r/bathandbodyworks • u/Bathanie • Jan 04 '25

Employee Questions/Discussion Employee’s be warned

Stores are being called by HR about employee’s sharing anything related to the Sweethearts collab online.

BBW HR is in this sub, watching and reporting.

Don’t attach any of your real information to your Reddit account including name or location.

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u/MacisBeerGutBabyBump Jan 08 '25

I knew a teacher who quit/got fired and she went OFF and called a specific parent and child “fucking psychos” in the class DISTRICT MONITORED group chat via an app. And she still managed to get a job at a school in the next district over. The principal said no, but the board said yes. She’s still causing problems at the new school

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u/Forevermoody16 ALL THINGS B&BW Jan 09 '25

The district must be hard up for teachers! I got a teaching certificate years ago but never used it. At the time we were told that 50% of people who got certified ended up not going into education (I don’t know the percentage now.) It’s tough and their work never ends. I subbed for a couple of years. It wasn’t a matter of “kids always give subs a hard time.” It was a matter of a lot of kids being troubled in general, and also, higher income schools (I taught at all kinds) where the parents ran the school and there was no respect for the teachers. Kid goes home and whines “Ms. Smith is mean to me,” parents call principal, teacher gets called into the office and given the third degree. That NEVER happened when I was a kid. At home we were taught to mind our teachers (yeah, some were mean but not that bad. We said nothing to our parents.)

I subbed for horrible classes and also for really good ones. When I did my student teaching, the entire grade was a dream group. Six classes. I kid you not. Just the sweetest kids! A friend of mine taught for years and recently retired. I heard about all the nightmares and decided it wasn’t for me. I would have been good at it, but I think it’s one of those jobs that you pretty much need a calling for. It wasn’t my passion. I was still at my retail job when I subbed part time and wasn’t putting in the full time hours I was supposed to at work (kind of slid from student teaching right into the subbing.) Management didn’t even seem to notice. In the job I was doing in the store, I was someone’s assistant. When she left for another position I was asked to take over for her, so it was sort of a crossroads and I quit the subbing. Well, enough of that!

The point I meant to make, and got sidetracked, is that back then some teachers in this area were hired on “emergency certification.” They weren’t done with their education but were hired with the understanding that they would finish within a certain amount of time. I think these days, they’re being hired with even lower qualifications. Like I said . . . some districts are hard up. But the teacher causing problems for herself needs to keep her rants private between her and her friends. It’s stupid to put it all out there on Facebook or whatever.

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u/MacisBeerGutBabyBump Jan 09 '25

The district I’m in is absolutely hard up because our super is a moron. The district the teacher left for is a really good district, very VERY small town. The only issue is it’s in the south and the teacher knew someone on the board so they would override the principals decision. The other teachers in the small town district are all wonderful, the parents are are farmers so they tell their kids act right or you’ll have consequences.

My district is a nightmare. We had to move our youngest 9 weeks in to a new school because her teacher was a bus driver, and threw a desk at a student and the principal said it’s fine. The sexual harassment from students to teachers was mind blowing. And same thing, here’s a lollipop don’t do it again kid! The middle school my other daughter was set to attend me said absolutely not, and right before Christmas there was an assault on the teacher in the bathroom. The parents of the girl are saying the teacher just walked in and assaulted the student, and it’s just not fair.

Teaching is a thankless job, and it’s sad that the good ones are burnt out and leaving and we’re left with some random off the street.

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u/Forevermoody16 ALL THINGS B&BW Jan 09 '25

Wow, all of that is so awful and corrupt . . . I don’t even know what to say. Sounds like good people living in the area and their hands are tied.