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Haha what?
legit I've had people get angry at me for using "they" the same way everyone normally does
Gotta love that the meme is pointing out how under appreciated the teacher is but then refers to the teacher as “it”.
The disrespect is real.
If I had to guess, the meme was probably made by someone who likely has English as a secondary language. I doubt there was any disrespect intended.
Playing devil's advocate here: maybe they were trying to be inclusive by not specifiying gender but haven't heard of they. The US education system is a joke in a lot of places so the (hypothetical) teacher may have to think twice before suggesting they change the it's to their. But hey, at least the apostrophe is where it should be and I'd take that as a win for education.
Someone needs to teach me this trick of buying pizza with the pizza's own money.
"Dominoes hates this one weird trick."
No, you see the joke is that teachers aren't people.
I think the joke is teachers are Italian but I don’t get this joke it’s too sophisticated for me
The apostrophe actually makes it a contraction, not possessive. So they're really saying "the underpaid teacher who bought it with it is own money". I know not everyone cares, but that's how our weird language works...
You can do this with the amazing power of gun and balaclava.
Oh, it wasn't bought... It was bough
*it tried its best
Its. Teacher is a cat, this checks out.
I once bought little prize things for my team. Nothing special, stress balls in funny shapes and things like that.
Got pulled into the office for using my own money on that one lol
I got a job once at this little video production company, and everyone was always trying to find pens. I'm pretty sure this one smart ass there was stealing them just because he thought it was funny that no one could ever find one...
Anyway, it was probably my second week on the job and I got pissed off because there were like 10 cups that were supposed to have pens in them at all times and I couldn't find a single one, so I went to the grocery store across the street and bought like 3 boxes of pens and filled all the cups again with the warning that these were my pens that everyone was welcome to use but if they all went missing I would start keeping them locked in my car. Everyone seemed happy to have pens again.
I got hauled into the managers office 2 hours later and questioned as to why I spent my own money on office supplies, why I didn't just requisition more pens, told never to do that again and handed a check for $11 for "stationary supplies".
That was the last time I ever bought anything for anybody at work ever again lol
Haha yes! You did the right thing though. It's all about timing. I knew my team needed the dumb prizes that week/month for the extra goodwill. You knew everyone needed goddamn pens.
How long would it have taken to get that done going through management?
"So I spoke to manager X and they said we'll have pens in a couple weeks" doesn't exactly inspire anything.
Got pulled into the office for using my own money on that one lol
It was because they had a form you could have filled out and gotten it paid for without any fuss right?.....right??
Oh yeah... absolutely. They would have, uh, green lit it "immediately"
stress balls in funny shapes and things like that.
Got pulled into the office for using my own money on that one lol
Next time don't buy squishy dicks for work colleagues.
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Much love for these teachers. They are not paid nearly enough. I hate the corporate pizza party, but not the public school one.
Edit: I wonder if the difference in financial burden between a corporate pizza party and a public school one is a good metric
I'm glad that my nephew's teacher last year sent out a message to allow family to donate to those parties. I've paid for a few.
I'm also sad that it has come to that.
Love when I bough pizza with it is own money
I volunteered at a summer camp in college and we had a $30 budget to feed 15 kids + 1.
I bought four Little Caesars $5 dollar pizzas, some dollar store big sodas, and had enough money for big bags of chips.
We made it work! 😭
And, to this day, I still crave that super thin wedge of pizza once in a while.
They're good for those times when, you know, you want to eat 2,000 of something.
First I was mad, then I was sad.
I think I've seen this same "meme" reposted several hundred times. On top of this a meme is supposed to incite laughter. I'm failing to see what's comedic about this? Should be more creative.
First time I’ve seen it.
I don’t think memes have to evoke laughter.
It's funny because it's true, which makes me incredibly sad. I'm talking about real teachers, who are degreed and actually care about their students.
Maybe you look at too many memes?
ive downloaded this meme like 5 years ago wow
In my country they are not underpaid but overpaid. Govt just pay them for sitting in class and eating in canting(More than Avg Income)
Why Everyone downvoting me because I said truth. Govt pay them for nothing literally every one in my class come to school for attendance
Education is investment in our species future... teachers aren't billionaires, they're not overpaid.
What country
India
I think the "underpaid teacher" thing isn't necessarily rooted in reality,. especially outside of the US. My wife is a teacher in the UK, and she's a head of her subject. For many years her pay was similar to mine as a software engineer, but everyone often treated her as if she was poor and that I was rich.
In Australia I don't think teachers are underpaid, but schools are absolutely underfunded. Which can often mean teachers end up spending personal money on school resources, which means their actual effective pay isn't as good as it looks from the outside.
They also work way longer hours than is reflected in their contract.
