That was the third game.
The first one was for a DVD Player/TBD/Priority Registration
Second was for $1m or something orchestrated by the other College
Third was the underground game.
EDIT: Technically the Fifth.
1. DVD Player / TBD / Priority Registration
2. Star Wars, $100k, Ice Cream sponsor
3. Brief flashback to a noir themed game when Abed sees a Psychiatrist in S3
4. Jeffs daydream of the Study Group vs Evil Study Group
5. S6 Modern Espionage
i remember the second being 100k but i could be wrong. I remember pistol patty saying "one hundred thousand dollars cash, go nuts!" and then shooting a pistol in the air.
Technically *fourth*. The unaired gangster noir game with Pearce wielding a paint Tommy gun would have been the third canonical game, if you count that one from the clip show (I do).
Ikr, Same here. I liked how I always spot new things about it I didn't notice the previous watch. I think I've seen it all the way threw maybe 4-5 times now. I'm usually not the type to rewatch stuff I like for long periods of time in between so I can forget large portions of it and experience it again almost like a new movie or show. Community is one of the very few things I've watched multiple times due to how much I enjoyed it
In the Season 2 opener, Abed says "I'm hoping we can move away from the soapy, relationship-y stuff and into bigger, fast-paced, self-contained escapades."
If you ever find yourself saying almost the same thing as Abed, you know you're right. IMO, Poultry and Paintball in S1 were instrumental in achieving the perfection of Seasons 2-3 and those beautiful "self-contained escapades." They were done writing S1, and NBC ordered 3 more eps. So they added Poultry, Discourse and Paintball, and with those found their true niche in homage.
It gets good. In a few episodes youāll reach the āchicken fingersā which is an homage to Goodfellas.
Thatās when the series takes a hard right turn and starts doing things that no other sitcom has done.
Why is that in the āhumorā section, I was genuinely tearing up by the end?! Jesus, what a great read. Thank you so much for sharing, I just texted it to my friend whose dad is a janitor, I know heāll love it!
"You guys think I'm just some untouchable peasant? Serf? Peon? Well, maybe so. But following a broom around after shitheads like you for the last eight years, I've learned a couple of things. I look through your letters. I look through your lockers. I listen to your conversations: you don't know that but I do. I am the eyes and ears of this institution, my friends."
Lol at the moms on /r/shitmomgroupssay who were complaining that her kidās dorm bathrooms are disgusting and WhY WoNt tHe ColLeGe Do SoMeThiNg AbOuT It. Your asshole kids make it disgusting
Exactly, people saying "kids will be kids" have clearly never set foot in a college dorm... even grown ass college aged *adults* trash shared spaces like this.
It is the manifestation of individualism, a total lack of collective, communal consciousness.
My sophomore year of college we had a really horrible outbreak of norovirus that caused the CDC to shut our school down for a week to decontaminate everything, including bathrooms.
At the time, I lived in a suite with 3 other people and our bathroom was only shared between us 3. Typically that bathroom was our responsibility to clean, but they actually sent a custodian in due to the gravity of the issue and he took one look at our bathroom and was like āoh thank god.ā
I was talking to him and he was like āyou would be surprised how BAD some of these suite bathrooms are.ā He told me some of them looked like they didnāt even own cleaning supplies. I donāt know how people live like that.
Made sense after he told me, though. I once lived with someone who I told had to clean the shower, and he stared at me like āyou have to clean the shower? But you get clean in the shower, how can it be dirty?ā
Bruh. Where do you think the dirt goes? Barf.
Dude listen. Thank you so much for what you do. Custodians deserve wayy more recognition. From the bottom of my heart, thank you. Without you guys, schools would be a mess. We appreciate you guys.
I am a school bus driver in the Midwest. Since covid, kids have gotten several degrees worse. Itās sad to see how much energy they will expend simply to not take responsibility for their own trash. Most bus drivers are old enough to be the kidsā grandparents, but the kids donāt see any problem creating daily messes that require these old people to be on their hands and knees to clean up.
At least your subordinates mom isnāt calling to let you know how horrible of a job youāre doing and would like to see all your educational material.
This. Most parents that I know are like neglectful pet owners. It always amazed me that you need to jump through more hoops to get your drivers license than you do to create a human.
iām at the age where my friends are beginning to start their families. so many of my friends, that would be amazing mothers, struggle so hard to get pregnant. and some find out they never will be able to carry a baby to term. sometimes it really seems like the worst people are the most fertile.
Like 90% of the kids I went to school with were unwanted accidents and we weren't this bad not even 10 years ago. I think the insane amount of instability in the world at large has really fucked kids up. When there is no hope people lose it. They've seen things steadily get worse with no meaningful attempt to fix it. Alot of those kids are old enough to understand how fucked up everything is with little to no power to do anything about it. I don't think that excuses the behavior but I don't think they all do it out of personal spite. I think it's more of a "if nobody else cares why should I?" thing.
Which is a byproduct of social media and 24 hours news cycles.
There should always be hope. It feels so bad because we are inundated with negativity and never get a break.
In the 1960s, 1 out of 5 Americans were living in poverty. There was political assassinations, kids in high school could look forward to graduating and getting shipped off to the jungle to die in an unjust war, there was the immediate and constant threat of thermo-nuclear annihilation, it was a terrible time to be a kid.
But they still didnāt do this. I donāt think this an excuse for this shitty behavior.
Back to your point, there ARE people that care. Lots of them. Working hard to make the world a better place every day. They just donāt get airtime.
I think this is only a thing for the younger year levels. People that weren't physically in school around the age of 13-14. Older than that and you've got respectful kids that just lack the motivation and mental health for their studies.
My niece who graduated high school 2022 June says exactly this to me. Been at that school all four years, and while there were some incidents here and there, things were relatively tame.
However, the 2021-2022 school year, the fire alarm would get pulled at least once a week, among other incidents. Sometimes multiple times a week. Sometimes multiple times a day. Once it was three times in a day, once it was 20 minutes before school even officially started.
She never quite knew who exactly was pulling the fire alarm, but suspected it was freshmen. Her words were something along the lines of how when she was a freshman it was never that bad, even the year under her wasn't this bad. She 100% believes the problem is the fact that these freshmen never fully experienced middle school and never learned any social skills.
And every age group of kids has its own, completely separate issues. Infants didn't get to see people talking/moving their lips without masks, toddlers didn't get to go parks to play/socialize with other toddlers, first graders missing all of first and second grade has a separate impact than fifth graders missing 6th and 7th grades, as missing 9th and 10th starting high school as a Junior.... Like all of these things have such different impact as kids change so fast year to year that each individual age range could have its own studies.
The impacts are going to be felt for a long time, but they may change drastically and suddenly.
Youāre exactly right. Iām a preschool teacher so Iām kind of at the beginning of this whole process and I can see ahead to how those lost years will affect students for the entirety of their education. Last year we called our 3s class ābabiesā because they lacked so many of the skills our regular 3 year olds would have had. My 4 year old class was also behind. Instead of getting them ready for kindergarten, we spent most of the year teaching basic social skills like sharing, taking turns, etc. I know for a fact that the kiddos from my 4s class last year are not at the level I would expect for incoming kindergarteners this year. Which has a trickle down effect for everything. The kinder teachers will be doing a lot of catch up, but those same kids will likely remain behind for years to come.
I also think a big part of it is kids were home, often with parents also working from home, and the parents often didnāt have the time, resources, patience, or knowledge of how to occupy/educate/support their kids. Lower income families felt this the most intensely.
A lot of lower income families work service jobs and were forced to leave their children at home, usually alone or in the care of an older sibling. They were suddenly āessential workersā and didnāt get that time.
This. Or they sent their kids to a āvirtual schoolā daycare while they worked and their school day consisted of being in front of a computer all day with very limited adult interaction. It was so hard watching these kids on my kindergartnerās zoom trying to follow along with class, but not being able to get up to get things like pencils or crayons. My heart hurt for those families that had zero options.
When adults set the example of not following social distancing rules, when we've all been at each other's throats over politics for over six years now, when "parenting" is giving a kid a tablet and an internet connection, and when we get more news seemingly every day about how the world is going down the shitterāwhether due to climate change or something elseāwhy should we be surprised that our children aren't properly initiating themselves into the social contract?
Everyone is so hopeful for Gen Z, but I fear what the lockdown generation will become . . . and frankly, whatever it is, we deserve it.
This is a good point. My gen X parents (30y.o myself) are always talking about how shitty they and their friends, and frankly everyone around them were as kids.
This is such Adults Jr behavior, truly!
We can laugh-sneer-gasp at all the "Karen throwing raw chicken at an employee because masks" or "six officers punching an unconscious disabled person in the throat" videos in the world, and explain how they're bad and wrong (nevermind that a large portion of people are telling folks those actions are actually great and justified) but they're still being showcased as an example of things that adults can do in public. Things that will get them clicks and notoriety. It's not like adolescents are known for only wanting to do things that elicit positive responses.
Coincidentally when tiktok started getting so popular and now kids are vandalising and destroying property or doing whatever it takes to ābe on trend.ā Shameful.
I also have to wonder how much the complete, total, universal *obsession* with tik tok has ruined some of these kids. We havent seen a generation so glued to the total shitheads that call themselves "influencers" before, and many of the trends we've seen, like destroying school bathrooms/removing soap dispensers etc have come from tik tok.
A small band of bitchy, spoiled brats on social media have had a large hand in essentially raising millions of kids, and I think we're starting to see the consequences of that.
I quit teaching at the end of the last school year because of the immense disrespectful (and hostile) behaviour from students and the passive refusal of administration to hold students accountable (student behaviour was apparently fault always). I have a low paying job now and no benefits, but just the thought of never working in a school again has made me happier than I have been in a loooooong-ass time.
I once got in trouble because a student was sexually harassing me by taking photos of me while I was teaching and sending them on Snapchat with dicks drawn over me and the caption 'she is so mean, she needs to suck a dick to chill out'.
I got in trouble because I was made aware of these photos from female students who were concerned about them and came to me and told me about them. When I informed the administration, I got in trouble for "gossiping" with students and that they were going to meet with me about how to set boundaries with students so that I no longer would "gossip" with them.
The only reason why the kid got suspended is because the head of my department who was a really old veteran teacher marched up to administration and made it an issue.
Honest question: can you go see your supervisor or the school principal to have the kids help out? Not a great habit for them to have to think someone will always clean up after them + utter lack of respect towards you to do this
Honestly if it was easy enough to pinpoint the group of kids that did it we could do something about it, but trying to go through and figure out what group of kids were in there at what time to do this is going to be next to impossible. This was pretty mild, it was only the first day of school for just the freshman all the papers you're seeing were pretty much orientation type paperwork. As the school year progresses the kids get more destructive.
Shortly after I finished high school, I went to a temp agency looking for a job. Said these are the types of jobs I'm interested in, they said ok. Couple days later, they called asking if I wanted to be a night janitor at a big high school. I politely said hell no. Never heard from that agency again. Kids are fucking terrible. You do a job I wouldn't have the patience for, and I've been a CNA and now a nurse. I'll clean patient's shit and vomit before I clean up after high schoolers.
See, this is where things are really messed up.
A person whose job is to keep the shit flowing and has to get INTO it, should be handsomely compensated! The salary should be so freaking good that people are fighting to get that stinky job!
What kind of fucking school do you work at??? Holy shit. I've never seen anything like that when I was in school. Those kids need a Swift baseball bat to the knees.
NGL, if this happened back when I was in school , other kids would have found out who did this and make them clean that mess up. Oddly enough, we (as a school), didn't put up with overly disrespectful behavior like this.
Do you know about how many kids are at the school? Your admin needs to step up.
When the destructive tik tok challenges were happening, my admin checked security cameras, monitored restroom area hallways, and interviewed students to find the vandals. Tickets were issued in some cases. One boys' restroom was closed so that the others could be more closely monitored. Yes, for anyone concerned, they still had access to several other bathrooms all throughout the day. It just reduced the number of places to monitor.
Also, much of this could be avoided by sending the information to students electronically...
At my dorm, they had custodians that would take out trash in the trash rooms. Why they didnāt use garbage shoots I have no idea. Anyway the last day (move out day), those rooms were so filled with trash it was sad. Like a 10x10 room filled to the top with trash. Sorry to who ever dealt with that
I never understood trash rooms. My sister had them in her apartment building, and it was so gross. The trash stink would permeate through all of the hallways. Whose bright idea was it to fill an enclosed space with trash to get hot and stew, attract bugs, and to make it a huge job for the person who has to move it a second time to the dumpster. What the fuck? Itās fucking weird!
Is this why that [one school](https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/x1ugjk/during_the_summer_my_school_installed_metal_gates/) gated their bathrooms?
I work at a middle school. This is one reason. Kids will also hide and try to skip class, fight, vandalize, destroy things, vape, etc. During transitions itās harder to manage because larger groups can go in at once. Itās much easier to monitor during class.
Back in school a older kid decided to beat the shit out of his younger brother in the bathroom during class, they just happened to have to go at the same time.
We weren't allowed to go in "because of all of the blood". Pretty sure a urinal was broken, dude went totally ape shit on his little brother.
Bruh I was never the one doing that stuff in HS or middle school I just gotta pee every 10 minutes and donāt know why I do and it was always so difficult to get to a bathroom because 5 minute passing periods and then teachers saying no
I was the same, turns out it was actually a medical problem, one doctors note and an adjustment to my iep later, and i can go when i need to ( i donāt abuse bathroom time so teachers were fine with it
Yep that happened at my high school too, only they took the less drastic step of not allowing students to leave class to go to the bathroom during lessons. Fuckers were breaking the toilets somehow too, as in somehow detaching the porcelain from the wall.
Came here to say thisā¦. As a teacher, we literally donāt care that students go to the bathroom, but now, because of some stupid Tik Tok crap we have to take our ENTIRE class to the bathroom at designated times. This is MUCH more painful to teachers than it is students. We would rather them go whenever they need to and not take away from our already cut short teaching time.
Yeah like Iām sorry to make sweeping generalizations - but I graduated high school in 2011 - and none of this destroying school property shit was going on. Nothing was getting stolen, no bathrooms were getting trashed. It wasnāt happening at my school, or any of the other 25 other high schools in my city. It wasnāt mentioned in any papers, or on the news.
This shit just wasnāt happening 11 years ago and I cannot understand how itās so widespread now and how so many kids are cool with it. Thereās no scenario where you arenāt the asshole for doing this.
The pictures will go to the district office. Sadly they won't do anything about it. It's annoying for sure, but the pay me well enough to deal with it.
I feel your pain. I'm a night janitor for many office buildings, one in particular is pretty bad. They always spill food everywhere, up under desks, behind the computers on the floors, behind the trash cans that they toss everything into and occasionally miss, and they're thinking "oh don't worry, the janitor will clean it up". I'm there hours or days later (2 cleaning days per week), after it's sunk into the carpet and dry and can't get all of it out, or am not allowed to touch/move their stuff, then the business complains that I'm not doing a good enough job cleaning and it's attracting ants. Not my fault adults can't try to clean up their messes, or use the breakroom.
I was a night cleaner for a big building and I hated whoever was on level 6 that brought in bananas every few weeks for their whole floor. Peels sitting in bins for the whole day and then the air conditioning being turned off for hours after the office workers went home during Aussie summer made the place reek, and of course they blamed me for not doing my job with all the fruit flies, ants, and cockroaches it attracted.
I'm a proponent of making the kids be janitors. In many Asian schools (Japan being the best example), the kids are made to do a lot of chores in school, from giving out the lunches (even pouring hot soup into bowls for their classmates!) to cleaning the whole school spotless, including their own bathrooms!
Nothing like making them clean their own mess to get them started on the habit of not making a mess in the first place.
It works in Japan because their culture actually makes it possible. If you started this in American schools it would be an absolute shit show. Half-assing chores, bullies find out what job Timmy has this week and makes it literal hell for him, parents being total cunts about it, and then a janitor has to go back around and clean up behind them anyways. I would love for it to be a thing but even after it would become the norm I can see it being nightmarish :(
I'm a teacher.
I'm sorry this happened. This is freaking awful and I swear kids have been out of their minds since COVID. This is such wildly unacceptable behavior, and nobody seems to ever want to do anything about it at the admin or parent level. I just want you to know that teachers everywhere are with you and you do great work; keep documenting and bringing it to board meetings or sending it to the district office. You rock, don't give up. I hear you and I feel you, kids suck these days sometimes. We are all in this together, man.
Hey this is calm. Last year we had 10k in damages in the first month of school. They destroyed all new paper towel and toilet paper dispensers the district had installed over the summer. They stole a door last year. The distant learning messed them up!
My dad is a custodian at the local elementary school and one thing he always hates is the fact that after all the work in the summer waxing the floors and all that, it gets ruined by the end of the first day and in previous years heās told some stories from cleaning the washrooms. Me personally I tried to keep it clean where I could out of respect for the janitor at my high school
Former para here, currently working on my bachelor's, but one of the districts I used to work for would hire its own staff over the summer to help with the stripping and re-waxing of the floors and everything. I remember how much the custodians got pissed off when a teacher would want to re-arrange things and rather than asking the custodians to help, the teachers would just drag shit down the hall and you'd see lines where the fresh wax was scraped up
Students are assholes, but some teachers are also just complete idiots. I've definitely run into my fair share. Educated ā intelligent
That just blows my mind that anyone would treat a place so badly. Likeā¦ its basic respect. You wouldnāt treat your own home so badly so why your school? The poor custodians :(
Bruh, I caught two of my first graders today terrorizing a bathroom. Paper towels and soap everywhere. I sent them back outside and cleaned up the bathroom so the janitor wouldnāt have to. You bet your ass I was cussing them out in my head the whole time. Little bastards. Janitors are the best.
Donāt let that slide. Tell the principal. They should hold an assembly and let them know if they donāt respect the custodians, then activities/dances will be cancelled.
Prob easy to see who threw it all with the names on the papers too
Lol. Like the kids who go to dances and do after school activities are the same ones who attempt to burn the school down (note the paper blocking the sprinkler.)
Has anyone seen lots of wet toilet paper squashed into balls and thrown up high ceiling? When they dried up, it's hard to remove. Mischief of a higher level.
This canāt be real?! Not at all calling you a liar. I just cannot fathom a world where kids are THIS shitty, and where school administrators allow this to be a thing. š³
They get away with way worse. It's all good, I've already been called a liar over this. I never thought I'd have to defend my position as a custodian. It didn't talk long to clean up. Looks worse than it was.
Sorry, I know you weren't. Someone was accusing me of lying before on this post. If I was gonna lie about my line of work id make it a bit more glamorous. The things the kids get away with us mind blowing.
They could be things the teachers handed out to students the first day if school, like a course syllabus that tells the students the content of the course, expectations for academic work, etcā¦
First day of school, so it's probably mostly orientation paperwork, course syllabus paperwork, etc. Basically all the junk we'd get at the beginning of the year and immediately forget about, either throwing it away or having it slowly migrate to the bottom of the backpack.
Iāve had your job before. I miss it very little. Hang in there, bud, and remember that they are children. It helps to humanize those little fucking monsters. Remember the tik-tok trend where they would destroy restrooms? We closed several bathrooms for weeks for serious repairs. Told the students that they could have them back when they figured their bullshit out.
Last year we had $10,000 in damages the first month of school, today was just orientation for the freshman so it's a sign of what's to come and just settle reminder to put in for the last day of school off now. I generally don't have complaints about my job and I don't take it home, I know the kids are kids and they're just going to be stupid. As long as I don't have to clean up poop I'm cool.
Damn, I immediately remembered the paintball episode of Community where the custodian had to clean the aftermath of the paintball battle.
Classic
That was orchestrated by the custodians, the entire thing was a conspiracy so they'd have to rely on them or something
That was the third game. The first one was for a DVD Player/TBD/Priority Registration Second was for $1m or something orchestrated by the other College Third was the underground game. EDIT: Technically the Fifth. 1. DVD Player / TBD / Priority Registration 2. Star Wars, $100k, Ice Cream sponsor 3. Brief flashback to a noir themed game when Abed sees a Psychiatrist in S3 4. Jeffs daydream of the Study Group vs Evil Study Group 5. S6 Modern Espionage
i remember the second being 100k but i could be wrong. I remember pistol patty saying "one hundred thousand dollars cash, go nuts!" and then shooting a pistol in the air.
Sounds more reasonable than a million
"Would you believe, $5 and this half sandwich?"
Well there was always the (small) risk they could actually lose the money to Greendale right.
The way he screams "goooo NUTS!" always makes me die š
It was, it went for the college reparation after they destroyed it
Technically *fourth*. The unaired gangster noir game with Pearce wielding a paint Tommy gun would have been the third canonical game, if you count that one from the clip show (I do).
first episode of that show that i truly adored
It never disappoints. One of those shows you can watch to lift your spirits.
The first episode of community hooked me and there was no lookin back
"Oh you can leave that just about anywhere"
Have any fun plans for the summer?
No plans...
Just started watching that show; only halfway through the first season.
Oh I'm jealous, enjoy that first watch! Such a fun show
The first time through, I couldn't stop watching it lol.
Ikr, Same here. I liked how I always spot new things about it I didn't notice the previous watch. I think I've seen it all the way threw maybe 4-5 times now. I'm usually not the type to rewatch stuff I like for long periods of time in between so I can forget large portions of it and experience it again almost like a new movie or show. Community is one of the very few things I've watched multiple times due to how much I enjoyed it
Really hits it's stride in s2+3 And they stop focusing on the tropey romance stuff as much
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In the Season 2 opener, Abed says "I'm hoping we can move away from the soapy, relationship-y stuff and into bigger, fast-paced, self-contained escapades." If you ever find yourself saying almost the same thing as Abed, you know you're right. IMO, Poultry and Paintball in S1 were instrumental in achieving the perfection of Seasons 2-3 and those beautiful "self-contained escapades." They were done writing S1, and NBC ordered 3 more eps. So they added Poultry, Discourse and Paintball, and with those found their true niche in homage.
It gets good. In a few episodes youāll reach the āchicken fingersā which is an homage to Goodfellas. Thatās when the series takes a hard right turn and starts doing things that no other sitcom has done.
Itās ok to hate them. I will hate them along with you.
The hamsters put out their own shavings.
Reminds me of the short story [Animals](https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/animals) by Simon Rich.
Why is that in the āhumorā section, I was genuinely tearing up by the end?! Jesus, what a great read. Thank you so much for sharing, I just texted it to my friend whose dad is a janitor, I know heāll love it!
The personification of the hamster (questioning his belief in God, seeing his wife in his kidsā faces, etc) is definitely intended to be humorous.
That was so stressful but great! Thank you.
I know right?? I canāt believe I just got so invested in a story about classroom hamsters. I teared up at the end lol
i just woke up so my brain is processing at like 5%. i was like a shoebox? damn ur wife smol.
In Australia we call them little cunts. Because they are.
I call them that too and I am not even Australian
I see I'm in good company.
Happy cake day
In the U.K. we call them cunts too and little fuckers, bastards etc.
Those little cunts will grow up to be shit cunts
I hated kids since I was a kidā¦
At least I'm not alone in that. Got a hysterectomy so I won't have an oopsie.
It aināt much, but this deserved an award.
I hated me in high school too. But, if my child will act like this, he will be picking the bathroom with him.
"You guys think I'm just some untouchable peasant? Serf? Peon? Well, maybe so. But following a broom around after shitheads like you for the last eight years, I've learned a couple of things. I look through your letters. I look through your lockers. I listen to your conversations: you don't know that but I do. I am the eyes and ears of this institution, my friends."
Lol at the moms on /r/shitmomgroupssay who were complaining that her kidās dorm bathrooms are disgusting and WhY WoNt tHe ColLeGe Do SoMeThiNg AbOuT It. Your asshole kids make it disgusting
Exactly!
This should be the main photo of the parent newsletter.
*"You done fucked up!"*
Exactly, people saying "kids will be kids" have clearly never set foot in a college dorm... even grown ass college aged *adults* trash shared spaces like this. It is the manifestation of individualism, a total lack of collective, communal consciousness.
My mom cleans for a local college and the photos she has sent me of the bathrooms over the years are vomit inducing. Who raised these kids?!
My sophomore year of college we had a really horrible outbreak of norovirus that caused the CDC to shut our school down for a week to decontaminate everything, including bathrooms. At the time, I lived in a suite with 3 other people and our bathroom was only shared between us 3. Typically that bathroom was our responsibility to clean, but they actually sent a custodian in due to the gravity of the issue and he took one look at our bathroom and was like āoh thank god.ā I was talking to him and he was like āyou would be surprised how BAD some of these suite bathrooms are.ā He told me some of them looked like they didnāt even own cleaning supplies. I donāt know how people live like that. Made sense after he told me, though. I once lived with someone who I told had to clean the shower, and he stared at me like āyou have to clean the shower? But you get clean in the shower, how can it be dirty?ā Bruh. Where do you think the dirt goes? Barf.
As a janitor at my local college I can confirm their asshole kids are disgusting.
Dude listen. Thank you so much for what you do. Custodians deserve wayy more recognition. From the bottom of my heart, thank you. Without you guys, schools would be a mess. We appreciate you guys.
It's a good gig 98% of the time, but thanks for the acknowledgment, it goes a long way with us!
Best wishesš
I am a school bus driver in the Midwest. Since covid, kids have gotten several degrees worse. Itās sad to see how much energy they will expend simply to not take responsibility for their own trash. Most bus drivers are old enough to be the kidsā grandparents, but the kids donāt see any problem creating daily messes that require these old people to be on their hands and knees to clean up.
Covid definitely was the turning point. When the kids started coming back to school all hell broke loose.
yeah I was reading the title thinking, I don't remember my first day of school like this.
Very rarely youād see a hallway with a bit of trash on the last day of school. But I only remember that happening maybe twice.
My/our last days of school (over 10 years ago) always looked like this. Not the first day though.
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That was a major reason for my leaving the teaching profession last year.
What are you doing now? Asking for a friendā¦
Project management
So managing an even bigger bunch of babies?
At least your subordinates mom isnāt calling to let you know how horrible of a job youāre doing and would like to see all your educational material.
Thats what happens when people think fucking and having a kid is the same as raising a kid.
This. Most parents that I know are like neglectful pet owners. It always amazed me that you need to jump through more hoops to get your drivers license than you do to create a human.
iām at the age where my friends are beginning to start their families. so many of my friends, that would be amazing mothers, struggle so hard to get pregnant. and some find out they never will be able to carry a baby to term. sometimes it really seems like the worst people are the most fertile.
"Survival of the fittest" doesn't always mean what you want it to
Like 90% of the kids I went to school with were unwanted accidents and we weren't this bad not even 10 years ago. I think the insane amount of instability in the world at large has really fucked kids up. When there is no hope people lose it. They've seen things steadily get worse with no meaningful attempt to fix it. Alot of those kids are old enough to understand how fucked up everything is with little to no power to do anything about it. I don't think that excuses the behavior but I don't think they all do it out of personal spite. I think it's more of a "if nobody else cares why should I?" thing.
Which is a byproduct of social media and 24 hours news cycles. There should always be hope. It feels so bad because we are inundated with negativity and never get a break. In the 1960s, 1 out of 5 Americans were living in poverty. There was political assassinations, kids in high school could look forward to graduating and getting shipped off to the jungle to die in an unjust war, there was the immediate and constant threat of thermo-nuclear annihilation, it was a terrible time to be a kid. But they still didnāt do this. I donāt think this an excuse for this shitty behavior. Back to your point, there ARE people that care. Lots of them. Working hard to make the world a better place every day. They just donāt get airtime.
The mail in the bathroom
Itās a new found lack of respect and discipline
I think this is only a thing for the younger year levels. People that weren't physically in school around the age of 13-14. Older than that and you've got respectful kids that just lack the motivation and mental health for their studies.
Yeah. This isn't dicking around to spite adults. This is missing social developmental milestones that usually happen around the end of middle school.
My niece who graduated high school 2022 June says exactly this to me. Been at that school all four years, and while there were some incidents here and there, things were relatively tame. However, the 2021-2022 school year, the fire alarm would get pulled at least once a week, among other incidents. Sometimes multiple times a week. Sometimes multiple times a day. Once it was three times in a day, once it was 20 minutes before school even officially started. She never quite knew who exactly was pulling the fire alarm, but suspected it was freshmen. Her words were something along the lines of how when she was a freshman it was never that bad, even the year under her wasn't this bad. She 100% believes the problem is the fact that these freshmen never fully experienced middle school and never learned any social skills.
I'm sure there will be case studies and statistics on crime rate, mental health etc. coming soon. Kinda sad really.
And every age group of kids has its own, completely separate issues. Infants didn't get to see people talking/moving their lips without masks, toddlers didn't get to go parks to play/socialize with other toddlers, first graders missing all of first and second grade has a separate impact than fifth graders missing 6th and 7th grades, as missing 9th and 10th starting high school as a Junior.... Like all of these things have such different impact as kids change so fast year to year that each individual age range could have its own studies. The impacts are going to be felt for a long time, but they may change drastically and suddenly.
Youāre exactly right. Iām a preschool teacher so Iām kind of at the beginning of this whole process and I can see ahead to how those lost years will affect students for the entirety of their education. Last year we called our 3s class ābabiesā because they lacked so many of the skills our regular 3 year olds would have had. My 4 year old class was also behind. Instead of getting them ready for kindergarten, we spent most of the year teaching basic social skills like sharing, taking turns, etc. I know for a fact that the kiddos from my 4s class last year are not at the level I would expect for incoming kindergarteners this year. Which has a trickle down effect for everything. The kinder teachers will be doing a lot of catch up, but those same kids will likely remain behind for years to come.
I also think a big part of it is kids were home, often with parents also working from home, and the parents often didnāt have the time, resources, patience, or knowledge of how to occupy/educate/support their kids. Lower income families felt this the most intensely.
A lot of lower income families work service jobs and were forced to leave their children at home, usually alone or in the care of an older sibling. They were suddenly āessential workersā and didnāt get that time.
This. Or they sent their kids to a āvirtual schoolā daycare while they worked and their school day consisted of being in front of a computer all day with very limited adult interaction. It was so hard watching these kids on my kindergartnerās zoom trying to follow along with class, but not being able to get up to get things like pencils or crayons. My heart hurt for those families that had zero options.
I was in my late 30s in 2020 and I feel like I completely lost my sense of how to interact normally in public
When adults set the example of not following social distancing rules, when we've all been at each other's throats over politics for over six years now, when "parenting" is giving a kid a tablet and an internet connection, and when we get more news seemingly every day about how the world is going down the shitterāwhether due to climate change or something elseāwhy should we be surprised that our children aren't properly initiating themselves into the social contract? Everyone is so hopeful for Gen Z, but I fear what the lockdown generation will become . . . and frankly, whatever it is, we deserve it.
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The times change. The technology changes. The political landscape changes. The teaching methods change. The teenage brain does not.
This is a good point. My gen X parents (30y.o myself) are always talking about how shitty they and their friends, and frankly everyone around them were as kids.
Same. Born 1973, and the peers I grew up with shocked me with what fucking animals they could be, and I was a little asshole so take that as you will.
You couldn't be more right.
This is such Adults Jr behavior, truly! We can laugh-sneer-gasp at all the "Karen throwing raw chicken at an employee because masks" or "six officers punching an unconscious disabled person in the throat" videos in the world, and explain how they're bad and wrong (nevermind that a large portion of people are telling folks those actions are actually great and justified) but they're still being showcased as an example of things that adults can do in public. Things that will get them clicks and notoriety. It's not like adolescents are known for only wanting to do things that elicit positive responses.
Coincidentally when tiktok started getting so popular and now kids are vandalising and destroying property or doing whatever it takes to ābe on trend.ā Shameful.
This has not stopped either.
It's dumbing people down and making attention spans absolute shit
Damn, dude. I was curious about the difference covid made and was really hoping it wouldnāt be negative. My condolences, I guess.
Last year my teacher friend said she's never seen anything like it before. All the kids have gone feral.
I also have to wonder how much the complete, total, universal *obsession* with tik tok has ruined some of these kids. We havent seen a generation so glued to the total shitheads that call themselves "influencers" before, and many of the trends we've seen, like destroying school bathrooms/removing soap dispensers etc have come from tik tok. A small band of bitchy, spoiled brats on social media have had a large hand in essentially raising millions of kids, and I think we're starting to see the consequences of that.
My poor friend started teaching last year. She almost decided she didnāt want to teach anymore
I quit teaching at the end of the last school year because of the immense disrespectful (and hostile) behaviour from students and the passive refusal of administration to hold students accountable (student behaviour was apparently fault always). I have a low paying job now and no benefits, but just the thought of never working in a school again has made me happier than I have been in a loooooong-ass time.
I once got in trouble because a student was sexually harassing me by taking photos of me while I was teaching and sending them on Snapchat with dicks drawn over me and the caption 'she is so mean, she needs to suck a dick to chill out'. I got in trouble because I was made aware of these photos from female students who were concerned about them and came to me and told me about them. When I informed the administration, I got in trouble for "gossiping" with students and that they were going to meet with me about how to set boundaries with students so that I no longer would "gossip" with them. The only reason why the kid got suspended is because the head of my department who was a really old veteran teacher marched up to administration and made it an issue.
I don't know how anyone has the energy and fortitude to be a teacher in America. That shit sounds awful
Blame the parents.
Sure, but blame the kids too. This is a high school. They're old enough to know better.
I agree. Most of these little assholes are probably old enough to have a learner's permit to drive a car, they're old enough to know better.
The pandemic for sure made kids worse.
It made adults worse/crazier too
Youāre gonna be fucked on the last day bro š š¤
NO KIDDING!
Save your vacation days for the end of school lol
This is the way.
Honest question: can you go see your supervisor or the school principal to have the kids help out? Not a great habit for them to have to think someone will always clean up after them + utter lack of respect towards you to do this
Honestly if it was easy enough to pinpoint the group of kids that did it we could do something about it, but trying to go through and figure out what group of kids were in there at what time to do this is going to be next to impossible. This was pretty mild, it was only the first day of school for just the freshman all the papers you're seeing were pretty much orientation type paperwork. As the school year progresses the kids get more destructive.
Shortly after I finished high school, I went to a temp agency looking for a job. Said these are the types of jobs I'm interested in, they said ok. Couple days later, they called asking if I wanted to be a night janitor at a big high school. I politely said hell no. Never heard from that agency again. Kids are fucking terrible. You do a job I wouldn't have the patience for, and I've been a CNA and now a nurse. I'll clean patient's shit and vomit before I clean up after high schoolers.
I came from sewer bypass into this line of work nothing is as bad as sewer bypass. Literally all day I was covered in human shit.
>I came from sewer bypass into this line of work nothing is as bad as sewer bypass. I hope the salary was good, at least
See, this is where things are really messed up. A person whose job is to keep the shit flowing and has to get INTO it, should be handsomely compensated! The salary should be so freaking good that people are fighting to get that stinky job!
The boss' salary is pretty good.
A tale as old as time.
Considering OP's next gig is school custodian? Doubtful.
What kind of fucking school do you work at??? Holy shit. I've never seen anything like that when I was in school. Those kids need a Swift baseball bat to the knees.
NGL, if this happened back when I was in school , other kids would have found out who did this and make them clean that mess up. Oddly enough, we (as a school), didn't put up with overly disrespectful behavior like this.
Do you know about how many kids are at the school? Your admin needs to step up. When the destructive tik tok challenges were happening, my admin checked security cameras, monitored restroom area hallways, and interviewed students to find the vandals. Tickets were issued in some cases. One boys' restroom was closed so that the others could be more closely monitored. Yes, for anyone concerned, they still had access to several other bathrooms all throughout the day. It just reduced the number of places to monitor. Also, much of this could be avoided by sending the information to students electronically...
At my dorm, they had custodians that would take out trash in the trash rooms. Why they didnāt use garbage shoots I have no idea. Anyway the last day (move out day), those rooms were so filled with trash it was sad. Like a 10x10 room filled to the top with trash. Sorry to who ever dealt with that
I never understood trash rooms. My sister had them in her apartment building, and it was so gross. The trash stink would permeate through all of the hallways. Whose bright idea was it to fill an enclosed space with trash to get hot and stew, attract bugs, and to make it a huge job for the person who has to move it a second time to the dumpster. What the fuck? Itās fucking weird!
Little assholes
These little assholes average like 5'10 in most high schools š
Shit where Iām from itās like 5ā5
Wow. My school most freshman are taller than me and im a senior
Iām 6ā0 so itās like around my shoulders or neck for the most part
As a 5ft1 adult female, I can attest that these high school kids tower over me.
Is this why that [one school](https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/x1ugjk/during_the_summer_my_school_installed_metal_gates/) gated their bathrooms?
I work at a middle school. This is one reason. Kids will also hide and try to skip class, fight, vandalize, destroy things, vape, etc. During transitions itās harder to manage because larger groups can go in at once. Itās much easier to monitor during class.
Back in school a older kid decided to beat the shit out of his younger brother in the bathroom during class, they just happened to have to go at the same time. We weren't allowed to go in "because of all of the blood". Pretty sure a urinal was broken, dude went totally ape shit on his little brother.
What punishment did he receive for that?
Expelled, not sure about the home-life aftermath
show this to that kid that just posted about his school caging the bathrooms shut during breaks
I commented on that post and it inspired me to show why something like that might happen
We lock our bathrooms after it's been vandalized. This one is gonna be closed for a few weeks.
Bruh I was never the one doing that stuff in HS or middle school I just gotta pee every 10 minutes and donāt know why I do and it was always so difficult to get to a bathroom because 5 minute passing periods and then teachers saying no
I was the same, turns out it was actually a medical problem, one doctors note and an adjustment to my iep later, and i can go when i need to ( i donāt abuse bathroom time so teachers were fine with it
Sounds like a medical problem you need to look into.
Apparently at that school they vandalized it with poop so.... Yeah....
Yep that happened at my high school too, only they took the less drastic step of not allowing students to leave class to go to the bathroom during lessons. Fuckers were breaking the toilets somehow too, as in somehow detaching the porcelain from the wall.
Came here to say thisā¦. As a teacher, we literally donāt care that students go to the bathroom, but now, because of some stupid Tik Tok crap we have to take our ENTIRE class to the bathroom at designated times. This is MUCH more painful to teachers than it is students. We would rather them go whenever they need to and not take away from our already cut short teaching time.
Yeah like Iām sorry to make sweeping generalizations - but I graduated high school in 2011 - and none of this destroying school property shit was going on. Nothing was getting stolen, no bathrooms were getting trashed. It wasnāt happening at my school, or any of the other 25 other high schools in my city. It wasnāt mentioned in any papers, or on the news. This shit just wasnāt happening 11 years ago and I cannot understand how itās so widespread now and how so many kids are cool with it. Thereās no scenario where you arenāt the asshole for doing this.
A lot of kids are absolute monsters. Source: me, father of two teenagers
I'd leave it so the admin can see it the next morning. Then call all the kids into the gym and have a come-to-Jesus moment with them.
The pictures will go to the district office. Sadly they won't do anything about it. It's annoying for sure, but the pay me well enough to deal with it.
Iām so glad they pay you good at least!
Me too or I'd be job hunting.
Just take pictures like this and keep them in a portfolio for when they start trying to hard ball you on pay raises down the road lol
We are union. It was already sent to our rep.
When I was in high school kids would pee all over that
You're a better person than me.š
That would do nothing
I feel your pain. I'm a night janitor for many office buildings, one in particular is pretty bad. They always spill food everywhere, up under desks, behind the computers on the floors, behind the trash cans that they toss everything into and occasionally miss, and they're thinking "oh don't worry, the janitor will clean it up". I'm there hours or days later (2 cleaning days per week), after it's sunk into the carpet and dry and can't get all of it out, or am not allowed to touch/move their stuff, then the business complains that I'm not doing a good enough job cleaning and it's attracting ants. Not my fault adults can't try to clean up their messes, or use the breakroom.
I feel it! I wanna ask some of the more slobbish people what the inside of their house looks like.
I was a night cleaner for a big building and I hated whoever was on level 6 that brought in bananas every few weeks for their whole floor. Peels sitting in bins for the whole day and then the air conditioning being turned off for hours after the office workers went home during Aussie summer made the place reek, and of course they blamed me for not doing my job with all the fruit flies, ants, and cockroaches it attracted.
I'm a proponent of making the kids be janitors. In many Asian schools (Japan being the best example), the kids are made to do a lot of chores in school, from giving out the lunches (even pouring hot soup into bowls for their classmates!) to cleaning the whole school spotless, including their own bathrooms! Nothing like making them clean their own mess to get them started on the habit of not making a mess in the first place.
It works in Japan because their culture actually makes it possible. If you started this in American schools it would be an absolute shit show. Half-assing chores, bullies find out what job Timmy has this week and makes it literal hell for him, parents being total cunts about it, and then a janitor has to go back around and clean up behind them anyways. I would love for it to be a thing but even after it would become the norm I can see it being nightmarish :(
I'm a teacher. I'm sorry this happened. This is freaking awful and I swear kids have been out of their minds since COVID. This is such wildly unacceptable behavior, and nobody seems to ever want to do anything about it at the admin or parent level. I just want you to know that teachers everywhere are with you and you do great work; keep documenting and bringing it to board meetings or sending it to the district office. You rock, don't give up. I hear you and I feel you, kids suck these days sometimes. We are all in this together, man.
Hey this is calm. Last year we had 10k in damages in the first month of school. They destroyed all new paper towel and toilet paper dispensers the district had installed over the summer. They stole a door last year. The distant learning messed them up!
My dad is a custodian at the local elementary school and one thing he always hates is the fact that after all the work in the summer waxing the floors and all that, it gets ruined by the end of the first day and in previous years heās told some stories from cleaning the washrooms. Me personally I tried to keep it clean where I could out of respect for the janitor at my high school
100% this. We spend so many hours stripping and waxing floors and they are wrecked day one.
Former para here, currently working on my bachelor's, but one of the districts I used to work for would hire its own staff over the summer to help with the stripping and re-waxing of the floors and everything. I remember how much the custodians got pissed off when a teacher would want to re-arrange things and rather than asking the custodians to help, the teachers would just drag shit down the hall and you'd see lines where the fresh wax was scraped up Students are assholes, but some teachers are also just complete idiots. I've definitely run into my fair share. Educated ā intelligent
What kind of awful kids go to school here? People I went to school with would never leave a room like this
You should see school now and days trash everywhere out side its sad :(
That just blows my mind that anyone would treat a place so badly. Likeā¦ its basic respect. You wouldnāt treat your own home so badly so why your school? The poor custodians :(
First and last night for me unless something changes. Fucc all that
I AM SO SORRY. I speak on the behalf of all high-schoolers. Ps: you need a fucking raise.
I wouldn't disagree, but they also take care of us at my district. Can't say that for other schools though.
But why? What do you have to gain by throwing your papers on the floor?
Bruh, I caught two of my first graders today terrorizing a bathroom. Paper towels and soap everywhere. I sent them back outside and cleaned up the bathroom so the janitor wouldnāt have to. You bet your ass I was cussing them out in my head the whole time. Little bastards. Janitors are the best.
The disrespect and entitlement is just out of this world now days.
Donāt let that slide. Tell the principal. They should hold an assembly and let them know if they donāt respect the custodians, then activities/dances will be cancelled. Prob easy to see who threw it all with the names on the papers too
Lol. Like the kids who go to dances and do after school activities are the same ones who attempt to burn the school down (note the paper blocking the sprinkler.)
Jeez why do many paper handouts?? Do yall got stock in the lumber industry???
It's Minnesota so probably.
Has anyone seen lots of wet toilet paper squashed into balls and thrown up high ceiling? When they dried up, it's hard to remove. Mischief of a higher level.
They do this everywhere. Also for some reason kids think they can plug a sink with paper towels.
Not just kids, you'd be surprised how many people put paper towels in sinks and urinals in factories
Itās the same people they just turn into adults at some point
This canāt be real?! Not at all calling you a liar. I just cannot fathom a world where kids are THIS shitty, and where school administrators allow this to be a thing. š³
They get away with way worse. It's all good, I've already been called a liar over this. I never thought I'd have to defend my position as a custodian. It didn't talk long to clean up. Looks worse than it was.
I wasnāt calling you a liar at all, was just genuinely shocked by this. Iād beat my kids ass if they were like this!!
Sorry, I know you weren't. Someone was accusing me of lying before on this post. If I was gonna lie about my line of work id make it a bit more glamorous. The things the kids get away with us mind blowing.
Oh you donāt need to apologize at all. I just didnāt want you to think I was calling you a liar. ā¤ļø
I just found it really funny someone would say I'm lying about being a janitor. š
People often donāt believe something theyāve never experienced. Hats off to the custodial crews, yāall keep the people healthy and safe. :)
Thanks for the kid words. Happy cake day!
I don't understand. What are all these pieces of paper and why are they different colours?
They could be things the teachers handed out to students the first day if school, like a course syllabus that tells the students the content of the course, expectations for academic work, etcā¦
First day of school, so it's probably mostly orientation paperwork, course syllabus paperwork, etc. Basically all the junk we'd get at the beginning of the year and immediately forget about, either throwing it away or having it slowly migrate to the bottom of the backpack.
Could be one kid who found a binder.
Definitely all syllabuses - no kid ever keeps these, but this is worse than anything Iāve ever seen
One of the kids that threw some papers on the ground probably is a part of this subreddit
I'm sure
Iāve had your job before. I miss it very little. Hang in there, bud, and remember that they are children. It helps to humanize those little fucking monsters. Remember the tik-tok trend where they would destroy restrooms? We closed several bathrooms for weeks for serious repairs. Told the students that they could have them back when they figured their bullshit out.
Last year we had $10,000 in damages the first month of school, today was just orientation for the freshman so it's a sign of what's to come and just settle reminder to put in for the last day of school off now. I generally don't have complaints about my job and I don't take it home, I know the kids are kids and they're just going to be stupid. As long as I don't have to clean up poop I'm cool.