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[morrigirl]

Elisabete has gone and pulled the rug out from under me yet again. Today she told me that I won't be able to take classes this summer! I don't even want to write about this because it's just gonna get me angey again but...oh fuck it! I need to bitch to someone.

First off, let it be known that when I was interviewed for this job back in September Elisabete told me I would be working the 2-10 shift during the school year and 9-5 during the summer. When I took the position I agreed to THAT schedule. Now Elisabete is telling me the library is going to be open as long as there are night classes, and that I am going to have to man the circ desk during that time. She didn't give me any exact times. She said it might be 12-8, or 1-9. It might be either or both and my work schedule may have to change from week to week. We will be open SOME but not ALL Saturdays this summer, and I will have to work when we are. And as you may recall graduate classes are only offered in the evening, and now that I'm going to have to work evenings I will not be able to take any of the classes I wrote about so optimistically last night.

I've spent all afternoon looking up summer course schedules for other universities online, but it seems that every college in the five buroughs only offer graduate classes at night. NYU, LIU, CUNY, Pace, New School, I checked them all. Most of their graduate courses don't start until after 12PM, and the few that do start before then end well into my work shift. I found ONE borderline viable course in memoir writing at Fordham that meets from 9:15 to 12:00 PM. Elisabete may just have to deal with me coming in ten minutes late on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

But I'm really crushed. I started crying after she told me. Getting into graduate school has become my number one priority. The only way for me to get accepted is to prove to an admissions committe that I am capable of performing on the graduate level and the only way for me to do that is to take classes. And this fucking job is preventing me from doing that. Which is somewhat ironic considering that the main reason I want to go to graduate school is so I don't have to work shit jobs like this forever. It almost feels as if NYIT is plotting against me, making it so that I will not ever be able to leave. All I want to do is take one or two classes! Everyone else on staff is doing it! It's not fair that I can't. I've been told that the school pays so little because they expect employees to take classes for free. Well if that's the case then I think they should pay me extra for every class their rules prevent me from taking!!!

And I'm also extraordinarily angry because Elisabete basically lied when she hired me. At no point did she tell me I'd have to work nights come summer time. She said 9-5, clear as day. I don't think I would have taken this job if I'd known she'd be pulling shift changes out of her ass on a weekly basis.

So tonight I've resolved to resume my job hunt. I hate this job. I have not been happy here since November. So I'm gonna start looking for part-time and alternate full-time work. Gonna start sending out resumes again, see if anyone bites. And if anyone does, I'll put in my two week fucking notice. I need to be working. I need to have money coming in so I can pay my bills and save for grad school. I just can't work HERE anymore. This job is not important enough to prevent me from doing all I can to get into grad school.

PS - 9:33 PM : I've really overused the word "that" in this entry.

Comments

[silent-t.livejournal.com]

A job cannot fire you on basis of your availability. If you are not available in the evening then they are supposed to be respectful of that and should give you one or two evenings off, especially education purposes. Who is your big boss?? Is it the Elisabeth woman? If not then you should go above her. Or just tell her that you are enrolling in a class and wont be available on those evenings. You won't have to have every evening off anyway. Just find out specifically when the classes are and tell that to your boss.

[morrigirl.livejournal.com]

Yes Elisabete is my big boss, there is no one above her I can go to. And given the fact that Elisabete swears to high heaven she told me during my interview that I needed to be "flexible" even though she didn't, yes she can fire me. Elisabete refuses to let workers cover for each other. That is if a particular worker can't work the exact hours they were hired to, she will not approve a consunsual shift change between two workers. For instance if Charles agreed to work my night shift two nights a week so I could take classes, and I in turn agreed to work his day shift she would not allow us to do that. We have tried such things in the past, and she has shat all over them. That is why I need to quit this job, because my boss is a hypocrite who expects everyone to be "flexible" for her while refusing to be flexible for anyone else.

[silent-t.livejournal.com]

Yeah...You should start scoutin some of dem ads. That boss blows. Not that any boss is ever spectacular. I like HyVee because I don't really have one boss, I have a bunch of them. And if one of them is crappy, I at least know that I dont see them EVERy day. Which is nice. Perhaps, now that you've got some time under your belt as an official library person you can find a better library, or something in an office even! Good luck with that. I will say, jobs suck. I wish I could make more than 650 an hour on third shift. Even in Gburg I just cant make anything work, yikes. Hmm...well take care!