Some clarity achieved.
Alright, so some of my anger was misplaced...but I'm still pissed. When I interviewed, when I was hired...both times Fred said "Summer, Fall and Spring." No mention of an evaluation at the end of each trimester. During the summer, Fred asked Andy, Amy and I who among us was planning to stay during the fall, Andy and I said yes, and Fred said cool. So I was set in the belief that unless I went and did something monumentally bad I was going to be an RA till I graduated. Enter Terry Winn. He tells me RA's are evaluated at the end of each trimester, and the RHD's can choose to renew or not for any reason. He tells me this is in the RA's contract. That's the contract that James and Silvia are redoing, that I was never given to sign. To the best of my knowledge, Kat's the only RA who signed one, and that was a long time ago. So I'm going to tell Mr. Mayes what I think...that RA's should be evaluated, but more than just at the end of the semester. Most of the places I worked used 90 day evaluations during your first 6 months to a year. Why not hold 2 evaluations per trimester, so that the RA's can see how they're doing, be told that the need to work on these certain things, that they're doing great, or that if they don't fix certain things, they will not be returning as RA's. Because this whole out of the blue shit was just that, bullshit. It is rather common knowledge that I depended on the fee waiver I lost. I also consider it a common courtesy to say more than 'We want to go in a direction we don't think you're heading in," as the reason to let someone go. Because all I can come up with is I'm being replaced by someone who goes to bible study...and that's illegal. The timing, that chafes me. I could have been told after finals. The way it was presented to me, until I went to student services, was I had to have my shit moved out and my apartment cleaned by Friday night of this week, during finals. James said till the 30th of this month. Instant anger, adding that kind of crap to finals week.
David Mayes said he knew James was going to talk to me, that he was afraid I'd gotten the wrong impression, but when I first spoke to him he said, "He fired you? Oh." He may have known.
In conclusion, James isn't the villian in the old movies running his fingers over his greasy mustache and laughing maniacally at me. But I think the timing could have been much better, hell, he could have said something a week or two ago that would let me know I might need to find other options. That would have been nice. So I'm gonna stay unhappy with him till he tells me an actual reason he let me go, because it still feels like it's because I'm not as religious as he or the other RA's, and he can't come up with anything to say that wouldn't incriminate him and make USAO the target of a lawsuit. And that could very likely be wrong, but dammit I'm mad and he avoids the question when I ask. I'll stay pissed off because he treated me like a little kid, tried to talk above my head and act like I wouldn't be able to comprehend. All I want is a freakin reason why.
I'm exhausted... there were people talking about petitions and such. I really appreciate that. Feel free to tell them you don't like that I'm gone, say your peace. I need to rest a day or two before I decide what else we're gonna do, and my folks want to talk to both Mayes and James. But at least I'm done with finals, if I want I can sleep till Sat. To everyone going away, safe trip, come back happy for the fall. Somebody bring a girl for me? ;)
David Mayes said he knew James was going to talk to me, that he was afraid I'd gotten the wrong impression, but when I first spoke to him he said, "He fired you? Oh." He may have known.
In conclusion, James isn't the villian in the old movies running his fingers over his greasy mustache and laughing maniacally at me. But I think the timing could have been much better, hell, he could have said something a week or two ago that would let me know I might need to find other options. That would have been nice. So I'm gonna stay unhappy with him till he tells me an actual reason he let me go, because it still feels like it's because I'm not as religious as he or the other RA's, and he can't come up with anything to say that wouldn't incriminate him and make USAO the target of a lawsuit. And that could very likely be wrong, but dammit I'm mad and he avoids the question when I ask. I'll stay pissed off because he treated me like a little kid, tried to talk above my head and act like I wouldn't be able to comprehend. All I want is a freakin reason why.
I'm exhausted... there were people talking about petitions and such. I really appreciate that. Feel free to tell them you don't like that I'm gone, say your peace. I need to rest a day or two before I decide what else we're gonna do, and my folks want to talk to both Mayes and James. But at least I'm done with finals, if I want I can sleep till Sat. To everyone going away, safe trip, come back happy for the fall. Somebody bring a girl for me? ;)