By Andrea Menzies
Happy Birthday! Wishing a great birthday to Alexandria Menzies today! I cannot wait to eat restaurant food for dinner! I am a single mother to a great daughter named Alexandria, and I wish her well in the upcoming year.
Category: Teacher News
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Red Flags
By Andrea Menzies
There are many red flags in job hunting. At least this week I got three call backs from managers.
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Month 3
By Andrea Menzies
This week I had a fight with teacher HR as it marks the 3rd month I had no pay at all. My daughter has a birthday this week I had to borrow gift money. I have been working for days since August, and they are not going to pay me until October 1st. They did not answer my first 8 emails or calls. They do not do this to permanent teachers, and it is just one of the nightmares they inflict on subs. I officially put in applications for hundreds of jobs after getting off the phone. Some jobs pay you weekly, and this one pays you if and when they feel like it maybe someday. How can you pay rent with that? When they did this stuff around the time of the pandemic they had an excuse, but they are still doing it yet they don’t have an excuse anymore.
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Saving For Moving
By Andrea Menzies
I am still saving my change in the piggy bank for a move far from Virginia. I managed to switch away from the horrible job assignment I worked at Bird High where a kid was bleeding all over his desk, and they refused to report it or move him. I managed not to get hit by ear blood, but it was a near miss. I had just freshly watched the blood-born pathogen video. One of the reasons they make teachers watch it every year is because blood is an issue in classrooms, and even smart co-workers have made mistakes with it. The whole thing makes me want to move very far from Virginia. I never had issues with co-workers refusing to obey regulations in Texas schools when I taught there for years. Every tiny thing is a living nightmare for me since I was dragged to the state I hate called Virginia. I should have never let my family talk me into the move it has been a horrible experience every day.
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Udemy Classes
By Andrea Menzies
This week I am obsessed with Udemy classes. I am still going back to get my grad school degree. However classes are full and I have to wait a couple of months to start class. The Udemy platform lets you explore online school topics for not too much cash. Many other classrooms are online, but this is one of the few with discounts and quality. My job has not paid me anything this year yet, but when I get paid I am so taking classes.
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Night School
By Andrea Menzies
I had to be on the phone on hold for what felt like one million years for night school today. At long last I was able to fully transfer and enroll in a new online night school for a master’s degree. I had to verify student loans over the phone. After a while it reminded me of a surreal video game like the jokes below.
Every phone number in the modern day is like an epic quest. 
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No Breaks
By Andrea Menzies
I was given one lunch break in a week of work this week teaching at Bird High. I had to file a supervisor complaint as a co-worker locked up my bag with no permission while giving me no breaks. In addition I was sick with an intestinal infection and asthma, and badly needed prescription medicines that needed to be taken with food to be able to work. It was in the locked away bag. I had none of it when needed. My co-worker was nurse Rachet from the Cuckoo’s Nest movie. I am transferring as of this week. This is why I am constantly applying to jobs far away from this area of Virginia, and am planning to move far away. The many sadistic people are very imaginative, and given total power without supervision.
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Early Day
By Andrea Menzies
I am glad to be back at work. Even if it does mean I have to start the day early. This door seems funny when you are sleepy. Meanwhile a camel showed up across the street from my job. Super strange!
Teacher heart. 
Work day camel.
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