Messages By: rodrigo

I was surprised to experience that working for the school district people would not understand and not care of what I was going through.  I worked for the school district for 7 years and finally lost my job due to some people that made up stories and couldn't back them up.  Here is my story.   My first year working for the district I exceeded my evaluation on performance.  According to the principals I got to work with, they seemed  very satisfied with my quality of work and the way I carried myself with the latino parents when they came into the office.  On my 5 year of working I had a grand-mal seizure at home.   Doctors said it was probably cause by stress.  All I could think of was that I had taken quite of bit infertilit y medication for the past 3 year and it had all failled.   With that seizure I had some decision to make due to the effects of the phenobarbithol medication and my liscense being revoke.   I had to put for a transfer to a closer school near where my husband teaches.  I couldn't  have been called from a better school to interview.  It was a closer school and the principal happen to be my husband former elementary school teacher.  Well to make the story shorter, the secretary started complaining about my job performance, the way I dressed, and even made sexual coments about me.  I learned this because she complained to a man that happened to my brother.  When I went to tell the principal she didn't believe me and she took out from under a big pile of papers an evaluation form that every on there said I didn't meet standards.  I didn't know what to make out of it since I had been only working there less than a month.  After that I was evaluation weekly by principal, vice principal, secretary and counselor.  I began to worry and put in for a transfer which they actually um wouldn't let me leave.  I started asking notes from my doctor to explain that what side effects phenobarbithol had and I would give them to the my principal and union (which I had been paying union dues since I had been hired).  Litttle did I know that the my union representative was my principals husbands personal secretary and he was in charge of the especial ed. department.  I think she had her back covered.  I even began having small seizure in the office and asking for help, no one would come to help.  I would somehow get up and walk to the nurses restroom and grab a pillow and lay on the floor.  I did not have any one help me.  It was humiliating.  When they saw that was happening, the principal stopped evaluating and hit me with something else.  I was being accused of having an affair and pornography.  They were sending my husband letters on district mail and home of letters they found on my e-mail.  All the letters I had on my e-mail, I had accumulated throughout the years of working and they were being sent from people that worked in the district also and about the affair they were accusing me, well, they were making that story up also.  Anyway, I finally had a meeting the principal and human resources (my husband was there and so was the union rep.) I had to either retired or they would fired me.  I Retired!  My nightmare doesn't end there.  I had car payments with my husband paycheck we were not meeting our monthly payments.  I applied for unemployment and guess what?  The district lawyers tood my in front of a unemployment judge and didn't allow me to receive a penny of what I had earned.  I was so very depressed, I couldn't lift my eyes or get out of bed.  They shattered me in everyway they could.  Six years have passed by and I haven't worked, I'm afraid to get out there.  I found out that in the workplace there could be very nice people and UGLY PEOPLE.