Incredulous. I know of no other word to describe our computerized prisoner call-out system. Those who did not show for their first testing session last week, including the lame turkey I had mentioned in the previous post, were to have their next testing session cancelled.
I gave the school secretary a list. I said, “Remove the following prisoners from the testing schedule.” This was last week. I thought I’d made my instructions perfectly clear.
His response: “O-kee-doke.”
So I come to work today to find the same leftover Turkey on my schedule.
I don’t have a problem being lied to; it happens all the time in a correctional facility. What I do have a problem with is when someone contradicts their previous lie with another lie.
“How come these guys are still on my schedule?” I ask.
“It’s a one-time call-out,” I’m told. “They can’t be removed from a one-time call-out.”
Hmmm… a one-time call-out where prisoners are scheduled for two-days of testing. Hmmm… wouldn’t that be a two-time call-out? To confuse matters even more: I thought—but I could be wrong, after all, I’m kind of new at this (if nineteen years is considered new)—I thought prisoner call-outs were daily, “D-A-I-L-Y,” daily. I’ll have to give the secretary the benefit of the doubt; maybe he tried to remove the requested prisoners but couldn’t. Maybe there’s a glitch in the computer program that handles prisoner movement. I hope not; I’d sure hate for an employee to get raped or killed because some convict had access to an area because of a “glitch.”
From this day forward I will submit a partial testing schedule, and if someone doesn’t show, then they will not be included on the next prepared partial testing schedule. The hell with efficiency; safety first! How’s that for problem solving?
Now that that’s cleared up, maybe I can get this self-audit of how we GED Test off my desk. Just because Newberry Correctional Facility had another cheating incident doesn’t mean that our testing format has been compromised; we do things differently.
7 comments:
The level of efficiency truly boggles the mind.
JR-it's when the liars start believing their own lies that things get really scary! Hang in there, dude..
It's BS and you caught him in a lie. He, like many that work there, are pathological liars.
They deserve one another. On another note: A self audit because of what Newberry did? Is the midgets involved? Huck
Yeah, what Jodi said.
Shame you have to make extra work for yourself over this kind of crap. But I guess it's par for the course.
It is hard to do one's job, when one's feet are upon the desk of his supervisor. Maybe said secretary should concentrate on his job rather than stealing high quality beef products purchased with employee club funds. (ALLEGEDLY) I reported this to the supervisor and she chose to giggle and ignore it. As far as I'm concerned, if you condone such activity, you are just as guilty. The midgets is a thief, my opinion, I don't want to be libelous. It is funny to see that some things don't change, and never will. That is what happens when promotions or jobs are given not by merit, but who kisses the old gluteus the best. I can't help but wonder how far did the secretary throw you under the bus when he didn't do his job? He tried to throw me under there, but I beat him to the punch. Remember when I had no students for three months? Ah, the good old days. I beat him to the punch, but still ended up with the black eye. Life aint fair. Karma is a bitch, and she'll catch up to both of them soon enough. I hope sooner rather than later. Miss you guys, W.W.
8 hours, just keep telling yourself it's only 8 hours.
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