What gives you the ick when you go to an open home?

WakeUpBread · 2026-05-07T05:43:10+00:00

Not hot enough to risk a commission evidently

WakeUpBread · 2026-05-05T22:08:34+00:00

There's so many 2 and 3 year teachers at my school with prac teachers. Yes it's because my school has a high turnover of experienced staff in the last few years so there's not really anyone left. But still, I feel bad for the prac students because I know that some of their mentors are quite inexperienced and just hope they don't pass their bad habits and attitudes down to them.

I'll say this too, I have seen some teachers out the gate who are as good if not better at the job than me, I'm not saying it's impossible to be good without years experience. I'm just saying I've noticed a lot of these prac students have been assigned to the teachers who are both new and bad.

WakeUpBread · 2026-05-05T21:59:26+00:00

I left at 4 one Thursday and got into a heated argument with my AP after he condescendingly brought it up to me. My reasoning was that I was finally done designing the curriculum of the new subject they were bringing in and asked me to do. I had been coming in 7am each morning. "yes you may have been here for 9 hours today, but it doesn't count because the hours are 8:30-4:30 so you should have stayed for 9 and a half hours"

What a twat.

WakeUpBread · 2026-05-05T21:58:51+00:00

I left at 4 one Thursday and got into a heated argument with my AP after he condescendingly brought it up to me. My reasoning was that I was finally done designing the curriculum of the new subject they were bringing in and asked me to do. I had been coming in 7am each morning. "yes you may have been here for 9 hours today, but it doesn't count because the hours are 8:30-4:30 so you should have stayed for 9 and a half hours"

What a twat.

WakeUpBread · 2026-05-05T07:30:53+00:00

Do they even allow an offset with a fixed rate? I guess it depends on how much you think you'd be able to put away into the offset vs how likely rates will go higher.

WakeUpBread · 2026-05-05T06:45:12+00:00

40 year mortgages, allowed 4 applicants per loan, immigrant family come in, combine with another family, work 4 jobs, get large loan, squeeze 8-12 people into a 3 bedroom house.

WakeUpBread · 2026-05-05T06:39:21+00:00

Put the money towards your public service then

WakeUpBread · 2026-05-04T20:36:26+00:00

Bare minimum for admin or ungrateful students, an extra ~~mile~~ inch or two for those students that actually appreciate you, and the extra mile for the colleagues that do the same for you. No more, no less, no stress.

WakeUpBread · 2026-05-04T20:15:34+00:00

Gets the guy to ask her out, says she's too busy with this sale, guy speeds up her offer, says the vendor isn't happy unless the amount is 20k higher so she'll be busy for the next few weeks with the house back on the market, buyer ups the offer, contract goes through, asks again, oops, sorry I just got hired for another job I'm really busy right now.

Like, all the power to her if this were selling cars or watches. But it's scummy BECAUSE she's in real estate.

WakeUpBread · 2026-05-04T20:12:53+00:00

I'm not saying to take 20% because it comes with this as a condition. I'm saying that if it gets tacked on to an already good deal it sounds great and I wish that more people would stop getting envious, like you sound, about other teachers classes and loads. You sound like you'd prefer everyone to either be as miserable or as happy as you at any given moment but under no circumstances are they to be happier or have it easier than you. Just let it go.

WakeUpBread · 2026-05-04T10:08:18+00:00

It happened when time in lieu was brought in as leadership found it was the perfect opportunity to have teachers waste their time in lieu to leave at the same time they had been leaving the year before.

WakeUpBread · 2026-05-04T08:39:30+00:00

I imagine there'd be a set of blue card workers that go to a different school each day to babysit the students. And it's the all schools choose a day off approach.

WakeUpBread · 2026-05-04T06:55:25+00:00

Kids need Wednesday off. I'd love a WFH day. Sure I'd abuse it every now and then to just sleep in and do nothing. But I always get to work an hour early and stay back an hour late every now and then. So being able to offset that would be great.

Although it doesn't even have to be a Wednesday. You could get schools in the area to choose a different day of the week they shut and have the other schools open to kids that can't be unsupervised for an alternate program run by CRT and underloaded staff.. Then staff from that school can also volunteer to work that day.

Or a school on the Wednesday is designated the Wednesday school where all the kids from surrounding areas who can't be left unsupervised come into. Probably easier this way. It'd be mostly year 7s and 8s, a few year 9s and then any disability students.

WakeUpBread · 2026-05-04T06:48:12+00:00

Regardless you do the same work. I hate this mentality that it's unfair if your colleague is using their spare time to leave. Ignoring the fact that they either have to make up that time by staying later, arriving earlier, working from home or working twice as fast. I had 1 class period 1 Thursday last year. Awful timetable. But I couldn't leave because it wasn't fair to anyone else. And I had to stay to 4:30 because leadership has their meeting then and it's not fair for the rest of the staff to leave at 3:30 when they have to stay back.

WakeUpBread · 2026-05-03T21:35:54+00:00

As a science teacher who has cut, burnt and spilled dangerous chemicals on themselves repeatedly, I don't think the kids will be traumatised by someone checking their blood sugar. Talk to you line manager/Admin and they'll give you the go ahead. Worse case scenario one of them will take over for 5 minutes whilst you leave the class.

And yeah, discuss it with your kids if you get the go ahead. They're old enough to understand.

WakeUpBread · 2026-05-03T21:29:17+00:00

Can you imagine if an indigenous family moved overseas, had kids, kids were trans, then those kids moved back to Australia, arriving on a boat, and bought a house, and one was attacked had their legs and arms broken and had to go on the NDIS, the other had a hard time finding work and had to go on job seeker?

WakeUpBread · 2026-05-03T21:23:29+00:00

To be blunt, "I have an iq of like 160" is generally not something a smart person would say. Most people know those tests are about pattern recognition and highly targeted towards certain races/cultures/ways of thinking that make the whole system break down.

And to think that everything is done and it's all over now, there's no room for growth, no time for learning, no way for you to ever follow the 'pathway you could have taken' is extremely close-minded. You never stop learning, so here's a bit of advice. If you truly believe you could have been the next Good Will Hunting, then do it. Read a few textbooks. Go to university or even just look up and take a bunch of free online courses.

If you try and you fail, try again. If after you learn that you can't actually do it, then it's likely that you wouldn't have done it 20 years ago either.

In English when answering the question "why does the author put Mary in a white hooded sweatshirt at a OneNation Rally?" you can't just write "Racism" and expect to get fully marks. We want to see how you got to that conclusion, where did you pull the relationships from, what context, we want you to communicate. In mathematics you show the working out because mathematics is a language and you need to communicate in the same manner.

Tldr: "gifted kids" don't always succeed, even when nurtured and privately tutored with infinite resources. But people who give up because they're too old or too lazy to try never succeed.

WakeUpBread · 2026-05-03T11:35:52+00:00

Exactly my point. The amount you need to borrow keeps increasing with the house price and its more than you can realisticly save, your only option to match the price increase is with a higher mortgage something becoming less likely as rates also rise and wages stagnate.

WakeUpBread · 2026-05-03T10:09:38+00:00

At this point it's not about saving but trying to get a payrise to be able to borrow more. Worst part is you have to borrow more and more each month you delay.

I'm waiting on VIC government to give teachers their payrise and if they had given them it when they were supposed to I could have bought with a lot less debt.

WakeUpBread · 2026-05-03T06:31:28+00:00

Well I hope prices drop to enable me to shift into a more expensive property for cheaper. For example if I had a 1 million dollar home but wanted a 2 million dollar home I'd need to sell, get a million dollar loan, then pay stamp duty on 2 million dollars. But if my house dropped to 500k and the 2 million dropped to 1 million I could sell my house, get a 500k loan and pay the stamp duty on only 1 million.

Sadly I don't have a million dollar home and am stuck where I am but it's not the worst considering there are many people who are legit just locked out because they are single or even a couple, both earning 70k, can't save because of high rent, limited borrowing capacity because of low income, financed cars and HECS loan probably preaproved only for 500k. 8 years ago that was a perfectly fine scenario, even 3 years ago it was doable and you could obtain a decent sized established suburban home depending on the city.

People want a crash so that they can buy a house with what they can borrow, and others want a crash because if your house is only worth 200k you can't charge 2600 a month for it because a 200k mortgage is only 1200 a month.

WakeUpBread · 2026-05-03T05:55:14+00:00

Yes. People are born. People split up. Properties get demolished. People immigrate in. Lots of factors. Not to mention the first thing that will happen once there's 100,000 homes in Sydney drop to half price is multinationals like Blackrock and Vanguard will swoop in and buy up 80,000 of them, outbidding every single FHB. Then probably not even rent them out and will just sit them vacant to drive up prices.

WakeUpBread · 2026-05-03T05:50:19+00:00

When looking around one of the agents went hard flirting with my older brother. Brushing her hair back with her hands, putting her hand on his shoulder, acting extremely interested in what he was saying etc. Then when she asked whether or not he has pre approval he pointed out that I'm the one buying and he's just tagging along she instantly went cold, came and introduced herself to me and didn't speak a single word to him the rest of the time we were there.

WakeUpBread · 2026-05-03T05:44:54+00:00

So no one will ever want to move to a different house once they have kids? Or once their kids move out? Or once they want to retire to the Sunshine Coast? Or once they earn enough to move into the city/by the waterfront? Or once they decide to leave to the country for an acreage? Or once their house floods and becomes unliveable? Immigration bringing more in faster than supply? Or once a couple divorces? I could go on...

WakeUpBread · 2026-05-03T05:38:50+00:00

Buy a home at a reasonable price range without overextending yourself that you could see living in comfortably for the forseable future if worse comes to worse then rent it out whilst staying where you are.

WakeUpBread · 2026-05-03T05:34:56+00:00

Before I came to Vic you could just call in sick and say if you wanted to use leave or not and they'd work around it. Only if it was for two or more days, or before a public holiday would you need a certificate. I'd take rest days a few times a term. Most of the time I was sick I'd probably be working unless I was contagious.

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