End of week stuff...
May. 24th, 2008 10:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ellcrys70Let me say this: the end of this fucking year can't come fast enough.
Here's why...
Here's why...
So, I got the job. Yay me! I'm sad to leave the people I love at my present school, but I am definitely looking forward to being with the new group at the Outreach.
Let me tell you what I won't miss: People who make me feel like shit for getting the job.
The other lady who applied for Outreach who works with me now has been a total bitch ever since I got the job. Well, actually since before. You see, she seemed to think that she was the best person for the job. When I said I had applied for it, she didn't say anything, then two days later she said she applied for it too. That worried me a little because she has a lot more experience than I do, but she'd also applied for 3 other places and she assured me it was just to add some more to her list of applicants. She was sure that I would get the job due to my "having Darran in my back pocket".
This offended me a little, because #1, I don't have Darran in my back pocket, he has way too much integrity and professionalism to give someone a job because they're a friend, and #2, she was saying that I couldn't get it on my own merits, which kind of pissed me off.
Then she found out that she'd got her #1 choice, which was an elementary school posting, but she still wanted to know what Outreach was going to do. When she called the human resources head at the Central Office, she was told she hadn't got it. So she took the elementary job and told me that she was sure they'd given the job to someone else, maybe someone temporary.
Then I got the call that I'd gotten the job.
When I told her the next day, her first words were, "Well that pisses me off!" Then she started to talk about how she was going to grieve it to the union and how it wasn't fair and how she was better trained than me. How they'd pissed off the wrong person and how she was going to make trouble.
A simple, "Congratulations" would've been fine.
Louise (the teacher who runs special education in my school, and Darran's wife) told me not to worry about it, and also that my interview had been great, that Darran had said how impressed the principal had been with me, and how she thought I'd fit in perfectly with their team.
She said that I deserved the job and that the other lady would get over it.
Still, she didn't speak to me at all on Friday, and after the cold shoulder I kept getting when I tried talking to her on Thursday I didn't really care. She made a point of telling me how she 'did her job'. Intimating that I don't, I suppose.
That kind of in-fighting kind of made my week suck. I hate that kind of shit, I really do. I've learnt to watch what I say because in our district, people can be very political and you need to be careful. I thought of a lot of things I COULD say though. Holy shit.
Then I had my review at Starbucks. I did very well. My boss is impressed with me, looks at me to be a leader for the team etc. Which is great. But my raise after 6 mths. there is 14 cents. Good grief. That's brutal. Kind of disappointed in that, but what can you do? I like the people, and they work around my other schedule very nicely.
I'm pretty tired and PMS-ing too, which isn't helping. LOL I just need a little rest, then I'll be fine. I just wish it was summer already. Sigh. And I wish I could go to Vancouver this summer, but that isn't looking too good. Maybe next year.
Did pick up the new Death Cab for Cutie and Sarah McLachlan. Both are very good and I am enjoying them a lot.
Let me tell you what I won't miss: People who make me feel like shit for getting the job.
The other lady who applied for Outreach who works with me now has been a total bitch ever since I got the job. Well, actually since before. You see, she seemed to think that she was the best person for the job. When I said I had applied for it, she didn't say anything, then two days later she said she applied for it too. That worried me a little because she has a lot more experience than I do, but she'd also applied for 3 other places and she assured me it was just to add some more to her list of applicants. She was sure that I would get the job due to my "having Darran in my back pocket".
This offended me a little, because #1, I don't have Darran in my back pocket, he has way too much integrity and professionalism to give someone a job because they're a friend, and #2, she was saying that I couldn't get it on my own merits, which kind of pissed me off.
Then she found out that she'd got her #1 choice, which was an elementary school posting, but she still wanted to know what Outreach was going to do. When she called the human resources head at the Central Office, she was told she hadn't got it. So she took the elementary job and told me that she was sure they'd given the job to someone else, maybe someone temporary.
Then I got the call that I'd gotten the job.
When I told her the next day, her first words were, "Well that pisses me off!" Then she started to talk about how she was going to grieve it to the union and how it wasn't fair and how she was better trained than me. How they'd pissed off the wrong person and how she was going to make trouble.
A simple, "Congratulations" would've been fine.
Louise (the teacher who runs special education in my school, and Darran's wife) told me not to worry about it, and also that my interview had been great, that Darran had said how impressed the principal had been with me, and how she thought I'd fit in perfectly with their team.
She said that I deserved the job and that the other lady would get over it.
Still, she didn't speak to me at all on Friday, and after the cold shoulder I kept getting when I tried talking to her on Thursday I didn't really care. She made a point of telling me how she 'did her job'. Intimating that I don't, I suppose.
That kind of in-fighting kind of made my week suck. I hate that kind of shit, I really do. I've learnt to watch what I say because in our district, people can be very political and you need to be careful. I thought of a lot of things I COULD say though. Holy shit.
Then I had my review at Starbucks. I did very well. My boss is impressed with me, looks at me to be a leader for the team etc. Which is great. But my raise after 6 mths. there is 14 cents. Good grief. That's brutal. Kind of disappointed in that, but what can you do? I like the people, and they work around my other schedule very nicely.
I'm pretty tired and PMS-ing too, which isn't helping. LOL I just need a little rest, then I'll be fine. I just wish it was summer already. Sigh. And I wish I could go to Vancouver this summer, but that isn't looking too good. Maybe next year.
Did pick up the new Death Cab for Cutie and Sarah McLachlan. Both are very good and I am enjoying them a lot.
