Saturday, October 27, 2007

The Final Month

August passes and September rolls around. When the schedule comes out, I received not a single evening aerobics class! Why is this always a problem? I gave her EVERY evening and I got not a single class. I noticed that Zumba was on TWO nights a week now. Therefore, the members that like aerobics lost another class. Zumba is great and lots of people love it but to offer that specialty class two nights a week at this facility didn't make sense to the members.

I had to email the coordinator and ask why I didn't get a single class when I gave her so many days I could teach. I got a lame excuse that certain people can only teach on certain days. In essence, because of others' restricted schedules, I was being punished for my flexibility. Had I told her I could only teach on Tuesdays, I would have received all Tuesday evening classes... How in the world does this make a bit of sense and how in the world is this a fair schedule? I had to email her again telling her that I partially understood about the scheduling but that is seems like she's penalizing me for being flexible.

I did end up subbing for a few instructors so I did get an evening class or two. Right before one of my classes as myself and quite a few of the members were waiting, the coordinator walks up to me and says that she needs to talk to me. She asks me to meet with her after my class to get a few things resolved. I found this very unprofessional as did the members. Worse than that, she returns a few minutes later to tell me that she could not meet with me after my class because she was leaving. Instead, she wanted to meet with me after my Thursday morning class. Could she have handled this any worse???? I don't think so.

I went to her little meeting and it was the same old thing... "We need to get the issues between us resolved or move on..."

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