And more work.
Apr. 14th, 2013 12:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sailorstarsunReally, work is pretty much the only thing I have going on any more.
So the 2012-2013 academic year has ended, and the 2013-2014 year has started. And I once again ended up with more fucking classes than anyone else here. When I got the email saying more classes were being added to my schedule, I blew the fuck up and sent a reply saying that that was bullshit and not fair and they needed to do something to help me out or I was bouncing the fuck out of here (not in those words, per se). All this went down the night before I had to go down to Tokyo HQ for an all-teachers meeting anyway.
I didn't get a reply email, but at HQ the personnel guys pulled me aside for a chat. They said they were sorry, but there was nothing they could do, because the extra classes wouldn't fit into anyone else's schedule because of how the branch school I work at itself set them up. I learned that last year I actually had more kids classes than anyone else in the entire Kanto area, and that this year I also have more classes than anyone else. Probably more than anyone else in the whole fucking company. But, hey, they promised it won't happen again next year.
Then they told me I was getting more money, and that calmed me down considerably. Because, yes, if I'm doing more work than everyone else, then I should be getting paid more than everyone else.
And then the all-teachers meeting happened, and I learned I was named one of the top 10 teachers. When I saw that, my first thought was "What'd I do?" And then I laughed at myself, saying I just had a total Syn moment. Then they gave me cookies.
So that was last week.
Today (well... technically yesterday... Saturday) was the start of this year's kids classes. I had three kids classes today, and between the first two I only knew one student. But my third class of the day was all students I had last year. While I was in the classroom getting the materials ready, I heard a staff member tell the kids that I would be their teacher, and they actually cheered. .o_o
So while I say I'm no good at this job, I guess I'm doing something right.
So the 2012-2013 academic year has ended, and the 2013-2014 year has started. And I once again ended up with more fucking classes than anyone else here. When I got the email saying more classes were being added to my schedule, I blew the fuck up and sent a reply saying that that was bullshit and not fair and they needed to do something to help me out or I was bouncing the fuck out of here (not in those words, per se). All this went down the night before I had to go down to Tokyo HQ for an all-teachers meeting anyway.
I didn't get a reply email, but at HQ the personnel guys pulled me aside for a chat. They said they were sorry, but there was nothing they could do, because the extra classes wouldn't fit into anyone else's schedule because of how the branch school I work at itself set them up. I learned that last year I actually had more kids classes than anyone else in the entire Kanto area, and that this year I also have more classes than anyone else. Probably more than anyone else in the whole fucking company. But, hey, they promised it won't happen again next year.
Then they told me I was getting more money, and that calmed me down considerably. Because, yes, if I'm doing more work than everyone else, then I should be getting paid more than everyone else.
And then the all-teachers meeting happened, and I learned I was named one of the top 10 teachers. When I saw that, my first thought was "What'd I do?" And then I laughed at myself, saying I just had a total Syn moment. Then they gave me cookies.
So that was last week.
Today (well... technically yesterday... Saturday) was the start of this year's kids classes. I had three kids classes today, and between the first two I only knew one student. But my third class of the day was all students I had last year. While I was in the classroom getting the materials ready, I heard a staff member tell the kids that I would be their teacher, and they actually cheered. .o_o
So while I say I'm no good at this job, I guess I'm doing something right.
