After a full 25 days of employment, it appears that I may be headed for a layoff.
I was hired to be a counselor for school - age children. I knew walking into it that elementary schools include children under 12 years old. I also knew that I woul not be spending all day with people less than 3 feet tall. Nothing personal, it’s just that they’re not my forte.
Something like 15 minutes into my first day of work, I found out that the program funders were “changing directions” - towards the 3 foot and under crowd. This new restructuring also includes making my position part time, potentially.
I left a job making bank to come here, to work part time with people who are 3 feet tall? no. no. no. that is not what i was hired for. not even close.
The rub is that, the agency has known a change was coming since before I was hired. They only filled my position because they were afraid of loosing the position all together.
Here’s what I am thinking. What my first- mind is telling me to do: not say anything to anyone. let this unfold. if i am asked to take part time work at part time pay, check the unemployment laws, and if they are in my favor, use unemployment as a time to get a new career started.
The program hired me, because the position had been open for quite some time, and in orer to not loose the funding for the position, they hired me. Not once in the interview did I claim to have any specific experience with younger children other than an internship in grad school. This is important to know because The reason the position was open for-evah was because the company has known for quite sometime that they were heading into a serious restructuring and would be moving into a different focus. So they
