Memes @lemmy.ml

7mo ago

Hey she tried her best ok

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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
- You can do this with the amazing power of gun and balaclava.
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  Don't you usually pay ahead of time for curbside pickup?
  
  This is why there are spaces clearly marked for curbside pickup. If you're not in one of the designated spaces and try to pull this you will not get free food.
- 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...
- Oh, it wasn't bought... It was bough

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.
- 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.
  
  But there shouldn't be an apostrophe there... it's = it is, its = posessive.
  
  Maybe they aren't from the US ?
- 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.

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.

It's.
- their
- It's

Its. Teacher is a cat, this checks out.

It's
Oof

it's
Haha what?
- legit I've had people get angry at me for using "they" the same way everyone normally does

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.

I used to prostitute myself in class for people's slices
- Sex buys
  
  a slice a suck I used to say

I think it tastes better this size I will fight you on this
- No, there's definitely a science to this. It's the same reason sandwiches taste better if you cut them in a triangle. The sharp points make for the perfect bite size.
  
  um actually square sandwiches taste nicer 🤓

Love when I bough pizza with it is own money

*it tried its best

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.
  
  I tell you wot m8 I'm going download this bloody image and place it into google search images and then I'll have a gander and see how many similar posts there are
- 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
- 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.
  
  I'd like to introduce you to eastern europe
  
  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.
  
  I just looked for secondary school teacher jobs in Manchester and they start at $30k for some. Many had day rates. Less than a labourer would get.
- What country
  
  India
- Education is investment in our species future... teachers aren't billionaires, they're not overpaid.

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