Thursday, September 21, 2006

YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR!!

So is it wrong that I am totally cracking up over th fact that I know that a program is going to fail. A little while ago I was offered a job running a new autism program. I'm not looking for a job since I actually like my job but you always need to keep your options open. The thing is that I would have left my job for this postion. It's on the way to being my dream job. My dream job is to open up my own program to help kids with autism become more independent and socialize. This job would have been opening, running, expanding and being the face of a new program. A step below my dream job. I was offered the job and I would have taken it but the pay SERIOUSLY SUCKED!!! I would have been making the same amount I'm making now (which still sucks) but I would have been doing a hell of a lot more work than I'm doing now because it's a job I would have become obsessive about. I would have really had a cut in pay cause I'm doing for a raise in December and I wouldn't have had time to work my part-time job. Sadly, very sadly actually, I had to turn it down. I just couldn't afford to do it. Besides they weren't even offering anywhere near what the job is worth.
I've come to realize that I'm bitter about the whole thing but who cares? They are so going to be screwed. The person they hired has NO real autism experience and NO ability to run the program. I know who she is. Plus, I saw an add that the company put out looking for a part-time person with experience with autism and behaviors. So, basically they hired her and they're hiring a part-time person when they could have taken that money they are going to pay the part-time person and PAY ME who would have had all that experience. You don't need a behavior person for this program if you have someone with experience. You need a once a year hiring of someone to certify staff in behavioral intervention.
I KNOW THIS IS HORRIBLE TO SAY BUT THE PROGRAM IS SOOO GOING TO SUCK AND IT'S ALL THEIR FAULT. I COULD HAVE MADE THIS PROGRAM A HUGE SUCCESS THAT OTHER PROVIDERS WOULD WANT TO EMULATE BUT YOU WERE TOO DAMM CHEAP TO PAY ME. SO GUESS WHAT.......YOU SOOOOO HAVE GOTTEN WHAT YOU PAID FOR!!!!!!!!

5 Comments:

At 10:16 PM , Blogger Kris said...

Unfortunately there a lot of jobs dealing with children...teachers, specialists, etc. that pay worth crap. They want to make programs better, but they don't want to pay for the professionalisms who are actually qualified to run them. I feel your pain girl. My pay is worse than crap.

 
At 12:06 AM , Blogger HipChick said...

I still feel that somehow...this is just...WRONG! How could they have gotten it SO wrong... I still don't understand it.

 
At 9:42 PM , Blogger Erik said...

Companies are always doing stuff like that. I was doing the job of a network administrator, but they were paying me as a pharmacy technician. Like I wouldn't notice the 20,000 dollars a year difference. Needless to say, I found a new job quickly.

 
At 11:22 AM , Blogger Blue944 said...

Well sounds like they screwed up and only the parents and children will suffer.

If it makes you feel better, Alex Rodriguez makes 250M to play baseball. Man our priorities are screwed up in this country.

 
At 6:30 PM , Blogger Cherry! said...

You'd expect this kind of thing from a corporate company because they don't give a shit but when it comes to jobs such as this you'd expect the people to actually CARE and therefore pay accordingly instead of being cheap and turning it all to crap.

Maybe soon they will see the error of their ways and ten you can approach them with your idea.

 

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