Wednesday, October 6, 2021

No Thanks


For the past two weeks, a neighboring town has been running an ad across the bottom screen of one of our local news channels. They must be in a bad way; they’re asking for retired teachers to return to the classroom and will pay them $225 per day.

          Not the most tempting offer for this retired teacher, someone who never enjoyed covering a room of unfamiliar faces in the first place. And if the response isn’t what they’re hoping for, a person could find herself facing an overcrowded room of many, many unfamiliar faces.

          The final fly in the ointment of this fix-it plan is pretty obvious. They plan to bring back to the classroom retirees who by definition will be over 65, and into a chancy vaccination environment where the inhabitants are, also by definition, historically compliant-adverse and likely to be pretty casual about mask wearing.  

          They’d better up that pay scale.

 

11 comments:

  1. I feel for anyone who is tempted by the offer. I really feel for them.

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  2. Yes, I agree with EC. Along with Marty's objections, that pay is enough to wreck their pension payments they worked so hard for.

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  3. I'm retired (not from teaching) and am in no way tempted to go back to work, no matter how much the supermarkets might want me. They are advertising for "Christmas Casuals" to cover the extra busy customer load over Christmas and New Years. The idea is you work for three months, then they let you go. THAT would really mess up retirees pensions with all the hassle of having to reapply and then wait the requisite 13 weeks (I think) without any money coming in.

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    1. Not to mention all those frantic holiday shoppers breathing all over you.

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    2. All shop assistants, in all shops, wear masks now. It's mandatory.

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  4. Yeah, I can't blame you for turning that one down!

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    1. Reasons that are growing as these months tick by.

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  6. I wasn't a teacher so nobody is sending me texts like that. I wonder if anybody actually takes them up on it. :-)

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  7. Americans certainly regret their casual acceptance of the teaching staff whose jobs got harder and harder as their pay did not keep up with inflation.

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