I am about to gain two extra periods to my timetable!
This makes my timetable 24 periods long. With an hour-long lunchtime duty and another half hour break time duty. And a period set aside for a Departmental Meeting each week. So twenty-six hours of directed time each week. For a shit wage.
And we have been informed that our wages have been frozen at 2009 levels because the school is compensating for a partial 5% cut which the government has imposed.
And life continues, as far as I can see, as if the economy of Spain was solid and sensible rather than the sick joke that it actually is.
We now have over 20% unemployed – which partially explains why the workers who are being exploited do not reject the rubbish conditions that we have with impunity.
My extra two periods are the result of the splitting of a group of students at the beginning of the year. There were supposed to be two groups of Current Affairs students, but the numbers were too low and a single group was formed which has been taken until now by the head of department but now it is my turn to take on the group. Thank god for the BBC as their web site is going to provide most of the teaching material for the group!
I am dreading the weekend, as it will bring with in an invasion of Familial Proportions. Not that I resent the influx of members of The Family, oh no, it is not the numbers (which amount to umpteen adults; three children and a dog) no; it is rather the fact that the house is going to be “shown” to people in The Family.
Already the downstairs has been “cleared” which at once has made it tidier and has brought to the surface Tesco bags; a car hand hoover; a series of towels that I thought were lost and a new bottle of windscreen wash.
This however, is just the start, and further tidying is threatened in all areas with selective painting and much use of bleach. The (Augmented) Family arrives for the eating of the long onions on Sunday: Saturday promises to be a day of cleaning and clearing horror!
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