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Somedays, I rather dislike my job
Hate's the wrong word. Resent is more on par.
So it was secretary's week last week. I mainly noticed because suddenly, there were a lot of flowers popping up in the office and the secretary in guidance got a huge potted plant presented to her by the guidance councilors.
Friday comes along and it's a day off for me cause of the car thing and Judy comes home with a bunch of daffodils that a co worker had gotten for me.
Yep. Not my boss. Not the person whom I'm the utter buttmonkey for, who I work my ass off for because she's so fucking helpless she can't figure out how to work a PDA or anything else with a plug who takes on far more than she can chew and who is so far behind on the work she's suppose to get done that I know the last week of school is going to be a living hell while she plays catch up and I have to keep pace. The only thing I got from her this week was bitchery because she misplaced the plug for the damned PDA and demanded that I keep track of it and keep it juiced up because since she "can't input" to it (correction, she can't figure out or remember any of the shit I've showed her so far and thinks it's too much of a hassle to remember where things are) that it's useless for her to do ANY of the upkeep for it.
I have a contact in my pocketbook for next year, promising me 12.55 an hour for next year. 12.55 an hour for 17.5 hours a week, half of which will go to paying medical since I'm only part time. I currently get 11.75, but my last paycheck was under $40 due to there only being one week of school and near 200 bucks of medical being taken out.
Last year, one of the aids in my boss's classroom (she runs the structured study hall) quit half way though the year because she couldn't take my boss's shit any more. She told me that part of the reason was because how my boss treated me. It didn't make any sense at the time because I'd only worked shitty jobs before and figured that work was just like that.
Then I worked with IT over summer. It was awesome. It was a fun job and when I had an idea, I got instant feedback and fairly regular "Wow, that's a good idea! I wonder if that would work... Let's see!" reaction. I got fairly regular thank yous and appreciation.
Then summer ended and my regular job started up again, but the summer job didn't. For a breif amount of time, I worked both jobs and wow, was the contrast clear.
Very clear, as my boss gave me shit for still working IT.
I got the only round of applause during "welcome back" orientation for implementing something that had been talked about for ages regarding part of my job and never done (head of IT has the entire building in his job description, so is always got a pile of things to do, unlike my normal boss who just takes on the entire building.) I though my boss would be pleased since she bitched about it not being done before.
All I got from her was an "It's about time that got done" and a reprimand for not ASKING HER FIRST.
She was not in the fucking BUILDING ALL BLOODY SUMMER.
I was NOT under her authority at ALL that summer. Mind you, I still did some work for her because someone wanted to schedule a meeting and that's part of the 18 million things I do for her. But she doesn't care about that. She just cares when someone asks me a 10 second IT question when I'm doing 504 work.
She also has no diplomacy, so I'm often her PR unit. [Feel free to laugh if you know me well enough to realize how utterly bug fucking bizarre that statement is] as well as being the person who keeps her organized [another major WTF if you've ever seen my stuff and files and know how scattered I am]. I know her schedule far better than she does. [again, I don't remember my own schedule!] I keep track of her budget, [ask Judy how often the checkbook is balanced and how often I've buggered that up] I keep track of supplies, I schedule almost all her damned meetings, keep track of student grades, process all the paperwork when she finally gets any of it done, put everything into the district wide database because she can't be arsed to figure out how to USE the damned thing even though I've shown her many times and basically do her goddamned job FOR her in many cases.
There's a freshman who had his review meeting in October who still has no plan. And then she has the balls to get on my ass for not scheduling meetings timely because of compliance issues. Bloody wonderful for her to say when I never hear back from the people I need to hear from to actually DO the scheduling. But it's far easier for her to push the blame on me, same way she pushes all the work on me.
I think maybe once a month I get a "good job" or a "thank you." It's so rare I have SAVED EMAILS where she says anything positive. I think I have about 4 from last year. One from this year where she gave me positive feedback for fixing up an old form that needed updating.
This year, I decided that if I was going to be working my arse off at a computer all day, I should get some music going. After all, everyone else gets to. I started off with calming music that's generic and background so even if it did get noticed (not that it would because the one people who stop by my desk are students who haven't learned where or who the guidance secretary is asking if I can do things not in my department). I decided about half way though the year that I was gonna take my damned 15 min break no matter how busy things were.
I've gotten to the point now that I'm so far past giving a shit I'm taking my 15 min breaks from the first half of the year that I didn't get, and listening to whatever the hell I want to.
And I think I'm going to burn that 12.55 an hour contract. They'd better pay me far more than for me to put up with her shit another year. The whole dammned building knows what she's like. Most of them can't stand her. I've had the head of Special Ed (who is my boss's direct boss) acknowledge that I have the hardest job in the whole building.
I'm 28 today.
The flowers from Friday are already a wilted, sad mess.
I think I've had enough of this shit.
So it was secretary's week last week. I mainly noticed because suddenly, there were a lot of flowers popping up in the office and the secretary in guidance got a huge potted plant presented to her by the guidance councilors.
Friday comes along and it's a day off for me cause of the car thing and Judy comes home with a bunch of daffodils that a co worker had gotten for me.
Yep. Not my boss. Not the person whom I'm the utter buttmonkey for, who I work my ass off for because she's so fucking helpless she can't figure out how to work a PDA or anything else with a plug who takes on far more than she can chew and who is so far behind on the work she's suppose to get done that I know the last week of school is going to be a living hell while she plays catch up and I have to keep pace. The only thing I got from her this week was bitchery because she misplaced the plug for the damned PDA and demanded that I keep track of it and keep it juiced up because since she "can't input" to it (correction, she can't figure out or remember any of the shit I've showed her so far and thinks it's too much of a hassle to remember where things are) that it's useless for her to do ANY of the upkeep for it.
I have a contact in my pocketbook for next year, promising me 12.55 an hour for next year. 12.55 an hour for 17.5 hours a week, half of which will go to paying medical since I'm only part time. I currently get 11.75, but my last paycheck was under $40 due to there only being one week of school and near 200 bucks of medical being taken out.
Last year, one of the aids in my boss's classroom (she runs the structured study hall) quit half way though the year because she couldn't take my boss's shit any more. She told me that part of the reason was because how my boss treated me. It didn't make any sense at the time because I'd only worked shitty jobs before and figured that work was just like that.
Then I worked with IT over summer. It was awesome. It was a fun job and when I had an idea, I got instant feedback and fairly regular "Wow, that's a good idea! I wonder if that would work... Let's see!" reaction. I got fairly regular thank yous and appreciation.
Then summer ended and my regular job started up again, but the summer job didn't. For a breif amount of time, I worked both jobs and wow, was the contrast clear.
Very clear, as my boss gave me shit for still working IT.
I got the only round of applause during "welcome back" orientation for implementing something that had been talked about for ages regarding part of my job and never done (head of IT has the entire building in his job description, so is always got a pile of things to do, unlike my normal boss who just takes on the entire building.) I though my boss would be pleased since she bitched about it not being done before.
All I got from her was an "It's about time that got done" and a reprimand for not ASKING HER FIRST.
She was not in the fucking BUILDING ALL BLOODY SUMMER.
I was NOT under her authority at ALL that summer. Mind you, I still did some work for her because someone wanted to schedule a meeting and that's part of the 18 million things I do for her. But she doesn't care about that. She just cares when someone asks me a 10 second IT question when I'm doing 504 work.
She also has no diplomacy, so I'm often her PR unit. [Feel free to laugh if you know me well enough to realize how utterly bug fucking bizarre that statement is] as well as being the person who keeps her organized [another major WTF if you've ever seen my stuff and files and know how scattered I am]. I know her schedule far better than she does. [again, I don't remember my own schedule!] I keep track of her budget, [ask Judy how often the checkbook is balanced and how often I've buggered that up] I keep track of supplies, I schedule almost all her damned meetings, keep track of student grades, process all the paperwork when she finally gets any of it done, put everything into the district wide database because she can't be arsed to figure out how to USE the damned thing even though I've shown her many times and basically do her goddamned job FOR her in many cases.
There's a freshman who had his review meeting in October who still has no plan. And then she has the balls to get on my ass for not scheduling meetings timely because of compliance issues. Bloody wonderful for her to say when I never hear back from the people I need to hear from to actually DO the scheduling. But it's far easier for her to push the blame on me, same way she pushes all the work on me.
I think maybe once a month I get a "good job" or a "thank you." It's so rare I have SAVED EMAILS where she says anything positive. I think I have about 4 from last year. One from this year where she gave me positive feedback for fixing up an old form that needed updating.
This year, I decided that if I was going to be working my arse off at a computer all day, I should get some music going. After all, everyone else gets to. I started off with calming music that's generic and background so even if it did get noticed (not that it would because the one people who stop by my desk are students who haven't learned where or who the guidance secretary is asking if I can do things not in my department). I decided about half way though the year that I was gonna take my damned 15 min break no matter how busy things were.
I've gotten to the point now that I'm so far past giving a shit I'm taking my 15 min breaks from the first half of the year that I didn't get, and listening to whatever the hell I want to.
And I think I'm going to burn that 12.55 an hour contract. They'd better pay me far more than for me to put up with her shit another year. The whole dammned building knows what she's like. Most of them can't stand her. I've had the head of Special Ed (who is my boss's direct boss) acknowledge that I have the hardest job in the whole building.
I'm 28 today.
The flowers from Friday are already a wilted, sad mess.
I think I've had enough of this shit.