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Post by jubejubes on Aug 9, 2019 15:22:06 GMT
Is this a private or public school? If it is private, you may not have any recourse. If it is public, I would be going over her head and informing the school district about exactly what is going on. It sounds like she needs to be removed. If you would read the first line in the post, it states that it is a private school.
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Post by workingclassdog on Aug 9, 2019 16:18:54 GMT
So does the school have to be under a district?? Like my school I worked at was a charter school and we had our own rules but we still had to maintain certain district rules as well. Student files had to be locked at all times for one. Money absolutely had to be kept in a safe in a designated office. Things like that. Maybe call the district and let them know what is going on (IF the school has to answer to them).
I would be SO out of there. My year at a school was enough drama for me!
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Post by workingclassdog on Aug 9, 2019 16:19:54 GMT
Is this a private or public school? If it is private, you may not have any recourse. If it is public, I would be going over her head and informing the school district about exactly what is going on. It sounds like she needs to be removed. If you would read the first line in the post, it states that it is a private school. But even private schools have to answer to a higher authority (as far as I know).. at least to the state.
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Post by kels99 on Aug 9, 2019 16:55:17 GMT
Selfishly, I can't wait to hear more crazy stories as the school year gets going.
All those things would drive me batty though!
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Post by kelbel827 on Aug 9, 2019 18:06:45 GMT
We had a chairman like that.
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Post by iteach3rdgrade on Aug 9, 2019 21:09:13 GMT
WOW! She'll be doing a lot of interviewing soon! I wonder if her craziness will be seen by parents and enrollment drops. Maybe she won't need to be interviewing...
I can't imagine dealing with that.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2019 23:35:14 GMT
Are there any updates now that school has started?
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RosieKat
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Post by RosieKat on Aug 16, 2019 23:50:55 GMT
Yeah, time to get out as fast as you can! As for this: In the meantime, I think ALL of the staff, yes ALL of the staff, should begin calling her multiple times per day to ask, "May I do ___?" Since she wants to manage everything, let her manage EVERYTHING! I am reminded of a guy I worked for once who had a large touch of the crazy. At one point, his current complaint was that every time he went to ask any of the admins anything, the person he needed was invariably visiting the bathroom. Therefore, we all had to sign in and out of a log to go use the bathroom or to leave your desk for any reason. We worked in a pretty public area of a government office, so we got this to end very quickly by yelling loudly any time one of us needed to go to the bathroom that "I'm gonna go PEEEE!" (And while I certainly understand a supervisor's need to know where his employees are, this was way over the top, hence our rebellion. After that, we only needed to sign the log if we were going to be gone for more than 15 minutes, which was more reasonable.)
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Post by AngieandSnoopy on Aug 17, 2019 1:23:36 GMT
My last office job which I quit over 8 years ago was a lot like this. But it was the OWNER that micromanaged to the nth degree. She had a VERY high turnover, 17 people went through that 8 person office in the 3 years I was there. Some people should not be bosses much less own a business... I was told that one of the replacements after me was there 3 DAYS! Walked out after telling them that she'd never been treated that way and wasn't going to be treated that way and had never seen an office so badly run. Made me feel vindicated!
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Post by houstonsandy on Aug 17, 2019 2:08:11 GMT
Welp...Last week I BEGGED her to let me work more hours because there were a lot of last minute enrollments that needed to be set up and tuition payments started, ect. and that it was going to be very busy this week before school started. I tried to explain to her about all the new enrollments and tuition issues that would need to be kept on top of if she wanted the money to come in on time. Nope...she could handle it...."see ya next Tuesday!" So I have not been in since Tuesday. (Our classes start next Tuesday and I am not scheduled to go back to work until then). Yesterday morning I started getting copied on emails with a list of all the students who needed to pay August tuition still and a list of those who had their automatic payment for August bounce. I replied that "someone" was going to have to contact all of those people and let them know what to do before school starts on Tuesday. At 3:19pm I got a text from crazy lady asking me could I come in for "two" hours today to take care of all these nonpayment issues. I let the text sit for awhile before responding that NO, I could not come in as I "had plans for the day". lol....and that she would have to handle it. Later that evening one of the principals called me to tell me what all had been going on that day at the office. She said it was sooooo funny because everything she was asking about they would all tell her..."That is what Sandy does", "Sandy does that", "That is why Sandy needs to be here", "You need to get Sandy"....Crazy lady told them she had called me (she had not..and when the others texted me to ask earlier in the day I told them she had not contacted me) and then they cornered her and made her text me while they watched. I think she was a little embarrassed to have to ask me to come in after telling me I was not needed earlier. That is the text I got after 3pm. There was no way in hell I was going to go in and handle the mess for her...let alone try and do it in two hours! I told her I would email her what she needed to do and this morning I did just that. I stood there last week and told her this was going to happen. I begged her to let me work and do my job....but no....she made the decision, she could deal with the consequences. Maybe now she has a little more understanding of what my job is.
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Post by LisaDV on Aug 17, 2019 2:15:33 GMT
Oh, I hope you find a new job quickly. That is bat sh1t crazy!
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Post by jenjie on Aug 17, 2019 4:13:12 GMT
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Post by houstonsandy on Aug 17, 2019 15:29:32 GMT
lol....I will probably be swamped for the next two weeks trying to straighten everything out, but it felt good to let her wallow...
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Post by kkrenn on Aug 17, 2019 18:16:27 GMT
I am so PROUD of you for standing up for yourself and not going in!!!!
WOOHOOOO
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Post by houstonsandy on Aug 18, 2019 14:01:06 GMT
OK...another story I was told the other day by the elementary principal: Our three year old preschool class only has three students so far. In order to get another "body" in the class, crazy lady says her niece's son will attend (free of charge).... Elem Principal has a better suggestion. The "A" family already has two older kids enrolled. They have a three year old that they would like to put into the class but cannot afford right now. How about we offer to let little girl "A" enroll for 25% tuition rate....build good feelings with the family, get another body in the classroom... Now says crazy lady: "Oh. and how do I explain to the teacher that I can't pay her because we are letting students come for such a discounted rate?" Uh.....your niece's son was going to come for free....little girl "A" will be paying at least some tuition....The teacher gets paid the same whether its three kids or four...or five....duh Crazy lady: "Oh, D....you just don't understand business!" She also claimed that she did not want to cause undo stress on the preK teacher...don't know what that means....but both her niece's son and little girl "A" came to summer camp and the boy was a terror while little girl "A" was the sweetest little thing! And now she claims to be worried about the teacher's stress? lol....
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Post by gramma on Aug 18, 2019 16:50:42 GMT
That chick needs to gooooo!!!
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Post by ddly on Aug 18, 2019 19:14:12 GMT
Oh my! I"m glad you said no to her. I hope she doesn't make too much of a mess for you to clean up!
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Post by SweetieBsMom on Aug 18, 2019 19:19:45 GMT
RUN!!
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Post by houstonsandy on Aug 20, 2019 1:39:54 GMT
banging my head on my desk.....crazy lady didn't do ANYTHING on Friday about the non paid tuitions. As concerned as she was....I sent details on what she could do on Friday...call parents etc...and when I went in this morning and asked her how it went? SHE HAD DONE NOTHING! She said there must have been a "miscommunication"...ugh... Luckily I'm just fine with letting those students come to school tomorrow without paying tuition! lol! Then I expressed the frustration I was feeling and reminded her that this was why I had been asking for the extra hours last week. She was so confused because she had given me extra hours! I explained once again that the few extra hours she had given me had been used by Tuesday, which is why I had asked for more. Because I knew there were all of these late enrollments coming in that would have to be dealt with later in the week. She never understood. Later she tried to tell me that she had offered me ten more hours on top of the ones I already had used. Uh...no. You told me I could have ten extra hours over what I NORMALLY worked. Again, blamed it on a "miscommunication". whatever... I spent the whole day today feeling like there was a brick in my stomach. What really had me on the verge of tears the whole day was that she had gone into my office over the weekend, taken down the things I had put up on the walls, and put up two crappy "5oth anniversary promotional photo collages". Ugh...my office had been so cute before that.(everyone had commented on it) Now it looks crappy. And she has put into the new employee handbook that you cannot put anything else up without her permission. Blech. I'm going to put up some of my things on the one blank wall later and feign a "miscommunication" if she says anything. And to top it all off, they got a new phone system but no inservice on how to use the fancy new thing. I don't even know how to put a call on hold, lol. And because my extension is referred to on the automated phone menu as the "business office" I had all these voicemails from businesses wanting to get paid for services and products rendered. I found out how to forward all those messages to her real fast!
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Post by gritzi on Aug 20, 2019 1:55:05 GMT
I would be updating my resume overnight and contacting recruiters/headhunters in the morning. "Not my circus, not my monkeys"...I would be escaping before finding myself on the news or in a lawsuit.
It won't be long until that private school is permanently closed.
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Post by AmandaA on Aug 20, 2019 2:08:52 GMT
I would conduct all business/interactions with her via email or text message that you can screenshot from now on. I would have a paper trail to dispute any “misunderstandings” going forward.
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Post by AmandaA on Aug 20, 2019 2:13:02 GMT
OK...another story I was told the other day by the elementary principal: Our three year old preschool class only has three students so far. In order to get another "body" in the class, crazy lady says her niece's son will attend (free of charge).... Elem Principal has a better suggestion. The "A" family already has two older kids enrolled. They have a three year old that they would like to put into the class but cannot afford right now. How about we offer to let little girl "A" enroll for 25% tuition rate....build good feelings with the family, get another body in the classroom... Now says crazy lady: "Oh. and how do I explain to the teacher that I can't pay her because we are letting students come for such a discounted rate?" Uh.....your niece's son was going to come for free....little girl "A" will be paying at least some tuition....The teacher gets paid the same whether its three kids or four...or five....duh Crazy lady: "Oh, D....you just don't understand business!" She also claimed that she did not want to cause undo stress on the preK teacher...don't know what that means....but both her niece's son and little girl "A" came to summer camp and the boy was a terror while little girl "A" was the sweetest little thing! And now she claims to be worried about the teacher's stress? lol.... I am gonna guess that if the pre-k teacher’s stress level is a problem it is probably due to her not the kids 🙊. Not sure about other states, but here a 3’s class is allowed to have and 8:1 ratio. 4 kids would be a sweet gig.
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Post by roberta on Aug 20, 2019 2:31:00 GMT
This. Not sure the best way to do it but everyone should have a meeting with her and if she refuses to back off, EVERYONE walk out - day before school starts? And call the fire marshal asap.
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Post by mikklynn on Aug 20, 2019 12:45:58 GMT
I really think you need to get your resume out there. How long can she keep this school open with her mismanagement?
The last straw for me was her redecorating my office. She can stuff her rules.
I am so sorry your great job has turned into such a nightmare.
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Post by librarylady on Aug 20, 2019 13:57:19 GMT
I think I'd remove her posters and never say a word about doing it. She puts it up, I cover it with my things. Meanwhile interview as fast as possible.
As mentioned, put it all in writing for documentation. If she tells you something, ask for it in writing. If she won't give it to you in writing, I'd email a summary of what was said to her each time she gave you directions.
Does the other sister/owner have any idea what is going on?
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Post by georgiapea on Aug 20, 2019 14:21:28 GMT
I'd do my daily stuff first and tackle just 1 of the problems she caused each day if there was time.
Watching her crash and burn is going to be fun.
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Post by Merge on Aug 20, 2019 14:25:26 GMT
You've got to get out of there. I'm sure there's another school in town in need of your experience.
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Post by Mel on Aug 20, 2019 16:40:35 GMT
I'm so sorry you are dealing with such crap!! I worry about the kids though!! If she is that much of a control freak I can't imagine what she is doing to the teachers, curriculum, etc!!
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Post by snugglebutter on Aug 20, 2019 17:40:24 GMT
Whoever said earlier in the thread that she wants to play school is right. I kind of wonder if she will quit when the real demands get to be too much.
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Post by houstonsandy on Aug 20, 2019 18:28:36 GMT
Lol... the teacher who comes in early to do the early arrival care told them this morning she could not do that anymore... lol
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