Pissed

I woke up this morning (er... um... afternoon) to the phone ringing. It was one of the profs at the high school I worked at all last year, wondering why they just received word that I wouldn't be coming back. Apparently, somebody else was given my position.

I had feared this would happen. Last June, I wrote the school district and asked about the rumor I had heard that renewing assistants wouldn't get their jobs back. The woman in charge of the assistantship program wrote me back saying, essentially, that, yeah, my job was probably given to someone else, but that I shouldn't ask her about it anymore because she's no longer in charge. She also said the system had changed and incoming assistants are now given priority over returning ones.

I wrote back once more, screaming "Bloody injustice!" and requesting that they reconsider. Is it at all logical to give a job that I've been working for a year - where I know and get along with the students and coworkers - to somebody else? My coworkers also requested that I be given the same assignment, and they were upset today when they found out I wouldn't be coming back.

This sucks. Donkey balls.

I have yet to hear if I have even been placed somewhere else. It's amazing that they don't think to tell us these kinds of things. What am I supposed to do? Just wait around and hope they find me a position? Or should I just start applying to other jobs elsewhere?

If I'm going to be working for assholes, I think I'd rather go with the latter. I'll miss my coworkers and a fair number of my students (I told so many of them that I would be back this fall!), but what's done is done. If it's not coming across on the screen, I'm extremely pissed. I was counting on this job, I lost it through no fault of my own, and now I have no way of getting it back.

Hopefully I'll find a better-paying, closer-to-home job that I'm happy with. In the meantime, I'm going to stew a bit.