Anonymous wrote:I don't even know why I feel this way, but I give daycare teachers cash and elementary school teachers gift cards. Maybe because I feel like elementary school teachers are professionals and daycare teachers unpaid? No clue.
The whole gift card for teachers thing is a little strange IMO. We're dual feds (and not the dual GS15 ones that everyone else seems to be on dcum) and if someone tried to give either of us gift cards or cash it would be an ethics issue. I get a small bonus from my agency after my performance evaluation (nothing like private sector 5 figure bonuses), but dh's work doesn't do that. Do teachers not get bonuses from their work?
Anonymous wrote:I don't even know why I feel this way, but I give daycare teachers cash and elementary school teachers gift cards. Maybe because I feel like elementary school teachers are professionals and daycare teachers unpaid? No clue.
The whole gift card for teachers thing is a little strange IMO. We're dual feds (and not the dual GS15 ones that everyone else seems to be on dcum) and if someone tried to give either of us gift cards or cash it would be an ethics issue. I get a small bonus from my agency after my performance evaluation (nothing like private sector 5 figure bonuses), but dh's work doesn't do that. Do teachers not get bonuses from their work?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Yes, but I find it weird and give gift cards.
Ugh, please don’t. I hate gift cards. I have a stack of probably 30 of them. They never get used, get sorted to the bottom of purse, eventually taken out and added to the growing pile. My 7 yr old plays with them now
Spend them or regift them.
That’s the thing, it passes the burden onto me to remember to put them in my purse, remember what stores they are for, remember to use that specific card when I happen to be at that specific store. Or I have to take to the time to look up organisations that will take them as donations, drive there to donate. I just don’t want to be bothered at this point. Spending my $10 Coldstone gift card just isn’t on my list of things to do
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Whatever teacher complains about gift cards should come to my school. I've never gotten a gift card from a parent. My last pay check is at the end of June and July and August are hard for me, even with summer jobs. I'd love a gift card to anywhere!
+1. There's some seriously spoiled people on here.
Anonymous wrote:I would not since the teacher has a personal connection to your child. Trader Joe's giftcards have been universally well-received.
Anonymous wrote:Worrying about corporations, dude, it’s just not that deep. Cash is beyond tacky. Cash is what you give to a babysitter as a tip, or a neighbor who is a graduating senior. Don’t worry about it, just give a nice gift card and be done with it.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I would not since the teacher has a personal connection to your child. Trader Joe's giftcards have been universally well-received.
I do amazon as not everyone shops at Trader Joes, Target, and some of those stores. On Amazon, they can take the gift card and exchange it for another gift card if they want. I never go to Trader Joes.
What's so hard about going into a store and buying something with a gift card? I don't get the laziness.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I would not since the teacher has a personal connection to your child. Trader Joe's giftcards have been universally well-received.
I do amazon as not everyone shops at Trader Joes, Target, and some of those stores. On Amazon, they can take the gift card and exchange it for another gift card if they want. I never go to Trader Joes.
Anonymous wrote:Whatever teacher complains about gift cards should come to my school. I've never gotten a gift card from a parent. My last pay check is at the end of June and July and August are hard for me, even with summer jobs. I'd love a gift card to anywhere!
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Yes, but I find it weird and give gift cards.
Ugh, please don’t. I hate gift cards. I have a stack of probably 30 of them. They never get used, get sorted to the bottom of purse, eventually taken out and added to the growing pile. My 7 yr old plays with them now
Spend them or regift them.
That’s the thing, it passes the burden onto me to remember to put them in my purse, remember what stores they are for, remember to use that specific card when I happen to be at that specific store. Or I have to take to the time to look up organisations that will take them as donations, drive there to donate. I just don’t want to be bothered at this point. Spending my $10 Coldstone gift card just isn’t on my list of things to do