Monday. 
Again. Funny how that happens.

Last Friday was payday. I was not paid correctly. I was shorted an entire week. I have gone into paycheck limbo. You see, directors do not clock in. 
Groupleaders do. IF.....

you are in the computer. I am not.

I am still in between centers. Sure I am in the classroom. Unless something needs handled at the "old" center.
A tomb of silence with all the equipment still awaiting the moving man to distribute it, the signs taken down that had proclaimed our lineage with our sister centers.
Weeds popping up at an alarming rate. and the "roll off" sitting largely in the unused parking lot beckoning all to toss a load or two of large item trash.

I know. cause I had to go there today to await the "moving man" pre nup. he comes to see how much will need to be moved. then this friday he will send his crew to move it and distribute.

I was told this will take 8 hours.

the "old" center closed for business on May 13th.
the last day any staff was there was May 20th.
I sat there alone waiting copy machine pick up and moving pre nup for two days. Neither came!

So off I went to the new center.
now almost a month later things are wrapping up.

I feel ripped anew.


it is hard to go from center director to group lead. You still want to take over. you see things that "your center" didn't do and want this center not to do it either!!

my director is wonderful. Her staff all work well together. and yet there I am the odd man out.  they are all kind and friendly. some more so than others. but I am a stranger who keeps trying to change the system.
and really that is not my place.


one example and then I will wrap it up for the evening.


With times financially tight, many centers are doing their own "house keeping". Our center did it 5 days a week. we didn't have janitorial at all.
The new center has staff "house keeping" on Mondays & thursdays.
I dread it. cause I am mopping and cleaning and trying to get it down before I miss my ride home!
today I decide I will take my remaining 10 kids to the School Age room 15 minutes before my shift ends. My room is large and the main room that everyone must walk through to pick up and drop off.
my director , when asked about moving the kids, suggested I have the children help me clean!
at my old center, we never had the children clean! to me it seems almost cinderellaish!
"here, pay your tuition, and let me put your child to work!"
there is of course the school of thought that it is helping the children to be self sufficient. 
REALLY? mopping & vacuuming and scrubbing the communal toilets? when you are 4 years old.


for now I sat them down with quiet toys/centers, while I cleaned and put up wet floor signs as parents walked through my room to get their children.
some parents so apologetic as the minced across the wet floor.
others scowling as they loudly announced to Jr. to be careful, the floor is slippery!! 


tonight I am tired. I will figure this out. I will.