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Welcome to NCATE week
Mar. 30th, 2009 10:57 amI will be working for the next 12 days straight. It sucks....alot! I work my normal work week and then Friday after work I start the set up for the accreditation (NCATE) review. I have a room at Salbasgeon Suites for the weekend starting Friday night. Saturday I have to get up early and get the conference room set up at the hotel. By noon, I need to be back at the College to meet and greet and give my technology use overview. I will also be making sure all the laptops are set up correctly, will operate on the wireless and will connect to the network printer. Then I will exit stage left and wait for the overly anxious calls for tech help for the rest of the weekend. Monday and Tuesday I work my normal shift and am on call all evening, again at the hotel. Wednesday I get to go home, after work of course. (This is, of course, if HR gets their head on straight and quits throwing a conniption fit about me being housed in Corvallis when I live a commutable distance away. Have you ever seen anyone working on a time line that wants to wait an hour for tech service?) I am currently scheduled to work the rest of the week but I'm seriously considering taking some vacation time instead.
The compensation isn't all that great although the College is paying for my hotel room and I'll get paid overtime for any hours I actually work, plus 50 cents/hour on my standard rate for differential pay (night/weekend hours). However, for the time I'm on call I only get paid for one hour for every six I'm on call and that is at my standard rate and not overtime. I figure I'm on call for 80 hours so I'll get paid for 13.33. That means I'll make about $200 for being on-call (about $2.50/hour). I don't know how many hours I'll have to actually work but I'm pretty much tied to the hotel or the college for the entire weekend.
The sucky part is that my personal laptop blew up and so I have no guarantee that I will have any form of computer on which to pass the time or communicate with others. I think I will have a laptop from work on which I may temporarily load my games. But it is our spare and if something happens to any of the computers during the visit I will have to give it up. I figure I'll bring my knitting and some books. I'll have just gotten paid so I can do a little bit of shopping (just a wee bit). Still I'm really not looking forward to the next 10 days.
The compensation isn't all that great although the College is paying for my hotel room and I'll get paid overtime for any hours I actually work, plus 50 cents/hour on my standard rate for differential pay (night/weekend hours). However, for the time I'm on call I only get paid for one hour for every six I'm on call and that is at my standard rate and not overtime. I figure I'm on call for 80 hours so I'll get paid for 13.33. That means I'll make about $200 for being on-call (about $2.50/hour). I don't know how many hours I'll have to actually work but I'm pretty much tied to the hotel or the college for the entire weekend.
The sucky part is that my personal laptop blew up and so I have no guarantee that I will have any form of computer on which to pass the time or communicate with others. I think I will have a laptop from work on which I may temporarily load my games. But it is our spare and if something happens to any of the computers during the visit I will have to give it up. I figure I'll bring my knitting and some books. I'll have just gotten paid so I can do a little bit of shopping (just a wee bit). Still I'm really not looking forward to the next 10 days.
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