Don't like Jobulator. Don't like the annoying ring that goes off every time I turn on the computer and the too few times it actually has a job to offer. I also don't like the big thing sitting on my screen so I always 'tuck' it away so then when it rings I have to scramble to look at and accept the job. I usually get there just as the job is taken by someone else. Boo.
Speaking of jobs, I had the unthinkable happen to me yesterday; not being the intended guest teacher. I have heard from a number (dozens?) of guest teachers about how they accepted a job on Aesop only to show up at the school site and be told that they are not needed because another guest teacher was meant to fill the assignment. A guest teacher is paid for a half day when this happens but then they have to find something to do or be sent running around to various places where they may or may not be needed. The standard is to eventually wind up in the library shelving books or reading shelves. I stayed in the classroom for the first 80 minute period of my half day then . . . wait for it . . . went to the library to read shelves. The time in the classroom wasn't bad. Neither myself or the the intended guest teacher were really in charge because there was some retired teacher in there as a volunteer who ran the show so it was a no pressure situation. It was actually kind of fun. My time in the library was tedious and boring and I got through only 9 shelves of books.
Well, enough of me complaining. Hoping tomorrow will be no worse if not better.
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Showed up for what the telephone said was "secondary assignment, Health" this week. The look on the secretaries face said it all when I told her who I was guest teaching for. After a call to the district that got her nowhere they finally found a male teacher's aid who would, you guessed it, supervise the boys locker room while I was the boys PE teacher.
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