Feelin' Good!
Alright, now that I don't have to listen to that somber music anymore I'm doing quite alright! Haha. Oh man, what a strange past few days. I work a long shift today, so I hope that I'm not captain...that seems to happen to me a bit. St. Patricks Day is coming up and this next week is SPRING BREAK! I'm really excited! I really really really want to go camping or something, but I don't know who would go with me. The last time I tried to go camping I accidentally left the tent poles, so we couldn't pitch it. That really sucked. But I learn from mistakes, so I don't think I'd ever make that one again. Next Wednesday, a friend of mine is having a BBQ. It's her birthday and she's going to be making some killer ribs, and how could I say "no"? Haha, I love ribs, and it's been nearly a year since I've had them homemade. I want to go camping Tuesday night. Just one night because Monday I work, Tuesday I have off, Wednesday is the BBQ, Thursday I am visiting my grandfather, and Friday I work...so I won't have much time now that I actually have things that I'm doing. lol.
On another note, there is something that I really need to get off my chest. Last summer, I worked at the YMCA on Sugarloaf. They fired me and told me that it would be "best" if I didn't write about it. Weeeeeeeeeeell, the conditions of my execution from the company seemed really stupid, and I've held a little resentment towards that for a little too long now. So I'm going to write about it because I know that once I get it out that I will feel better, of course...this is all how I saw the situation and keep in mind that my opinion is going to be biased, as hard as I try not to, it will be.
I was fired for 3 reasons (at least that was all that I got);
1) I wrote about my wage $9/hr on a website that I thought no one other than my friends who would see, because I figure, who else would even CARE? Apparently someone at the YMCA saw it (my thought is, what a loser to be scrambling around online and to read through something I wrote to find something from about a month and 1/2 ago. They had tooooo much time on their hands), and they got mad because they were only getting paid $7/hr. There is a reason I got paid $2 more an hour. I was a ropes course counselor, so basically I was stringing childern up 50 or so feet up in the air and if I were to let go or mess up, someone's life could be in danger. So I'm sorry, but yes. I had more responsibility than the other counselors, so I was compensated for that. I feel that should not warrant being fired, perhaps a reprimand, but definately not fired.
2) I wrote badly about a fellow staff member on the same site, however I NEVER mentioned her name. I just wrote about the night that I went with a ton of co-workers out to the theater and how it ws a scuzzy carmike, and she was dressed in a short short skirt and a top that left little to the imagination, and that perhaps she was trying to get attention with either her cleavage or just from the sheer amount of skin she was showing. I never expected to see her dressed like that, so I was shocked. I'm used to seeing everyone gross and sweaty at the camp, so it just was really strange to see her in that attire. So that was another reason, the problem I have with this one is, I could have been making it up if I wanted. I never mentioned a name and I never wrote EXACTLY what she was wearing other than the fact that I thought it looked a bit tacky.
3) And most stupid reason if I may add. I've worked for A LOT of summer camps, and I've babysat some of the kids I'd met or just taken them off their parents hands and gone to the movies or something. Well, there was this 16 year old girl whose family was from Russia. She was really awesome, and I saw some of myself in her. So we went to the movies, just hung out...like sisters, cousins, friends. When she was at camp, she did get special treatment, but not because of that, she was an LIT, so she just got to do things that other kids weren't allowed to do. So she would ask to help me on the ropes course, which was fine to me becuase I enjoyed talking to her. There was never a rule that said DO NOT HANG OUT WITH CAMPERS, just an advisement that we shouldn't in case one randomly decides to say that you molested them or something like that, then you would have a few problems. But I am not someone who is going to ALWAYS follow advice like that. People are so wiggy these days, like anyone who hands out with someone they just met who's a good bit younger is ONLY trying to corrupt them or molest them or anything bad. No chance that I just wanna be friends. The great thing was, that since her family was from Russia, and I'd met her mom a few times before anyways, they were totally cool with us just going out. Her parents and grandmother all hugged me, they're really all very sweet people, and I'm sad because I never really hung out with the girl after I was fired.
So those were the reasons that I was fired. I don't care if someone at the Y reads this. I don't work for them, ask me if I care? I feel I have the right to disclose my own personal experience and how I felt about them. I already gave the warning that my opinion will be biased, I don't feel that I should have been fired for these reasons and I have always felt that there was another underlying reason to my expulsion, but never recieved one, I feel that I was wronged. I loved working there, and everyone there knew it. I was good with kids, I was great at the ropes course, parents liked me, I never missed but one day because I was sick, I went to other camps on rainy days and helped out with them. I was even thinking to work there once the school year started with their afterschool program, since I'd been offered the job.
Well, I feel much better, much lighter. It's sad that I've been worried about that stupid warning they gave me about not writing anything about it. I just figured I'd try not to make them angry and write about it somewhere that no one would really be looking.
Anyways, for those of you who know what I'm talking about 40 MORE DAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
~Brittany
On another note, there is something that I really need to get off my chest. Last summer, I worked at the YMCA on Sugarloaf. They fired me and told me that it would be "best" if I didn't write about it. Weeeeeeeeeeell, the conditions of my execution from the company seemed really stupid, and I've held a little resentment towards that for a little too long now. So I'm going to write about it because I know that once I get it out that I will feel better, of course...this is all how I saw the situation and keep in mind that my opinion is going to be biased, as hard as I try not to, it will be.
I was fired for 3 reasons (at least that was all that I got);
1) I wrote about my wage $9/hr on a website that I thought no one other than my friends who would see, because I figure, who else would even CARE? Apparently someone at the YMCA saw it (my thought is, what a loser to be scrambling around online and to read through something I wrote to find something from about a month and 1/2 ago. They had tooooo much time on their hands), and they got mad because they were only getting paid $7/hr. There is a reason I got paid $2 more an hour. I was a ropes course counselor, so basically I was stringing childern up 50 or so feet up in the air and if I were to let go or mess up, someone's life could be in danger. So I'm sorry, but yes. I had more responsibility than the other counselors, so I was compensated for that. I feel that should not warrant being fired, perhaps a reprimand, but definately not fired.
2) I wrote badly about a fellow staff member on the same site, however I NEVER mentioned her name. I just wrote about the night that I went with a ton of co-workers out to the theater and how it ws a scuzzy carmike, and she was dressed in a short short skirt and a top that left little to the imagination, and that perhaps she was trying to get attention with either her cleavage or just from the sheer amount of skin she was showing. I never expected to see her dressed like that, so I was shocked. I'm used to seeing everyone gross and sweaty at the camp, so it just was really strange to see her in that attire. So that was another reason, the problem I have with this one is, I could have been making it up if I wanted. I never mentioned a name and I never wrote EXACTLY what she was wearing other than the fact that I thought it looked a bit tacky.
3) And most stupid reason if I may add. I've worked for A LOT of summer camps, and I've babysat some of the kids I'd met or just taken them off their parents hands and gone to the movies or something. Well, there was this 16 year old girl whose family was from Russia. She was really awesome, and I saw some of myself in her. So we went to the movies, just hung out...like sisters, cousins, friends. When she was at camp, she did get special treatment, but not because of that, she was an LIT, so she just got to do things that other kids weren't allowed to do. So she would ask to help me on the ropes course, which was fine to me becuase I enjoyed talking to her. There was never a rule that said DO NOT HANG OUT WITH CAMPERS, just an advisement that we shouldn't in case one randomly decides to say that you molested them or something like that, then you would have a few problems. But I am not someone who is going to ALWAYS follow advice like that. People are so wiggy these days, like anyone who hands out with someone they just met who's a good bit younger is ONLY trying to corrupt them or molest them or anything bad. No chance that I just wanna be friends. The great thing was, that since her family was from Russia, and I'd met her mom a few times before anyways, they were totally cool with us just going out. Her parents and grandmother all hugged me, they're really all very sweet people, and I'm sad because I never really hung out with the girl after I was fired.
So those were the reasons that I was fired. I don't care if someone at the Y reads this. I don't work for them, ask me if I care? I feel I have the right to disclose my own personal experience and how I felt about them. I already gave the warning that my opinion will be biased, I don't feel that I should have been fired for these reasons and I have always felt that there was another underlying reason to my expulsion, but never recieved one, I feel that I was wronged. I loved working there, and everyone there knew it. I was good with kids, I was great at the ropes course, parents liked me, I never missed but one day because I was sick, I went to other camps on rainy days and helped out with them. I was even thinking to work there once the school year started with their afterschool program, since I'd been offered the job.
Well, I feel much better, much lighter. It's sad that I've been worried about that stupid warning they gave me about not writing anything about it. I just figured I'd try not to make them angry and write about it somewhere that no one would really be looking.
Anyways, for those of you who know what I'm talking about 40 MORE DAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
~Brittany