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So I'm an elementary art teacher. I'm employed not through a school or state, but through a separate entity all together. It's my first full year and I've had some severe ups and downs and the turnover for some schools has been hard. Try around on average 3-5 new teachers annually in the same position as I'm in now. As far as I'm aware I'm one of the youngest and I've been told Im an excellent art teacher. Well my pay def doesn't show that at a whopping 12.10 an hour with no insurance or sick leave. I was even told I was paid more than other teachers since I had two degrees.
So I've stuck it out over the year of extreme micromanagement and crap pay. I was offered a “promotion” to be a supervising coordinator and I managed to negotiate my pay higher….supposedly. the pay? 20 an hour no insurance and even though it's mon-friday 40 hours I'd be considered part time and on “call”. I wasn't too happy but a near 8 dollar increase was tolerable…but each time we talked the pay would magically reduce….and reduce and reduce until last week I was told 15$. I knew that unless it's on paper anything negotiated is bunk. Over the last two weeks an application I put in called back and on a whim I took off of work to interview in a completely different Industry.
Well the interview went stunningly. I low balled myself and a week later I was offered the position for way more than I expected, retirement, insurance, pto, sick leave, the works. I immediately accepted and started to do on boarding in private without telling a soul I was leaving the company and “family”. I had a few times in the year where I thought I got the position and got passed over. Well it became official as the company sent me start dates, paperwork. Now as a “contract teacher” our contracts basically end in two weeks anyways. During the time where I was unsure about anything I was trained by the art teacher company on how to be a supervising coordinator but I could already tell this was not going to work with getting calls at 2-3am, driving to six different schools which I would have been a manager at, I just could tell this wouldn't work. Certainly wouldn't work at 15 an hour.
Well this last Friday I had my formal two week notice to be polite and also try to be a bit nice. I don't tend to burn bridges on my way out of any place. This is honestly a formality, my contract ends in two weeks and I'd be paid the following two months as per my contractual 12 month chosen pay period. Now my boss is fucking livid. She is an older 70 year old woman who we have had polite business and employee relations up until Friday. She refused to even look at my letter and called me a liar, a traitorous employee, and a few other nasty things before giving me the “talk to the hand” treatment and storming out of my classroom after I explained the offer I was getting was leagues over what she was offering me. I was between amused but also a bit peeved at the behavior but regardless. In two weeks I swap jobs and the only real reason I'm sticking it out the last two weeks is for my students whom I'm very fond of and the fact I don't get my back pay if I don't finish up the last 10 days. Either way it feels good to finally say good riddance. While I'll miss my students, I just can't survive on 12 an hour when my health insurance eats almost half of my pay every month
Tldr; tried to give my boss my two week notice, got called a traitor and liar for quitting for a way better opportunity.