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That sucks. But you didn't know, so don't feel bad.
Even being friends with your teacher. Calling them out like that is really iffy. Not nearly the same if a teacher did that to a student friends or not. Plus in the middle of class one would generally assume unless it was a habit it was important and take that as a sign maybe not to make a joke to begin with.
I know when a friend of the family passed away the family would do a lot of arrangements via text for just the sheer amount of things going on. The thing that had me iffy on this FML is 1) if her dad died (even if not close) I'm surprised she was in school my teacher when her father passed took off a whole 2 weeks just to get everything together for the funeral 2) text messaging seems kind of strange if it's to family but if it's to friends then it may just be hard to talk about it in person 3) she shouldn't really be texting in school I mean it just seems unprofessional I understand she's probably going through a tough time yet that's stuff to be done at home or on break not around students So it's not really an FML or a YDI it's more of a awkward situation
This happened to me once with the A.D in high school. We were in lunch and I jokingly told him no texting and then he responded that his daughter was about to go into surgery
Good thing you were on good terms....but hey you didn't know and texting funeral plans instead of making invites is a new one
Why is she teaching if her father died only days ago? She shouldn't be in the classroom at all right now. Do people not mourn these days?
YDI. Obviously there was no way of knowing why she was on the phone. YDI for being disrespectful. Being a student is your "job" and the teacher is your "boss". In the real world you could have gotten disciplined for insubordination.
How was OP being disrespectful in any way? They were joking around with the teacher, not scolding them. In my high school, people got along great with most of the teachers. They had friendly relationships and often made jokes with them. Hell, plenty of us made jokes if a teacher was using their phone or it rang in class. The teachers would laugh, too. Even in the "real world" at my first job, the managers were easy-going and we joked around with them, too. In both situations, nearly everyone realized that they needed to respect the authoritative figures. Being friendly/friendly teasing =/= being disrespectful.
It wasn't OP's fault. Lots of teachers can be really fun and easy going. I can think of loads of teachers I had who would never have thought of what OP said as "disrespectful". How on earth was OP supposed to know she was arranging a funeral? It wasn't disrespectful, it was unfortunate.
Not your fault. You couldn't have known. And the teacher should've taken bereavement time off. Sorry OP.
I think your teacher should have been a little more professional and not have brought up why they were on the phone. A simple chuckle at the joke and "I just have something important to handle today" would have sufficed. There's no sense in making someone feel bad for something they could have never known about when they were just trying to joke with you.
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I feel so bad for your teacher! what a terrible thing to happen! On that note she should not bring it into the classroom. She should take a few days off to plan and mourn if needed. You were just trying to joke around but now I guess you know! It is just an all a round bad situation.
There is no way you could have known that.