I woke up at around 6AM today, to a call telling me I was assigned to sub as a Special Education Assistant, at a grade school with no parking (the school itself has only a few assigned spots, and all parking in the area is two hour parking only). The assignment was from 9:15-1:25. I accepted the job, and planned to get to the school at 9, as subs are supposed to arrive 15-20 minutes before their assignment, and stay 30 minutes after.

At about 8:30, I called the school office, on the suggestion of the substitute handbook, to inquire about the parking situation. The secretary informed me that I should have been at the school at 7:30, regardless of the assignment time, and proceeded to be snippy and abusive about it. She told me that I would have to show up immeadiately and stay to to very end of the teaching day. As far as my car went, I would have to go out and move it every two hours.

No thank you. The car moving would be bad enough, but I am not prepared to accept abuse from school secretaries. I called the sub office and cancelled the assignment. From now on, that school is off my list of places that I will teach. (I know one other sub who had a miserable experience there.)

Of course, this also means that I suddenly have no teaching job today.