Sep 7, 2007

just more of my bitching.

Y'all I'm telling you. I'm trying not to complain, but....sorry.

So I've just spent seven hours in the blazing heat, no air conditioner, no food, unloading 300 some odd chairs, 30 wardrobes and several hundred pounds of books.
That's barely made a dent.
I don't even know how I'm typing this. I'll warn you all now, I'm not proofreading, so let the keystrokes fall where they may.

I and about 10 of my coworkers have been out doing manual labor in the heat for 21 hours the past week.

The Spanish teacher, who's been talking to the workers, tells us that they've told her that they have decided to "strike," because they haven't been paid.

They certainly don't seem to be doing much...not that there are many of them in the first place

Of course the school had to postpone classes until this coming Monday, which bought them a week from the original start date. We should have begun nearly a month ago, actually, if things were the way they should be.

We've done the student orientation already..but now, even Monday seems impossible.

As of now, there are no bathrooms, not even a frame of them...of course there's no cafeteria (until presumably January), there is no electricity or running water and not even one class room is actually completely finished. Not one....let alone the 20 or so that need to be completed.

It's been one long fiasco of bad management, but that's pretty par for the course.
I'm trying to stay positive...at least in public.....but it's getting hard.
I'm eager to get into class, but this is ridiculous.
I'm so dead tired right now, I can't tell you....my back is killing me...and mostly I'm just frustrated.

argh

6 comments:

Silly Monkey said...

That's insane, Jason. Where are you going to the bathroom? :o

What do wardrobes have to do with school?

mrpeenee said...

This IS insane. What can they expect to accomplish under circustances like this? This isn't education, it's child abuse. Not to mention teacher abuse.

ayem8y said...

Stop your bitching...Why back in my day we had to walk 20 miles just to get to the frozen river and ice skate another 10 miles to get where the little red school house was supposed to be just so we could build it and then we had to trap and skin our lunches all before the three R’s lessons began before dawn!

No really it sounds miserable, if it helps I suppose you could visualize yourself to be a pioneer raising a barn or the school on “Little House on the Prairie.” Positive soothing pioneer thoughts...

Angel with a crooked halo said...

wow sounds like a full on blast- in a spartacus save your people kind of way!! what do you teach?

Silly Monkey said...

". . .raising a barn or the school on “Little House on the Prairie."

Jason looks HOT in a calico dress and bonnet! ;)

Michael Guy said...

This all just sounds miserable and frustrating.

Sorry you are busting your ass to make it right. Or to just make it work. I bet many appreciate your efforts...probably just don't voice it though.