Interference

In the football game of life, I'd have thrown a huge yellow flag doodad at Queen B the other day for MAJOR interference in my personal business. I suppose you want the story from the beginning. Okay...fine. Make me relive it.

When I first started subbing back in September I had a contact that made getting jobs a little easier. Maybe she felt like I was the puppy at the table that deserved to have a few scraps thrown it's way every now and then. Whatever her motivation, I was grateful. She'd let me know what jobs were coming up and then she'd make sure that I got them. (Now I wonder how many other people got the treatment I'm now receiving.) Anyway, I turned a blind eye to anything that might not have been on the up and up.

Let's just fast forward through several months of getting several jobs thanks to Queen B.

Now, in February, a friend of mine went cross ways with Queen B's daughter. (Note: I have a habit of ending up going round and round on the gossip mill so I tried very hard to stay out of this situation considering I didn't want to do anything to upset the delicate balance of her giving me jobs and me seeming grateful.) I'm all for mothers being protective of their daughters, but some take it to the extreme. Apparently, Queen B passed down a judgment that if I am associated with anyone who doesn't like her daughter I must be talking trash about her too. So, the job well has completely dried up. I think it's petty and dumb but hey...I shouldn't need her to make it in the sub world. I'm a dang good sub. People have said so...from principals on down. I wasn't too worried considering I had at least five jobs lined up that I'd been requested for by teachers at Queen B's school. Now comes the flag throwing.

Queen B blocked ALL five sub jobs. Yep. Blocking them as in I can't have them. As in she gave them to someone else. As in there went my $275. She says she is doing it because there probably aren't going to be any openings at that campus. She claims she's just "helping" me get my name out there by getting me to take other jobs at other schools. She's lying. She's punishing me for something she thinks I did. I even asked point blank if there was some reason other than a professional one as to why I'd been blocked. She gave me the run-around. I was pretty upset to say the least. And I wasn't the only one. The teacher that had requested me called me at home to ask about the situation. I didn't know much at that point...yeah I had plenty of suspicions but nothing I'd feel safe repeating...so I told her I'd continue to look into it. That's when she said she didn't trust many subs in her classroom and she really wanted me in there with her kids.

So, I called the district sub coordinator and asked if there was any reason why I might be being blocked. He was reluctant to agree it was anything other than oversight. I didn't go into the whole "she's punishing me" thing. I'm trying to be professional here. Anyway, he did say that if it continued into a pattern to call him back.

So here I am...frustrated that she's doing this. Having to scrounge up jobs on my own...which is harder than I thought it would be. Oh, and did I mention that I see Queen B three times a week outside of the school system? I'm going to kill her with kindness cause I can't just flat out kill her.

I'm joking people.