warning; i'm rather pissed off and this blog will probably just be a whole lot of bitching.
ugh
ok so let's start with thursday. started as a normal day, no big deal, i work 9-5 then go back to coach swim team from 7-8:30, i usually hang out with my friend emily and get dinner since she lives close to work. well halfway through the day one of my coworkers texts me and says he's sick and can't come in. and of course no one else answers or can cover. so i was there all fucking day. 9am to 8fucking30 in that goddamn pool room with a half hour break for lunch and another one around 4:30 to frantically try to find something to eat. but wait, theres more, Jenny, the other assistant coach, informed me that the place that was having the meet this weekend (the one that just passed) didn't have power, so I had to email the woman who runs the preseason shit (idk why but it's called Worcester County, so if i say that from now on you know what i mean) to find out what was going on with the meet, and she takes forever to respond. but when she finally does, her answers make no sense and the only definitive thing from her was that the school would let us know when they had power back. uhhhh duh if the pool has been off for a week it will be freezing and gross. so anyway at practice that night i'm scrambling to get answers for all the parents and i've got nothing. so now i'm exhausted, but i'm stressed so i get maybe 4 hours of sleep.
on to friday; i have to go to the gym at 9, even though i'm exhausted and want to die, and my mom woke me up at 4 to say goodbye because she went to PA to visit my me-ma. no new emails about the meet, so i'm still stressed. then on my way to work the head coach calls me and says to check my email because they have finally decided on how they are going to do the meet. the meet was going to be saturday and sunday, but no one had an available pool saturday so they moved it to next saturday but the sunday part would still be held on sunday as scheduled just at a different place. and then theres the question of what events are going to happen on which days and all that shit. so they figure that out finally and then i have to go through the list of events and sort all that out, then email parents and basically i was running around between the pool room, the office and the aquatics directors office upstairs for like two hours, and all of this fell on to me because the head coach is out on some hunting trip for two weeks and forgot to upload the parents emails on her new phone so she can't get in touch with them. and of course this is a championship meet so it can't just be cancelled and made up some other time. and to end my awesome day friday i come home to no power because some ass hat ran into a telephone pole that had a transformer on it and broke the pole in 3 places. so yea that was an awesome way to end those two days. i couldn't get to sleep because the trucks and tools and shit were so loud. it was horrid
but wait the stress isn't over. i had to work saturday from 9:30 to 6, teaching lessons all morning, then guarding the rest of the day. then trick or treating was saturday night because on halloween people still didn't have power in my town. couldn't sleep very well again because i was still stressed, and then i had to wake up at 5:30 for the meet sunday which was long as fuck. at which i found out i'm not getting paid for coaching like they said they would. and that they probably won't pay me to compensate for the time i've already put in. i was told i would be getting a $50 a week stipend for swim team, which hasn't showed up on my paycheck, i figured maybe it hadn't gone through yet that i'm an assistant coach, but while talking to Jenny, i find out that the head coach was talking to the director of the Y and the director told her that theres no money in the budget to pay us until like december or january, and even then it's iffy. so basically i'm getting completely fucked over. so i'm going to leave a note with the accounting person today saying i need to talk to her about that because it's bullshit that i was told that i would be getting paid and i'm not. Jenny has kids on the team and she doesn't have to pay for them to be on the team, so thats kind of her compensation, plus this job isn't her only income, but for me, it is. what i'm still trying to understand is why the director approved me becoming the assistant coach if she knew there was no money for it. and i'm pissed that the head coach didn't even tell me, it just came up in conversation with Jenny. she said the same thing happened to her, the Y said they would pay her to teach a fitness class and they didn't until like the end of it and then they refused to pay her for all the hours she'd already put in. needless to say i'm furious about this whole thing.
sorry i hate having a boring wordy blog, but i'm frustrated and needed to vent. ugh i just feel like i can't do anything without getting fucked over.
EDIT:
tonight after practice one of my swimmers parent's called me (at work by the way, not my personal cell, she called the Y looking for me) and then proceeded to bitch me out and wouldn't even let me speak for the first few minutes until it was "my turn to talk". all because her daughter has been nothing but a problem to the team and i don't deal with her shit. tonight was a prime example of how this girl acts. she shows up late, takes 10 minutes to get in the pool, does half the warm up, and then gives me and one of the other assistant coaches attitude during practice. tonight while i was explaining something to a younger swimmer i hear her say "i don't even want to be here" so i said "then leave, you're just wasting people's time if you don't want to be here" and she goes "who's time am i wasting??" so i said "mine, yours and everyone on this teams". she just gave me this look like uhhhhhhh. then i had to keep yelling at all the older swimmers (and by older i mean like 14-16, we have a really young team) to keep swimming and she was one i had to talk to multiple times. then she walks past me without even looking at me and goes to the other coach and says she has a cramp so she wants to leave. the other coach had seen her give me attitude the whole time and just told her fine idc go. so she left like half an hour early, and about 5 minutes after when practice actually ends i get a call from her mother and she bitches me out. i tell her what actually had happened which seems to knock her down a peg after she threatened to file a complaint to the Y about me and to the head coach. she then had the audacity to tell me that i should reevaluate how i talk to people. i had to hold my tongue there from telling her that it was actually her and her bratty daughter that needs to do the reevaluating, and it was all i had not to just hang up on her. she goes on to tell me that "my daughter has been on this team for 8 years and never come home from practice crying blablabla" i was like well maybe thats because now she's older and her coaches are actually holding her responsible and giving her more to do and she doesn't like that she doesn't get to slack off. and i flat out told her that her daughter needs to change her attitude if she ever wants to be captain, and that she is setting a bad example for the younger kids with the blatant disrespect for me and the team. and her mom was like "i used to come and be at practice and she wasn't like that, she always did what was asked of her" and i said "well maybe you need to do that again because things have clearly changed". the end of that drama i'm sure isn't over but i know that Dee, my boss and another assistant coach that could be head coach she just doesn't want to, has already told me if she files a complaint that she will tell the director to throw it out because this girls mom is a drama queen bitch. haha but to make things better i got a text from one of the other moms about how great of a coach i am and that i'm a really good example for the team and i'm what the team needs, and that she had talked to other parents and they felt the same way. she also said "i don't pay for three kids to go pick up the bad habits of those older swimmers, i'm glad you are there now keeping them in line and making them work, it's a good thing for the younger swimmers to see". now i don't know if she knew about what had just happened or if it just happened by chance that she decided to text me tonight, but it really meant a lot to me. parents, and kids like hers (one's that are respectful and nice) are why i do this. oh and my head coach just told me that i should be getting paid for this and to talk to the director ASAP about that.
ugh
ok so let's start with thursday. started as a normal day, no big deal, i work 9-5 then go back to coach swim team from 7-8:30, i usually hang out with my friend emily and get dinner since she lives close to work. well halfway through the day one of my coworkers texts me and says he's sick and can't come in. and of course no one else answers or can cover. so i was there all fucking day. 9am to 8fucking30 in that goddamn pool room with a half hour break for lunch and another one around 4:30 to frantically try to find something to eat. but wait, theres more, Jenny, the other assistant coach, informed me that the place that was having the meet this weekend (the one that just passed) didn't have power, so I had to email the woman who runs the preseason shit (idk why but it's called Worcester County, so if i say that from now on you know what i mean) to find out what was going on with the meet, and she takes forever to respond. but when she finally does, her answers make no sense and the only definitive thing from her was that the school would let us know when they had power back. uhhhh duh if the pool has been off for a week it will be freezing and gross. so anyway at practice that night i'm scrambling to get answers for all the parents and i've got nothing. so now i'm exhausted, but i'm stressed so i get maybe 4 hours of sleep.
on to friday; i have to go to the gym at 9, even though i'm exhausted and want to die, and my mom woke me up at 4 to say goodbye because she went to PA to visit my me-ma. no new emails about the meet, so i'm still stressed. then on my way to work the head coach calls me and says to check my email because they have finally decided on how they are going to do the meet. the meet was going to be saturday and sunday, but no one had an available pool saturday so they moved it to next saturday but the sunday part would still be held on sunday as scheduled just at a different place. and then theres the question of what events are going to happen on which days and all that shit. so they figure that out finally and then i have to go through the list of events and sort all that out, then email parents and basically i was running around between the pool room, the office and the aquatics directors office upstairs for like two hours, and all of this fell on to me because the head coach is out on some hunting trip for two weeks and forgot to upload the parents emails on her new phone so she can't get in touch with them. and of course this is a championship meet so it can't just be cancelled and made up some other time. and to end my awesome day friday i come home to no power because some ass hat ran into a telephone pole that had a transformer on it and broke the pole in 3 places. so yea that was an awesome way to end those two days. i couldn't get to sleep because the trucks and tools and shit were so loud. it was horrid
but wait the stress isn't over. i had to work saturday from 9:30 to 6, teaching lessons all morning, then guarding the rest of the day. then trick or treating was saturday night because on halloween people still didn't have power in my town. couldn't sleep very well again because i was still stressed, and then i had to wake up at 5:30 for the meet sunday which was long as fuck. at which i found out i'm not getting paid for coaching like they said they would. and that they probably won't pay me to compensate for the time i've already put in. i was told i would be getting a $50 a week stipend for swim team, which hasn't showed up on my paycheck, i figured maybe it hadn't gone through yet that i'm an assistant coach, but while talking to Jenny, i find out that the head coach was talking to the director of the Y and the director told her that theres no money in the budget to pay us until like december or january, and even then it's iffy. so basically i'm getting completely fucked over. so i'm going to leave a note with the accounting person today saying i need to talk to her about that because it's bullshit that i was told that i would be getting paid and i'm not. Jenny has kids on the team and she doesn't have to pay for them to be on the team, so thats kind of her compensation, plus this job isn't her only income, but for me, it is. what i'm still trying to understand is why the director approved me becoming the assistant coach if she knew there was no money for it. and i'm pissed that the head coach didn't even tell me, it just came up in conversation with Jenny. she said the same thing happened to her, the Y said they would pay her to teach a fitness class and they didn't until like the end of it and then they refused to pay her for all the hours she'd already put in. needless to say i'm furious about this whole thing.
sorry i hate having a boring wordy blog, but i'm frustrated and needed to vent. ugh i just feel like i can't do anything without getting fucked over.
EDIT:
tonight after practice one of my swimmers parent's called me (at work by the way, not my personal cell, she called the Y looking for me) and then proceeded to bitch me out and wouldn't even let me speak for the first few minutes until it was "my turn to talk". all because her daughter has been nothing but a problem to the team and i don't deal with her shit. tonight was a prime example of how this girl acts. she shows up late, takes 10 minutes to get in the pool, does half the warm up, and then gives me and one of the other assistant coaches attitude during practice. tonight while i was explaining something to a younger swimmer i hear her say "i don't even want to be here" so i said "then leave, you're just wasting people's time if you don't want to be here" and she goes "who's time am i wasting??" so i said "mine, yours and everyone on this teams". she just gave me this look like uhhhhhhh. then i had to keep yelling at all the older swimmers (and by older i mean like 14-16, we have a really young team) to keep swimming and she was one i had to talk to multiple times. then she walks past me without even looking at me and goes to the other coach and says she has a cramp so she wants to leave. the other coach had seen her give me attitude the whole time and just told her fine idc go. so she left like half an hour early, and about 5 minutes after when practice actually ends i get a call from her mother and she bitches me out. i tell her what actually had happened which seems to knock her down a peg after she threatened to file a complaint to the Y about me and to the head coach. she then had the audacity to tell me that i should reevaluate how i talk to people. i had to hold my tongue there from telling her that it was actually her and her bratty daughter that needs to do the reevaluating, and it was all i had not to just hang up on her. she goes on to tell me that "my daughter has been on this team for 8 years and never come home from practice crying blablabla" i was like well maybe thats because now she's older and her coaches are actually holding her responsible and giving her more to do and she doesn't like that she doesn't get to slack off. and i flat out told her that her daughter needs to change her attitude if she ever wants to be captain, and that she is setting a bad example for the younger kids with the blatant disrespect for me and the team. and her mom was like "i used to come and be at practice and she wasn't like that, she always did what was asked of her" and i said "well maybe you need to do that again because things have clearly changed". the end of that drama i'm sure isn't over but i know that Dee, my boss and another assistant coach that could be head coach she just doesn't want to, has already told me if she files a complaint that she will tell the director to throw it out because this girls mom is a drama queen bitch. haha but to make things better i got a text from one of the other moms about how great of a coach i am and that i'm a really good example for the team and i'm what the team needs, and that she had talked to other parents and they felt the same way. she also said "i don't pay for three kids to go pick up the bad habits of those older swimmers, i'm glad you are there now keeping them in line and making them work, it's a good thing for the younger swimmers to see". now i don't know if she knew about what had just happened or if it just happened by chance that she decided to text me tonight, but it really meant a lot to me. parents, and kids like hers (one's that are respectful and nice) are why i do this. oh and my head coach just told me that i should be getting paid for this and to talk to the director ASAP about that.
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totem:
That kid needs to get a grip. I hate shitty parenting like that.
wander:
Its good you vent here,get it all out. I hope things get more positive for you,you deserve some good karma