Does anyone have a person at their teaching job that just seriously pushes your buttons, is super negative....or is just a royal B!?

I've been putting up with it all school year....and am just about to the point where this job is not that important to me...to be miserable next year.

She is honestly just a big rag. She complains about everything. Everyone including the secretary is on egg shells talking to her. Today she spoke about me to my own aide! and right infront of me.

Sorry chickies...I just needed a vent..and am curious to know if anyone else has someone like this at work that is just really at work to make your life a living hell.

At my last school there was a guy that was horrible and he made me want to quit my job - he was on the same grade level team as me and I stopped going to the team level meetings for the last 2 months of school because I literally just could not handle it anymore. 

It totally sucks - teaching is hard enough as it is without a negative nancy hanging around. Sorry :(

Yeah...she makes everyone's teaching life there a living hell. I'm the special ed teacher and it's an inclusive setting. So I have to be in her room only about an hour a morning....but like my afternoon co-teacher told me...that one hour ruins the whole day for me.

Awww that sucks and I'm sorry you're dealing with that.

There were 2 girls like that last year. They had been at the school for 2 years and one of them dressed horribly inappropriate and she teaches middle school boys, and the other demanded all sorts of outrageous stuff (new classroom for example) and threatened to leave the school high and dry in the middle of the year if she didn't get what she wanted! Needless to say, no one liked them and neither of them were asked back for this year thank goodness!

I totally hear ya.  In fact, I switched teaching positions because of it (and a few other stresses).  I am usually a learning resource center teacher for learning disabled students.  I needed a break from everything it seems.  So I took the teacher consultant position when it opened.  It has been a tremendous year of growth for me.  I've learned a completely different aspect of teaching (and working with adults.)

 I think it is important for teachers to reflect on where they are at in their careers and make a change if need be.  Burn out is ridiculous for special ed. teachers as it is.  Making sure we don't lose our passion is the number one thing we can do for our students.  Without our passion, we can't inspire anyone to learn.  

My advice would be to have a cognitive conflict with this person --a tough discussion to address how to move forward together.  She or he probably doesn't realize the affect they have.  And their negativity can infect the whole staff.

Yeah, and I feel kinda bad cuz this woman's like 60 somethin', but she is so OBNOXIOUS!!! It's almost like she doesn't care about other people's feelings! At a staff meeting last week she started talking to the principal about how it was unacceptable how I was taking two weeks off for my wedding! (1 b4, 1 after) REALLY?

I know exactly how you feel...

wow, the teachers you are describing sound like such sour puses. so mean.

hopefully that generation of teachers will soon leave and let others teach in a healthy environment.