At some point in our lives, we’ve all made statements we don’t mean. We probably all uttered the words “I’m going to kill you” to a sibling when we were kids. Or we might have announced our parents were “going to kill us” because of something bad we did. In most situations, those statements can’t be taken literally. We exaggerate to make the story seem bigger. But what happens when you make that kind of statement at work? In some cases, you might land in the human resources office for a talk or a write-up.
Jill-Marie Haynes, a teacher in Tennessee, allegedly made a pretty nasty threat against a coworker that landed her in jail. But Haynes claims it was just a bad joke.
Haynes works as a first-grade teacher at Stewarts Creek Elementary School in Smyrna, WZTV reported. On November 4, 2025, Haynes and another teacher had a verbal confrontation after the woman entered Haynes’ classroom. The 12th-year teacher then reportedly followed the teacher into another classroom and blocked the doorway. Haynes allegedly made threats about “chopping her” with a paper cutter and sending her to the hospital…