[artsygrrl]

I hear this all the time: "Oh, you're a teacher! Your job is so easy, summers off and all."

...if they knew the fukkin HALF of it...

[SuperCreep]

i HATE that! and i'm only still studying to be a teacher!

[jon boy]

'cheer up it may never happen' if anyone says that they deserve death.

[floatingslowly]

"hello"

[Dead-Air]

"Have a good one." The most insincere and generic statement ever devised.

[cagedbird]

i don't like when my mom asks me to bring her something. and my dad says portugal like portical. kind of annoying.

[Skuj]

"Hey, don't I know you from somewhere?"

What am I, a fucking mind reader?

[phoenix]

lol one thing.

[pbradley]

"What are you going to do with your life?"

Whatever life is going to do with me.

[Inhuman]

"We were designed to eat meat" (usually bringing up the usual canine teeth crap)

[greedrex]

"Thank you" after sex. Inappropriate. She can't help it.

[knox]

Your nose is bleeding.

[Glice]

I hate it when teachers try and act like I ought to GIVE A FUCK about how difficult their fucking lives are when they get roughly a million years off.

As a student, I have nothing but sympathy for the people who assume I'm doing fuck all/ drinking/ having inappropriate sex. Although it's not true (I do work quite hard) I can think of nothing worse than turning into the archetypal whinging teacher.

'My bad' makes me cringe.

[knox]

I know teaching isn't easy, but summers off really help.

Also all the drinking and inappropriate sex, with students.

[Keeping It Simple]

Teachers are lazy bastards. If they had their way they'd have 364 days off a year.

[artsygrrl]

Originally Posted by Glice

I hate it when teachers try and act like I ought to GIVE A FUCK about how difficult their fucking lives are when they get roughly a million years off.

As a student, I have nothing but sympathy for the people who assume I'm doing fuck all/ drinking/ having inappropriate sex. Although it's not true (I do work quite hard) I can think of nothing worse than turning into the archetypal whinging teacher.

'My bad' makes me cringe.

For all you assholes who think teaching (or any OTHER job you HAVEN'T TRIED) is easy...
FUCK OFF
You're a know-nothing colostomy bag.

[artsygrrl]

Originally Posted by Keeping It Simple

Teachers are lazy bastards. If they had their way they'd have 364 days off a year.

...LIKE HELL I WOULD.
I'd spend those 365 days flunking your ass so you'd be with me forever.

[Glice]

It's not that we think it's easy. That's not the point. Teaching is clearly more difficult than most jobs. I used to go out with a teacher. It's the whinging. We know that you have it hard. The reason people take the piss is because, more than any other profession, teachers are most likely to have the 'god I'm hard done by' attitude that the whole world should bow down and deify each and every teacher for choosing a profession that's difficult. By contrast, I've never known a nurse, docker, oil-rigger, taxi driver, surgeon or doctor (all professions I have friends in) complain about the long, difficult hours.

[artsygrrl]

Originally Posted by Glice

It's not that we think it's easy. That's not the point. Teaching is clearly more difficult than most jobs. I used to go out with a teacher. It's the whinging. We know that you have it hard. The reason people take the piss is because, more than any other profession, teachers are most likely to have the 'god I'm hard done by' attitude that the whole world should bow down and deify each and every teacher for choosing a profession that's difficult. By contrast, I've never known a nurse, docker, oil-rigger, taxi driver, surgeon or doctor (all professions I have friends in) complain about the long, difficult hours.

Oh, I see yr point now and apologize.
I have found when ppl get together---for a drink, to shoot the shit, ---it usually ends up a bitchfest about how hard their jobs are. We all know where we're comin from. And we can all relate.
You are English, right? Your friends that don't complain are really cool. In America, everyone I know has at one time or another has complained about their jobs. The only ppl I don't know are the very rich.

[Glice]

I think everyone's pretty resigned to the fact that the overwhelming majority of jobs are shit. I tend to come down harder on teachers because they're usually doing something ostensibly more rewarding than any job I've done. Having said that, I think the self-hating teachers are pretty endemic in the UK. Certainly in the comprehensive sector.

I think everyone whinges about their job, but I think people are less likely to make an evening of it. I can actually think of nothing duller than an evening of listening to Americans complaining about their jobs.