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I haven't ranted in a long while because I was too damn busy to get on here. Fast food restaurants are nuts. Thank goodness I am out of there.
Now for my rant: I am going back to work for a school. Great. They are paying me well. Double Great. They built a new school. Great? It will be, when the contractor get his act together and realizes that 'move in ready' means just that. The floors aren't smooth and flat, the ceilings have exposed wires where projectors have yet to be installed, baseboards are falling off, there are dents and scuffs on the walls, and not all the doors are installed correctly. Some doors have hugs gaps around them, and others don't have enough room to close. ??????
The contractor said to go ahead and move everything in and start school and they'll get everything completed around the students. UMMM, NO! For one, it is illegal to have them working around the students. For another, what is to guarantee he gets the work done after move in? There have been two 'final' walkthroughs. You would think he got the hint after the first one when they insisted he fix everything that was wrong.
So now we are stuck opening school in the old high school. Except they were preparing it for demolition, I guess, because all the computer wiring has already been taken out, so no computer access (and the curriculum comes from the internet so teachers cannot get their lesson plans), and most, if not all, the urinals have been removed. Why? I have no clue. I also heard the sewer and water had been disconnected.
It sounds like it will be a fun few weeks before we can get into the new building. I hope the contractor is eating large penalties for not having work completed in time. I don't want to think of the teachers who have everything packed, ready to move to the new school, only to have to pull out enough to get through the first few weeks of school, all while leaving everything else packed (and in the way).
And no computer access????? I'm not sure exactly what I will be doing, other than Special Ed inclusion, but this doesn't sound fun. My job usually consists (in other schools I have done this) of taking notes in classes and typing them up, and helping teachers modify tests and homework for students. Hard to do without computers.
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