Having a tough day and need to vent. I’m subbing at a high school and the staff are just really being so rude to me. It started with the security desk woman giving me attitude about signing in after I told her I was here to sub, and then she refused to give me verbal answers when I asked where the office was. It was so weird and hostile. And then to top that off they have me doing lunch duty for 3hrs straight. And then finally I show up to last period (the classroom I was in all day) a minute early, three minutes after the last class got out, and I walk into the room and teacher from the previous class is still in there with all of her students and gives me this talk about how “she’s still teaching now” and humiliates me in front of all of these high schoolers. It was so uncomfortable and just unnecessary. Ugh I feel like crying which is so silly, but I just wish these people could understand that I’m here to help there school community and I wish they could be kinder to me. I don’t have to be here, I sub in Manhattan where there’s a school every other block. I’m not even asking them to be overtly kind, just civil would be nice. I have five years experience of teaching as well, so I know how to conduct myself in a classroom/school, so it just feels like them using me as a punching bag. Have any of you guys dealt with this? If so what do you do? Definitely not going back to this school in the future, but what do you do during those moments?
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Having a tough day and need to vent. I’m subbing at a high school and the staff are just really being so rude to me. It started with the security desk woman giving me attitude about signing in after I told her I was here to sub, and then she refused to give me verbal answers when I asked where the office was. It was so weird and hostile. And then to top that off they have me doing lunch duty for 3hrs straight. And then finally I show up to last period (the classroom I was in all day) a minute early, three minutes after the last class got out, and I walk into the room and teacher from the previous class is still in there with all of her students and gives me this talk about how “she’s still teaching now” and humiliates me in front of all of these high schoolers. It was so uncomfortable and just unnecessary. Ugh I feel like crying which is so silly, but I just wish these people could understand that I’m here to help there school community and I wish they could be kinder to me. I don’t have to be here, I sub in Manhattan where there’s a school every other block. I’m not even asking them to be overtly kind, just civil would be nice. I have five years experience of teaching as well, so I know how to conduct myself in a classroom/school, so it just feels like them using me as a punching bag.