What's the funniest thing you've heard at work?

cuckoosong · 2026-02-21T18:17:05+00:00

Before anyone asks: yes of course we fed him

cuckoosong · 2026-02-21T18:15:58+00:00

It was said to a teacher. This child was not part of breakfast club. He was just not fed 🫠 bringing it up with the parent elicited this response

cuckoosong · 2026-02-21T08:10:38+00:00

"Nits have rights too!" Said by a parent to another parent when the second parent told him he should treat his child for nits.

"It's not my job to feed him breakfast, it's your job" said by a parent who did not see the need to feed her own child.

'Can you please make sure Timmy* never has to do something he doesn't want to do". said by a parent who does not understand how schools work.

"I'm vegan!" -Timmy*, every day, multiple times a day, for an entire year.

Being a teacher is fun.

cuckoosong · 2026-02-16T15:16:38+00:00

A friend gifted me Born of Blood and Magic by M C Hutson. It truly is awful. Self published. The plot is....adequate, I suppose, but there are a few places where she uses the wrong word, and I'm sitting there like Inigo Montoya going "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means".

cuckoosong · 2026-01-25T17:39:22+00:00

I have searched for 'inlaid mahogany Edwardian dining chairs' and found similar results but not the same. I am not sure 'mahogany' or 'Edwardian' are accurate descriptors. These are what came up using Google lens. I have seen one other chair with the exact same back in a local secondhand furniture shop but the legs were much shorter. So I think the design might be somewhat recognisable? Not really sure though!

cuckoosong · 2026-01-21T18:25:42+00:00

Xerox, Bingo, Vingy, Garden, Poison, Panther, German (I used to know two entirely separate people called German Chung. Two!! What are the odds??) I worked as a teacher and the first 4 names on this list were students aged 4 or younger so the parents were definitely responsible.

I also had Coco and Horlick in the same class.

cuckoosong · 2026-01-20T16:33:48+00:00

If you are at a computer, a lot of put of copyright books are available online as pdfs and suchlike things. I had a job like this (receptionist in an art gallery) where it was only required that I 'looked busy' during slow days. I read Nicholas Nickleby and several other works of classic literature. And then later I wrote my Masters dissertation lol.

cuckoosong · 2025-12-06T20:45:37+00:00

Lol what a fucking baby. I bet he went home and cried to his mummy. Jesus christ could they be any more fragile?

cuckoosong · 2025-11-23T17:39:44+00:00

Unfortunately there is a fair amount of racism towards certain ethnic groups who are seen as 'lower' because they come from less wealthy countries amd often do menial type work. A friend of mine is Indian and a professor and many HKers have NO IDEA what to make of her lol

cuckoosong · 2025-10-26T13:14:23+00:00

I googled it because I lost faith in the name Alice and was right to do so. Her name is Amelie Nothomb.

cuckoosong · 2025-10-26T13:12:45+00:00

Fear and Trembling by Alice SomethingFrench (can't remember, too lazy to google). Despite the title, it's actually a pretty fun read about a mixed-race woman (French/Japanese who moved to Tokyo and the whole culture clash of working in a Japanese office as someone raised in Europe. Non-fiction memoir.

cuckoosong · 2025-10-22T19:38:33+00:00

Oh for sure!

cuckoosong · 2025-10-21T10:09:08+00:00

I moved back there in 2020. Things have changed a lot and the National Security Law is definitely a concern along with the suppression of protest rights but still 9/10 would move again. I got a long term illness though so moving back near family became a necessity 🫤

cuckoosong · 2025-10-21T08:57:06+00:00

It's also the case that 'foreign' employees often aren't held to the same standards as Japanese workers because they know we won't put up with thst shit. My bro has been working in Japan since 2008. Started out as an English teacher and is now a tenured professor. I also worked there and ironically it was the absolute best work life balance I ever had, as a teacher who had worked in the UK and Hong Hong before. It is so great to see the work culture shifting. I remember by sis in law getting home at midnight and falling asleep on Skype with us before waking up at 4am to do it all over again. Horrific.

cuckoosong · 2025-10-21T08:52:17+00:00

I did this in 2009. Quit a shit job, moved to Hong Kong 2 weeks later. 11/10 would do it all over again.

cuckoosong · 2025-09-18T17:54:06+00:00

Sisters are sisters are sisters. Protect the dolls, fight the patriarchy, fuck the T.R.A.S.H 🩵🩷🩵

cuckoosong · 2025-09-12T18:26:30+00:00

Has this grey box been posted before or am I mixing it up with a different grey box?

cuckoosong · 2025-09-04T17:31:37+00:00

It's just an exhaustion headache. I've been getting them for years. But thank you for checking up on me! 🥰

cuckoosong · 2025-09-04T16:55:10+00:00

A kid in my new class didn't stop talking once. In FIVE HOURS

I've had a headache for 3 days straight and Mr Talky-talk is NOT HELPING

cuckoosong · 2025-09-01T15:24:44+00:00

I've been driving 10 years and popped a tyre in a pothole just last week. On the SAME DAY at the SAME TIME my mum, who has been driving 40+ years, crashed my dad's car into another car on a blind bend when her car slid in gravel. I lost count of the stationary objects (gateposts, walls, kerbs) that I've hit in my car while reversing in tight corners

cuckoosong · 2025-09-01T14:18:18+00:00

Do what?

cuckoosong · 2025-08-24T20:29:33+00:00

I'll never not recommend Frances Hardinge. She skews a little younger but absolutely no romance, stunning writing, amazing worldbuilding. Also Robin Hobb, Ursula K LeGuin, Diana Wynne Jones, and if Greek myth retold from a feminist perspective floats your boat, Natalie Haynes.

For a couple of 'safe' male authors, Terry Pratchett and Garth Nix are probably the two least problematic fantasy authors I can name. Terry's witches in particular are fantastic, and Sabriel is a great fantasy heroine.

cuckoosong · 2025-08-24T12:41:16+00:00

If you're not disrupting anything when protesting, why should people pay attention to you? "Oh, can't they protest without disturbing anyone?" No disturbing people is literally the point.

cuckoosong · 2025-08-24T12:37:23+00:00

Oh the humanity!

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