I’m okay compensating janitors well.
They’re like IT, the place can’t run without them. It’s not glamorous work but it’s important at the scale of a school.
I agree, as long as teachers get the same at the minimum
I did a stint as a janitor. Currently IT.
Sometimes I miss being a janitor.
When I was in highschool I got to talking with one of the janitors. He had two Masters degrees and the janitorial work gave a better work life balance than anything in his field.
He had two Masters degrees
To which schools, though?
Mysticism and Restoration.
Oh that's crazy. Those are good schools
I graduated from them! My pristine diploma is in your pocket.
Specialized in post-school-lunch loaf flushing and don’t-clean-the-mop-all-semester and mop the whole fucking school degrees
The janitor at my high school had a masters in philosophy.
I had a parent use me as an example for their kid as to what not to be. I was working as a janitor at the school and she said something along the lines of this meme when she picked her kid up. Never mind it was a small school and I was also the bus driver, maintenance crew, after school counselor, and cafeteria help. If it wasn't for me and one other guy doing the same things, her precious little child wouldn't have had a (private charter) school to go to. Its rude AF and if you do this your a shit human.
Doesn't have to work out of hours marking work. Doesn't have to give a fuck about children's dramas or parents or curriculums or lesson plans.
Come to Canada, we have well-paid teachers here with fantastic benefits. I never understood memes about under-paid teachers until I learned American teachers make hardly any money.
It reminds me of a post where someone said that Breaking Bad would never work in Canada because (1) he wouldn’t need to pay for any procedures anyway, and (2) even if he did have to, he’d make enough to afford whatever OHIP/insurance/etc wouldn’t cover.
It’s wild to me that teachers aren’t some of the best paid workers in a given country. I grew up with “oh they’re a teacher, yeah they’re well off” and to think that’s not the case down south blows my mind.
I mean, yes it’s probably better, but it’s not great. The Alberta teachers are on strike to demand better pay and working conditions.
Didn't Alberta just float an idea that anyone with a degree can be a teacher with a few catch up courses? That would further depress wages and reduce the impact of strikes if they have a bigger hiring pool to hire strike breakers
Meanwhile, American schools are struggling to hire anyone with at least a high school diploma and a two week teaching course, because nobody wants to accept the awful pay and working conditions.
Historically, one of the soft benefits of being a teacher was that you could find work anywhere. Basically, if your partner is the breadwinner, you can be a teacher. Because if their job required you to suddenly pack up and move across the country, you’d be able to find work wherever you moved. Everywhere needs teachers, after all.
But things have shifted, and teachers are increasingly choosing to leave their field whenever that scenario happens. Gotta pack up and move across the country? Cool, I’m taking this as an opportunity to get out of teaching.
When I was in university, I learned that I made more money as a level one support guy at the tiny MSP I worked at than my professor who had multiple awards, papers, patents, and was also some kind of bouldering champion apparently. He was an awesome person and a firm lesson that the amount of money one makes should never be used to measure the worth of a person. Also that teachers need to be paid like, a hell of a lot more.
Actually that reminds me of another guy I know. I spent a few years working at a GameStop and my store managers dream was to be a history teacher but he would have had to take a significant paycut in addition to getting a lot more schooling and certifications. Last time I ran into him though he told me he'd done it and I've never seen him happier.
My friend has a zoology degree, spent time as an officer in the military, and runs a successful business building training systems.
She's super stoked to be fullfilling one of her biggest dreams, going on an Antarctic expedition.
As a janitor.
The point here reminds me of Fry from Futurama... Didn't wanna be a delivery boy. Hated it. Dream was to explore space.
Lands job as an interstellar delivery boy.
What's wrong with being a janitor?
Apart from social prestige and low income depending on where they live and work - and these things could be absolutely fixable and I sincerely hope there will be a flip in them - it's the physical labor.
No matter how much prestige this job will ever get, how good the money will pay - it will always end up being taxing on the body. Especially with little technological help provided. I get back pain after 2 hours of mopping the floor, I cannot imagine doing this every day. For years and years and years. I cannot imagine mopping the floor close to retirement age and doing the heavy lifting that is necessary in this job.
Not that physical labor is "wrong". It is the most important form of labor there is and I personally think that these people should be put on pedestals and admired in our society and get the highest pays. Because they are paying with their health and body. But I do think that this taxing aspect would be why, even if it was a socially prestigious job, a lot of people would still opt out.
Teacher spouse comes home absolutely wrecked after an 11-hour day, often falls asleep at 8:30 pm on workdays. Goes in on weekends to catch up on the workload.
The cushy jobs are the admin.
Nothing. What’s wrong with being a teacher? Anti intellectualism pushing American stupidity.
Nothing, it's pretty satisfying work really. Similarly, everyone should continue to study, learn, and educate themselves
Not a fun job for people with germophobia.
Mr Willis is secretly a millionaire who earned $8 million by investing in stocks.
PS. The name of the person on the link is actually Ronald Read, and yes, he worked as a janitor until the day he died.
I've seen the boys restroom, the janitor who has to take care of that deserves every cent.
Joke's on Willis. The school is going to fire him and demand teachers do his job after hours.
Whatever it takes to free up more budget to pay the football coach more.
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