A Girl Just Put on Deodorant in my Classroom

[princessmom29]

if you are a teacher what are you doing on the internet. you should be doing your job. i worked in the private sector for 32 years and sat behind a desk and a computer...if you were caught on the internet doing the work day ...you were suspended. what are you doing. i guess i'm shocked because your not doing your job.

Did you get a lunch break where you could actually leave? We get lunch, but cannot leave campus. Lunch is not 'on the job time." It doesn't get counted towards the hours i am paid for, and I refuse to spend it working. Ithink everyone deserves a half hour of peace. Ours is split over a 20 min lunch and a 10 min morning break. She very well could have been on morning break. If it's not on the clock time I don't see a problem.

 

[disney junky]

Clarification of a few items:
BTW, it's lunch and I'm allowed, even on a school computer.

I must take attendance at 8, on the computer, on the internet, in my room. That I took an extra 30 seconds and posted on the DIS was wrong of me. I was just shocked and there weren't any adults handy to express my disbelief.

I'm a guy.

 

[N&B'smom]

I'm a guy.

This is more shocking to me than the deodorant issue. Why do I always assume all the posters on the Dis are women??

 

[hereyago]

The girl whipping out the deodorant. I can't say it is total lack of home training. I mean if she had the deodorant in her purse backpack whatever, maybe she knows she has a smell problem, but at the same time she could have excused herself to apply it in the bathroom.

 

[disney11fan]

i wouldn't have even brought it up. it's much to do about nothing. we had ladies in our office put there war paint on at there desk and no big deal. no one said a word and life went on.

 

[Iluvthemouse]

I don't see anything wrong with it.

^^^^this^^^^

 

[snapppyd]

This is more shocking to me than the deodorant issue. Why do I always assume all the posters on the Dis are women??

Me too!

 

[disykat]

A lot of inappropriate stuff on this thread, IMO.

I agree that putting on your deoderant in a classroom is uncouth.

I agree that it is wrong to be on personal business on the internet in the workplace - in most jobs.

But the thing that shocks me the most is that there seem to be a bunch of people here that think putting on deoderant instantly removes "funk."

 

[Jennasis]

A lot of inappropriate stuff on this thread, IMO.

I agree that putting on your deoderant in a classroom is uncouth.

I agree that it is wrong to be on personal business on the internet in the workplace - in most jobs.

But the thing that shocks me the most is that there seem to be a bunch of people here that think putting on deoderant instantly removes "funk."

Hopefully, that early in the am, there isn't anything to "remove", but rather it would be to prevent future-funk...and I don't mean these guys:

 

[okeydokey]

I can assure you if I walked into a board meeting and whipped out my deodorant and started applying it, it would be big deal. Shouldn't we be teaching our high schoolers how to act in the larger world?

 

[sunnyday123]

Teachers have preps and breaks! They don't sleep on a cot in their classroom. Are your kids doing homework 100% of the time? Not trying to be rude but seriously She can do whatever she wants in her classroom with her free time. Teachers don't teach from 730 to 230 straight.

As for op- I would rather her quickly put deodorant on than to stink to high heaven. At least she cares enough not to smell in public. I carry a stick in the car for when I forget in the am.

You say you aren't trying to be rude, but I think you need to try just a wee bit harder.

To the OP, yea, I'm curious as to why you're posting from your room. And then I think you need to tell the girl while you appreciate her attempts at hygiene, please keep it in the bathroom.

 

[sunnyday123]

Clarification of a few items:
BTW, it's lunch and I'm allowed, even on a school computer.

I must take attendance at 8, on the computer, on the internet, in my room. That I took an extra 30 seconds and posted on the DIS was wrong of me. I was just shocked and there weren't any adults handy to express my disbelief.

I'm a guy.

Dude, post a picture so someone can start a crush thread about you.

 

[krcit]

Kids forget stuff all the time. Forget to brush their teeth, put on deodorant etc. heck I even forgot to put on my underwear once in my Sophomore year. Maybe she keeps the deodorant on her normally, or maybe she plays sports and has it on hand for that.

Either way, much better than her being smelly all day. I agree, it's FUNNY. But rude, weird, etc? Eh no.

So you were pulling a Britney before even Britney(or Lindsay or paris)

 

[hereyago]

I can assure you if I walked into a board meeting and whipped out my deodorant and started applying it, it would be big deal. Shouldn't we be teaching our high schoolers how to act in the larger world?

And I don't want to see a female put on make up at : her desk, or I love this one, at a table in a restuarant even before food is there. Classless. We are so immuned to these behaviors because no one says, "hey, do that in the restroom,etc".


Honestly, if i were a student seeing this girl do this. I would be thinking, um, were you in a big hurry to get your clothes on that you couldn't do that then?

 

[krcit]

Dude, post a picture so someone can start a crush thread about you.

Yes!!! Please!!! I'm bored. I need something to do and I already put my deodorant on.

 

[snapppyd]

After 27 years.
Pulled it out of her bag, reached up under her sweatshirt and applied it. And acted shocked that I was shocked.
Well excuse me.

Now that I know you are a man I can see why you were shocked! She should have done this in the girls room.

 

[msmayor]

Well maybe it was any of those other things but I'm betting that her students were piling into the classroom just coming off the bus and the OP hadn't officially started teaching yet. Not that it matters to you, because I'm sure that when you are at work you have never ever done anything personal until you left for the day.


ETA I personally think doing your personal hygiene routine in public is pretty uncouth, but kids aren't always thinking about what they do.

That would be correct. We are not permitted to have our cell phones in our hands or in our pockets. I cannot make any personal phone calls on the company phones as they are strictly monitored...the only way to get an outside line is through personnel and they ask who we are calling and what the business purpose is.

There is ZERO internet access in our location...a department store. We are there to take care of our customers, not our personal lives. Food and drink is not permitted on the sales floor, only in our break room and as long as we have clocked out for our lunch or dinner break.

When we clock in we must do our work. ANY personal business must be taken care of after we clock out for the day.

 

[snapppyd]

Dude, post a picture so someone can start a crush thread about you.

Yes!!! Please!!! I'm bored. I need something to do and I already put my deodorant on.

I didn't shower yet - I can apply my deodorant while staring at the computer monitor

 

[Missy1961]

I didn't shower yet - I can apply my deodorant while staring at the computer monitor

 

[snapppyd]

Missy! (I'm hugging you assuming you used deodorant today )