OT:Does working for Joe and Jane public make you nuts? VENT!

This is your turn to vent about folks who make your job nuts! Joe and Jane public.......people who probably either never work, or have not worked for the public.
My Gripe...........
I had a parent irrate because during the feild day festivities yesterday, her daughter did not get the size shirt she ordered. The shirt fit her O.K. but apparently not what was ordered.
Now mind you, I had 23 children to get shirts handed out to, changed and ready to go in 15 minutes time. Some paid for shirts and some did not. I put the paid forms of shirts with the shirts that were of that size. I have only had this job as this teacher for 2 1/2 weeks now. I am learning where everything is and there are umpteen forms and money and things to keep track of. Needless to say no form was found, and I was handed 23 various shirts because that was what they delivered to me. Only the children who paid got a preference on shirts. Someone ordered dumb sizes that would have been a bit small for any of the kids. The ordering was done before I started working. I cannot off the top of my head remember who paid and who did not pay.
Apparently the parent called today, crying and hysterical that her daughter did not get the shirt size she ordered. She insisted I call her.
Looking around I found a loose amount of money the amount of the shirts on top of my book shelf. I then remembered her handing me the money a few weeks ago, with no form and just saying they were for shirts. Now mind you there are more shirts to be given away on another fun day next week! I guess I was unsure where the money went, and with no envelope or form I put it on top of the shelf to ask someone about later.
Yes, my fault. But live the Kaos folks.
I have walked into a classroom where I don't know where anything is, having to keep up with several forms, and money, and grades and grading, in a room where the previous deceased teacher's personal things are all around me, dealing with children who sometimes break down and cry because they miss their teacher, I am missing the teacher too because she was a friend.
And dealing with remembering who rides what bus, and who can't sit next to who, and little Johny who is acting like a monkey on crack because mom forgot to give him his meds, and getting schedules ready for going from place to place throughout the school and keeping up with all 23 students at all the stations.
I refunded the mother's money back and sent her a letter of appology. I can understand her wanting to get what she paid for, but to call the principal crying? Furious, and irrate? I can see asking for another size of a shirt, or the money back. The principal even rolled his eyes about the call.
Cut me some slack! Even if I had not found the money, I would give her $6.50 cents back if there were no more shirts. Beats having a parent have a nuclear meltdown over a clerical error.

My Gripe...........



I had a parent irrate because during the feild day festivities yesterday, her daughter did not get the size shirt she ordered. The shirt fit her O.K. but apparently not what was ordered.
Now mind you, I had 23 children to get shirts handed out to, changed and ready to go in 15 minutes time. Some paid for shirts and some did not. I put the paid forms of shirts with the shirts that were of that size. I have only had this job as this teacher for 2 1/2 weeks now. I am learning where everything is and there are umpteen forms and money and things to keep track of. Needless to say no form was found, and I was handed 23 various shirts because that was what they delivered to me. Only the children who paid got a preference on shirts. Someone ordered dumb sizes that would have been a bit small for any of the kids. The ordering was done before I started working. I cannot off the top of my head remember who paid and who did not pay.
Apparently the parent called today, crying and hysterical that her daughter did not get the shirt size she ordered. She insisted I call her.
Looking around I found a loose amount of money the amount of the shirts on top of my book shelf. I then remembered her handing me the money a few weeks ago, with no form and just saying they were for shirts. Now mind you there are more shirts to be given away on another fun day next week! I guess I was unsure where the money went, and with no envelope or form I put it on top of the shelf to ask someone about later.
Yes, my fault. But live the Kaos folks.
I have walked into a classroom where I don't know where anything is, having to keep up with several forms, and money, and grades and grading, in a room where the previous deceased teacher's personal things are all around me, dealing with children who sometimes break down and cry because they miss their teacher, I am missing the teacher too because she was a friend.
And dealing with remembering who rides what bus, and who can't sit next to who, and little Johny who is acting like a monkey on crack because mom forgot to give him his meds, and getting schedules ready for going from place to place throughout the school and keeping up with all 23 students at all the stations.
I refunded the mother's money back and sent her a letter of appology. I can understand her wanting to get what she paid for, but to call the principal crying? Furious, and irrate? I can see asking for another size of a shirt, or the money back. The principal even rolled his eyes about the call.
Cut me some slack! Even if I had not found the money, I would give her $6.50 cents back if there were no more shirts. Beats having a parent have a nuclear meltdown over a clerical error.

