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Going above and beyond at work feels generous until management starts policing the exact minutes you are supposed to be there.
One teacher gets reprimanded for arriving a few minutes late, so when administrators insist on contract hours, would you argue or follow them exactly?
By leaving at 2:22, he removes the unpaid supervision everyone had quietly come to depend on.
Let’s see how the school handled this one…
Was told to work my contract hours. Damage ensued.
Teacher here in inner city . Found myself coming in at 7::12-7:15 for a week or two, supposed to be there for 7:10.
My Daughter’s daycare is getting construction done so had to park across street and drop her off.
Got reprimanded and a mark on my file for not working during contractual hours; “you’re paid for working 7:10 to 2:22.”
Fine.
He usually worked late.
Once school is out at 2:02 I usually open up the weightroom and let athletes workout, give some advice (I was a college athlete and lifted a lot), and I watch them until about 3:15 when their coaches get there.
Kids love it, I love it, coaches love it, never asked for pay.
But my contracts done at 2:22.
He decided not to stay late.
One day. Only one day. I posted on our webpage that I wasn’t going to be there.
What happened?
That same day numerous phones stolen from locker room so cops came, weightroom door broke open, kids running through halls and ran into a teacher sending her to Urgent Care.
Time to get paid for what used to be volunteering!
Admin calls me in asking why I wasn’t watching them.
“I was told to work my contractual hours, I’m only paid until 2:22. I did this for fun, and it was unofficial.”
Next day whole district gets an email for a job posting “Afterschool Weightroom Coach.”
Admin asked me to apply. Now it’s costing them money.
Sounds like this is going to work out alright in the end. He might as well earn some extra money doing something he enjoyed doing anyway!
Let’s see how Reddit reacted to this story.
He deserves to be paid for his time.
He really shouldn’t have been working for free.
This person rants about school administrators.
This person thinks it’s incredible how quickly the new position was posted.
If you enjoyed this post, check out this story about an employee who decided to push back against time micromanagement.
Another person completely believes the new position was posted that quickly.
The guy had been volunteering after school, opening the weight room and supervising athletes until their coaches arrived.
Once he stopped at his contractual end time, thefts, property damage, and an injured teacher followed that very same day.
By the next morning, the district had posted a paid after-school weight room position and even asked him to apply.
Management wanted every minute accounted for, then discovered those free minutes had been doing some very heavy lifting.