Emily
Emily has been working as a sales clerk at Fred Meyer for a couple of years, and she was really hating it. She liked the people, but hated the managers, and the men who think they're entitled to bother young women in the stores (and seriously, can you believe that is still going on? What's wrong with us?)
So at the beginning of the school year, she took a job working for the before and after school program at our local elementary. There was supposed to be a site manager, and she would be the assistant teacher. She was going to work 20 hours a week.
The site manager was late every day for the first three days. He fell asleep with the kids there. He took some of the food that was intended for the low income kids and ate it. Emily was horrified. She told her manager, and there were complaints about him from the school, and by the end of the third day he'd been fired.
Emily has been the acting site manager ever since, often working 40 hours a week while also going to school full time, stressed to the max. She's never gotten the training she needs to do the job, and suspected she wasn't being paid what a site manager should be.
Today, her manager came in and told her how happy they are with the job she's doing. This is a new company coming in to our school district, and the transition has not been smooth in all the schools. The principal at Emily's school loves them and the parents are super happy. She's getting a $4 an hour raise, retroactive to a month ago, a couple of bonuses for being an education major, and they're scheduling the training she should have had in the first place. She's over the moon.
I rant about her sometimes, but I am so, so proud of that girl. She's going to be a great teacher someday.
So at the beginning of the school year, she took a job working for the before and after school program at our local elementary. There was supposed to be a site manager, and she would be the assistant teacher. She was going to work 20 hours a week.
The site manager was late every day for the first three days. He fell asleep with the kids there. He took some of the food that was intended for the low income kids and ate it. Emily was horrified. She told her manager, and there were complaints about him from the school, and by the end of the third day he'd been fired.
Emily has been the acting site manager ever since, often working 40 hours a week while also going to school full time, stressed to the max. She's never gotten the training she needs to do the job, and suspected she wasn't being paid what a site manager should be.
Today, her manager came in and told her how happy they are with the job she's doing. This is a new company coming in to our school district, and the transition has not been smooth in all the schools. The principal at Emily's school loves them and the parents are super happy. She's getting a $4 an hour raise, retroactive to a month ago, a couple of bonuses for being an education major, and they're scheduling the training she should have had in the first place. She's over the moon.
I rant about her sometimes, but I am so, so proud of that girl. She's going to be a great teacher someday.
Bumpy journeys can lead to excellent destinations. Good for Emily!!
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