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mistressofmuses) wrote2021-10-10 07:18 pm
mistressofmuses) wrote2021-10-10 07:18 pm
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Frustrating work nonsense
My manager texted me last night to warn me about the teacher we had today. I hadn't worked with him before, but according to her, he's "opportunistic", in that he tries very hard to find reasons for other people to do his work for him.
She can be a little harsh, so I sort of assumed she was exaggerating a bit.
No, he just sort of straight up sucked, ugh.
One of the very first things he said when I got in this morning was "so, will you do my paperwork for me?"
I said no, lol.
But then he wanted to argue about stuff on and off all day, mostly with "well, at XYZ other center so-and-so does it for me..." or "well all the OTHER times I've done this, they made me copies" or whatever. And like... cool, you also claimed this was only the second time you had to close a class, so which is it, friend?
My manager offered to come help, and I took her up on it this time. Usually I say no, because I hate being the one to pull her in on a weekend, but I knew it'd be a big help. Good thing I did, honestly.
Timing CAN be a bit tricky for the class, but I did tell him at the beginning "please give me the homework after you've gone over it" and "I'll need the attendance logs before they can take the test."
- he didn't collect the homework. When I did ask for it, it took him a good fifteen minutes to get it collected, because he couldn't figure out who hadn't turned it in.
- when we asked for the logs, he asked if we'd give them back so he could sign them. No, we explained, you need to sign them now.
- we had to send almost all the logs back into the class so that they could be fixed, because they were all missing information.
- he was still missing three of them altogether.
- finally started the test... an hour late, because fixing the other stuff took so long.
- everyone passed! That part was good!
- his classroom management was crap the whole time. When there were homework assignments missing, it was some of the KIDS who had better control, and started asking specific classmates to double check if they'd handed them in.
- asked both my manager and me at the end if we'd enter his paperwork.
- still no.
- spent five minutes entering one form, complained about how long it would take, asked us to explain how to do it, then asked us to watch him do it, then complained more, kept trying to say it was just because he didn't want to keep us there late...
- manager sent me home at 5, my usual time, and apparently wound up staying until 6:15 to make sure he got it all done.
It was a headache all day, lol. I appreciate her willingness to be the "bad guy", because I KNOW he's always convinced the support staff to do his job for him. Entering the completion statements is tedious, but it's honestly very easy. I'm usually such a pushover, I probably would have ultimately caved, lol, so I'm grateful that she was there to push him to figure it out, even when he got louder about it and threw his paperwork on the floor, lol.
(To be clear, it was very much "pity me" loudness and throwing, not aggressive. Also, he's 63, he's got no excuse.)
I did *not* have a chance to get that fic chapter posted. I think that's a tomorrow project, because I am tired as hell. (Also got up at 5-something to deal with Cy puking. He ate a bunch of grass while Alex was at a barn job yesterday, so he horked up birdsnests of soggy grass. Yuck.)
She can be a little harsh, so I sort of assumed she was exaggerating a bit.
No, he just sort of straight up sucked, ugh.
One of the very first things he said when I got in this morning was "so, will you do my paperwork for me?"
I said no, lol.
But then he wanted to argue about stuff on and off all day, mostly with "well, at XYZ other center so-and-so does it for me..." or "well all the OTHER times I've done this, they made me copies" or whatever. And like... cool, you also claimed this was only the second time you had to close a class, so which is it, friend?
My manager offered to come help, and I took her up on it this time. Usually I say no, because I hate being the one to pull her in on a weekend, but I knew it'd be a big help. Good thing I did, honestly.
Timing CAN be a bit tricky for the class, but I did tell him at the beginning "please give me the homework after you've gone over it" and "I'll need the attendance logs before they can take the test."
- he didn't collect the homework. When I did ask for it, it took him a good fifteen minutes to get it collected, because he couldn't figure out who hadn't turned it in.
- when we asked for the logs, he asked if we'd give them back so he could sign them. No, we explained, you need to sign them now.
- we had to send almost all the logs back into the class so that they could be fixed, because they were all missing information.
- he was still missing three of them altogether.
- finally started the test... an hour late, because fixing the other stuff took so long.
- everyone passed! That part was good!
- his classroom management was crap the whole time. When there were homework assignments missing, it was some of the KIDS who had better control, and started asking specific classmates to double check if they'd handed them in.
- asked both my manager and me at the end if we'd enter his paperwork.
- still no.
- spent five minutes entering one form, complained about how long it would take, asked us to explain how to do it, then asked us to watch him do it, then complained more, kept trying to say it was just because he didn't want to keep us there late...
- manager sent me home at 5, my usual time, and apparently wound up staying until 6:15 to make sure he got it all done.
It was a headache all day, lol. I appreciate her willingness to be the "bad guy", because I KNOW he's always convinced the support staff to do his job for him. Entering the completion statements is tedious, but it's honestly very easy. I'm usually such a pushover, I probably would have ultimately caved, lol, so I'm grateful that she was there to push him to figure it out, even when he got louder about it and threw his paperwork on the floor, lol.
(To be clear, it was very much "pity me" loudness and throwing, not aggressive. Also, he's 63, he's got no excuse.)
I did *not* have a chance to get that fic chapter posted. I think that's a tomorrow project, because I am tired as hell. (Also got up at 5-something to deal with Cy puking. He ate a bunch of grass while Alex was at a barn job yesterday, so he horked up birdsnests of soggy grass. Yuck.)
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I wonder if the guy you're talking about has always been that lazy and just completely enabled during his career or if he's just phoning it in because of his age. Is he a swarmy salesman-type?
So does your dog look for the worst places to puke? I have tile in my kitchen/hallway, but my dog prefers to throw up on the carpet. I'm pretty quick and using the carpet-shampooer now.
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I also wonder. His "real" career that he's retired from was being a hospital lab tech, supposedly, so I wonder if he got people to do his shit for him there for decades. Or maybe it is that he just thinks of this as his "fun retirement gig" and so doesn't want to do the parts he finds boring. (And part of me feels *bad* even, because I'm sure he went home feeling like he'd had the worst day ever. But like... it's a job, and it involves state of Colorado compliance, and you have to do it right, or it can really screw shit up!) He does have a slight hint of salesman about him though, yes.
Oof, yes. Cy finds the worst spots to puke. We have a very small apartment, with easy to clean hard floors. So of course he will go to the effort to find something to barf on. That early-morning it was his bed and accompanying toys, which isn't the worst, though requires cleaning multiple things. But then a beeline to the one rug we have for round two, lol.
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Poor Cy!
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I wish Cy would learn that he cannot actually eat all the grass and hay he wants, even if he does see the horses doing it, lol.