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When I applied for this lunchtime supervisor (dinner lady) job, I dutifully filled in about five separate forms, answered honestly all health-related questions including the fact that I'd been on incapacity benefit and that I had problems lifting things.
Started today. Worked with Sylvia who has been with the school for 14 years. The first thing we did was to move a batch of tables (on wheels, so they weren't too bad) from the edge of the hall to the centre, then she took one off a stack where someone else had left it.
After the kids had finished eating, most of them stacked up their own chairs, but Sylvia and I cleared up the ones they'd left. Then she put the tables back.
When the head dinner lady came round at the end of the lunch period, I explained to her that I'd put on my application form that I had problems lifting because of my shoulder trouble. "Oh," she said, "I didn't actually read it."
What should I do about the chairs? "The pupils should clear those."
"Most of them do," I replied, but a few don't."
"Catch them as they go out and make them do it."
There's 200 children in that hall. Most of them leave around the same time. Sylvia agreed with me that there was no way you could tell which child was the one who had abandoned their chair, but this didn't seem to register.
I asked the head (nice guy, very hands on). He said "Leave the chairs if they aren't stacked by the kids." It's a reasonable approach, but I don't like leaving a job half done. Especially if chairs are in the wrong place. I was concerned about a stack that had been formed too close to a fire exit, but there was no way that I could move them myself. Sylvia says she doesn't mind doing the chairs, but a. that's unfair, and b. she expects to be leaving for another job in the near future (she can no longer get a lift, so it's two buses for her to get here).
Meanwhile, I'm back at home and my shoulder is hurting...
Started today. Worked with Sylvia who has been with the school for 14 years. The first thing we did was to move a batch of tables (on wheels, so they weren't too bad) from the edge of the hall to the centre, then she took one off a stack where someone else had left it.
After the kids had finished eating, most of them stacked up their own chairs, but Sylvia and I cleared up the ones they'd left. Then she put the tables back.
When the head dinner lady came round at the end of the lunch period, I explained to her that I'd put on my application form that I had problems lifting because of my shoulder trouble. "Oh," she said, "I didn't actually read it."
What should I do about the chairs? "The pupils should clear those."
"Most of them do," I replied, but a few don't."
"Catch them as they go out and make them do it."
There's 200 children in that hall. Most of them leave around the same time. Sylvia agreed with me that there was no way you could tell which child was the one who had abandoned their chair, but this didn't seem to register.
I asked the head (nice guy, very hands on). He said "Leave the chairs if they aren't stacked by the kids." It's a reasonable approach, but I don't like leaving a job half done. Especially if chairs are in the wrong place. I was concerned about a stack that had been formed too close to a fire exit, but there was no way that I could move them myself. Sylvia says she doesn't mind doing the chairs, but a. that's unfair, and b. she expects to be leaving for another job in the near future (she can no longer get a lift, so it's two buses for her to get here).
Meanwhile, I'm back at home and my shoulder is hurting...