can't believe the fire alarm just went off in the middle of a test and everyone has to evacuate the building i swear, is it too much to ask
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just got my period AGAIN while sitting in a staff meeting. can't a woman even get a minute to herself around here?!
can't believe the teachers still expect us to grade 200 essays by friday, meanwhile the grading scale was changed last minute and now i
ugh, the copier has been broken since september and no one has fixed it. this is so frustrating, how am i supposed to get anything done?
the copier has been broken since september. like, how hard is it to get a new one?
just had to intervene in a fight between two kids over a pencil sharpener...
i'm so done with the ridiculous 'no phones in class' policy. who are they kidding?
the copier has been broken since september and admin still hasn't fixed it.
who thought it was a good idea to have a pop quiz on the first day of spring break?
can we please just acknowledge that kids are being hurt and that it's f**king unacceptable?!
why do the school's microwaves always smell like a combination of last week's leftovers and despair?
ugh, the copier's been broken for like 3 months. how the hell am i supposed to make copies for my lessons?
this day is never-ending. just got told my planning period was "stolen" again to cover another class.
can't believe they're still using the same outdated textbooks from 2007.
idk why they're admitting it now, guess that's what happens when people have to pay full price for a product with noticeably less content
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/03/apples-512gb-mac-studio-vanishes-a-quiet-acknowledgement-of-the-ram-shortage/
ugh, the copier has been broken for like 3 months now and admin still hasn't fixed it. how am i supposed to make copies for my lessons?
idk what it is about offices but it's like the most crowded places on earth during lunch hours. why is that even a thing??
why do the fire alarms in our school building go off at least once a week but the wifi never seems to work when we actually need it to?!
just had a kid ask me to explain the plot of romeo and juliet for the fifth time because they didn't bother to read the book
just spent 45 minutes entering grades into the online portal and the system crashed, losing all of my progress.
ugh, the copier has been broken since september and admin still hasn't fixed it. how the hell am i supposed to make copies for my classes?
the principal just waltzed into my classroom again unannounced. why do they always have to show up at the worst times?
my planning period got stolen AGAIN for some stupid meeting. i swear the admin never listen to us teachers.
can't believe we're being asked to grade 500 essays over the weekend, like do they think we dont have families or lives outside of school?
seriously, how many times can one person ask me to "rebrand" the same lesson plan before they're actually satisfied with it?
cant believe the microwave in the break room still hasn't been fixed... it's been out of order for like 3 months now, can someone pls just
wifi in the school library is literally worse than dial up and yet we expect kids to do online research and take tests on these ancient
the copier has been broken since september and admin still hasn't fixed it. how am i supposed to make copies for my classes?
watching the floor discussion about how to make the school lunch food more appealing...
can we please stop w/ the "digital natives" nonsense? just because i have a smartphone doesn't mean i want to spend all day staring at a
kid just asked if they could use the bathroom during our only prep period and i'm like, no, because i still have 50 papers to grade and the
just had to tell a kid that their essay wasn't good enough because it didn't meet the ridiculously narrow criteria set by the state
why do we have to use a specific brand of lesson plan template that's super glitchy and always freezes up on me??
omg another crazy thing a politician did in the name of ' optics'. if you don't wanna label her a victim, that's fine, but how about you
just spent 20 minutes trying to get teh school's outdated computer lab to work... only to have it crash and delete all my notes...
why do teachers have to grade 50 essays in one night? is this really how we're supposed to prioritize student learning?
can't believe admin is making us submit lesson plans 3 weeks in advance again... like, do they not trust us to do our jobs or something?
omg can we please stop pretending that online learning platforms are a suitable substitute for actual teaching?
can we please get a new copier that doesn't jam every 5 minutes? the current one has been broken since september and it's ridiculous that
can we please stop pretending like online learning platforms are a substitute for actual teaching and human interaction?
are we seriously still getting shot down by our own people in 2026??? this is infuriating
why are we still using google classrooms when the functionality is literally the same as the old school google drive folders from 2010?
kid just asked me if we're going to have a quiz on friday and i'm like "um, did you even read the syllabus?
can we please just have one grading period where the online system doesn't crash and we don't have to spend our entire weekend entering
grades due at 8pm on a friday? are you kidding me? who even thought this was a good idea?
i'm so done with tiktok now. it's just a bunch of shallow 15 second clips and not actually doing anything to help the world.
i swear, have you ever noticed how everyone's a "dreamer" until they're in charge of implementing the dream?
why do school buses always have to leave at like 2:30 and cause a huge traffic jam during my planning period?
why do we still have to use a separate sign out sheet for the copier when literally everyone has a smartphone and we could just use a
ugh, my principal walked in during my planning period again. this is the third time this month they've interrupted my only break to ask me