r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Zombeaver24 • 14h ago

I'm slightly vexed The amount of perfectly fine colouring pencils one of my teachers (I’m a cleaner) threw out for the new school year

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Yes I did remove them from her bin because what the hell!? They’re literally fine. One of my coworkers helps out with an after school club and says they are really short of colouring pencils so they will be used!

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u/Extension-Device-533 13h ago

Any chance it was a mistake, she’d left them to one side for sharpening and they all got swept into the bin by accident? I lost a passport that way (NOT a funny story at all).

Maybe the “cost” (in staff time) of sitting there sharpening them all was more than replacing them. I work in a veterinary practice and we throw away scissors because of this - they cost more to sharpen than replace. (We are as eco as possible with it - they are used in surgical kits until they’re not sharp enough for surgery, then used as general purpose scissors, and then when they’re no good for that any more, we get rid of them - I personally take them to the metal recycling at our council waste site though).

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u/Ijustreadalot 12h ago

Every school I've worked at has had some sort of area (table, shelf, counter) where teachers leave stuff they aren't going to use anymore but other teachers might want. Even if this teacher didn't have time to sharpen all of them, she could have passed them on to someone who wanted them. But I agree that there's a solid chance it was a mistake. If they didn't fall in, she could just be harried and distracted and meant to put the pencils away somewhere and throw something different away.

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u/CeroFs 10h ago

Its one night in front of the tv with a bin and a sharpener..

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u/Jacktheforkie 5h ago

Or a fun activity for the kids