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Vent about manipulative people at work...
Kind of long....
I'm new to these forums, but I have a vent I'd like to get off my chest. I'm a teacher, and there's an administrator at my school who's job title is Academic Dean. Basically he pushes paper for other admins. He makes it his job to make my job as difficult as possible.
My DH works in the same school district, so we both interact with this person. Yesterday the dean emailed both of us, signing the both of us up for a training we've already had for the days we were going to move into our newly purchased house. We have training's every day for the rest of the week and the following weeks all the way up until school starts that we knew about, so we were going to use those days to move in before the chaos started.
What irritates me so much is that he claimed the principal 'highly recommended' that we attend this training (which is code for 'it's mandatory') but when I emailed my department head, he said that the principal's didn't recommend anything; the dean just signed us both up on his own.
This man has, in front of my students, called me a liar. He's yelled at me, telling me that I don't have enough 'letters after my name' to make authoritative decisions. The dean has two masters degrees, but spent only a couple of years actually teaching in a classroom and now tells me I don't know what I'm doing. My department head does his best, but since this person is an admin, there's only so much he can do. Our main principals both have his back to an extent; I have no idea why because he's incapable of properly managing others.
Anyway.... how do you all deal with manipulative jerks at work?
Re: Vent about manipulative people at work...
he's got no right to name call, period, whether nobody else but you is present or a thousand others are.
You could take this up with the board of ed, during a BoE meeting. That would be a good first step.