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No, no, no.
Go over his head and make him stop.
Days off are compensation; unless you are down with them telling you how to spend your salary just do NOT allow this.
My days are mine! I had a principal dock me once for an absence! I wrote a letter to the Superintendent and got my pay restored. My days are mine, and I don’t want to talk to anyone from the district when I am not there!
Find the absence section in your contract, print it out, highlight the part that says you only have to provide a reason when an absence is longer than a certain number of days and leave it for him.
Draw your boundaries and hold your ground. I actually think it's creepy...
Hmmm I wonder if he has a crush on you and this is his way of going about to see if you're spending your personal days with someone else. Very immature and invasive either way
He's married. He just likes to be in everyone's business and I refuse to share. It's a control issue. There are other things going on that make working for him miserable, but I have no choice right now but to finish out the year.
That's honestly so absurd. Your principal is just obsessing with your personal life at this point. Don't disclose that information.
Obnoxious! Don't put up with it. Complain to the Union.
That's very weird and intrusive. If you are using your personal days, it is up to you rather you want to share why you're using them or not
Another admin who just doesn’t get it…
Does he do this to other employees? If not, perhaps you need to talk to the superintendent about filing a potential harassment complaint against him. I’m not even saying you actually need to file it, but hopefully just the thought of it will help him re-think his inappropriate interactions with you. Realize that once someone like this is facing the possibility of a harassment complaint, he might try to make your life miserable. However, document, document, document. And every, single time there is an incident, you need to contact the superintendent. If the superintendent does not address the issue, you will need to go to the school board.
I don't think he does this with many others. I only trust a couple people who have been with me for a while and they are always surprised at the meetings. He doesn't talk to me - ever- and will call me in every couple months with accusations that make no sense. It throws me off kilter because I never know what he will come up with. I try to document the meetings, even try to record them, but not sure anything will even come of it.
Seems like he has some ulterior motive here. Why does it matter to him why you're taking ff the days especially if it's not excessively
You do not have to disclose why you were out. Refuse! Go legal if you must. This is harassment.
It's none of his business! Contact your union about this.
It’s in our contract that you have to provide a doctor’s note if you take off the day before/after a holiday or if you take more than 3 days in a row. If you don’t, you don’t get your PTO.
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He isn't showing interest or concern when you aren't taking time off.
He isn't checking to see how your life is going or if he can make it better the weeks and months you aren't taking any days.
Our Superintendent wanted to have a reason for people using personal days. We have 3 per year per our contract. The Union fought this and he had to back down. Until is went through we had senior staff members taking a personal day and saying, Sorry, I need to take my 80 year old grandmother to get birth control. Just making up nonsense because it was none of his business. A personal day is by definition "personal".
How does it affect your ability to do your job? They don't connect at all. Don't do it.
This could also be a violation of HIPAA, depending on your reason for the time off.
Mine does the same thing!! Told me that he wants to be friends and was offended when I told he I didn't. He is my boss and I don't need to be friends with my boss. He just won't stop and it is weird.
Absolutely not! You do not have to share.