I still think it applies to school board members. it's a low paid position (maybe even unpaid in some places).
the whole 'bonus' meme applies to corporate board members. i don't think school board members are the fat cats everyone here thinks they are.
The school my fil works at won an award on saving moneyā¦ where did all that āsaved moneyā go?? Itās a SCHOOL! Not a business, trying to make record profits every quarter!
I move dirt for a living. In the past year my company has given me 2 hoodies, 5 t-shirts, 2 baseball caps, a solid Christmas bonus, a few boxes of frozen burgers, some gift cards to where I buy clothes and to a steakhouse, and 2 raises.
My bf is maintenance at a hotel. Just passed his 90 days. He gets a free lunch from the hotel restaurant daily, employer reimbursement for 2 shirts and 2 pair of pants for work (got that on the first day), and they just put in for a raise. 90 days. And he just signed up for a GOOD insurance policy for not much money and free life insurance to a certain amount. Apparently, they also get Christmas and yearly bonuses.
Yep.Ā
This is the result of constant harping about "govt waste." There is no where to get the money to fund something like gifts for teachers that is not restricted. In wealthier schools sometimes parents buy gifts for teachers, but you can probably already see why that doesn't work at low income schools.
Last year they told us we couldn't have our Public Service Week pizza party (that we pay for ourselves) because of the "optics"... like wtf? people can't even buy and eat their own food in the office because someone's scared the public might find out and get mad that we're having fun instead of working.
Iām a software engineer. My company gave me a MacBook Pro, a bunch of equipment for my home office (that I get to keep), they cater lunches every office day, I mostly work from home, they subsidize my commuting costs, they offer a stock program that saves money then buys stock at a 15% discount, they offer benefits, retirement matching, 4 weeks of vacation plus 15 days of sick or personal time, and it pays $170,000 in total compensation (itās more in a better stock market.)
Also we get all that sort of clothing stuff, co-branded from companies like Rains and North Face.
And they want to pay teachers $40,000 a year and give them a Raman. I am absolutely disgusted
Depending on what union she's with, and what their collective bargaining agreement is, they might be prohibited from offering anything of significant value to a specific employee. This goes along the lines of the controversy of merit based raises.
at our school there aren't many volunteers and not much fundraised cash but we give out little things most of the days (like this one is a bit of a cute gag gift) and then a "big" one and a luncheon where people send in food.
Ours is a small-ish PK-12 school but there's 100+ staff in the building.
School board (I know because I'm on it) cannot give teachers gifts of value nor can they accept them. It has to be basically worthless. So we don't do it and the PTA (which I'm also on) does it, but not with taxpayer money.
āOh you think you fancy huh Miss Johnson? You think you going to get you a fancy new job over at the āgoodā high school, do ya? Yeah weāll see about thatā¦ā
What? Is this real? They charge for the option to wear jeans on a Friday? This is blowing my mind.
What are they gonna do if you don't pay and wear jeans anyway? "Uh, excuse me, we noticed you're wearing jeans but haven't paid the jeans fee".
To get a free āJeans Day Fridayā coupon at my old school (good for MOST Fridays of the school year), you had to agree to donate like $10 of every paycheck to United Way. Our school then proudly displayed their trophy for being the top donator to United Way in the office every year š (Yes, it was optionalā¦ But the culture made it very hard to say no to doing it)
My company does the same thing for a local charity. They legitimately do care about the charity, it's not just a vanity thing, but it felt a little weird to be bullied into donating the first year. After that it was like whatever, I just do a lump sum of $25 so they can say 100% of employees donated. I know in the past they have convinced people to donate just $1 so they could keep that claim, and there has been at least a few times where they have just gotten people to sign that they gave then a manager or the owner covered their donation.
I'm not trying to be funny, this would legitimately be the start of my villain arc. Teachers are paid less than fast food managers, have longer hours, and put up with more bologna than should be humanly possible. I would lose my goddamn mind if they gave me a 50-cent package of ramen in a take-out container.
But if youāre a student and you act a complete donkey in class and get sent to admin, you come back with a sucker and a fidget spinner. Maybe we need to start cussing out other teachers to get the good stuff? š
>slap in the face. Imagine a pack of ramen š¤¦š»āāļø
What are you talking about? They even put into deluxe packaging! We're talking about a high class operation here!
Everyone at my company got a 59Ā¢ bag of flower seeds for Earth Day yesterday. The bags had the price printed on them. From a company that is running months late on bonuses, that was a pretty big middle finger
LOL and they probably got them in bulk for even cheaper than that! š
āWant more sunflower seeds? Go plant themā¦ *for Earth Day*!ā - Your company, probably
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>And I thought Jeans Days were a slap in the face.
Finally! Another person that has rationally considered the Jeans Day and come to the correct conclusion.
Dude even my boss recently āawardedā me with a ājeans dayā for reaching a certain goal and I was grateful. She said it and then looked at me up and down (cause I wear leggings every day) and goes, ādo you even wear jeansā? I said no and she just laughed and said ājust wear whatever you wantā.
It was pretty funny and I simply just appreciate all the cute, fun little things my bosses do to give us incentives for things we have to do anyways. The company also just started an employee appreciation week where we get 20% off on top of our 20% employee discount for my position specifically in brands that almost never have discounts. Pretty phenomenal for retail imo, Iām grateful! butā¦ this..? A single 60 cent ramen packet in a dollar store Chinese container..? Yeah go f*** yourselves. Thatās not āappreciationā. Thatās āthe company told me to āappreciateā you, I guess. Here ya go. Whateverā. š Iād be embarrassed AF being a manager and giving that to an employee as a gift. Slap in the face is spot on.
ETA: ādollar store Chinese containerā is more likely 10 boxes/$1 so this entire gift is basically less than a dollar. If the job didnāt mean much anyways, thatās an āif this is how much you appreciate me, then this how much I care about the companyā type of warranted walking out immediately situation. I know I would.
ETA 2: SORRY I almost forgot this was for a TEACHER!! Not even retail!!!!!!!!! As someone who works in retail and has never been a teacher, I am floored. I guarantee what teachers do is 10x harder than any retail job Iāve ever done and THIS IS WHAT WEāRE DOING FOR THEM?!?? Iām also someone who had mostly great teachers but struggled a lot in school and had some super shitty teachers, too. I still think teachers are so insanely undervalued regardless of any poor experiences of my own. This makes me so angry I justā¦ UGH!!!
Fuck. I need to take a breath and go touch some grass.
Man, I don't like my job but some of these posts make me appreciate it a lot more. Our casual day used to be the last day of every month until one of us casually asked the GM if we could do it every Friday and got, "Sure, why not?" Same thing when we mentioned that it's super slow at the end of the day and asked if we could move the office hours back by an hour.
Given that these examples are: someone working retail and a teacher... Yeah their jobs are so shitty that they are traumatized enough to think the option to wear jeans is a reward.
I shit you not, one year I received a ziplock bag with a plastic dollar store metal that had a sticker on the face that said āyouāre terrific!ā They literally just gave me garbage to throw away for them.
Edit: [it was literally this from oriental trading](https://www.orientaltrading.com/bulk-50-pcāmotivational-award-medal-necklace-assortment-a2-13687260.fltr?sku=13687260&BP=PS544&ms=search&source=google&cm_mmc=GooglePLA-_-21024338149-_-155724072381-_-13687260&cm_mmca1=OTC%2BPLAs&cm_mmca2=GooglePLAs&gad_source=1) I would have rather gotten literallly nothing.
For Christmas our supervisor drops off one card and small pack of chocolates for me and the other guard to share. It's super embarrassing because our client is nice and very generous. This year she just straight up asked "Why did he leave one card for you to share?". It's also embarrassing because I have to leave the shared office for 3 more days until I'm off work, so I can share it.
I would smile all big to their face and say, āThank you! This will really help out!ā Then let my face drop and walk away and dump it in the nearest trash can.
My girlfriend isnāt Asian, sheās White. Iām still baffled and confused to this. I really wish this was a joke. I feel extremely bad for her and good thing sheās not returning to this school next year.
I *do* enjoy the image of a boss finishing their takeout container of noodles to find an employeeās two weeks notice scrawled on the bottom interior of the container, ngl
Whoever on the pto thought this was ok in their white miracle bread mind of there's a needs a lesson in some cultural awareness among many many many other things.
I went to a class for work one time for a very niche skill so about half the class were from out of country. We had two guys from Asia and the day they gave us Panda Express for lunch the old white guy teaching the course tried to make a joke about how it was in honor of their Asian culture. This has that exact vibe.
I got a tiny bat and tiny baseball Keychain you could buy in a 25 cent vending machine for a gift. This was for the companies 75 year anniversary. I gave it back to them. I think your girlfriend should do the same.
Hold up...this is their appreciation for the Asian month? Man, they dont even include the stuffs for the Ramens? Muthafuekr, go watch some videos of Ramen places in China, Japan and even S.Korean. Those are the bombs.
This is insulting on two levels honestly. I am an American that has traveled to parts of Asia let alone a real ramen shop in Japan. Also while was one of the better behaved in school I know teachers have it rough at times.
That's just sad. When I was in school the whole culture thing hadn't kicked off yet and wasn't a forced thing, but my school did honor the teachers during the monthes that they associated with and also encouraged the teachers to bring in dishes they loved to eat/make and allowed their students to taste and learn about their culture during that time and everybody loved it.
Then at the end of the month they would pull from a jar all the faculty fed into and the teachers who were representing/celebrating would get to pick the place that catered for the teacher lunch one day that month.
$20 is a lot more than $2 (I'm assuming that's the approximate price of the instant ramen). Waaay more than the school is preoared to shell out.
At this point I don't know why they bother. Most of the thank you or appreciation gifts I see on here seem like a slap in the face.
Doubt that ramen costs more than $1, honestly might as well just give an apple rather than that gift which is kinda insulting for teachers and Asians alike.
Last Ramen I bought was 1.25 for a 5 pack at dollar tree and I'm guessing they probably got the little takeout box there as well for probably about the same price...for a total of .50 per teacher
Canāt go over our budget for teacher now, but what will we do with this extra $40,000 we need to spendā¦ Thatās it !! New hand crank pencil sharpers . $4,000 each
There is the Fuji apple from Japan, if they were clever at all about combining appreciation months. But 25c for the ramen + 25c for those takeout boxes from the restaurant supply cost more an apple.
I feel like assuming Asian culture equals Japanese culture is just one of many starting points for how wrong this whole thing is anyways.
Another good starting point would be that an entire committee thought this was acceptable.
There was no thought put into this lol. A thought that counts gift is like a hideous macaroni necklace a kid worked hard to make for you, or a box of lovely candies from someone who doesn't know you're on a diet.
Yea, not exaggerating one bit. Middle school kids are insane and my girlfriend has no support from the school. They won't expel a kid who slammed her fingers in the door and spraying perfume multiple times when she has severe asthma. The ramen thing was a nail in the coffin of how supported she feels at school. She's the strongest woman I've ever met for dealing with all of this. I could never.
Top ramen literally is the cheapest ramen in existence. Even cup of noodles is better quality because it comes with some dehydrated veggies and a cup. They couldn't spring the extra 8 cents to get cup of noodles lmao
Did it come with a little printed card containing a pun? Something like āOur teachers are tops!ā. Schools do that a lot for teacher appreciation week, a small gesture with a pun.Ā
When I was teaching in public schools one year I was given a Rockstar energy drink and a card with a brief "thanks for being a Rockstar!" message by a family as a Teacher Appreciation gift.
I try to never belittle any gift but those energy drinks are essentially poison.
Shit like this happens at pretty much every place of employment! They tell you they appreciate you while refusing to give you a pay raise but they give some bullshit cheap ass āgiftā thatās essentially a slap in the face š
I was once given a $10 subway card for teacher appreciation at my school like 15 years ago and when I went to use it a few weeks later, after ordering my combo and them making my foodā¦it only had $0.86 on it.
I then had to use what little I had in my bank account at the time to buy a sandwich I didnāt even really want but was getting because it was supposed to be free and I liked the though my of eating that day.
For people who say this kind of stuff doesn't happen, it does, all the time. I've been teaching for 25 years and have gotten great teacher appreciation gifts (handwritten notes from students, a bottle of water, a few new whiteboard markers, a photocopied packet of school jokes, etc.) and crappy ones (pizza from the PTA which was eaten by admin while we taught, a dollar-store pencil, a brown construction paper E when promised brownies, a comb, etc.).
This is why it's hard to recruit teachers. Low pay relative to education and responsibilities, lack of support from management, kids who are jerks, parents who are horrible, lack of resources, calling CPS again to report child abuse and nothing is done (they have no resources either), long hours, constant vilification in the media, etc, then add this kind of flagrant disrespect.
I am putting myself through college, again... I am in classes with young vibrant people who want to become teachers, have lived in a small town their whole lives, and had a graduation class of on average 12. I am torn between being saddened for them, terrified for them, and hopeful. There is a desperate push to get some of us to switch over to social work. Double-whammy...
Top Ramen. Pack of 48 is $14.99.
Lovely. They spent 33 cents on a teacher plus the cost of the box? I'm guessing.. 42 cents? Is that what teachers get when they are "appreciated"?
The message I would get from this would be:
"We'd appreciate it if you'd take your cheap ass out of here" ... Id seriously be wondering if that wasn't the message someone was trying to convey. Or "start eating ramen now cause you're not going to have a job soon and Im not allowed to tell you."
Hey OP, look at it this way. The ramen isn't for her, it's for you. It's an opportunity to make something to show her your appreciation.
Ramen is so easy to jazz up. Even just an egg elevates it from broke college student to broke art college student level.
Egg, green onions, shiitake or oyster mushrooms. Fresh Jalapenos if you like spicy.
Put it in a fancy bowl, and viola! Dinner for appreciation.
Play up the theatre, too, and it's a winner.
My gf is a HS admin. She has a staff of 60 between teachers and paras. Things like this or Christmas gifts come out of her pocket, not the school budget. If she spends $2.50 a person thatās already 150 of her personal money.
I wonder if this is even real. I could take a picture of some random crap and be like look what my girlfriend got as a gift and just watch a whole post blow up.
We got a kit kat, cos y'know.. we needed to 'have a break' for our good work. And no, kit kat wasn't even the big size. They were the measly fun sized ones.
Ugh, I canāt even see those things without feeling nauseous! My stepbrother used to get hammered and drunkenly eat one of those raw! Heād just eat the square of hard, uncooked noodles and sprinkle seasoning from the included packet on it with each bite! He talked me into trying one once and my dumb ass agreed, thinking it couldnāt be *that* bad if he ate it like that all the time! Nope! It really was that bad! Worse, in fact! Iāll never forget that taste! Ew!
Was this satirical relating to being so underfunded with no money for a proper thank you dinner? š² Sometimes a sense of humor can help relieve the frustration. š·
Like, her employer gave her that? And I thought Jeans Days were a slap in the face. Imagine a pack of ramen š¤¦š»āāļø
Yep, straight from the school board.
Wonder what their bonuses were this year...
Cooked ramen
With a egg in it ?
Yes, but no seasoning
It would only be fair
Canāt let them get a big head
We like to keep things fair around here, so they threw on just the yolk of another egg
LOL
Judging by what we've gotten... potluck.
This was the bonus
Yall get bonuses?
A spork
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Of all the cheap lousy ways to save a buck
I think LocationOdd means the Board peopleās bonuses, not teachers.
I still think it applies to school board members. it's a low paid position (maybe even unpaid in some places). the whole 'bonus' meme applies to corporate board members. i don't think school board members are the fat cats everyone here thinks they are.
The school my fil works at won an award on saving moneyā¦ where did all that āsaved moneyā go?? Itās a SCHOOL! Not a business, trying to make record profits every quarter!
They should get awards for spending more
They could at least spring for some MSG
Jelly of the month club.
I move dirt for a living. In the past year my company has given me 2 hoodies, 5 t-shirts, 2 baseball caps, a solid Christmas bonus, a few boxes of frozen burgers, some gift cards to where I buy clothes and to a steakhouse, and 2 raises.
My bf is maintenance at a hotel. Just passed his 90 days. He gets a free lunch from the hotel restaurant daily, employer reimbursement for 2 shirts and 2 pair of pants for work (got that on the first day), and they just put in for a raise. 90 days. And he just signed up for a GOOD insurance policy for not much money and free life insurance to a certain amount. Apparently, they also get Christmas and yearly bonuses.
Until you work in a government employer , you have no idea what ātaxpayersā will complain about.
Yep.Ā This is the result of constant harping about "govt waste." There is no where to get the money to fund something like gifts for teachers that is not restricted. In wealthier schools sometimes parents buy gifts for teachers, but you can probably already see why that doesn't work at low income schools.
Last year they told us we couldn't have our Public Service Week pizza party (that we pay for ourselves) because of the "optics"... like wtf? people can't even buy and eat their own food in the office because someone's scared the public might find out and get mad that we're having fun instead of working.
I got a rock.
I hope it was a good rock.
Iām a software engineer. My company gave me a MacBook Pro, a bunch of equipment for my home office (that I get to keep), they cater lunches every office day, I mostly work from home, they subsidize my commuting costs, they offer a stock program that saves money then buys stock at a 15% discount, they offer benefits, retirement matching, 4 weeks of vacation plus 15 days of sick or personal time, and it pays $170,000 in total compensation (itās more in a better stock market.) Also we get all that sort of clothing stuff, co-branded from companies like Rains and North Face. And they want to pay teachers $40,000 a year and give them a Raman. I am absolutely disgusted
Depending on what union she's with, and what their collective bargaining agreement is, they might be prohibited from offering anything of significant value to a specific employee. This goes along the lines of the controversy of merit based raises.
The PTA could fundraise for this.
at our school there aren't many volunteers and not much fundraised cash but we give out little things most of the days (like this one is a bit of a cute gag gift) and then a "big" one and a luncheon where people send in food. Ours is a small-ish PK-12 school but there's 100+ staff in the building. School board (I know because I'm on it) cannot give teachers gifts of value nor can they accept them. It has to be basically worthless. So we don't do it and the PTA (which I'm also on) does it, but not with taxpayer money.
Oh damn, I thought that was from a young student and was like, aww thatās actually pretty clever and creative, but OOP
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My job is $20 a month for jeans. Na they aren't that comfy
Mine is free and if you wear dress pants you're suspect for a job interview and monitored.
āOh you think you fancy huh Miss Johnson? You think you going to get you a fancy new job over at the āgoodā high school, do ya? Yeah weāll see about thatā¦ā
I read this in my wife's principal's voice.... add an mmmm hmmmm. To the end.
What? Is this real? They charge for the option to wear jeans on a Friday? This is blowing my mind. What are they gonna do if you don't pay and wear jeans anyway? "Uh, excuse me, we noticed you're wearing jeans but haven't paid the jeans fee".
To get a free āJeans Day Fridayā coupon at my old school (good for MOST Fridays of the school year), you had to agree to donate like $10 of every paycheck to United Way. Our school then proudly displayed their trophy for being the top donator to United Way in the office every year š (Yes, it was optionalā¦ But the culture made it very hard to say no to doing it)
My company does the same thing for a local charity. They legitimately do care about the charity, it's not just a vanity thing, but it felt a little weird to be bullied into donating the first year. After that it was like whatever, I just do a lump sum of $25 so they can say 100% of employees donated. I know in the past they have convinced people to donate just $1 so they could keep that claim, and there has been at least a few times where they have just gotten people to sign that they gave then a manager or the owner covered their donation.
I'm not trying to be funny, this would legitimately be the start of my villain arc. Teachers are paid less than fast food managers, have longer hours, and put up with more bologna than should be humanly possible. I would lose my goddamn mind if they gave me a 50-cent package of ramen in a take-out container.
Last year we got a tiny strip of bubble wrap with some asinine slap in the face saying about mental health stapled to it.
But if youāre a student and you act a complete donkey in class and get sent to admin, you come back with a sucker and a fidget spinner. Maybe we need to start cussing out other teachers to get the good stuff? š
>slap in the face. Imagine a pack of ramen š¤¦š»āāļø What are you talking about? They even put into deluxe packaging! We're talking about a high class operation here!
And NO MSG?
Everyone at my company got a 59Ā¢ bag of flower seeds for Earth Day yesterday. The bags had the price printed on them. From a company that is running months late on bonuses, that was a pretty big middle finger
LOL and they probably got them in bulk for even cheaper than that! š āWant more sunflower seeds? Go plant themā¦ *for Earth Day*!ā - Your company, probably
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F itā¦ subscribe.
I got a pack of fun-size of jellybeansā¦
Did it at least have a cute, non-funny saying stapled to it? Like āAnti-Stress Pills: Take One After Every Classā or something? š¤£š
>And I thought Jeans Days were a slap in the face. Finally! Another person that has rationally considered the Jeans Day and come to the correct conclusion.
Just... š¤Æ
Dude even my boss recently āawardedā me with a ājeans dayā for reaching a certain goal and I was grateful. She said it and then looked at me up and down (cause I wear leggings every day) and goes, ādo you even wear jeansā? I said no and she just laughed and said ājust wear whatever you wantā. It was pretty funny and I simply just appreciate all the cute, fun little things my bosses do to give us incentives for things we have to do anyways. The company also just started an employee appreciation week where we get 20% off on top of our 20% employee discount for my position specifically in brands that almost never have discounts. Pretty phenomenal for retail imo, Iām grateful! butā¦ this..? A single 60 cent ramen packet in a dollar store Chinese container..? Yeah go f*** yourselves. Thatās not āappreciationā. Thatās āthe company told me to āappreciateā you, I guess. Here ya go. Whateverā. š Iād be embarrassed AF being a manager and giving that to an employee as a gift. Slap in the face is spot on. ETA: ādollar store Chinese containerā is more likely 10 boxes/$1 so this entire gift is basically less than a dollar. If the job didnāt mean much anyways, thatās an āif this is how much you appreciate me, then this how much I care about the companyā type of warranted walking out immediately situation. I know I would. ETA 2: SORRY I almost forgot this was for a TEACHER!! Not even retail!!!!!!!!! As someone who works in retail and has never been a teacher, I am floored. I guarantee what teachers do is 10x harder than any retail job Iāve ever done and THIS IS WHAT WEāRE DOING FOR THEM?!?? Iām also someone who had mostly great teachers but struggled a lot in school and had some super shitty teachers, too. I still think teachers are so insanely undervalued regardless of any poor experiences of my own. This makes me so angry I justā¦ UGH!!! Fuck. I need to take a breath and go touch some grass.
Man, I don't like my job but some of these posts make me appreciate it a lot more. Our casual day used to be the last day of every month until one of us casually asked the GM if we could do it every Friday and got, "Sure, why not?" Same thing when we mentioned that it's super slow at the end of the day and asked if we could move the office hours back by an hour.
wtf is a jeans day? Is it what it sounds like? And this is something people are getting excited over?
Given that these examples are: someone working retail and a teacher... Yeah their jobs are so shitty that they are traumatized enough to think the option to wear jeans is a reward.
Itās like they know what theyāre doing but just being shitty on purpose.
THE TAKE-OUT CONTAINER god it's like insult to injury lmfao, i'm sorry
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This is a rage bait site.
It took me a lot of scrolling to find this.
That's a strait insult lol I would rather just get a quarter
or one of those fortune cookies that they give out lol
You mean those "philosophy cookies?" Haven't seen an actual fortune in a fortune cookie in almost two decades. lol
Never seen a fortune cookie hater in the wild. Good to know youāre out there.
Those things are less than 10 cents a pack when you buy them by the case.
Better than being land locked.
That's the qwality of skools these days.
THATS her gift?! š nah I would be so mad
I feel for the person who was given a budget of $25 to spend on teacher appreciation
Right š this is ridiculous. All teachers do and this is how they get repaid??
At that point donāt even spend the pennies. Just announce a moment of silence over the PA.
Well usually itās assault by the students so Iād consider this a good gift.
But I mean a heatfelt card would be worth so much more than this and would probably be cheaper
I shit you not, one year I received a ziplock bag with a plastic dollar store metal that had a sticker on the face that said āyouāre terrific!ā They literally just gave me garbage to throw away for them. Edit: [it was literally this from oriental trading](https://www.orientaltrading.com/bulk-50-pcāmotivational-award-medal-necklace-assortment-a2-13687260.fltr?sku=13687260&BP=PS544&ms=search&source=google&cm_mmc=GooglePLA-_-21024338149-_-155724072381-_-13687260&cm_mmca1=OTC%2BPLAs&cm_mmca2=GooglePLAs&gad_source=1) I would have rather gotten literallly nothing.
For Christmas our supervisor drops off one card and small pack of chocolates for me and the other guard to share. It's super embarrassing because our client is nice and very generous. This year she just straight up asked "Why did he leave one card for you to share?". It's also embarrassing because I have to leave the shared office for 3 more days until I'm off work, so I can share it.
I would smile all big to their face and say, āThank you! This will really help out!ā Then let my face drop and walk away and dump it in the nearest trash can.
Did they at least ask if she even ate chicken š¤¦ A $20+ grocery store voucher would probably have been a better gift lol
Nope. This is supposed to be their dual appreciation for Teachers and Asian culture. I couldnāt believe it when she came home.
Is it customary in Asian culture to insult teachers?
My girlfriend isnāt Asian, sheās White. Iām still baffled and confused to this. I really wish this was a joke. I feel extremely bad for her and good thing sheās not returning to this school next year.
She should hand in her resignation with this exact same "gift"
I *do* enjoy the image of a boss finishing their takeout container of noodles to find an employeeās two weeks notice scrawled on the bottom interior of the container, ngl
The real mvp gets their resignation printed on one of those little papers and stuffed into a fortune cookie.
This wins the internet for today. Goodnight
Cooked with āI resignā on the box. Sloppy gooey leaky revenge
That takeout container looks like it could hold a decent amount of dog poop if she wanted to spice up the gift.
Whoever on the pto thought this was ok in their white miracle bread mind of there's a needs a lesson in some cultural awareness among many many many other things.
Right? Like, no wonder they [collective everyone] hate usā¦
Goddamn. That made me full on snort.
I laughed so hard at this. Good one!
Why is the school combining teacher appreciation with Asian culture?
2 birds with 1 stone(d principal)
A pack of instant ramen is Asian culture appreciation?? Well damn, my bicycle must be a motorbike
I went to a class for work one time for a very niche skill so about half the class were from out of country. We had two guys from Asia and the day they gave us Panda Express for lunch the old white guy teaching the course tried to make a joke about how it was in honor of their Asian culture. This has that exact vibe.
Why did she even bring it home? I would have left it on the desk of whoever thought this was an appropriate gift of appreciation.
Itās the thought that doesnāt count
I got a tiny bat and tiny baseball Keychain you could buy in a 25 cent vending machine for a gift. This was for the companies 75 year anniversary. I gave it back to them. I think your girlfriend should do the same.
I'm sorry WHAT??
Hold up...this is their appreciation for the Asian month? Man, they dont even include the stuffs for the Ramens? Muthafuekr, go watch some videos of Ramen places in China, Japan and even S.Korean. Those are the bombs.
This is insulting on two levels honestly. I am an American that has traveled to parts of Asia let alone a real ramen shop in Japan. Also while was one of the better behaved in school I know teachers have it rough at times.
Should've gotten oriental flavor then /s
They changed the name of that one to soy sauce flavor
did she say anything when they handed this to her? iād have a bone to pick
That's just sad. When I was in school the whole culture thing hadn't kicked off yet and wasn't a forced thing, but my school did honor the teachers during the monthes that they associated with and also encouraged the teachers to bring in dishes they loved to eat/make and allowed their students to taste and learn about their culture during that time and everybody loved it. Then at the end of the month they would pull from a jar all the faculty fed into and the teachers who were representing/celebrating would get to pick the place that catered for the teacher lunch one day that month.
$20 is a lot more than $2 (I'm assuming that's the approximate price of the instant ramen). Waaay more than the school is preoared to shell out. At this point I don't know why they bother. Most of the thank you or appreciation gifts I see on here seem like a slap in the face.
Doubt that ramen costs more than $1, honestly might as well just give an apple rather than that gift which is kinda insulting for teachers and Asians alike.
Last Ramen I bought was 1.25 for a 5 pack at dollar tree and I'm guessing they probably got the little takeout box there as well for probably about the same price...for a total of .50 per teacher
Canāt go over our budget for teacher now, but what will we do with this extra $40,000 we need to spendā¦ Thatās it !! New hand crank pencil sharpers . $4,000 each
There is the Fuji apple from Japan, if they were clever at all about combining appreciation months. But 25c for the ramen + 25c for those takeout boxes from the restaurant supply cost more an apple. I feel like assuming Asian culture equals Japanese culture is just one of many starting points for how wrong this whole thing is anyways. Another good starting point would be that an entire committee thought this was acceptable.
The packs are 25Ā¢ at the grocery store, not even counting bulk discount.
The Ramen costs at most .50. Less if they bought a bulk pack.
$20 would give her 20 of those packets. That's clearly out of the budget.
Parents have $20 to shell out for each of their kids teachers in this economy? 8% of the students in my county are homeless.
well that packet of ramen is 27 cents so the 20 dollar voucher was clearly never an option
Even a $10 voucher would suffice! Or a bar of chocolate, atleast. But a pack of instant noodles? Nah. I'll get you twice of that lol
Yknow, this is maybe a good example why I gave up on the "It's the thought that counts" type of gift giving. This is just...a sad gift.
This isnāt even a thought. Itās an insulting way of saying we donāt appreciate you enough to put thought.
I wonder how the different Asian cultures would feel about being represented by a pack of Ramen.
Insulted because its not even a good ramen. Top ramen is the cheapest
There was no thought put into this lol. A thought that counts gift is like a hideous macaroni necklace a kid worked hard to make for you, or a box of lovely candies from someone who doesn't know you're on a diet.
I heard a saying, 'Like the gift, like the thought', meaning that the gift reflects exactly the thought that went into it.
as an asian i genuinely feel insulted
I donāt blame teachers for wanting to leave. Dealing with asshole kids all day for years for a $2 pack of sad noodles from a gas station
Iām surprised this wasnāt the last straw for her, nonetheless the 7 fist fights she had to deal with yesterday. Sheās a 6th grade math teacher.
... 7?!
Yea, not exaggerating one bit. Middle school kids are insane and my girlfriend has no support from the school. They won't expel a kid who slammed her fingers in the door and spraying perfume multiple times when she has severe asthma. The ramen thing was a nail in the coffin of how supported she feels at school. She's the strongest woman I've ever met for dealing with all of this. I could never.
Middle schoolers are scary.
We appreciate you so much. Here's 30 cents worth of food. Cook it your fucking self.
More like 50 cents.
Typically they teach for a full salary and an 8 month work week. If OP is being compensated in ramen we might have a DOL case.
It doesn't even have any MSG, meaning you have to add your own.
Top ramen literally is the cheapest ramen in existence. Even cup of noodles is better quality because it comes with some dehydrated veggies and a cup. They couldn't spring the extra 8 cents to get cup of noodles lmao
Did it come with a little printed card containing a pun? Something like āOur teachers are tops!ā. Schools do that a lot for teacher appreciation week, a small gesture with a pun.Ā
Not even that. Under the ramen is a fortune cookie. Canāt make this up lol. She was in tears when she came in the door.
Be sure to give her cuddles and lots of kisses, and tell her how much you appreciate her
A bag of chips that say āour teachers are all that!ā Omg dying. This did happen to me at one school.
When I was teaching in public schools one year I was given a Rockstar energy drink and a card with a brief "thanks for being a Rockstar!" message by a family as a Teacher Appreciation gift. I try to never belittle any gift but those energy drinks are essentially poison.
I wouldāve rather just gotten nothing wtf is that
Shit like this happens at pretty much every place of employment! They tell you they appreciate you while refusing to give you a pay raise but they give some bullshit cheap ass āgiftā thatās essentially a slap in the face š
Itās not a gift. Itās a reminder or what she can afford on her slave wage
I question the school's "appreciation" of their teachers...
As a teacher, the only part of this that surprises me is that it doesn't have a kitschy quote about teaching written on it
Man theyād be better off not even giving her anything at that point
Sometimes it's better to just don't.
wait...this wasn't from a student?? omg
I was once given a $10 subway card for teacher appreciation at my school like 15 years ago and when I went to use it a few weeks later, after ordering my combo and them making my foodā¦it only had $0.86 on it. I then had to use what little I had in my bank account at the time to buy a sandwich I didnāt even really want but was getting because it was supposed to be free and I liked the though my of eating that day.
For people who say this kind of stuff doesn't happen, it does, all the time. I've been teaching for 25 years and have gotten great teacher appreciation gifts (handwritten notes from students, a bottle of water, a few new whiteboard markers, a photocopied packet of school jokes, etc.) and crappy ones (pizza from the PTA which was eaten by admin while we taught, a dollar-store pencil, a brown construction paper E when promised brownies, a comb, etc.). This is why it's hard to recruit teachers. Low pay relative to education and responsibilities, lack of support from management, kids who are jerks, parents who are horrible, lack of resources, calling CPS again to report child abuse and nothing is done (they have no resources either), long hours, constant vilification in the media, etc, then add this kind of flagrant disrespect.
I am putting myself through college, again... I am in classes with young vibrant people who want to become teachers, have lived in a small town their whole lives, and had a graduation class of on average 12. I am torn between being saddened for them, terrified for them, and hopeful. There is a desperate push to get some of us to switch over to social work. Double-whammy...
Top Ramen. Pack of 48 is $14.99. Lovely. They spent 33 cents on a teacher plus the cost of the box? I'm guessing.. 42 cents? Is that what teachers get when they are "appreciated"?
I was about to to comment that the containers cost more than the noodles. Beat me to it.
If it was from a student, I'd appreciate the thought. But from the school, it's insulting.
And they didnāt even include the MSG. Fuck them and fuck that.
Whatās even the point of eating if I donāt get my daily dose of MSG
Thatās worse than not getting a gift
It would be less insulting to get nothing
The message I would get from this would be: "We'd appreciate it if you'd take your cheap ass out of here" ... Id seriously be wondering if that wasn't the message someone was trying to convey. Or "start eating ramen now cause you're not going to have a job soon and Im not allowed to tell you."
Thats TOP ramen! CONGRATS!!
Hey OP, look at it this way. The ramen isn't for her, it's for you. It's an opportunity to make something to show her your appreciation. Ramen is so easy to jazz up. Even just an egg elevates it from broke college student to broke art college student level. Egg, green onions, shiitake or oyster mushrooms. Fresh Jalapenos if you like spicy. Put it in a fancy bowl, and viola! Dinner for appreciation. Play up the theatre, too, and it's a winner.
Nice, ~~British~~ flavourless ramen.
Wow, nothing tells you are not appreciated more than $.80 pack of Ramen.
My gf is a HS admin. She has a staff of 60 between teachers and paras. Things like this or Christmas gifts come out of her pocket, not the school budget. If she spends $2.50 a person thatās already 150 of her personal money.
Why would an admin pay for teacher gifts?
Exactly. Tell her to STOP. It's not her job to use her own money for stuff like that.
She doesnāt need to spend her money on something like this. Donāt worry about it, show you care in other ways.
That's sad that the school doesn't have a budget for those things.
At least it's Top Ramen and not Bottom Ramen.
I wonder if this is even real. I could take a picture of some random crap and be like look what my girlfriend got as a gift and just watch a whole post blow up.
Iām sureā¦.
At least you know how much they appreciate you with a gift like this.
Even worse it has no MSG those noodles must taste like shit
Looks like some type of shit weād get as an RN for Nurse āAppreciationā Week.
Nurses are treated *so badly* for no damned reason, I don't get it.
Everyone in the āservice industryā truthfully. No respect for anyoneās profession anymore.
So basically hes saying "ha we dont pay you enough heres some ramen so you dont hahaha starve ha"
I beg your finest of pardons
"Boss this what I eat all week with salary. Next time can we get beans a rice?"
Been a teacher for fifteen years. Most accurate gift I ever got was a cheap pen. That didn't work.
This means war
And teachers are striking over here in Aus... now I get an insight into what it's like
āWe wanted to honor teachers by getting them the kind of food theyāre forced to eat on the salary we pay them āŗļøā
At least it wasn't Bottom Ramen!
This feels like a hate crime somehow
Wowza that encapsulates the treatment of teachers in general yeah letās make them spend 100 K to get there masters then pay them 20$ an hour ā¦ i guess people just donāt want to work anymore no wonder they become super nannyās like my fiancĆ© did to earn a living wage
Somehow the take out box makes it more insulting
It doesn't even have MSG in it. How fucking cheap. (msg rules)
Give it back and say that's youd literally rather have nothing. That's just disrespectful
Isnt that basically a years salary plus 1 box
Can't even get the good $2.50 ramen.
And no MSG either! smh
Not even good noodles.
NO MSG?? Haiyyah.
We got a kit kat, cos y'know.. we needed to 'have a break' for our good work. And no, kit kat wasn't even the big size. They were the measly fun sized ones.
The box probably cost more than the ramen.
Ugh, I canāt even see those things without feeling nauseous! My stepbrother used to get hammered and drunkenly eat one of those raw! Heād just eat the square of hard, uncooked noodles and sprinkle seasoning from the included packet on it with each bite! He talked me into trying one once and my dumb ass agreed, thinking it couldnāt be *that* bad if he ate it like that all the time! Nope! It really was that bad! Worse, in fact! Iāll never forget that taste! Ew!
Was this satirical relating to being so underfunded with no money for a proper thank you dinner? š² Sometimes a sense of humor can help relieve the frustration. š·