Okay. Upcoming Ear Day post and Today's Awesomeness! post...

[akujunkan]

...or you have the right to hunt me down and shoot me. This is not the gloom and doom journal dammit, and I do not hate life (despite what it may seem like to readers).

That said, I returned to city hall today after my awesome afternoon and discovered that I was PISSED. PISSED in all caps like I have never been PISSED before. Seriously. I couldn't breathe. Just being there made me want to throw things. My vision was shaking.

Everybody but my supervisor and Chill IT Guy were off at a meeting. So I finally did it. I sat my supervisor down and told her exactly why I hate this job and what I want to do (and have done) to change that. Because I like Japan and I like the people I work with and I HATE going to work angry every day.

I discovered that the ALT's school visits are being cut back so that I can take them over. I discovered that this is because I am considered a 'better teacher' than the ALTs. (This is debatable. The ALTs here are smart people who (unlike moi) want to teach.) I discovered that I have essentially shot myself in both feet by going into a job I despise and doing my damn best at it.

That said: Guys. If the guy who held this job before me, and the guy who held this job before him all hated it, maybe that means there is something about what we are being made to do that should be reevaluated.

Again, and again, and again, and again, no one benefits when someone is made to do something they detest - especially when there are other people in the wings who want to do it.

That will be all.

Comments

[theosakakoneko.livejournal.com]

Um...I have to assk the obvious question here - you told her what you hate about your job etcetc...and she said?

Anyway, good luck. And Happy Hina Hestival!

[akujunkan.livejournal.com]

She said that I am an ALT and that the reason they have a CIR instead of an ALT is because they can get federal funding for the latter. She said I am going to be teaching English at yochiens and elementary schools five days a week starting next April, and that I may not like it, but しょうがない。　She also said that my ALT duties take precedence over any CIR duties I may have, so that I can expect to not be doing much CIR work at all come April.

::stabs everyone in sight::

[sara-tanaquil.livejournal.com]

Wow. Is it possible to report them to their funding source for misrepresenting the job they advertised? Because that sure sounds like fraud to me.

[hazardblue.livejournal.com]

Uh oh, does Jill have to choke a bitch?