AW: I get to keep my job!

maryh01 · May 2011

Our union voted to approve 4 furlough days for next year, which means my pink slip will be rescinded! As much as it sucks to have furlough days again, I'll take them over unemployment any day!

abvernon · May 2011

congrats!!

Mrs.BoomBoom · May 2011

Great news!

Passanie · May 2011

Yea for keeping your job. I've been through those icky lesser-of-two-evils votes and I'm sure you know, they are not fun.

maryh01 · May 2011

Passanie:
Yea for keeping your job. I've been through those icky lesser-of-two-evils votes and I'm sure you know, they are not fun.

Oh yeah...unfortunately, it got pretty ugly.

hannikan · May 2011

I already said congrats on FB but congrats again!! I long for the days when I will no longer have to worry about pink slips.

katrina_pharmd · May 2011

congratulations!

maryh01 · May 2011

hannikan:
I already said congrats on FB but congrats again!! I long for the days when I will no longer have to worry about pink slips.

I hear ya...I think I'm only safe until next March though

hannikan · May 2011

maryh01:
hannikan:
I already said congrats on FB but congrats again!! I long for the days when I will no longer have to worry about pink slips.
I hear ya...I think I'm only safe until next March though

You don't have tenure yet? I know that that may not be total assurance of a job anymore but it's still close to assurance.

sm23 · May 2011

Passanie:
Yea for keeping your job. I've been through those icky lesser-of-two-evils votes and I'm sure you know, they are not fun.

Ditto. My union at work just had one of those votes a few months ago and it was not pleasant... But ultimately, people decided it was preferable to suffer collectively with furloughs than see a few of us laid off. So congrats on keeping your job!

maryh01 · May 2011

hannikan:
maryh01:

hannikan:
I already said congrats on FB but congrats again!! I long for the days when I will no longer have to worry about pink slips.

I hear ya...I think I'm only safe until next March though

You don't have tenure yet? I know that that may not be total assurance of a job anymore but it's still close to assurance.

Yes, I've had tenure for the last 3 years. That doesn't matter when it comes to lay-offs though. My group (everyone with the same hire date) is now the bottom group on the seniority list. There's no one left under us because they've laid everyone else off and haven't hired anyone new in the last couple years. So...when it comes time to talk bigger classes and reducing programs, etc., we are the first group to go. :-(

torylynn1 · May 2011

Congrats Mary! This is the first year we didn't have any bad news with my husband's job, but they already have furloughs. Hope next year is good news too!

debdebdol · May 2011

That is great news!

MadameD517 · May 2011

That's great news, congrats!

hannikan · May 2011

maryh01:
hannikan:
maryh01:

hannikan:
I already said congrats on FB but congrats again!! I long for the days when I will no longer have to worry about pink slips.

I hear ya...I think I'm only safe until next March though

You don't have tenure yet? I know that that may not be total assurance of a job anymore but it's still close to assurance.

Yes, I've had tenure for the last 3 years. That doesn't matter when it comes to lay-offs though. My group (everyone with the same hire date) is now the bottom group on the seniority list. There's no one left under us because they've laid everyone else off and haven't hired anyone new in the last couple years. So...when it comes time to talk bigger classes and reducing programs, etc., we are the first group to go. :-(

Ah, wow. That sucks! This must be more common in elementary schools because I've never heard of this happening in high school. Once you have tenure, you're pretty much safe in the current system. It has happened to a friend of mine in L.A. who teaches kindergarten though.

cheryl2006 · May 2011

Yay! Glad to hear it!

maryh01 · May 2011

hannikan:
maryh01:
hannikan:
maryh01:

hannikan:
I already said congrats on FB but congrats again!! I long for the days when I will no longer have to worry about pink slips.

I hear ya...I think I'm only safe until next March though

You don't have tenure yet? I know that that may not be total assurance of a job anymore but it's still close to assurance.

Yes, I've had tenure for the last 3 years. That doesn't matter when it comes to lay-offs though. My group (everyone with the same hire date) is now the bottom group on the seniority list. There's no one left under us because they've laid everyone else off and haven't hired anyone new in the last couple years. So...when it comes time to talk bigger classes and reducing programs, etc., we are the first group to go. :-(

Ah, wow. That sucks! This must be more common in elementary schools because I've never heard of this happening in high school. Once you have tenure, you're pretty much safe in the current system. It has happened to a friend of mine in L.A. who teaches kindergarten though.

Yes, it is more common for us because we have lower class sizes than in high schools. So when they raise the class sizes, it downsizes the teaching force. It rarely happens with high school teachers because they already have 35+ kids in their classes! That's why they call them RIF notices...reduction in force. It has absolutely nothing to do wtih tenure or performance or anything like that. It's strictly based on numbers and how many teachers they need.

hannikan · May 2011

maryh01:
Yes, it is more common for us because we have lower class sizes than in high schools. So when they raise the class sizes, it downsizes the teaching force. It rarely happens with high school teachers because they already have 35+ kids in their classes! That's why they call them RIF notices...reduction in force. It has absolutely nothing to do wtih tenure or performance or anything like that. It's strictly based on numbers and how many teachers they need.

Yeah, I know that it has nothing to do with performance but often it is tied to tenure because tenure and hire date are often tied. Newer teachers often don't have tenure yet. At the secondary level they're still called RIFs, too. We do have class size increases (when I was stu teaching the dist didn't allow more than 30 per class, the next dist was 35 and I know some places have increased to 40) but it's less common. There may be more turn over of secondary teachers (teachers leaving the profession more quickly and hiring newer teachers more often).

StumpyG · May 2011

That's awesome, congrats!

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