Woman puts down teacher for using his phone during training and gets a taste of her own medicine

Sometimes people try to impose their own rules on others without understanding what the other person is going through. That is what happened to an educator. Instead of accepting the situation as it was, u/Ancient_Educator_76 decided to give a reality check to the woman who yelled at him for checking his phone for an important update while attending a training program.

The teacher started the post by sharing that his wife broke her ankle 24 hours before he was due to attend a training program. He wrote, "Pretty badly. Like it had to be reset. I was with her all day that day and yesterday, during the training, she was recovering from her surgery while I learned how to use 'IXL,' a math program that's pretty easy to figure out for the most part." He then recounted what happened at the training.

According to him, he reached his training a minute early and opened all the websites they had asked him to, did the pallet AI welcome page drawing they requested and later got ahead of the program. He recalled, "The rest of the room is jibber-jabbing as the presenter and the other district personnel meander around the room. I see a text from my mother-in-law and as she's at the hospital with my wife, I decide to look at it. 'Gina,' my wife is asking about my pay. Her phone got an alert about a payment (my Rapid Card has an alert that goes to her phone), but her phone died before she could see how much."

So, he decided to log into his Access page to check how much she received. "It literally took like twenty seconds to do this and of course, this is when 'Miss Low Glasses' decides to pretend she's my teacher," he recounted. She poked him on his shoulder repeatedly and told him that he needed to look at the screen the trainer was showing him. He was about to apologize to her when she interrupted him and shouted, "You need to get your priorities straight!" He expressed, "I was so embarrassed and pissed at the same time. It was totally uncalled for. It was when everyone was jibber-jabbing and it was to check on an important time-sensitive thing. It made me realize that I do need to get my priorities straight."

The teacher decided to maliciously comply with what she said. He responded just as loudly, "You know what? I do need to get my priorities straight. My wife's in the hospital! I'll be leaving now." Then, he walked out. Meanwhile, he said, the woman who shouted at him scoffed and apparently, another district personnel pulled her aside and chided her as he left. "One of my homies yelled out, 'Love you OP. It's gonna be fine, text me,'" he concluded.

People in the comments applauded the man for what he did. u/LtDouble-Yefreitor commented, "I've been a teacher for nearly 10 years now, and I've never seen anything even remotely close to this level of disrespect. That's unbelievable. Good on you for walking out!" u/Minimum_Candidate233 wrote, "I just left teaching after 35 years. There isn't one training I can recall that was honestly worth my time or the money spent on it by the district. What I will say is that any time spent at work away from family when they need you is time you will never get back. You made the right decision." u/iteechyokidsart expressed, "I am no longer surprised at how often administrators treat the faculty and staff like we’re just larger children." u/lizofalltrades shared, "Good on you. Family comes first! The training will be there when you get around to it."