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Old Aug 06, 2008, 10:04 AM
Zelev Zelev is offline
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Location: California
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You're probably right. I feel guilty complaining about a job where I get paid and I'm not doing anything. But if I can't go to school then the job's not worth it. I'd make more money if went back to office work.

We don't have the facilities or actual staff to offer very many services so we don't get much business. I really think the company is in trouble.

The state pays $80 per hour to teach our one student. This student has only mild delays and teaching students with greater disabilities pays more. I think my boss saw $$$ and thought she could profit by hiring a graduate student, loading her up with children, and paying a fraction of that in salary. Because the starting pay was so low, it took her several months to find a teacher. I was the only one to accept the job. Within the first few weeks, I had questions of whether my boss can make a profit. That's why I insisted on being salaried.

My boss may also be increasing my stress level to help me "voluntarily quit". She has my qualifications on record and with so little work she could easily do my job herself and just not report to the state that I quit.

We have a number of "supporting staff" on paper that don't actually work for us and my boss can't operate without at least one teacher.