'Check out my paycheck now, boss': School teacher gets docked 11.5 hours pay due to district manager's attempts to ‘save herself’, gets paid an extra $3500 instead

Eleonora Bader

Mar 9, 2024 12:00 PM EST

Teachers don't get paid enough to deal with the various issues that pop up with the lovely school system.

Whether it's the students who, let's be honest, are a handful, or the pay that is meh, or the higher-ups who aren't actually doing any teaching but still have a lot of opinions… Teachers just go through a lot.

We'll call this school teacher OP, as in, original poster. So OP was working as a middle school teacher, teaching Spanish. They had lots of opportunities due to being bilingual and could tutor students for some extra cash. At the end of the school year, OP realized that they were being docked 11.5 hours of pay, which was as unfair as it was upsetting. OP stomped over to the district manager's office who made OP sign a document. Why? She insisted OP couldn't be 'double paid'.

Well, it turns out that signing that document did more good for OP than the manager expected. Scroll down to read how OP ended up getting paid way more than they thought they would. Be nice to teachers! Then, here is a demanding couple who tried making their server look bad… and succeeded.