So I recently started a new teaching position at a small independent music school.
To preface, I met with the manager a couple months ago to tour the facility get a lay of the land.
I ended up not taking the position right away as I was booked to do some extensive traveling for another job that I also work. The manager thought it might not be a good fit for the time being since my schedule was pretty packed at the time. No harm no foul, just wasn’t the right timing
A couple weeks later the manager reaches out again asking if I would still be interested a position and that they would be willing to work with my schedule. I told them that once my traveling schedule clears, I would be happy to make something work. I told them great and that I would be available mid to late June.
Fast forward, I am officially a teacher at the school and have been there for a single shift.
Today I check my schedule and see that my first student starts at 3:00 PM and finishes at 3:30 PM. My next student doesn’t start until 5:00 PM, leaving me with an unpaid hour and a half block in my schedule.
I send a message to my manager asking if this is normal and stating that it’s something I am not comfortable with. That if this is a regular expectation, I don’t think it’s going to be a good fit.
The response I got was: it was an emergency. They were down an instructor and needed someone to cover the extra lesson. That they don’t think it’s going to be a good fit either, and we will no longer need to move forward and circumstances like this are “out of their control”
I have been removed from the scheduling app and was “paid out for todays lessons.”
Am I out of pocket here?