Post by Judy26 on Oct 15, 2016 15:41:56 GMT
After retiring from teaching in June I was asked by an IU (a state funded education entity located 50 miles from my home) to work as a transition counselor for adult ed. classes in our part of the state. I service around a dozen classes that are in about a hundred mile radius from where I live.
The counseling is done in group and individual sessions and is all done via Google Hangout (similar to Skype). The one stipulation is I can't work from home. I find this to be a bit weird but I have a workspace at our public library and I'm fine working from there.
The problem is that one class that I work with meets on Thursday evening and our library closes early on that day. So the IU wants me to drive 15 miles to the next town over to work from that library. I think that is stupid since I have a home office I could do the exact same thing from. I am not paid for mileage or travel time. So I am driving on my own time, in my own car 15 miles in one direction to communicate via the internet with students who are actually 65 miles in the opposite direction.
Edited because I hit post before I was done... this is basically just a rant. I understand that the company can set policy as it sees fit. I am just kind of pissy about it because on the one hand they want to embrace technology, yet a decision like this is made that is not in line with that ideology. (And I don't want to drive on snow covered roads in the dark during winter cuz I'm old and crotchety and hate driving at night.)
The counseling is done in group and individual sessions and is all done via Google Hangout (similar to Skype). The one stipulation is I can't work from home. I find this to be a bit weird but I have a workspace at our public library and I'm fine working from there.
The problem is that one class that I work with meets on Thursday evening and our library closes early on that day. So the IU wants me to drive 15 miles to the next town over to work from that library. I think that is stupid since I have a home office I could do the exact same thing from. I am not paid for mileage or travel time. So I am driving on my own time, in my own car 15 miles in one direction to communicate via the internet with students who are actually 65 miles in the opposite direction.
Edited because I hit post before I was done... this is basically just a rant. I understand that the company can set policy as it sees fit. I am just kind of pissy about it because on the one hand they want to embrace technology, yet a decision like this is made that is not in line with that ideology. (And I don't want to drive on snow covered roads in the dark during winter cuz I'm old and crotchety and hate driving at night.)
