Respect My Authority!!!!!!!

Think Cartman!

So I’m royally annoyed today; mostly with this week at work. I haven’t quite been home from Pennsic two weeks and I’m ready to implode and tell people to fuck off. Had a few outings these past few weeks, but perhaps I’ll start with the summer semester with the kiddos where their four day school week equates to a three day weekend for staff to suffer with, especially when there’s no hardcore curriculum to entertain the little bastards with on that three day weekend. Now imagine two weeks with them not in school! Can we say nucking futs?!

Summer session, on Thursdays there were outings that coincided with the thematic nature of the week. One week was Wild Wild West and the great outdoors so they all got to go to Happy Hallow Park. Happy Hallow is a fairly nifty free spot here in the Lafayette area. It’s especially cool when the water tables are up and we’ve had consistent rain. It adds to the whole pretty waterfall thing. I was supposed to go on that outing, but got shafted with staying behind in the classroom with the kids who couldn’t go due to being on restriction. Imagine the whole summer where you’re excluded from the REALLY fun shit like going to the Indy Zoo because no one else wants to deal with the bad kids class where a majority of them don’t go because they can’t keep it together long enough to go on those outings. No one else wants the class, because they can’t stand the kids or don’t know how to handle said kids. I CAN HANDLE THEM! Therefore by being a strong staff, I get shafted because whiny kiss asses don’t want to deal with it. The final outing of the summer session I got to go to the water park and swim with the kids. Now, the only reason I got to go on this was the fact that the teacher with the bad kids went to bat for me and ripped some collective asses for shafting me all summer long. Thank you! It was nice and memorable.

This week, I had my birthday on the 19th and I was looking forward to going to Turkey Run on a unit outing. My QMRP, the boss lady over my UC signs me up for it, because she knows I really want to go. Do I get to go? NO! My UC chooses someone else to go. It was a sucky day. Mind you, this week, we went to Indiana Beach and the Indy Children’s Museum too. It was fun with the exception of constantly reminding children to stay with staff, don’t walk away from staff, you’re not in charge, negative shit attitudes, snarking, and the list goes on and on. The outing from yesterday ended up with three boys getting outing restrictions due to all of the above AND a tantrum that almost got a child an elopement consequence because his attitude sucks ass everyday.

Now, my partner on this outing said he would write the restrictions up and update the board, per the approval of last night’s building supervisor and my QMRP. Mind you, I had reached the point when I told them all I wasn’t going to remind them of what they needed to be doing, they were just going to get outing restrictions. I get to the unit this morning and see the board updated. YAY! Ungrateful shits aren’t going to the next outing. UC from the unit next door jumps my shit about how I didn’t follow through, didn’t consequence them right at the outing, and didn’t tell them they had restrictions and erased the updates. The restrictions were the consequences! I’ve had supervisors tell me to right it up that way in the past. Back the fuck off! But it gets better.

My UC comes in for a one on one outing with a kid and she overrides me as well. Nice. So my authority as a YC is now undermined in front of the boys who weren’t supposed to go anywhere. Couldn’t find the paperwork, or so the other UC says. I found it at the end of the day, after 2nd shift came in and I asked about it. I found it and they didn’t go out tonight, but somehow I’m wrong in the whole thing. Somehow it’s my fault that they lied about not knowing about the consequence so they could manipulate the situation and go out tonight. Nice fucking week this has been. Again, why not just tell the kids to ignore everything I say, because by dropping the consequences for their behaviors; they get that very same message. Grrrr

Refer to previous post Nookie And The Eternal Conflict Of Interest for my next line of ranting. UC from next door has the boys all quiet and getting them antsy about going to the game room. He then leaves the unit (background information, we had someone call off, and the UC from next door popped in and out all day long) My UC brings back the kiddo from the one on one and the other UC disappears for 20 + fucking minutes or better and can’t seem to be found anywhere on the walkies. So now I’m stuck on the unit alone with one other staff in the QR and no idea whether or not they’re even going to the game room! ARRG! ARRG! ARRG! Yet no one says a word to them about they’re lovey-dovey bullshit that goes on; which is my suspicion of the situation. No one else can do it either or it’s a big flippin’ dealio. It certainly pays to be related to big people in the building. Nice, isn't it?

I guess I needed to vent and be done with it. This is me cooling down now and going to bed. =)

Tammolly ~Annoyed again

...So if I die today I'll be the happy phantom
And I'll go wearin' my naughties like a jewel
I'm still an angel to a girl who hates to sin…