The Notice
MVWJ started out as my dream job. I was a teacher at a preschool, working with children aged 2-6. I had a horrible co-worker that we found out later used to tie children up and scream at them, and my boss had let her go. She had been working the closing shift, which was until 6 p.m., and as a result of her being let go, we were stuck without a closer.
Rather than the supervisers and the boss taking turns closing each day of the week, I volunteered to take the position until someone could be found to replace her, even though it was a burden on me as I lived over 30 minutes from my work, which meant I was getting home very late in the evening. I gave the boss four months to find someone.
Fast forward 18 months… She had hired and fired a few different people in that time, all who weren’t qualified to work the closing position, so I was still stuck with it. I was thinking about leaving because my husband got a great job which wouldn’t require us both to work, and when I told my boss about him getting the job, her first question was, “So, are you quitting then?” I didn’t say anything.
Several months later, she was getting ready to take some personal time off. She pulled me aside and said she needed to know right away if I was quitting so she knew if she needed to hire a teacher or not. I was flabbergasted! Wasn’t she supposed to have found someone almost two years ago? I told her, “Yes, I’m leaving, and this is my two weeks notice.”
My replacement started on my last day.
Aaaaaaaaaand this is your very worst job…how?
You seriously consider 6:30pm to be getting home “very late in the evening”?? That must have been horrible, I’m surprised you stuck with it so long.
yeah, the tough 30-minute commute and ‘late’ evenings seemed pretty unworthy of mention alright…
aha…we are forgetting that this is a teacher, everyone knows they do the hardest job in the world but only other teachers could ever understand that.
@zomboid – I thought that was 911 operators?
30 minute commute? I don’t think I’ve had less than a 30 min commute to a job since working part time jobs after school. I was even doing an hour commute at one point. Meh…
So your dream job was at a preschool for 6 year olds, but you didn’t want to work if your husband got a good job.
So…the only bad part of this job was that the hours were inconvenient for you? I don’t get it.
I don’t get it either, it doesn’t really sound all that bad. After all you volunteered to take the closing shift until someone else could be found. The boss probably figured she could fall back on you if things didn’t work out, which is probably why she didn’t try too hard (at least that’s how it sounds) to get a replacement closer.
It could have been bad, since it seems like the boss didn’t fulfill her end of the verbal agreement.
I guess?
I’m still puzzled as to how this is a VWJ. Was it the hours, the fact that the boss couldn’t find a closer? I do have to admit the part that really got me was when the OP says that her husband got a great job where she wouldn’t have to work… So much for having a “dream job”.
for me, the self-styled martyrdom of a a preschool (or any other level) teacher isn’t surprising but maybe the teacher-as-martyr is a britain/ireland thing…you wouldn’t believe the whining teachers get up to over here.
see this http://timesonline.typepad.com/schoolgate/2009/10/8-reasons-why-nonteachers-can-never-understand-teachers.html for example.
“me? performing TASKS? how awful! surely no-one else who has a job must do this! to the union!!”
I don’t understand how this is a terrible job, aside from your boss being unable to find someone else to take over closing (which, by the way, probably wasn’t her fault). A 30-minute commute is also not horrible, as I do a minimum of 1.5 hours of public transport a day to get to college and back home again.
@zomboid — had to stage a coughing fit to cover up my laughs at your “…to the union!” remark. MAN does that one make me cringe. “Stress leave” is a good one too, especially for people who see nothing wrong with laughing it up in the pub while they’re on it.
Sounds like it was worse for the preschoolers!
@zomboid
That’s pretty amusing. I come from a line of teachers, was a teacher myself for a brief bit (4yrs teaching special education) and so I know exactly what you mean by the sort of entitlement that comes along with the teacher mentality. However, I also live in a state that consistently ranks in the lowest of per pupil spending, highest class size, etc…, so I do know that some teacher complaints are perfectly valid
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huh! Is it that the submitter never read the comments on this site? ( I have not read all the stories myself even though it’s featured on both MVW sites. still I know commenters are not softy when it comes to the worst job) I think that tronner guy bashes even genuinely worst job posters to the death for whining about bad jobs. I would confirm ten times before posting nay of the MVW stories you know. Would not this submitter think that tanek will be actually so furious about it that he would crack open the OP’s screen and come out to tell her off for posting an ok job as a worst job? Bottom line: This job was not at all bad apart form bad communication.
oops, meant Tanek guy not tronner in last comment. Sorry tronner, you are actually the sane one on this site.