And that's the thanks I gotOn getting screwed over by people for whom you were doing a favour:
I spent several weeks helping my best friend - a complete layabout - with his A-Level computer science project so he wouldn't fail his course. In the end, he did so little work I actually ended up doing the whole thing for him in a half-term week I should really have spent revising for my own exams.
I got back to college to find that while I was hunched over a red-hot BBC Micro, he had spent the week screwing my girlfriend.
Then he didn't bother sitting the exam because "I'm going to fail anyway".
And that's the thanks I got. How have you been screwed over whilst doing someone a favour?
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 24 May 2007, 10:20)
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GrrrBoss came back into town for a few days this week. Scheduled meetings with all the teachers and managers, apart from me.
Just as I was getting ready for class last night, he asks if I have 5 minutes for a "chat".
Turns out he's been listening to the paranoid whingings of the Chinese headmaster, and wants to have one of the teachers take over part of my job.
WELL. After busting my arse to deal with all the crap I get handed here, working on my days off, turning in work that he has said is excellent, taking on more responsibility after he left, and dealing with the extremely annoying way that the Chinese managers deal with things (without being able to understand what they're talking about most of the time) THIS is how he treats me?
Told him that NO, I didn't like the idea, don't want my job description "altered to suit my strengths" or any crap. Then taught my class and went out to get shit-faced drunk. 'Coz, what else is there to do?
He and the Chinese headmaster had already made the decision, approached this other teacher (an alcoholic, pothead - yes, you can get it in China, former drug dealer and crack addict, who calls in sick after 3 day drinking binges and has no teaching experience or qualifications, which I do) to take over my duties, planned on telling the staff this weekend ... and THEN told me about it!
Managed to talk him down this morning, after waiting for more than 2 hours outside his office - he was going to piss off to the airport without discussing this further with me. My job stays the same now.
But, bloody hell, what a cunt.
My only consolations are that
1/. She will now be doing duties that are unrelated to me, and
2/. If she replaced me, half the teachers would quit, and the others would decline to sign another year's contract.
**Just got a call from that teacher's next door neighbour/unwilling confidant - turns out she'd approached the boss and threatened to quit if she wasn't given more responsibility. At least I know part of his motivation now!
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