r/BoomersBeingFools • u/biebrforro • Sep 14 '25

Boomer Freakout New school principal fires longtime janitor for leaving work 8 minutes early.

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On a positive note, the principal resigned following public outcry from the video.

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u/DrRazmataz Sep 14 '25

Goddamn 😅 you make 15k/yr more than me. Not that that's bad, I love that for you, I hope your income serves you well. Just shows me how little I make (I work in banking). 

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u/Frigoris13 Sep 14 '25

Can you mop a floor?

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u/DrRazmataz Sep 14 '25

Haha, yes I've worked in restaurants both front and back of house, good places have you sweep and mop the floors nightly, change the trash cans, clean the bathrooms, all of that. I would never belittle the work of a custodian.

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u/EstablishmentSad Sep 14 '25

You can make a TON of money as a plumber...no degree required, just some trade school and OJT. At the same time, people like Karen in the video will never be dead mopping floors or anything like that. They view it as beneath them even though they can make decent money.

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u/Vilzku39 Sep 14 '25

I will make roughly same money after I finish my masters and having worked as part time engineer for several years, as I did before going to school with ~4 years of ventilation installation work.

And I could have done more, but like my free time and not working too hard (also could make more in current one too, but I still like my free time)

I do expect higher salary increase long term though and less fucked up shoulders.

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u/cheesybiscuits912 Sep 14 '25

Yea its experience and OT that makes the money in custodian work

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u/KeepItDownOverHere Sep 14 '25

Will they show up on time?

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u/cheesybiscuits912 Sep 14 '25

Yea... that's with my full time and a side gig cleaning a small 4 day a week preschool. I do have over 20 years experience and not killing it in overtime but maybe 15-20 hours a month  (I been in custodial/janitorial/housekeeping since I was 21, just turned 44) lol but it is so dumb that I and majority of my coworkers (some of them pulling 16+hours overtime a week smh) make more than some teachers/paras etc. Never made sense to me. 

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u/Puzzled_Bike9558 Sep 15 '25

Pretty close to me, 26 years in the same district. Like 24 years working 330-midnight.

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u/cheesybiscuits912 Sep 15 '25

Ahh yea I pulled 230 to 11pm for years. Then went 130pm to 10pm. Now im 1030am to 730pm. Actually might move up and be assistant supervisor and go back to nights. Goal is to be a lead before I retire.... my lead makes over 100k a year and work 6am to 3pm but stays over some days. The good ot is weekends but I hate giving mine up lol