Am I being a jerk

[janetpa]

End of the school year and a teacher decides she wants to play an end of the year joke on me. She stayed after an hour and a half after school to wrap my entire desk and work space in plastic wrap. This includes not only my med log but also the key to medications, bandaids, annual release log, basically everything I need to work. I wasn't happy when I saw it but fortunately I had a meeting off campus before I could clean it off. teachers were texting me asking for various things but they were on my desk so no one could get to them due to the plastic wrap. I finally referred all requests to the principal as I was not on site and she made sure my work space was cleared off when I got back. Was I being a jerk for thinking how stupid this joke was and for referring people to the principal???

[WKShadowNP, DNP, APRN]

Not at all. I don't know that I could have been as gracious.

[Windchaser22]

A turd memed pillow is funny. What they did to you is not. I think you need to borrow OldDudes shovel.

[kummerspeck]

I don't think I could have handled that as well as you did. I don't think any of the nurses I work with would think that was funny at all.

[offlabel]

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Public school teachers are hilarious. And home -schoolers are a problem?

[FolksBtrippin, BSN, RN]

No, you are not a jerk. The teacher who did it is a jerk who lacks respect for your role. I hope he/she was disciplined.

Would this have prevented you from getting an epi pen?

[LucyLou88, MSN, RN, NP]

Great point. Do they not understand how serious this could have been for a student who needed your care?

No, you are not a jerk. The teacher who did it is a jerk who lacks respect for your role. I hope he/she was disciplined.

Would this have prevented you from getting an epi pen?

[Flare, ASN, BSN]

what did they expect you to do by messaging you while you were off campus? Run from the meeting you were at, have the big freak out tamtrum they wanted and go about your business? They played a prank, it backfired. Ob la di, ob la da - life goes on. Next time maybe they will get a little more creative like swapping out all your band aids for barbie bandaids or hiding something weird in your fridge or do what my principal has been doing - set an alarm on a digital timer and hide it in your office. it's annoying and goes off until you find it. grrrrrr

[MrNurse(x2), ADN]

I know I am sounding like a scratched CD (even that will become dated), but educators have never been outside academia. It is hard to expand their worldview beyond that. Given that perspective, realize that teacher was attempting to include you in the group, kind of breaking the barriers that exist between the teachers and non educators in the school. Kudos for that. There was no forethought in terms of emergency response as they don't focus on that part of life. Nothing malignant was intended, just "fun", albeit not well thought out.

[Farawyn]

I know I am sounding like a scratched CD (even that will become dated), but educators have never been outside academia. It is hard to expand their worldview beyond that. Given that perspective, realize that teacher was attempting to include you in the group, kind of breaking the barriers that exist between the teachers and non educators in the school. Kudos for that. There was no forethought in terms of emergency response as they don't focus on that part of life. Nothing malignant was intended, just "fun", albeit not well thought out.

I think they need to grow up.

[MrNurse(x2), ADN]

I think they need to grow up.

:yes:That's a given. Let's face it, when did we grow up? AFTER college (academia).

[MHDNURSE]

I don't think you were being a jerk. They definitely did not look at the big picture when trying to come up with a prank. Reminds me a little of the senior prank our class did way back in the dark ages...A small group of seniors broke into a farm and stole a bunch of pigeons. Broke into the teacher's lounge and released the pigeons in the teacher's lounge. Sounds funny, even now. BUT when the teachers arrived Monday morning, there was mass chaos. Bird poop everywhere, ruined a bunch of student's papers and exams, damaged some of the computers...one of those things that I am sure at the time we just thought they would walk in Monday morning and find some pigeons in the lounge and get a good laugh about it, not realizing the mess and destruction. Also, the poor birds had been bred in captivity and were apparently some special type of pigeon. No survival skills I am sure. Teachers shooed them out the windows with brooms. The senior class ended up having to come up with a hefty amount of money to pay for the birds and hire a special clean-up crew, as well as replace the damaged computers. No one was laughing then...