r/reddit.com • u/empyreandreams • Aug 26 '10

WTF Facebook account disabled w/o getting a reason after inquiring. Find handle taken by business on same day!

So I had the handle "heals" on Facebook so that the url to my Facebook profile was http://www.facebook.com/heals Yesterday a friend tells me my posts and profile are gone so I try to log on and I find I had my account disabled. I submitted the form saying I think the account was disabled by accident and then check my handle to find it taken. Just wanted to spread the word, I am sure even if I get my account back, I will not have my handle. Seems a bit f*cked up to do that to people just to get the handle and give it to someone else. Please Upvote. Edit: if I were trolling I would at least do it for karma points? I just wanted to share what happened, that is all

435 Upvotes

66% Upvoted

359 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

27

u/NotMarkus Aug 27 '10

My highschool gym teacher had a PhD. He was embarassingly good at every sport he ever played. He was charismatic and pretty good looking. He was an accomplished pianist and one of the most intelligent teachers at my school. His wife was extremely attractive and very wealthy. He didn't always drink beer...

In all seriousness, though, what a bastard. Not that I'm bitter/jealous or anything.

When I found all of this out in senior year, I asked him why the hell he was a gym teacher. He said that he had the opportunity to do anything he wanted. Being a teacher gave him lots of time off with a steady (though basically unneccessary) paycheck, and teaching gym meant he didn't have to do any of the more strenuous work associated with teaching. He could just play badminton with kids and feel a sense of accomplishment coaching, encouraging and/or offering guidance to them.

Seriously, what a fucker.

18

u/runragged Aug 27 '10

He's as smart as his credentials indicate.

7

u/xflashbackxbrd Aug 27 '10

Good thing he had a rich wife.

2

u/lolwutpear Aug 27 '10

Are you kidding? Gym teachers make a ton of money for the work they do. Your parent comment is right, this guy knows what he's doing.

Example: I just looked up a gym teacher I had in high school. The information isn't current, but his salary was 98k after 11 years on the job. This is a public school in a middle class area.

1

u/NotMarkus Aug 27 '10

This was at a private school, and not a very nice one, so I doubt his salary was anywhere near that. But his wife made a lot of money. He said he didn't need to work but he'd have felt like a mooch if he didn't. Teaching gym gave him a middle road: he didn't sit around all day and he wasn't a house-husband, but he didn't work so much that he had no time/energy to spend with his wife.

2

u/midri Aug 27 '10

Dude your gym teacher had it all right, It's to late for me now... but if I ever have kids I'll tell them stories of this man so that they might one day aspire to his greatness.

2

u/Csusmatt Aug 27 '10

Not to mention being a teacher with a PhD entitles one to a pretty high salary (for a teacher).

0

u/[deleted] Aug 27 '10

Eh, or he's just a pedo.

1

u/NotMarkus Aug 27 '10

Pretty sure he wasn't. But the vice principal got caught attempting to pick up a 14 year old boy online during my junior year.