So far, this is the worst day I’ve had. And it had nothing to do with the kids.
I got lost trying to get to the school. Which isn’t really that big of a deal, it’s a new school that isn’ in the GPS or Google Maps. I called my wife and got directions, she was leading me to the wrong place. I called the subbing people twice before I got there. Thankfully they were really understanding about that.
I got to the school late and hurried up into the office and down to the classroom so I could let the person covering my class get back to where they were supposed to be. But guess who was there. A student teacher. In all reality, they didn’t need me there at all. So it was like kindergarten, except with second graders. I got to sit around and do nothing.
At some point the teacher said something about me being the sub until the regular teacher got back. Um, what!? That’s the first I’d heard of that. When I called the system that morning I’d been told by the computer that it was a full day assignment. Oh well, maybe there was a misunderstanding and the student teacher didn’t know about it?
Turns out she was right. The regular teacher got back at 11. If I’d been on time and she’d been 15 minutes later I would have been there long enough to get a full day’s pay.
When I fill out my timesheet information online I can leave a message for the person approving it at the schools. I left them a message saying that the computer told me it was a 1 day assignment and that someone needed to look into what went wrong there. It turns out that the computer had the right times in there, I just didn’t listen to the times since it was a full day assignment. The only problem is that 7:15-11 is in no way over 4 hours.
I don’t know if it was someone in the office or the teacher messing that up, but I do know that I don’t think I want to go back to a school where they can’t tell time or put job information into the system correctly.
