[ SECRET POST #2815 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2815 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[John Green]


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(Hemlock Grove)


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[Russell Edwards' Naming Jack the Ripper]


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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

So, OP has had both an awful head teacher and an awful boss that they liken to Umbridge? Maybe it's just me, but when I meet people who say that every teacher or boss they've ever had has been 'so awful' and picked on them specifically, I start to wonder whether the person themselves was part of the problem...

[vethica]

It looks like the head teacher was the boss. OP is probably a teacher themself.

[(Anonymous)]

No? The OP worked at a school, where the head teacher was her boss.

[(Anonymous)]

They mention one boss and one teacher. Don't think that's enough evidence to make any assertions about their character.

[(Anonymous)]

I thought the head teacher WAS OP's boss...?

[(Anonymous)]

people who say that every teacher or boss they've ever had has been 'so awful' and picked on them specifically

You don't read too well, do you? OP mentions a boss, who also happens to be the head teacher of the school. In other words, the same person.

Or is it common for teachers at your school to "fire" students?

[diet_poison]

I was confused about that part at first, but yeah, when I read the "she fired me" line I was like oh, it was her boss, not her teacher.

I thought the secret was pretty clear. OP is just talking about one person.

[cloud_riven]

Like everyone's already said, OP only had the one, rather than multiple shitty experience.

Anywho, I tend to wonder the same thing if it's a seeming pattern they go through with every job/situation. At some point you gotta wonder about the common denominator. Although I think it's only natural for someone to feel treated badly if they were, justified or not.

Same with people who go on about vaguely "crazy" exes.

[otakugal15]

I have a co-worker who's a complete asshat. She never helps, she hates people helping her, she sits on the clock, and she got bitchy at me one time for helping (we had one more can to fill and it was with Saturday freight and it was taking too long), so she told me "to move up outta her way" and I frankly told her to shut up.

She hasn't said a word to me since.

Some people are just too fucking shitty and bitter and you almost always find ONE person like that, whether it be in school, at work, online, whatever.

[(Anonymous)]

Glad you work with a like minded individual.

[otakugal15]

Yes....I'm an asshat who actually helps people, is nice with them, and doesn't bitch at them for THEM to dare helping me.

Such like mindedness there.

Fuck off, you anon piece of shit. You don't know me IRL, this is just a fucking internet persona.

[(Anonymous)]

How lovely. :)

[otakugal15]

[(Anonymous)]

:)

[otakugal15]

.....can't tell if being an ass or what



But you keep smiling at me so....

[(Anonymous)]

Maybe it's just me, but I kind of feel like people should read the things they're responding to before responding.

[siofrabunnies]

I'm echoing with everyone else that this is one person, and OP's likely a teacher.

But is two really all that many to do the "maybe it's you" thing? Is it really that hard to believe someone had an awful, power-hungry teacher and then an awful, power-hungry boss?

[(Anonymous)]

Some anons just really enjoy saying "YOU'RE the one with the problem."

In other news, some anons enjoy being assholes.

[(Anonymous)]

???

I just reread the secret to make sure. I think it's pretty obvious that the head-teacher and the boss are one and the same. It's not even ambiguous or anything. One should read things carefully before commenting...

Even if they were two different people, it's perfectly possible that they were horrible people without the OP being part of the problem, because people like Umbridge are definitely far from being a rarity. I've known three of them, though I didn't really have serious problems with any of them. (My colleagues, on the other hand... I pity them.)

OP

[(Anonymous)]

In private academies in Taiwan like the one I worked at, the head teacher is the boss. And trust me, she was a piece of work. I was not the only person she treated that way, I just got the brunt of it because I sat next to her in the teachers' office. The person I replaced had been fired as well, for similar "reasons".

[lunabee34]

To a certain extent, I agree with you. "Where's there's smoke, there's fire," is generally a good aphorism, and if somebody continually has interpersonal relationship issues, it's possible that somebody is part of the problem.

And then, I had a string of terrible interpersonal relationships in which I was terribly betrayed and treated horribly, and I have spent the intervening years combing over each situation because it has to be me right? I'm the common denominator. What did I do wrong? And the only answer I can come up with is trusting the wrong people. :/