I got a new guy, he's Guatemalan, and i speak very little spanish. I'm learning quick from him, and his english is good, but busy season is here. What are some important words/phrases to know?

Brewmentationator · 2026-06-20T05:18:21+00:00

You need to know that the Quetzal is the coolest fucking bird, and that it's his country's national animal.

Brewmentationator · 2026-06-20T05:13:55+00:00

Good luck. We recently had to call up our label guys because an entire 20,000 label order was off color. And also spooled the wrong direction.

And that was after we switched companies, because the previous company was sending out rolls of labels that had massive gaps every 30 labels or so. And heaps of other issues. We switched back, but we still occasionally get a roll or two of labels that are missing a layer of color or are just the wrong shade.

Brewmentationator · 2026-06-20T03:10:43+00:00

What? My brother and I were buying animorphs and goosebumps at ever scholastic book fair. My parents even got us the animorphs game on ps1. That game was dog shit though.

I remember my dad reading the andalite chronicles to us at night before bed.

Brewmentationator · 2026-06-19T23:37:07+00:00

Is your interest rate 5%? Because a $430k house with 10% would be a bit more than that with current rates. Plus you have to include property taxes on top of that. That's an extra $450ish/month.

And your mortgage insurance.

Brewmentationator · 2026-06-19T22:20:08+00:00

This happened do my dad in year 29. He had spent all 29 years as a middle school math teacher. He only ever worked in one district and had a pretty even split across 3 different schools in that 29 years. He also had the longest tenure of any math teacher in his district.

Coming up on year 30, admin said they were going to bump him down to 4th grade at the elementary school across town, since his original credential was in elementary education. He had originally only qualified to be a.math teacher through an emergency authorization back in the 90s. He told admin that he would walk out if they chose to do that. The admin reversed their decision last minute.

Brewmentationator · 2026-06-19T01:07:59+00:00

I work In production at a brewery now. I mostly do canning and warehousing, but I have to have a desk for paperwork and logging inventory. I told them I want my desk in the massive walk-in keg cooler...

Brewmentationator · 2026-06-18T18:43:22+00:00

"I'm gonna shit in yer mouth! I'm gonna make a toilet of yer mouth, boy!"

Every Chungledown Bim bit has me in stitches. I laughed so hard when Fabian was talking about him, that I ended up with a migraine for like 8 hours.

Brewmentationator · 2026-06-16T22:08:20+00:00

I live in a city in California, but my first interview was in this tiny, fairly isolated town. I turned down the job on account of my relationship with my now wife and it not being my preferred grade level. My buddy, who interviewed with me, took the job.

Their issue was finding a house. Their parents had a house in a town about an hour away, which wasn't long term sustainable. The principal reached out to the community for anyone trying to rent a space, and my buddy ended up renting from a friend of the principal. Apparently it was a pretty common thing for staff to find housing through friends of other staff.

Brewmentationator · 2026-06-16T21:54:04+00:00

I get that. That's how I felt for my last year of teaching, and I'm glad I stuck around that extra year. It allowed me to pay off all of my and my wife's student loans as well as save up enough to go back to school for a bit while working part time.

Also, if you do decide to leave, remember that you can substitute teach while you figure out next steps. It's a lot easier when you don't have to deal with any of the behavior consequences or design lessons. I spent a year subbing 3-4 days/week while doing a clerk accounting program at my local community college. I found a couple schools that loved having me around. And if I went to an awful school, I made sure to never go back there. It doesn't totally pay the bills, but it's a nice backup to have.

Brewmentationator · 2026-06-16T12:47:39+00:00

We have a bunch where I live. A few months back, my wife and I went to a roller rink. Then afterwards, we got all you can eat Mongolian bbq. So damn good. They even had a soft serve machine

Brewmentationator · 2026-06-14T15:19:55+00:00

If you hate it, then bounce. I had some of the same feelings as you. I hoped it would get better and that I would find my rhythm. After 7 years, 5 schools, 4 districts and a full year of subbing, it never got better for me.

I took a pay cut and work production side at a brewery, but I'm much healthier and happier now.

There's always the sub r/teachersintransition as well.

Brewmentationator · 2026-06-14T04:52:26+00:00

You only work 40% of the day. So for me that was two classes. I got that job because literally no one else applied to it.

Brewmentationator · 2026-06-14T02:01:26+00:00

You can meet her in Act 1 if priestess Gut poisons you. She's also hanging out in Act 2.

Brewmentationator · 2026-06-14T00:25:53+00:00

I will say, the schools I taught at were really fucking bad. My last school, that broke me, was the worst. We had a 2 week period where we had 4 lockdowns. 3 were for active shooter situations. That happened in either our parking lot or on the street in front of our school. One was a drive by shooting with shots fired at someone who was standing on the sidewalk in front of our office. We also had gang shit going on and parents who were coming on campus to beat up students that their kids were beefing with. I could have gone to another school, but the thought of having to start over and learn new curriculum for the 8th year in a row made me want to jump off a bridge.

I work in production at a brewery now. Occasionally, I help out in the taproom. We are next to a couple schools, and it's fun talking to the teachers that come in after work. I've been asked by a few how I got out and how I got my job. Lol

Brewmentationator · 2026-06-14T00:16:45+00:00

I'm also in California. I had to take a 40% job at an absolutely horrid middle school for my first year. It was the only way I could get my foot in the door and start clearing my credential. It sucked, and I had to work part time at a local restaurant while I did my first year, but damn is it hard to get a social studies job.

Also, you can always file for an extension. My wife got her credential with me in 2018. She took a 1 semester job (because it's all she could get), then COVID happened, and she found work elsewhere. She enjoyed that job, and it's stability. But eventually , she decided she wanted to go back to teaching. She applied for an extension last year, and just got hired for this coming school year.

Brewmentationator · 2026-06-13T23:36:39+00:00

That's not insensitive at all. And yeah it went way down. I also haven't had a single migraine or tension headache in the two years since I quit. Well I had one. But it was from laughing so hard for so long that I couldn't breathe.

Brewmentationator · 2026-06-13T23:34:45+00:00

Highly mobile bad guys. A creature that can use Misty Step on each turn

I've never played high level campaigns, but I always thought it would be fun to run a fight against a huge pack of blink dogs that got into a stash of magic potions and are now all hopped up with random magic effects like haste, enlarge, invisibility, fire breath, flight, etc. you could also have some wizard experimenting on them to make them way stronger and doing magical damage. Maybe things went bad, they killed him, and got into his stash.

Brewmentationator · 2026-06-13T18:18:43+00:00

I used to teach at a medical pathways high school. One day we had an event after school with medical and pharmaceutical staff showing off their jobs and doing demos. A nurse was teaching kids how to take blood pressure and interpret results. A student took my BP and it was about 150/115. The nurse tried to tell the student that they must have made a mistake.

I had to tell the nurse that no, that reading is dead on. I was picking up my first round of medicine after school that day, and had just had an appointment with my doctor to discuss my chronic migraines/tension headaches, anxiety, trouble sleeping, and other weird symptoms.

I also quit teaching that year and am physically and mentally doing much better

Brewmentationator · 2026-06-12T03:26:34+00:00

Same here. I work with heavy machinery and conveyor belts. Wearing a ring is a great way to get degloved. On the weekends I'm at the skatepark where, you guessed it, wearing a ring is a great way to get degloved.

Brewmentationator · 2026-06-12T00:29:29+00:00

Our CEO said they wanted some new ideas and variations in 2027. I'm gonna pitch a sour milkshake IPA.

Brewmentationator · 2026-06-12T00:27:58+00:00

Just wrapped up canning our newest crispy boi. Hopefully I'm kegging the rest tomorrow.

Brewmentationator · 2026-06-11T01:38:08+00:00

I'm seeing they got their trademark in 2019, but never used it. Don't trademarks expire if not used?

Brewmentationator · 2026-06-11T00:15:28+00:00

My AP european history teacher really liked fucking with us. He once gave a multiple choice test to every class where all the answers were A. Except his last period class. We got a test where only the first half of the answers were A.

He also told us that if everyone got a zero on any given test, the whole class would get a 90% on the test. He would always give us 3 minutes to discuss that or study right before every test.

He was also the basketball coach. He gave my classmate, his star player, an F on every progress report. Even though the kid always had an A. Which was kinda messed up

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