Are You Oppressed by an Employer?

Hello out there in blogger's realm. I went into my employer's place of business yesterday to say farewell to a mentor colleague who is retiring. I am still trying to feel connected though I am on disability. The Principal of the school said at other campuses, employees on disability are not allowed to step foot on campus. And, she looked at me and told me she thought "Hum, if she is well enough to walk in here then why is she not well enough to work." I pointed out that I cannot grip a pen or pencil for a lengthy time that my finger tips are numb all of the time. Basically the over all impression that I get from administration is definite lack of compassion. But I am a firm believer that what goes are comes around. Someday they will be disabled and how they treated disabled people will come back to haunt them before they enter the grave.

Mind you, to get the full picture here, keep in mind that teachers where I work are only allowed to make 3 paperwork mistakes in a month. They get terminated the third month of mistakes. This is all because the State takes away attendance money if auditors see discrepancies like teacher's iniatials, signature, date, homework code and apportionment days or comments like good , bad, redo etc. are not on the student's paper work as well matching the computer forms.
Now I have seen excellent teachers buckle under this pressure. It is enough to create obsessive/compulsive disorders. Technically, I should see if I could find and attorney to start a class action suit against the State on behalf of all of teachers and districts with Alternative Ed. Programs (esp. Charter Schools) who lost revenue over these petty (non-educational) human errors. Attendance money should be separate from teacher's educational notations.

I have a very low tolerance for oppression, exploitation and unreasonable demands on employees. Though my employer pays a good salary with good benefits, there is an American public at large that is getting ripped off of decent wages and benefits. It does not take a rocket scientist to figure this out when people think $12/hour is a good wage. That was true in the '70s, but that same wage in the next millenium is ludicras, especially when the present cost of a two bedroom bungalow is nearly a half a million bucks in California. This sucks, and we're accepting this lot in life like blind helpless sheep. This scares the shit out of me because holocaust come out of this apathy. When are the American people going to take charge over ruthless employers?

I have to get my injuries/disabilities taken care of first. Then I will likely, simply move on to another job because with the restrictions I will have when I return, this employer shows no interest in "reasonably accomodating" me which they should according to the American Disability Act. In my heart, I think I should fight this; but my head said you can't win "fighting City Hall" so to speak. However, I have seen and heard colleagues at many different schools and friends at other places of business talk that somebody should do something to make someone pay or at least make changes. Sometimes I am that person to get change set in motion. May be I will be that person in this case. Who out there would support me?

I am not a Retail Clerk or Walmart fan for how badly they treat their employees, nor am I a Sears fan for that matter of NAFTA out sourcing. If I were an employer, I would demand the State of California reduce its Worker's Comp. cost to business owners, because the people benefitting (from the 40% of every dollar we are paid) are the doctors and the lawyers and the control freaks. It's disgusting. I seriously want to venture into my own business, but business has to change. Employers should be able to offer benefit packages with perks and really good pay so they do not have a high attrition rate and so that the economy can be stronger. If people do not have money to dispense and save, lifesyles become stagnant and evaporate. Don't you just hate this, and want to do something about it sometimes?

2 degrees away from boiling,

Kat

This can be addictive

It amazes me how sucked in one becomes on a PC and Internet. I attack this key board like there is a really possiblity of finding the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. I search for ways to learn how to get people to come to the site of my blog as if i would like to become famous or imfamous.

I realize that I do not have the content yet for that, but I am putting myself out there. Stop. I need to get something to eat. Breakfast and lunch time have since gone with my cup of coffee upon rising at 9 AM. I'll be back; I'm saving this as a draft at this moment.----------

I am back. The inter-workings of this web and directions to do this or that are for the most part vague. I feel like I am muddling through things, and my guess it that this is the addictive nature of technology. Muddling through things is a valid exploit; however, it is most inefficient. If I were a rich person, I would hire someone to cut through the mire and help me get exactly where I want or need to be. In the mean time, I feel like a junky, searching from link to link to get a fix: to fix my profile on this site, to get more hits on this site, to link to other sites and have them linked to mine. The time is killing me, but then, time is all I have. This is a choice.

I could choose to purge and organize paper files, do my will or tax prep, clean... etc. It is cold and very windy here in the AV and rainy in OC (where my loved one is); so it makes sense to me to do this instead of watching TV. My friends are not on line this fine day. So, I am here at home in the peace & quiet. If this is an addiction, at least I can be thankful that I am not in the gutter in this inclement weather. The cost for this fix is nominal to my phone bill--no where near the price for crack or cocaine. I will need to temper this when I go back to work, and not use it to procrastinate. Seeing how I don't have cable nor subscribe to the paper, this junk ain't a bad thing. It is a learning device. I just would like to get where I could quit my day job to do this, and start a night job doing dance.

Now dance would be an addiction worth having if I could get paid for it and create jobs for other people. At any rate, I seem to be obsessing about this and that: this, blogging stuff and that, getting a dance studio.

Thank you, those of you who are reading this. So far I have made 35 cents. It's a start. I hope someone stays with me to see how this and that evlove.

Just Navigating

What would Mark Twain or Robert Louis Stevenson think of this method on communicaiton? It gives me gray hair just thinking about it. I am a contemplative person that needs just this outlet. I am full of dreams and stories and feel awkward getting started. My focus is torn between dancing with my legs vs. typing with my fingers. i am finding that the Internet world is forgiving of typos misspellings and lower case I's for the pronoun i am, i will.iii...

I could use a career change soon, as my employer can allow (even the best) teachers to only make three paperwork mistakes in a month. That is stressful because we get terminated from our job if we make 10% errors because the state uses those mistakes to take money away from schools. God, forbid we require our students to all be functioning at better than 90%. It's a crazy world. I currently teach multiple subjects to independent study high school students. I miss my students a lot!!! Awaiting surgery on both hands for Carpal Tunnel. The typing isn't bad; it is holding the mouse the pen,pencil, phone, remote etc. that bother me. Don't expect me to be mistake free on top of this physical problem of going numb and cramping.

When I was young, I use to be a cheerleader and a drill team choreographer. I was in the jazz and modern dance clubs. In eigth grade, I was voted best dancer, and I still have a sexy set of legs, so they say. I have the desire to own a chain of dance studios for my retirement career.

I'm no jk rawling. But, I hope I leave the world with some story of the rich experiences in my life. That world would likely be my daughter, and grandchildren. They are my world. When I look into the eyes of my grandchildren I see everyone I knew before them and to come afterwards. The future is always in the seeds. JK Rowlings use to be a teacher. I would like to be a teacher who did more than teach, not that teaching is not enough. It is the most important job that I have had next to raising my own child. I just want to leave more of a legacy.

So I am hoping this blogging will lead to other opportunities. i hope someone is out there listening (reading) to what I have to say. I just want to see my way through this electrical maze. it's not like the haze of the sun or moon light through a dense fog. It's a blog. What does blog mean?

Should you know more about me? I am a Natural Resources Management major who use to be an armed responder and had the nerve to jump out of a plane (with a parachute). does the "b" stand for biography?

I just stumbled on it.

I am a teacher who is nearing retirement (say 7 years from now). I will need to have a retirement career. I have contemplated being a writer, but it seems daunting a task to make more than a dime for my time. I had read an article about a teacher who transitioned from his day job to blogging all of the time via the advertisements that get hit on his page generate enough income now. "Wow"is all I have to say.

Lo, and behold, I found a way to get advertisements on my blogging page. How much one gets paid per hit is unknown to me at this time. But, I figured that it is not a bad start. I hope you don't find this offensive but a person has to do something to survive.

If I had a hammer

Do you know how this song goes? "If I had a hammer, I 'd hammer in the morning, I'd hammer in the evening, all over this land. ... I'd hammer out danger, ...warning...I ....hammer out the love between my brothers and my sisters all over this land...um um um um." Well, I am gathering that this blogging is a way to do so. How do I really get started? I need to learn how to use these technology tools. I am fumbling to figure things out, but I know that is a strategy. I would just like to become more efficient. Any suggestions out there?