Who’s Next?

Today’s weight: 115.3 lbs.

I don’t often write about work in here, but I might as well seeing it can be very stressful and writing about it might help me ease some of the stress.

We found out today that another one of our co-workers at work has been basically fired from her position in a classroom after 9 years of teaching.  She’s been placed as in charge of cleaning the rooms now instead of being in the classroom.  Her words, “It’ll be less stressful.”

Let me explain first off: I work in childcare facility.  I work with 3 to 4 year old’s, otherwise known as the Moonbeam class.  I’ve been at this place of employment for almost three years after my March 2010 car accident.  I was hired in August 2010.  It was my first job back after losing my job after the March 2010 car accident.  I started off as an afternoon sub, but after being called into work multiple times a week for morning AND afternoon, I asked if I could work full time.  Then I was place full time in the infant room, Precious Moments.  After that I was then put into the Moonbeam’s classroom as the infant room was raising my own stress level to the max.

I enjoy working there and having a job, but seriously, after an 8 hour shift, you have had enough, especially when you have been dealing with 16 or more 3 to 4 year old’s on your own most of the day.  During the morning hours I have another teacher with me.  She helps out a lot and I also help her, but in the afternoon, it’s just me.

Well at our end of the hallway, we have Moonbeams, Trailblazers and Navigator’s Classrooms.  Moonbeams is the youngest.  The other two classrooms are Voluntary Pre-Kindergarten.  Well, one of the Trailblazers teachers were told her last day teaching would be today.  She was being told she could stay on to help clean the facility from 8 – 5 weekdays.  She has been at this job for 9 years.  And today was her last day in a classroom.  The other employees at our end of the hallway know she knows more like WHY she was told she has to now clean instead of teach, but she wouldn’t go in depth.  We all know that she would take extremely long lunches, and get “lost” on her way to the bathroom, and make multiple trips to and from places while managing to talk to everyone on her way to and from.  She spent more time talking to others then actually doing her job, and we can only speculate this is what got her in her predicament.  Another thing she would be famous for doing is being absent A LOT.  She’s been known to be sick a lot, like a week out of each month she’s been gone.  Literally.  I know I get sick an awful lot but she misses more days a month then I do.  We don’t know if the co-teacher she works with said something, or someone else said something, but it’s weird.  Now everyone is on their toes and wondering who’s next.  And to be a teacher for 9 years and then be told you need to clean the facility instead????  We think there’s something else going on.

In a way this is good because everyone is on their toes and watching what they are doing.  But it’s also bad because we never know who’s next.

This woman who got “fired” has never said or done anything wrong with the children.  She’s very patient.  So we just don’t know.

It’s raised my stress level pretty high because I have had a surgery and now a second one coming up with a year of each other since working at this facility.  I could so easily be canned for the time I have to take off but I always, ALWAYS have a note about why I am off, especially if I see a doctor.  If I stay home because I have a flu bug or whatever, that’s fine, but if I’m out for any appointments, then I make sure to have a note.  I feel bad though.  I always feel bad when I get sick and then when I miss work.  So what does my boss and director think when I have this upcoming surgery in another month?  Will I be canned because I have had so many surgeries and taken time off??  These things make me so nervous.  I have health benefits thru my work and rely heavily on that.

It just makes me really nervous.