T.G.I.F. (again!)
If it‘s possible to have a day more stressful than today was, I’m not sure how.
We’ve been without two teaching assistants since the start of the school year. This was only half a surprise due to one late resignation, but The Ice Queen did nothing about hiring replacements. Or for that matter, even advertising the positions. Teachers are flipping out that they have no help, and I can’t say I blame them. The Village Idiot is furious that The Ice Queen has done nothing, and has decided to take action into his own hands.
One would think this is a good thing. The Village Idiot is acknowledging that things are not as they should be and can’t just drift along this way.
He called me into the office yesterday to tell me about a person who was interested in the job and he wanted to schedule and interview for this afternoon. I happened to know the person on an acquaintance level, and was THRILLED that we’d be hiring her. I told him to forget the interview and just give her the job. He laughed, but insisted that we interview…damn formality.
Zoom ahead to this morning when the speech therapist I work with (I’ll call her P.P. as she thinks she’s the Pink of Perfection) tells me that she and The Ice Queen interviewed someone yesterday and have decided that she’ll be my assistant. I don’t even get to meet her, bing, bang, boom, she’s in.
The Village Idiot saw me first thing this morning and reminded me about the interview this afternoon. I relayed what P.P. had told me. He flipped out and went to call The Ice Queen.
Two minutes later he’s in our office, totally out of control, as The Ice Queen has just told him that she never promised us two assistants (this is a lie) and wouldn’t let him hire two. I’ve never seen him so crazed. Now we had held a meeting in March, before we did our classroom placements, at which The Ice Queen agreed that if we configured one class in a specific way it would indeed need to have full time help. This would also require a new hire, as one of our assistants would have to be a one-on-one aide to one of our more disabled kids.
Everyone at the meeting heard her say this, took notes, and now she’s denying.
There had also been a meeting (or perhaps two) over the summer that I couldn’t attend because I was working in which she repeated that there would be two assistants hired.
I thought The Village Idiot’s head was going to explode!
So we had to get all the schedules together in perfect form, and get copies to everyone, while going to classes. This was impossible. I thought that my blood pressure was going to go through the roof.
I didn’t get lunch as The Village Idiot cam to find me to tell me about the most recent screaming match he’d had with The Ice Queen. It sounded as if she was changing her mind and would hire the extra assistant, but only for 20 hours, not 30 hours. We still had to get the paperwork looking perfect and send it to her A.S.A.P.
I finally got it done, and managed to eat my sandwich and get to my classes as well. We interviewed this other person and I think she’d be perfect, the Village Idiot loves her, but we can only offer her the cut time position. I want her for the full time one.
Village Idiot also thinks that he should have had the opportunity to interview the one The Ice Queen has now dumped on our laps. P.P. didn’t even like her very much, so why would we want her?????
One reason. A warm body.
I was so glad to get out of there.
it’s pouring out, and flooding is expected. The humidity has been brutal this week, but once this weather clears it’s supposed to be much nicer.
Maybe that will improve all our dispositions.
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