Job Hunting

So, I've never met anyone who liked job hunting, or who especially liked that feeling on insecurity that hits you around the beginning of April when you realize you are going to graduate in a month, and what if you don't have a job!

Applying for teaching positions is no walk in the park. Most districts have about eight pages of applications, (not incluing the four to six essays you are asked to write), and if you are even thinking about applying to a charter school...well...that is another application. I especially care for the districts where the passing of a "personality" test is required before an interview. Anyhoo...I'm pretty secure in the fact that I will not have much trouble finding a job, but why bother not worring when you have the opportunity to?

My priority applictaion has been completed and sent in, which is a weight off my shoulders, however, then there is the wait. Although I can expect an interview within the next couple of weeks, I still wonder...

Anyhoo, enough of that. School is going well...and teaching is even better. I love teaching so much! How lucky am I to find a job that I love doing! I seldom dread a day of teaching, and find it so rewarded and such accomplishment in it. I am constantly learning more content, as well as how to be a better teacher. Does it get better than this?

My thesis has come to a halt this last week. I think I did a little bit of overkill during spring break, and my mind is demanding I take a break.

However, I have a place to live this summer, which is the most favorable thing I could have taken care of recently. Some professors at the college will be gone nearly the whole summer, so I will be house sitting in exchange for free rent. I think taking care of a lawn and some flower beds is worth the exchange for a place to live!!! What this really means is that I will not have to find a part time job and I can concentrate on producing an amazing thesis!

To all of you a wonderful day and good night.

Inept Supervisors

This is how it happened:

I went to check my mail on Thursday, knowing that paychecks were out. I quickly opened up the anticipated check, even though I knew how much money it was going to be. However, after realizing my eyes were not playing tricks on me, I read that my paycheck from the school yearbook had been deducted by $55 that month. I only make $75 to begin with! Why bother even paying me?

Needless to say, I was angry. I knew the reason my supervisor deducted my pay. My photos were in a few days late, but is it ethical to deduct pay as a penalty if not contractually stated? I went to talk to Bill.

We did some research, and found that wage garnishments can only be court ordered. My inept supervisor, (inept is a kind way to describe his leadership and management skills), "garnished" my wages, so to say, as a penalty for failing to fully complete the job requirements. I was also thinking about how this supervisor continually threatens pay deduction if employees do not come to meetings. Lack of ethics. With this, I went to Human Resources the next day.

HR was surprised, appalled, and interested in investigating the situation. Apparently, Trail yearbook can withhold my wages until the assignments are completed, afterwhich my supervisor must relinquish my pay to me. So, either way, I will get the rest of my paycheck. However, I would have thought that my supervisor would have done an evaluation with my, stating my poor work ethics and he plan of action. Simply sending me a paycheck of $20, I thought, was rather tactless and gutless.

Anyhoo, the matter has still not been taken care of, and I have to meet with both my supervisor and HR. I'll keep you posted.