Usually I can be forgiving of people who are somewhat rude, but people who are over the top really know how to push my buttons. I work with one such person. Thankfully we aren't on the same teaching team because if we were I might have to strangle her. It all started this past summer when I stayed in Korea for the break and helped a couple friends out by taking care of their pets. One night around 8:30 or 9-ish I get a phone call and this woman is on the phone. She asks me to look after her small pets for the summer. I ask when she is leaving and she says that her family is leaving the next day and they just don't have anyone else to ask. I feel inconvenienced but bad for her situation. So I do it... Later I find out that she never even asked anyone else, once she knew that I was going to be here for the summer, it was as good as settled in her brain. So, I learned my lesson and moved on, not the end of the world. You just have to cut inconsiderate people as losses at that time.
But, oh.... it gets better folks. Earlier in the school year she asked if I was doing anything for the Chusok break (Korean thanksgiving, we get a week off this year) and I said that I was going to Thailand. She perked up at this and said that her daughter was going to visit her natural father in Thailand at that time too. I just smiled and said that was great and how nice that she and her hubby were able to take a holiday just the two of them. That was the last I heard of it until last night(bear in mind that I leave tomorrow morning for Thailand). This woman called one of my travel partners and basically told her that she wanted us to escort her daughter on the plane. She didn't ask either of us if we were comfortable with that or offer compensation for being responsible for her 12-year-old. She just assumed that once we heard her sob story of not checking into the ticket her daughter would be using (a return ticket from before that was not listed as an unaccompanied minor) that we would jump for joy to help her. What teacher do you know who would jump for joy to accompany a minor on their first holiday of the year that was taking them to Thailand? What person do you know who would jump for joy to do that for a person who has already proven herself to be rude and selfish? Well, I don't know any. So we told her that we weren't comfortable being responsible for her daughter and sorry. Well, this woman had already changed her daughter's flight to match ours and had told her ex-hubby and kid that we were doing this (did I miss something? Were we even asked? Did we ever say yes?!). In fact, the last thing we had heard was that she would discuss it with her current hubby and the ex to see what they could do on their own. Then we get an email at 1:30 this afternoon at school that she would meet us at the Thai Air ticketing counter with her daughter the next morning!! What the .....?!?! I was and am still infuriated. I tried to think if I knew of another parent that would act this way or do this, I even asked some friends that are parents and they think it is the rudest thing to do... so what do you think? Does she deserve the award?
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Yes, she wins the award, but don't you know by now? Teachers are also FREE BABYSITTERS. Naturally, we adore our jobs so much that this extends into every aspect of our lives. We wear shirts with apples embroidered on them, we decorate our houses with wooden school busses and we drink coffee every day out of a different, "#1 Teacher!!" mug. We naturally cherish children and wish to spend our every waking moment (including vacation time) taking care of them. In fact, some of us try to even stay at school long enough to sleep there.
Oh goodness. You got me ranting there. Sorry dear. HAVE FUN in Thailand!! Go visit ICS Bangkok and say hi to everyone for me! :)
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