Teachers doing teachery things
I get really annoyed by teachers. My other half is a teacher and I get exposed to the teaching world frequently. Ever been in a room with teachers? It is hell. They all moan about, surprisingly, kids and their shitty behaviour. About how they have to mark books, how they have to work past official working hours etc etc etc, basically everything about their job. If you don't like kids, don't become a teacher, simple. I have taken that route and have a happy kid free life. Everyone knows kids these days are little shits, it's not a surprise they are shits in schools. They even moan about their holidays, not enough apparently! I remember my other half talking to another teacher just after the summer holidays and they were moaning about how it was too much to deal with coming straight back into work and that they should have a staggered rotation start for the first 2 weeks. All in front of me after I had been working the entire holidays while she sat at home scratching her arse and getting up past midday. She is now going on her 5th holiday of the year to some exotic place and I am stuck here. Poor teachers.

Consequently, I try and annoy every teacher I meet with lots of articles from people like the head of the Exam board and Ofsted etc etc about how teaching isn't that stressful, such as articles like this; www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-19683920 -All I get in return is "You don't understand how stressful it is blah blah blah bullshit" Yes, there is no profession as difficult as being a teacher. Soldiers in Afghanistan, watch out!
(Davidbaddiellismylovechild, Sat 6 Oct 2012, 14:54, 11 replies)

People with jobs in 'moaning about bits of their jobs' shocker!

( Amorous Badger NAKED BEA ARTHUR PHOTOS 4U, Sat 6 Oct 2012, 15:15, closed)

Nobody works harder than teachers and nurses...
It's what happens when a profession has a critical mass of woman in it, you create a black hole of moaning about how they have to work soooo much harder than anyone else.

Is my theory.
( Ring Of Fire A petty, drooling belming butthurt retard., Sat 6 Oct 2012, 16:35, closed)

Until you've taught a class of Octogenarians how to use a computer you will never know my pain.

(Nitrous Nitrous, Sat 6 Oct 2012, 16:38, closed)

Being married to a university professor
I can see both sides of it in some ways. I do find it incredibly tedious when two or more professors from a given university get together and begin talking shop and moaning about the administration, their students, the was So-and-so said something during the big meeting... but at the same time, that tends to be true with all professions. Get two or more nurses together and they begin moaning about their jobs (and generally get dismissive of anyone who isn't saving lives EVERY DAY) and worshiping some doctors while making fun of others. Get two or more cops together and the stories start flowing. Get two or more military types together and they bond over tales of their adventures on ship/in the desert/at some hey-sailor-wanna-hump-hump-bar. Get two (insert profession here)...

When I'm in company and I encounter another engineer I try to keep the boffin talk to a minimum and inject more general subjects into the conversations because I've experienced how tedious shop talk can be to outsiders. But I can see how sometimes they need to blow off to one another to keep from stabbing someone to death with their own femur.
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Sat 6 Oct 2012, 19:34, closed)

I have a few friends who are teachers...
...and I even considered becoming a teacher for a while but the very thing that put me off was the teachers. I do exactly the same things as you. I firmly stand by the saying, "those who can, do. Those who can't, teach. Those who can't teach, teach PE. Those who cant teach PE, work for the council".
( The only Dave is pushing things forward, Sat 6 Oct 2012, 20:03, closed)

And if you can't hack working for the council in general, work in the council's payroll department.
In my very first job (as a council labourer), when they switched us from being paid biweekly to being paid weekly it was over a year before we got paid both on time and with the correct amount.
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Sat 6 Oct 2012, 23:38, closed)

You might like to ask yourself why she choses to go on holidays alone.

(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Sat 6 Oct 2012, 20:25, closed)

He's too busy wanking to care.

( The only Dave is pushing things forward, Sat 6 Oct 2012, 20:34, closed)

Wanking and being able to shit with the door open.
(Davidbaddiellismylovechild, Sat 6 Oct 2012, 20:55, closed)

That's what I call a twofer!
EDIT: Upon reflection tho - if you're silly enough to walk past the dunny whilst I'm chopping a log.. more fool you!
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Sat 6 Oct 2012, 21:05, closed)

They can go on a bit, can't they?
"OFSTED are coming next week so I'll have to work round the clock and make myself ill".

What I actually say "Aw, poor you!"

What I think: "You know they're coming at some point, so why did you spend four of your six weeks of summer break sanding the bedroom door by hand while watching the Olympics in a dusty room instead of using the electric sander for a day, watching the Olympics from the comfort of an armchair while spending the spare time thus created to do all the year's worth of lesson prep you're now having to do in a single week? As an added bonus, you might then have some free time on school nights so you didn't live like a hermit until the following July."
( shinyshinyscalp less a man, more a way of life, Mon 8 Oct 2012, 18:06, closed)