He was picked by our new school principal to be our school secretary after they wanted him out of the Business Office in the Administration Building. I found out later that he wasn’t liked there because he was lazy and he lied about the work he supposedly had finished. They had deadlines in accounting and he lied that he had completed his work. Perfect credentials for our new administration. I found him doing the same thing here in a matter of days as the purchase orders I had processed for our new greenhouse he mysteriously claimed were never received. Luckily I had made copies of them. What usually took our past school secretaries a couple of hours to do, took a month for him to complete, and he rarely did it correctly. When I mentioned this to our new school principal she had informed me that she would look into it. Nothing ever happened, and over the years his lack of productivity became worse.
I had lobbied the new administration to have the same abilities as my Trades Instructor colleagues had but that fell on deaf ears. My colleagues did not have to rely on a school secretary to complete work for them. They did it themselves. My requests were ignored. After about six years our school principal was promoted to be the manager over prison education through out the state, and her replacement, (her friend) didn’t much care for our school secretary. Our school secretary felt that he didn’t have to follow her direction and continued to do whatever he wanted. Eventually his refusal to follow her direction was brought to a head by the new school principal, and our promoted new manager. Their cherished reunion in the school principal’s suite was referred to by our school staff as a “kumbaya” moment. From that day on, they agreed that from here on out, they would stick up for each other no matter what and the real enemy was our school staff. In particular, my colleague across the hall from me and myself. They would also target two of our academic teachers for special treatment. Anyone who spoke up would become a target.
The monthly reports we turned in to our office were often lost. We constantly had to resubmit them and I was lucky enough to send my reports through emails which showed a date and time. We were inundated with nasty gram emails. I enjoyed those because they became the evidence used in an investigation into our school secretaries activities. So after years of harassment, and stress from this management, I received an email from Internal Affairs. They wanted to speak with me about our school secretary. I had to respond within the time frame stated, and I was to say nothing to our school secretary about this. I later found out that all the teachers received the same email from IA. The investigation was started because of a complaint filed from support staff personnel against our school secretary. Our Personnel department turned the case over to Internal Affairs. After Two months of IA Interviews, it did not end well for our school secretary. IA recommended his employment with the DOC be terminated .We were informed the administration concurred, and acted upon it. We were also informed that the investigation was not over. I could only imagine who was under investigation now. TO BE CONTINUED… Colossians 3:23-24
MJ-Way 