Kaylee ,'The Message'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
But they get three months off every summer, have cushy benefits and hardly do any work at all.
KCD was trying to feed me this line recently. I was so gobsmacked, I couldn't respond. There is a reason we didn't discuss politics much when we were together. I'm still gobsmacked.
It's this super complicated mess. If you are RIFed (and notices get sent March 15, by law) and you are actually terminated in June, you usually end up screwed by the district because the district compels you to work as a sub in order to maintain health benefits. When you are a sub, you aren't unemployed.
However if you are RIFed, then laid off and you immediately file for UI and in fall if you are not rehired, then you are given unemployment benefits for the whole period including retroactive summer UI. But they usually move you to the sub pool which is bad because you get paid for only the few days you work and you can't file for UI.
It's commonly held that laid off teachers don't get UI.
My sister figured out what she made approx. $2.75 an hour her first year teaching. And then her Master's degree, which she was required to have, bumped her up a whopping $1500/yr. Which means she she'll "see" the raise from her Master's in about 26 years.
That's... unbelievable dickery. I am astonished that anyone wants to be a teacher, the way they're treated. And very grateful for those who do.
I should be asleep, but in a coincidence of nature, stuck my head out onto the balcony and heard the cry of geese. A perfect V, heading due north, noisily. Maybe they'll camp tonight at Lake Montabello, maybe they'll keep going. Nature calls it spring.
I am astonished that anyone wants to be a teacher, the way they're treated.
Especially now since the current flavor of education reform is: Fire Everybody! Teachers Suck!
And replace them with...even more beginning teachers? I don't know what they're thinking.
msbelle, may I recommend you take a tour around this awesome and helpful site: [link] I have an in with the writer and I can get him to answer any questions you may have.
GR.... Hey, UCLA Medical Center? Can you just put the building number and the office number NEXT to the name of the doctor in your directory? That way, when Grace has an appointment with Dr. Loo (Cindy Loo Whoo!) I would be able to figure out which damned building you are in?
Stoopid UCLA website. It took a tremendous amount of digging to figure this out.
Ugh. I'm sorry to hear of everyone's maddening days.
Hey Kat, I realize you are probably asleep so I'll take my actual offer to email, where you can read it when you wake up, but I am on break right now and could maybe watch a pinkeyed boy for you.
Thanks Scrappy, I have poked around the site, but I really want a little bitty, not even a crossover. I forgot to add that I will only buy used and that I am hoping to spend no more than $10K. I won't be buying until we are there, I'll be borrowing a car from the parental units for a while.
oh Kat, I hope your day is as good as possible considering.
Thank you all for your support last night, I think the bit of bourbon did help. I managed some sleep in mac's bed until 3:30 when he woke up in mine to find it empty and came looking for me. This morning he made no mention of last night's events or the game. I still have a very strong desire to scream a string of f-bombs at the top of my lungs.
Also? I forgot it was St. Patrick's Day and wore no green! I own a green plaid (yes, plaid) kilt and almost always wear it. am sad.