No work...again

Haha okay, well maybe that was easier said than done.

Didn't get any work today again, and felt quite frustrated. I think that the supervisor picked up on my unhappiness and talked with me after dealing with everyone else. He baby-talked to me about how Blue Cow runs, where the runs go, and pretty much told me everything in a rather sarcastic tone. Which made me even more angry. So in a huff, I went off into the office to speak to the head manager at Blue Cow. I told her how I'd been feeling and everything, but of course as soon as I'm in a position to talk badly to someone I've never met, I shrink up and don't have much to say at all. That's embarrassing as it comes because I can rant and rant on and on to anyone who knows me even a little. So anyway, she pretty much told me to keep it together and try to stay for at least another two weeks, until the school holidays finish and then give it another week, just to be sure that you're not enjoying it still and you can't stand it. She understands about me wanting to quit, and how did she put it...the season starts off straight to the get go straight into the holidays and it is up to our necks in deep water and management is still trying to figure out how to manage all the blue cow retail lessons. (Maybe that's where it's all going wrong..because no one knows anything about anything...)
So she says I can come to her anytime I want to talk about anything. She says, once the school holidays are done there is going to be training sessions and stuff. (Which are un-paid)

You know what else isn't good. Here, I have to get up every day and go into work, get dressed and ready for work, go out on snow and if there's no work for the first session, then I have to wait 2 hours, for the next session to see if I get lucky. But all that waiting is un-paid. Hmm.

So in the end after waiting 3 hours, I came home and there's another international girl from the UK here and she was also having a rough day and got sent home too. The same thing happened to her as it did to me on my first day of discovery. The supervisor comes up to you and says, "This person here is going to take over the lesson. Introduce the kids to him/her and come talk to me after." She thought she was going to get the sack, as I did when that happened to me. (After, we ate cookies, drank tea and watched Finding Nemo) Both her and I went on a rant about how awful we are treated as employees and how that if we did end up getting in trouble how we wouldn't trust that our supervisors/managers would have our backs. They seem to have the idea that the customers are always right, and we abide by their rules even though we are the ones organizing and running and offering the lessons. I mean, on the first day of work at Blue Cow, I had no idea what the sign out procedure was, and I had a parent come up to me and take their kid, she asked if it was alright, and of course, at COP, it was very strict that they had to wait until I got back to the flag and collected the password from the parent so that we knew they weren't some kidnapper, so I had no idea. She got very upset with having to wait around and said in a firm voice "I'm taking him, he's my responsability now." and of course  I raised my hands in the surrender position and said whatever, you take him if that's the way it works. So of course, I just let him go. And it's times like that where no-one has told you anything about signing out.

So I asked that supervisor that was mocking me about the duty of care, and he just said, yes you just sign them out. not explaining, saying it's just like Canada. Well obviously it's not because I could never have let that parent take that kid without her signature and password at both the start and end of the lesson. But they just drop their kids without talking to the instructor at the beginning and if they are swapped around the parents get upset. And it seems like we're at the parents beck and call, we'd have to wipe their bottom if they asked us too. So it's freakin retarded.

So on the 20th of July, I am going to ask the question, Is this worth fighting for?

Also I've heard rumors that after this school holidays that they are sacking lots of staff because they are way over-staffed. Of course, they couldn't figure that out when they were hiring us. But nope, I've heard that quite a few people in all the departments are going to get the sack in a week or two.

We'll see what happens I suppose.