‘Biscuit Tin Fascists’

My school is ripping me off.

Every month 1,000 Yen (Five British pounds or about 10 dollars) is deducted from my pay packet to pay for ‘tea’, coffee (yuk) and ‘snacks’ in the staff room. I resent this. I was never asked did I want to contribute, I was never asked ‘do you actually like our coffee that tastes like arse and do you like our paltry salty fishy offerings in the biscuit tin?’. No! I hardly ever drink the coffee unless I am dying of thirst (there is no water on offer), starving (you’ll definitely have no appetite afterwards) or freezing to death (November to March).

There is no way that the meager things I do consume add up to five quid a month. In fact, I have taken to bringing in my own Coffee’s and Hot chocolates. The stuff that they do put in the tin looks like it comes from Hyaku En (100 Yen store). Would it be terribly, terribly demanding to perhaps put something substantial in the tin – like a flapjack or a packet of crisps? Apparently yes it would. Fascists.