| September 21, 2000 |
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| WORK: the saga continues! on tuesday, i checked my messages during lunch time. i received a call from andrea at *****. she was saying something about a position being open. i had no clue of what this was all about. i listened to that message like four times. anyway, it turned out that kathryn broke her contract a week before school started. another teacher was hired. this teacher quit recently because it was too overwhelming, parents were not happy, and her assistants (***** of all people...i was shocked) were putting her down and gossiping about her. now marylin is subbing there for the time being. i spoke with janet about it. she offered a contract which was slightly higher than the original one she offered last year. it is in the car, unsigned. i told her that i would return it to her on friday. well, i didn't intend to be late for work, but the meeting with janet made me late. i made myself even more late bywriting and photocopying a resignation letter and a final time sheet. when i arrived, i spoke with natalie right away. "natalie, i have bad news." i think she figured it out before i started to explain. she was PISSED. she started to yell, which wasn't cool. i told her to lower her voice and to speak with me as an adult. she said, "this is really scummy of you...you're leaving us in a lurch." then she started spouting off bullshit about how she told me that she would be out of town and that i had to sub for her...knowing DAMN WELL we didn't discuss this earlier, nor did i agree to it. THEN she started to blame me for the payroll being late because i supposedly didn't turn in a time sheet. I KNOW I DID, and i remember every detail of calculating my hours last friday. SHE WAS RIGHT THERE!! then, she said that the time sheets are all supposed to be clipped onto a certain clipboard. she NEVER MENTIONED THIS. i couldn't believe it. "so i'm not going to get a paycheck." i said it with irritation in my voice. i was about to go off. she became indignant and defensive...that i would even suggest that she was dishonest...she gave an envelope to me and told me to address it...as if she didn't have my address?? then she said, "i don't even want to talk to you. i have to take my class now." then EDITH, (fuck that "edythe," shit. the fuck was her mama thinking?) came in like the bulldog she is, and snarled, "you know, i think this is really crummy of you." i said, "i'm doing what i need to do for myself," matter-of-factly. then she gave me some other assorted garbage, raising her voice. this big goat faced heffa had the nerve to muse, "oh, i know you're not expecting natalie to give you a reccommendation." like i really need a recommendation from this hell hole of a school. i had a much better job than that EDITH or natalie could possibly dream to get in both of their horrid, cellulite laden lives...fat bitches. anyway, after listening to her talk a little more smack than i could stand hearing, i threatened her...telling her that she could either lower her voice or that i would leave at that moment (ditching them with every single one of those kids). she got the hint. i never liked her anyway. the bitch. so i went through the day, pretending. the kids were ok at first...but then (for some phantom reason) EDITH put her entire class on "time out" by sending them outside next to my group. then she actually left the school! no explanation to the kids...to me...to anyone. of course everything was disrupted. i guess this was her way of showing me that she was pissed off? she simply dumped her class on me without notice. what a lousy, pathetic, pyscho asshole. her kids had no idea of what they did wrong, or why she left. this woman should NOT be a teacher if she allows her professional conduct to suffer because she's annoyed. and that's not all...drama in the classroom! click here! |