate them the the rest of time) when I would fucking LOVE to be in their positions! Like I said though, I don’t feel the need to create thread to bash lazy parents that don’t give a shit about their kids!

Just as I’m enjoying this my phone is about to die! Must dash, if it carries on being interesting I’ll be back.

I give up. If you hate teachers so much I really hope you don't let them look after your kids every day. Or let them go on school trips in half terms. Because we are such a lazy bunch we might lose them.
I never said 'I work until the early hours'. And I'm sure your job is piss easy too (not that I've ever done it but why should that matter).

Please never complain that your kids don't have specialist teachers. You are the reason why. People get fed up of being told they are all crap. So they leave.
And I am going to put away reports, pour a larger glass of wine and watch Love Island. Because I'm a dim, lazy whining pile of poop. Night all 🍷

@Rainbowsandglitterbullshit I didn't say you were a pretentious euphemism. I said you were using one - which you are.

As for being a goady fucker - pot:meet kettle.

Ah, got it. It’s you again. Sigh.

I’ve been doing the job so long that I don’t care about the criticisms by the unaware any more.
Yes, I have long holidays, a wonderful pension projected and every day is a combination of Poppins and Maria with a touch of Miss Honey. I wake with a song in my heart and sleep like the selfless angel that I am, with small children weeping at the thought of my absence in their future.
It is indeed wonderful, Rainbowsandglitter. Have you considered blocking people who don’t spark joy in your life and fill you with rage? Perhaps your twinkle will return?

In the real world people on a 52 week contract get 4 weeks holidays not 13. That’s a fact.

An the fact you work evenings is because you finish at 3pm

Try doing 8 till 6pm every day AND taking work home for the evening.

If teaching is soooo tiring try that.

And popping in now and again over the holidays I’d not working 10 solid hours no matter how you add it up.

Back to you.

But Shayne, why would I do that when I could be a teacher?
It mystifies me why anyone would choose to do so many other jobs when they could sit on a golden cushion and Teach.

@Shayne11 but how many people do their job whilst also looking after 30 children? That change every 45 minutes?