staff room antics

Lots of odd things go on in staff rooms, the politics of it all! Anyway, all staff are "expected" to pay £20 into the staff pot each year, this covers things like flowers and grapes for ill staff, Birthday cakes etc etc. Now that's fair enough.

But, what I HATE, is that whenever someone retires, or leaves, they set up ANOTHER tin for donations, separate to the £20 staff have already paid.

Now non of the teaching staff seem to complain about this, they abviously earn enough for it not to matter. But if I could afford it or not, I would not give money a second time. It's wrong to expect and ask for more money, at the end of the day this is my JOB, I shouldn't have to spend one single penny to do my job.

We have 130 staff, so at £20 each thats £2600!!! Maybe a bit less, as part time staff don't pay as much, but what the hell do they spend that kind of money on every year.

My other staff rant is the separation between staff and ICT support staff (even amongst other support staff). There is a leaving do meal this lunch time, the network manager and myself are not going. Not because we are unsociable, but because we weren't invited. All of the other support staff are going, science, reprographics, art techs etc.

The only reason I know it's going on, is because I was asked to "keep an eye" on the ICT rooms over lunch. The reprographics girl normally does this, but she's out for this lunch.

The joys of IT, at least I can doss in my office all week reading BOFH and CAD.......

Joke, I do shit loads!