A First for Allie

After weeks and weeks and a lifetime of hoping for work, applying for and being rejected from job after job, I (Allie) finally landed that job we told you all about a few weeks back. This week I quit.

Turns out the director of this particular school is a crazy person. He was born in New York, but has basically lived in Italy his entire life. Not only is he very demanding, but he is also extremely confusing! It's nearly impossible to explain, but once Charles started working for him too, he completely understood what I had been trying to tell him.

The last straw was last weekend. I called him on Thursday wanting to come by his office and drop off my hours for the month. He said he would be there all day, but when I went at one o'clock he wasn't there. I waited for twenty minutes or so and then decided to leave. He called me on Sunday at about 7:30 asking if he could swing by our place in 30 minutes to pick up the sheets. He didn't show up until 9:30! Then he stayed for an hour telling me I had to switch my Washington School students around or cancel their lessons so I could fill in for another teacher that was leaving next week. It was all too much.

Sunday night, after he left I literally got two hours of sleep because I had a headache was stressing out over looking like an unprofessional teacher to my WA School students (who were my students first and are very busy and shouldn't have to be shuffled around like that). I knew that our new contracts with the Air Force at WA School were about to begin, so I went in this week and asked the boss how fast we could fill my days if I quit this other school. He said he could fill them right away, and so the decision was easy!

Unfortunately now Charles still works for this other school, and he is after him to change his hours to cover what I've left behind! Luckily Charles is a little more assertive than I am and can stand up to his nonsense.

This marks a great milestone for me, as I have never quit a job before. I felt bad for a short while, but I think actually he is quite used to this happening (although he doesn't seem to do much to fix the problem). I will miss my students that I was just getting to know at this new job, but my lessons with Washington School are closer to home and the pay is better, so in the end I had to do what was best for me and my sanity.