Meirl

This resonates with me so much. I love doing nothing. People always judged me for it like some sort of cabal of jealousy and absolute fuckery that started shitting on me the moment I started to enjoy myself.

A teacher of mine one contacted my mother to complain that I did a homework assignment in 15min at the end of class. Mom was mad at me too. Couple of bitches.

I remember one of my first times getting scolded in school. I was an overachiever and a very well behaved kid so every time I got in trouble it was very hard on me. I was in third grade and we were doing our first round of standardized testing, we weren’t allowed to bring books of any kind. I finished with over an hour left. I followed the teachers instructions of what we were supposed to do if we finished early, which was to double check our answers and review the entire test. I did it three times and still had over 30 minutes left so I ended up sitting there fiddling with myself. When the test ended, she said out loud to the whole class that we all did great, but that some people needed to work on their test etiquette and singled me out in front of the entire class. Everybody looked at me really shocked because like I said, I never really did anything wrong. She proceeded to shame me so hard for “sitting there” instead of checking my answers. I told her I triple checked everything but that I still had so much time left. She got really angry and said that I couldn’t have possibly done well on the test and that she expected better from me. Guess who passed the test with an almost perfect score. The trend of me being shamed for completing tests too fast continued until high school.

When I was in middle school, my teachers tried to complain to my mom about this. I’d get classroom done quickly then read or daydream. I was not disruptive.

My mom shut them down. “Has she learned the material? Does she respond when you ask her questions? Is she rude or disruptive?”

They stopped calling her in after that, and they let me bring educational magazines to class. I read years worth of popular mechanics or popular science

Reminds me of an old boss I used to have that would regularly ask if I “put my 8 hours in”.

Motherfucker, I’m salaried, always get my shit done, and regularly travel for work over weekends, holidays, birthdays, whatever. The fuck you worried about 8 hrs for? I bring tens of millions of dollars in revenue to this company every year, on the low end. Suck my balls.

The problem occurs when you enter the workforce and are told you’re making everyone look bad.

It was the first days of my sophomore year of college and we are having a round table discussion and the teacher is asking questions and NO ONE is saying a word. So I try to break the ice, start offering answers. IMO even a wrong answer leads to a discussion and new learning. Well after 3 or 4 answers the teacher finally said “you’re full of answers but you’re always wrong.” … guess who stopped participating in that class…

Achieving an inferior result with less effort is lazy. Achieving an equivalent result with less effort is efficient.

The teacher assumes you are slacking off and cutting corners to get it done faster, presumably because that is what they do.

I had two similar situations like this. I got a detention because a teacher said I hadn’t put enough effort into my homework despite it covering all the key points of the homework which really pissed me off so in the detention I did the exact same thing and asked her to explain to me what the problem was. I got the whole not enough effort complaint again and sat there for the remainder of the detention doing nothing. My mum made me take foodtec for a GCSE so I never took that lesson seriously, never did the homework did the bare minimum of course work and went into the exam with a G grade lol. I only answered the questions I could be bothered to do and one particular question will stick with me. I can’t remember all the points but the jist of it was that I needed to create a product that could fit in a lunchbox, contain fruit and be appealing to children. I drew an apple and annotated it *Apple* I got 4/6 marks for that because it technically met the criteria for the majority of the question. So in the end I came out with a C in Foodtec and my teacher was furious after telling me that I was going to fail.

I had a history teacher telling me that I should just drop history because I’m wasting my time and hers. The truth is her lessons weren’t engaging and were so rigid around the exam criteria to the point where it felt like we weren’t actually learning history but how the history exam was marked. Her idea of revision was a spelling test on key words we’d learnt the week previously. I’m dyslexic so I would always get the majority of the spellings wrong which she would try and give me detentions for. I would protest and inform her of the words meanings, definitions or significance to the subject but no dice she didn’t care it wasn’t spelt right so I clearly didn’t know. So she told me to drop history and stop wasting both of our time. I told her no I think I’ll keep wasting both of our time. My course work was at a D because she was the one marking it, nitpicking things that in my opinion are irrelevant to the subject such as my writing style. So I went into the exam and absolutely smashed the papers and came out with an A in The American West, an A in Women on the British Homefront and a B in Renaissance Medicine lol. On results day this bitch came up to me and said I bet you were surprised with your results. I looked her in the eye and said I always knew I was going to pass, didn’t you? Then left

I once got mocked in kindergarten for being literate.

Teacher shamed me for “thinking I was better than everyone else just because I could read”, so entitled to not be “able to wait for the others, and worked ahead on the worksheet.”

All because I read the instructions and quietly completed the worksheet while she was still reading it aloud to the class.

Teacher, if you read this, the scene was memorable but your name and face have long vanished from my memory. I no longer experience shame from the memory, as I recognize what a foolish, silly woman you were. I hope you treated other students better the rest of your career than you did me.

I made that exact deal with many teachers. If I could finish my work early I could read my books. Yes I was (and am) a nerd.

I had a teacher that got mad because I jumped ahead in the process of the research project my class was working on.

That’s because people care about obtics. So you was supposed to take it home and do the homework for hours. But you doing the homework right before class is over saves you time and gives you more time to do whatever.

Thats me at my first „job“ ever rn

Or maybe you just did shitty work quickly.

Actually that’s exactly how I describe my professional work style. I’m a great lazy person because if you gimme a task, I’m gonna make sure I do it as quick as possible and give you the end result you’re looking for because I don’t wanna have to redo it. I just wanna go back to fucking off.

My 4th grade science teacher scolded me because I am a shy kid and don’t usually talk so much, when she asked me some questions which I didn’t know the answer I just stayed quiet and I shrug because I was too shy and afraid that I’ll get scolded for not knowing the answer and instead she said “Don’t just shrug you have to talk, you know this shyness you have will never get you to college. Being like this won’t take you anywhere.” Mind you she said this in front of the whole class and I was standing the whole time and it felt degrading.

And guess what b1tch, I graduated college. I’ll never forget what you’ve done, tables will turn.

This was me, except once I’d finished all my work I’d get bored and distract everyone else

Still got to deal with this bullshit. 6 hours of work could be automated into 10 minutes, but it’s “not a productive use of time.”

The job is done, what the fuck do they have to complain about? Also I learned to do my job slower at work or I get laden with more work at the same pay while coworkers get less work when I get their share.

When I am at work, I get all my work done and also start projects without being asked. I still spend 1/3 of my day or more on sporcle enjoying playing quiz games. I don’t care. I am efficient, I am doing my job and more, I am going to use some of my paid time as “me time”.

Work smarter, not harder.

I work at an elementary school 9 times out of 10 the ” my teacher got mad I finished early because they are stupid” actually translates to ” I rush through my assignment, didn’t show my work, didn’t do all the steps and was distracting the other students trying to work”

My architecture professor called me an idiot savant because my model showed her something about the space that she hadn’t seen before (it was a recreation of a building she had assigned in the studio for years), but I did it in cardboard.