If you keep panic buying fuel you'll be homeschooling again!😆

[FishesWithWishes]

Teachers need to teach in schools don't they?

It isn't considered bad practise to teach where you live. I know plenty of people who do it including staff where I work. At a previous school one staff member lived literally next door to the school.

Some teachers don't enjoy seeing the students outside of school, in which case I'd advise being a few miles away.

I think people who can't drive just have far fewer choices in life. That's me at the moment. I can only go to local shops or wait for a delivery, my employment options are massively more limited, and everything takes a lot longer.

For example I took some big boxes to the post office last week and I had to load them on a small suitcase trolley and trundle them along the road for half a mile each way. The pavement was incredibly patched and uneven and they kept falling off the trolley every five minutes. On the plus side, I get more sunshine and exercise and I don't have to sit in traffic.

Oddly there is a lot less pressure to do stuff. People say "you should do this, you should do that" and I say "I can't" and that's the end of it.

@Hercisback

It is considered bad practice to teach within your own community, and is certainly not advised.

This is bollocks.

@Orangejuicemarathoner Your school leadership team needs to calm down if it has spent the weekend preparing for online learning for something that may never happen. Most staff are used to online learning having done it lots last year. What do you need to prepare?!

because none of the lessons planned for next week were for online - all resources need adapting, new resources need preparing, homes need setting up again - we will not teach online tomorrow morning, but if the school can't open, then we will be teaching online again from tomorrow lunch time.

I think we could do a healthy trade in, 'Make way, teacher coming through!' t-shirts, mugs, badges, star charts and other merchandise and make profit just from the MN teacher contingent.

Meanwhile, every fucker else just gets on with things.

Use the morning to prepare. We have to set short notice X code work anyway.

Sorry but you've absolutely wasted your time (and your staffs) if you're on the leadership team. I'd have said no chance if I was in your school.

@Hercisback

Use the morning to prepare. We have to set short notice X code work anyway.

Sorry but you've absolutely wasted your time (and your staffs) if you're on the leadership team. I'd have said no chance if I was in your school.

surprise surprise, I will be spending the morning attempting to travel to work

@FourTeaFallOut

I think we could do a healthy trade in, 'Make way, teacher coming through!' t-shirts, mugs, badges, star charts and other merchandise and make profit just from the MN teacher contingent.

Meanwhile, every fucker else just gets on with things.

Didn't look like that's what people were doing at the petrol stations today...

If you've got online lessons, deliver them from home!

Just don't see why you've wasted your weekend. Hate leadership teams like that. Bet you make people triple mark with 50 different coloured pens.

@Orangejuicemarathoner

No it isn't. As I said, a few younger teachers who rent may live close-ish, but you don't buy in your own catchment area. ( or job hunt where you live) That would be seriously stupid, and asking for trouble - and has caused massive trouble for the few fools I know who have done it, against advice

Half the staff where I work, rural secondary school live in catchment you are talking out of your arse 😂

I didn’t queue up at 5am on a weekend to fill up because MN said that if you were only going to leave the full car on the driveway all weekend then that made you a selfish fucker who was depriving nurses and ambulance drivers of actually-needed petrol.

Now people are being slated for not joining the panic-buyers filling up at the weekend?

Just on news : more than half pf petrol stations have run dry...

MN said? Is this a thing we can use at work now?

No it isn't. As I said, a few younger teachers who rent may live close-ish, but you don't buy in your own catchment area. ( or job hunt where you live) That would be seriously stupid, and asking for trouble - and has caused massive trouble for the few fools I know who have done it, against advice

Nonsense. Dh and I have both lived and taught in the same catchment for years. It’s fine.

It’s obviously a matter of personal preference. If you don’t want to, that’s up to you and plenty would agree. That doesn’t make it bad practice!

If you queued up at the weekend, you’re a selfish panic buyer

If you didn’t queue up at the weekend, you’re irresponsible.

Some posters are judgemental arseholes.

I have an electric car so I don't have a dog in this fight but I'm sure teachers who were aware they wouldn't have enough petrol in the tank to get to school and back on Monday sensibly joined a queue at the petrol station. And anyone who told you that to do that would be selfish is an idiot.

@Aroundtheworldin80moves

Dont they sleep at the school?

You aren't suggesting... that teachers have a life outside of school?

Outrageous!

Someone told me that they even have first names.

Absolute rubbish!

They are all called "Miss" or "Sir".

I don;'t know what some people are thinking!

Ds worked this out on Friday. Him and his friends were considering going around and trying to increase the panic buying. I pointed out that the teachers who would be effected come from further away, and also they're not 16yo so they wouldn't sell them petrol.

It's fine, we'll all just turn up and teach at our closest, local school

@Shapesorted

How do teachers manage to turn every situation around to make out they are the worst affected? I know at least a dozen people who need fuel for their equally important jobs but no amusing memes to guilt people in to not purchasing fuel to get themselves to where they need to be.

In the interests of being transparent, I have half a tank and haven't refueled, but Dh has because his light came on and he's a police officer. He didn't whinge at everyone else in the queue.

They are the only ones who currently aren't working from home! Duhhh. Oh wait- no they aren't.

But they are certainly the most important!

Don't most people fill their cars every week? Why is it reported as panic buying if they fill up this weekend? It's not toilet paper, people can't store in in their bedroom.

I would usually fill up on the weekend and I'd usually have to que at the pump, when some petrol stations are closed of course the ques are longer at the ones open .

Um, no. Most people don't fill up every week. My tank lasts three weeks. It's a big tank.

I fill up once every 3-4 weeks. Short commute and big tank.

There's enough fuel out there, just sat on people's drives who wouldn't normally fill up.

[quote FishesWithWishes]@siestalady

We've not had any "you'll be sewing your own leg back on!" Or "you'll be saving yourself from your own burning house!" From other essential workers?

It hits them where it hurts. The majority of selfish fuckers only care about their tiny immediate universe, not the tiny percentage of people in hospital or who may need urgent life saving treatment unfortunately and I'm sad to say. Maybe something that directly affects them may filter into their brains...[/quote]
Wow light hearted.

When I reconcile the cred cards at work there is always 4 or 5 fuel receipts a month on most.

@FourTeaFallOut

I think we could do a healthy trade in, 'Make way, teacher coming through!' t-shirts, mugs, badges, star charts and other merchandise and make profit just from the MN teacher contingent.

Meanwhile, every fucker else just gets on with things.

Ooh, yes, please. I’d like a mug because they’re always handy. And a badge to jump queues at the toilets. T-shirts you can keep. What pictures are you using or is just the text?

I’ll let you and the other fuckers just get on with snarfling up all of the petrol or whatever you ‘get on with’ that teachers don’t. I’m quite looking forward to joining the ‘working from home’ brigade. Will that be another badge? Excited!