Sorry to hear that man. Burnout rates are high is spec ed, its just very taxing. If we add that to the cultural disdain for teachers and the money issue it can be hard to keep them. Friend of a friend (physics/math) just quit mid-year of his 7th year in favor of an engineering offer. He was tired of the nonsense and more than doubled his income. I hope you get another good one.

I too am pissed off about work.

The teaching itself is very good.

The bureaucracy is a major PITA.

My boss is a complete #$%T.

I understand the "#" and the "%", and I googled the "$", but I can't figure out the "T".
Is it a pictograph, a very short acronym, or just a typo ?

:lol:

It's a rebus! (Darn, if HLJ had posted that I could have said It's a rebus, Jebus!)

Zen, thanks. I am not glad you have some of the same issues but I am glad I'm not the only one. Gee, Mrs Misery loves her some company, doesn't she? And by 'she' I mean 'me.' ;)

Thanks all. I spoke to her today at length about other things, yet she still hasn't let on that she is leaving.
I found out through other usually reliable sources.
I'm hoping they are somehow wrong, but ...
@griff - apparently she is staying in Spec Ed. I can see the reasons for burnout though.
There have been several others who have already left.
Spec Ed seems to be the forgotten aspect of teaching. They seem more overworked,
overloaded and underpaid than the others. :(

It may be that they are paid from other funds (fed->state->county->district)
than the regular school budgets.

Partially, yes. Griff probably knows more. Perhaps he will elaborate. I'm interested to know.

I swear I think my bank is giving my debit card out to people. This is the second time since Nov that someone has emptied my checking account and now I have to wait 5-10 for a refund. GAAAAAAAAAAAAAH This is not a card I use ANYWHERE> It just comes with my checking account. I usually pay cash. No one can tell me why this is happening since I don't use or carry the card.
I especially liked when I reported the fraud that the person helping me at the end of the conversation told me to have a nice day... REALLY??!!! :mad:

CBS News
February 11, 2011 12:26 PM

GOP Proposes Additional $26 Billion in Cuts for 2011

I'm not entirely against this in theory.
Cutting waste is good. Cutting needed services is bad.
good - thats a start.
I'm sure he meant MORE harm.
The guys repeatedly sleeping on the job seems potentially harmful to me. ;)
some good, some bad and some ugly...

I know I keep complaining about my job. I know I should be grateful to have one.

But here we go again. I HAD to put on my calendar once a week to check a certain year's balance for a certain program that I closed out a LONG TIME AGO. Zero balance.

Why do I have to keep checking? Well, today I came in and there is no longer a zero balance. Someone reported something. What? Why didn't I know? Why am I sitting here running reports to see if the new number matches our system? Why am I taking time to do this on a year that was actually completed? And why SHOULD I be spending my time reconciling another program because OUR system has serious failings in reporting to the feds...and I have to fix millions of dollars by hand. Student by student.

I want to throw my hands in the air. I feel like I'm being set up. And yes, I refuse to spend my life here just because everything is so poorly managed.

I'm sick of it. :(

Sorry.

I'm a woman of inaction. No, I'm a woman stuck.

No, I suck. No, it's not my fault. Yes, it's my fault. Failure. Complainer.

Loser.

Words.

They suck. You rock. Please take care to get this right in future.

Thanks.

So the guy who threatened us by phone (who admittted to anger due to PTSD from a stint in the service [have to always be vague} came in and since I was the one who took charge of the issue on Friday (while my boss slipped back into her doored, lockable office) the person waiting on me informed me. Said student also asked for a cow orker by name. Cow orker was like "what's going on?" and I once again went through the whole story, noting "you were not here when it transpired."

Seemingly all is OK at this point.

conversations involving security and managerial support will occur.

Meanwhile, awaiting a response as to the numbers discrepancy.

J's car is still within a few months and a few thousand miles of factory warranty, but for some reason $2K in clutch repair is simply not covered.