Bernard Posted June 8, 2006 Share Posted June 8, 2006 Hey, I know I haven't really formally introduced myself, but I have been hanging around here for the past few months and have only recently gained enough confidence to post. I hope this is not offensive to anyone. I'm so pissed off with the people at work at the moment that I really need to vent. This will be lengthy and please don't feel the need to reply - I just want to get it out. Stupid new girl. All she does is complain about the demands of the job. We are teachers - of course it is fucking challenging. Der. It's not like going to school as a kid where you can bludge around and do nothing - you're actually the adult in the situation. Anyway, she bitches and moans about the marking, the lessons, the extra-curricular, the kids, other staff members and the whole thing just shits me. If you can't fucking hack it, then fuck off, find a career you can actually do (I understand I am being really insensitive about this but she makes me so mad). She is seriously getting to me. Everyone is seriously getting to me. I can't sit in the staffroom at lunch without hearing her, or someone equally incompetent, start complaining about the place. It brings me right down. I mean it is hard enough for me to get out of bed each day and haul my depressed arse to work, let alone to sit and face this cesspool of lazy bastards. If I stay in the room for too long listening to all of their petty complains I start to o'er-brim with boiling anger! They are complaining about classes and kids that I like and enjoy and respect because I - unlike some - actually have classroom management skills and am not a lazy fucking sod. The staff meeting today turned into a free-for-all for all the lazy moaning shits who can't hack change because it moves them out of their precious little comfort zones where they don't have to work beyond the bare minimum. How is a person supposed to maintain their motivation and not crumble to pieces among this? Adding to my unhappiness, stupid new girl, poked her head in my classroom at the beginning of a lesson the other day and asked me to be quiet because she was running an exam. Yeah, that was cool. Except I had Year 7 boys and we were having a discussion lesson. So anyway, I run my lesson in hushed voices and muffled laughs. I was so proud of them because it is not often that twelve year-old boys can demonstrate such control. Except, half-way through, stupid new girl sticks her ugly mouse-head back in the door and says in a narky manner, "I asked you to keep it down! I'm running an exam." I was all like, "Excuse me? We are keeping it down. Give me a break. It's not like you gave us any notice. We are doing the best we can." She snapped, "Well I did tell you at the start of the lesson!" This made me snap, and I clenched my fists real tight and in my firmest - most condescending - voice replied, "Yeah, and I hate to break it to you Love, but telling me at the start of a lesson is not really enough notice, considering I've had this lesson planned for a week." Stupid fucking ignorant bitch. That's such poor form! Ordinarily I wouldn't snap at another staff member like that in front of the kids but if she wants to play the power game, well screw her, she's got nothing on me. Anyway, all goes fine. I ignore her and keep going with the kids. Twenty minutes before the end, her kids start to get really loud. Obviously they've finished her exams. But prissy little mouse-face has no classroom management skills so for the next twenty-minutes Year 7 and I struggled to keep our discussion going because we couldn't hear each other over the noise of the 23 rioting students next door! How's that for consideration! The nerve of some people. Then, THEN! afterwards in a different situation, people were complaining about the extra demands being placed on us at the moment and she had the audacity to say well within my ear shot (quite deliberately), "Well, I am too busy for this. Not everyone here has kids and work to worry about. Some of those other people should have to deal with it" SO intended for me! And I wanted to turn around and say, "Fuck you Prissy Mouse-face. I may not have kids but I have a husband who lives 2 hours away for work, two households to run and a very, very sick mother to look after. Adding to which i have major medicated fucking depression that leaves me so wrecked that I am in bed by 9:30pm and I struggle to make it through the day. If you can't manage family and work maybe you need to think your lifestyle choices." But I didn't. I kept it in and it has been chewing through me - in one of my repetitive thought cycles and I am writhing with anger. Gah! I fucking hate her. This all happened two days ago and I am still fuming. I took yesterday off because I couldn't deal with the environment of work. I need another job but my pdoc has advised me to wait until the end of the year to try and settle some of my ocd and depression first. Gah. Sorry this is so long. I am sort of embarrassed now that I've written it because it seems so petty, and I feel no bigger than these people that I loathe. But it's out now, so I'll post it for a little while. Nice introduction to my craziness - I do have major depression and mild ocd (repetitive thoughts, obsessive cleaning) -I also have a bad temper... Bernard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lily Posted June 8, 2006 Share Posted June 8, 2006 No worries! Get it out. Stupid girl sounds like a fookin moron. Hey, I'm on effexor-xr too. I wish someone would force me to exercise and eat right. Dinner tonight was red wine and uhhh, nachos. Welcome to CB, and post away! lily Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~nestling~ Posted June 8, 2006 Share Posted June 8, 2006 I used to be a teacher too. For many years I was a supply (substitute) teacher. I used to have a whole lot of shit from 'more established staff' over and over, I can empathise. and Welcome Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JBella Posted June 8, 2006 Share Posted June 8, 2006 What a stupid, ignorant, unprofessional, self-centered, unsympathetic, cuntsucking piece of trash. I hate her, too. Did you (and probably others) go to the principal and tell him/her she's a stupid, ignorant, unprofessional, self-centered, unsympathetic, cuntsucking piece of trash? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bernard Posted June 9, 2006 Author Share Posted June 9, 2006 What a stupid, ignorant, unprofessional, self-centered, unsympathetic, cuntsucking piece of trash. I hate her, too. Did you (and probably others) go to the principal and tell him/her she's a stupid, ignorant, unprofessional, self-centered, unsympathetic, cuntsucking piece of trash? Yeah, I went to her Head of Dept, and to the Principal and had a bitof a hissy fit. I feel better now that I have vented. Thank you for making me feel welcome here. I really need this at the moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiaB Posted June 10, 2006 Share Posted June 10, 2006 Welcome - and ditto to what JBella said - I couldn't have put it better. (Out of curiosity - what was the reaction of her HOD and the principal?) Skittle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iona_Viona Posted June 11, 2006 Share Posted June 11, 2006 hey i am a teacher too, i was in a regular mainstream class then i shifted to special education and teach intellectually impaired and down syndrome students. must be something about the teaching profession cause i got one of those prissy face bitches at my school. but she is old and wrinkly. She cant hack the work, leaves her kids unsupervised to have "panic attacks" in the toilet. she hates my guts cause im half her age but been teaching for longer (she was a mature age university student) and have work much more under control and my kids dont riot and for disable kids they acutally learn!! it is so annoying when u are a teacher with a mental disorder and you are trying to get by, but doing a good job, and hearing others just complain constantly about how hard life is when they aint got any idea! if only they knew the truth! I hear u!!! much sympathy! perhaps start takin an i-pod to the staffroom to save u :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loon-A-TiK Posted June 12, 2006 Share Posted June 12, 2006 it really takes a saint to be a teacher, especially of middle school kids i think. good for you for handling your boys! i had custody of my younger sibs when dad died, and they were in grade school, middle school, adn high school respectively. each had their own set of issues. i only had to run to the Klonopin a few times. they KNEW when to stop it or get grounded (and my groundings were tough). what a stupid freak for a teacher. she should learn her profession or find a new job. there's no excuse to bother you. and kids should know how to focus on an exam without minding noise. after all, most do their homework wiht the tv or radio on. she should have just asked her class if they minded, and asked you to control your boys if the class was in favor. if not, then she could have excused some of the more sensitive kids until later, and had them take the exam at a later time. that would be my choice i think. you'd think that closing the doors would also benefit he kids. my sibs always sat in front of the tv and did their homework, and i checked it in front of the tv. i could teach them geometry or anything with noise in the background. i also came up with mini-quizzes to test them, adn there was never a problem. it seems like the spider webs under her skirt were the real culprits... loon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rabbit37 Posted June 12, 2006 Share Posted June 12, 2006 I'm not a teacher or anything, but vent away, and welcome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Croix Posted June 12, 2006 Share Posted June 12, 2006 Welcome Bernard! Yes, it was quite unreasonable for Stupid Bitch to expect everyone else to be silent while her students took their exam. You shouldn't have to whisper your discussions for her sake. The second her class got rowdy, I'd have walked over there and asked her to keep her class noise level down as it was disturbing you. That skank, I hate her. A pox on her house!!!! Don't give up. I looooooved teachers like you when I was in school. It's what KEPT me in school. Please, try to keep that in mind when you have days like that that make you wanna quit. And don't be embarrassed for ranting here. That's what we're here for. Croix Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grousemouse Posted June 12, 2006 Share Posted June 12, 2006 Welcome Bernard! Yes, it was quite unreasonable for Stupid Bitch to expect everyone else to be silent while her students took their exam. You shouldn't have to whisper your discussions for her sake. The second her class got rowdy, I'd have walked over there and asked her to keep her class noise level down as it was disturbing you. That skank, I hate her. A pox on her house!!!! Don't give up. I looooooved teachers like you when I was in school. It's what KEPT me in school. Please, try to keep that in mind when you have days like that that make you wanna quit. And don't be embarrassed for ranting here. That's what we're here for. Croix hi bernard, i'm not a teacher but i can relate to the type of person that woman is. people like her are infinitely frustrating and annoying because they are incapable of seeing themselves at fault in these type of situations. if a very long arm reaches in the window from across the atlantic and slaps her upside the head, that would be me. grouse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bernard Posted June 12, 2006 Author Share Posted June 12, 2006 The HoD and the Principal both had stern words with stupid Mouse-face and she has beenr ather subdued this week, and noticably absent fromt eh staffroom - much to my happiness Bernard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lilie Posted June 13, 2006 Share Posted June 13, 2006 You are absolutely right to feel the way you do. California has a teaching shortage like no ones business but it's cake next to other states. When I taught I was like "where the hell is my budget money?" add to that a whiner that had no clue as to how to handle her job and class and I'd spend an hour a day crying in the bathroom. It's good to vent. she's an asshole. Through teachers all professions pass (Go after her ass with an uzi(administrative)I say) Lilie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bernard Posted June 13, 2006 Author Share Posted June 13, 2006 Stupid Mouse-face was supposed to apologise to me and she didn't. Evil cow. I think I will play the role of the Heinous Bitch this week and give her hell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scooterman Posted June 13, 2006 Share Posted June 13, 2006 Stupid Mouse-face was supposed to apologise to me and she didn't. Evil cow. I think I will play the role of the Heinous Bitch this week and give her hell. Wow Bernard I think it is great that you can vent like that. I liked your response to her that you had your class planned for a week. I've seen alot of cows my way but never an evil one.... Maybe I've seen one but don't know what they look like. Keep coming. Being a teacher would drive me more insane, I am sure. Scooterman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Croix Posted June 13, 2006 Share Posted June 13, 2006 A pox I tell you!!! Where the hell are Saturnine and Zon when you need them...... If you want I'll go off my meds and go apeshit on her for you. You'll never be bothered again, I can promise you that. Croix Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bernard Posted June 14, 2006 Author Share Posted June 14, 2006 She completely needs to be smacked about the head! She's still avoiding me and other staff members are now commenting on what an idiot she is. Good thing I'm totally loved by everyone else. Stupid Mouse-Head. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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