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I loved working at the school, I was always happy to go to work and to pull my kids. They acted happy to come with me and happily greeted me in the hallway. Kids hugged me regularly. I was making friends with the teachers and other staff, too, but my supervisor never seemed to care for me. I do not have any idea if I did something wrong or did everything wrong, but when she was around, it seemed like I could not do anything right.
She did not ask many questions. Things were never up for discussion, she decided everything without allowing input from me. February twentieth she mentioned someone told her I was talking about coming back next year and she let me know that she had decided to not train me and I would quit after a year. Then she screened one of the students I had seen every week. A different person did different activities and told our boss that she had different results because I guessed on our notes, which were used for billing, so she did not sign them.
That was the end of the conversation. She did not say “I am not signing them until you do…” When I tried to discuss things before she always refused. Without my supervisor signing my notes, they cannot bill. How do I have a job?
I have maintained contact with my previous supervisor. She is awesome, wrote me a letter of recommendation for grad school, and may have answered more questions since I quit that job than while she actually supervised me. She did not have any idea how I could keep my job.
Our boss sent me a Google invitation to discuss my contract, but not for three days. She did not write anything, just sent the invitation.
My supervisor and I started the year with eight-four students. I had fifty-six and I saw almost all of them every week. We probably had annual meetings for about forty-two students, fifteen were dismissed, and most of the rest had reduced minutes. With forty-one students, in groups of two or so, with half-hour sessions, that was only ten or eleven hours of therapy each.
What was I supposed to do with the other twenty-nine?
Last week I saw all of my kids, wrote my notes, wrote and signed my progress reports, and spent hours working on speech activities.
That still left me hours to worry about my ability to support myself.
I finished everything, cleaned out my desk, went to that appointment, and resigned. Then I rented a truck and moved almost everything into a locker near Mom.
I found a new job after three days, doing in-home speech therapy again, but this time my supervisor lives elsewhere, and apparently will supervise me through Skype. I do not know how well that will work, or where I will find all of my clients. I accepted the full-time job because I could not find enough clients.
If I do not maintain twenty hours a week, I cannot apply to the grad program that I have been trying to get into, but I will work Saturdays if I need to.
I need to get into grad school and complete the program.
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