What the Favoritism?

Last Friday I got together with a few co-workers to have a drink. It was at the Usual "GOLD ROOM". We were discussing work. One of the topics was the new guy on the job, Eddie. He is a young guy and first time working. We havent gotten to know him so much because most of us T.A's dont see much of each other since our schedules have been drastically moved by the new principle, Jill.

Some of our concerns started coming out, which was the way Jill treats Eddie. Earlier that day another co-worker and myself saw Eddie move her car from the school playground and into the parking lot. (That's kinda funny). We all agreed that there has been other instances that would make him her "favorite" worker. Asking him to do errands, talking to him in a much more friendlier way.

It's not a coincidence because this same action happened to the then newer co-worker last year by the old principle. Adrian said, "I don't know why but she liked me, I didn't want to be her favorite". We continued on that this kind of treatment by the boss only isolates the workers because other co-workers don't know if they are friends with the boss or not, thus neutralizes them. We need to bridge the gap between us and the younger guy. It will stop the possibility of T.A's fighting amongst each other for scraps of meat and not letting the administration take a worker from the movement. When in reality the real person to blame is the principle for having the T.A's divided with "favoritism". This is the leg work that principles do for the District. The District needs to have disunity between workers. The bosses are scared that workers will come together, especially at a time of a crisis.

We concluded that we needed to bring him around us more. Let him know and see that we are in the same struggle. This talk only made us T.A's stronger together. In fact, since the beginning of the school year, we haven't been able to sit down and talk the way we did. This was a great opportunity to regroup together between us T.A's and talk of the everyday struggle we face.