As some/most of you know I'm taking on a new job. I cannot say I will miss my old one, my boss was quite a shady person. When I became pregnant I ended up with the H1N1 virus in which I missed close to around 3 weeks of work, even after having my doctor write me a note stating that I was ill and could not work she PHONED his office to get confirmation. Kind of illegal isn't that? Like a breach of doctor patient confidentiality. I then told her that I needed to get as many hours in so I could make enough money to survive on MAT leave... she then cuts my hours for spring break and give everyone else more... let's fast forward to 10 months into my MAT leave, she tells me she needs me back a month early and bullies me into coming back because everyone else was leaving... when I get back the program that ran so smoothly and amazing has gone to shit and we go from 30 kids to 12... in the time of coming back from MAT leave I was never able to get the program back to what it used to be. We were up there again but when I told my boss I was leaving I ended up working 3 straight weeks of hell and misery. She was the moodiest person ever, she told me I wasn't allowed to tell the kids (which who the fuck does she think she is telling me that I cannot tell the children I work with that I'm leaving?) After 10 years of blood, sweat, and many tears I didn't even get a thank you for all of my time and dedication... oh well.
I'm onto a new job tomorrow, I'm actually managing my own afterschool program through the city of Kelowna. It'll be mine, my own programming, my own classroom, I will be the boss and I will run things the way they should be... with kids first, with being there in the middle of everything and not sitting in an office telling my staff to do everything and to discipline other staff... I will be a boss whom my corworkers will be able to talk to, I will listen to their ideas, I will encourage them to talk to me about how things are going, I won't shut them out and lock the office door because I don't want to hear it. That's not how this is going to go, if anything through the past 10 years I've learned how to be a GOOD boss.
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