working for Ford part 3

The last week of the center being open is here. Every one is being really nice to each other. All the parents and the teachers are sad. The younger children are picking up on their parents’ emotions. The older children tell their favorite teacher how scared they are to go to a new school and how they don’t want to be alone and away from their siblings. The parents’ are asking the teachers if they need letters of recommendation and asking for their contact info. The children bring the teachers a small gift of appreciation. The Thank You cards that come with the gifts have a picture of the children and a nice note that makes the teacher cry.

  

The last day is here…There are a lot of teachers by the front office talking and greeting parents as they walk in the front door. There are teachers with children walking in the hall and there are teachers rocking babies and feeding them their bottles for the last time. It is sad to see that every one is going to be leaving soon. The management team is walking around talking to everyone and letting all the teachers know how much they appreciate their help and how without them the center wouldn’t have been what it was. Management is crying, the teachers are crying, the children are looking…..People are walking around with cameras taking pictures of everyone, trying to remember peoples’ smiling faces, the people they have worked with for 5 years.

  One last get together…everyone was invited to a co-workers house for hotdog and beer. A lot of people showed up, some early some late. Everyone seemed to enjoy themselves. There were people sitting at tables all over the back yard. Some were sitting by a bonfire making ‘smores. Some people were calm and relaxed and some were loud and obnoxious. No matter what people looked like they were having fun. After a while everyone seemed to migrate to the basement. There they started to sing Karaoke and play drinking games like Drinko….not the scene for me so I took a few minutes to say goodbye, promising everyone I will keep in touch. It will be hard to keep in touch with some people, but easy to with the ones I worked directly with.

working for Ford part.2

The teachers from this daycare all stared to think about their futures and what will happen to them. Some made the decision that they will stay home, some made the decision to look for a new job and others said that if they couldn’t find anything they will travel and visit family. Everyone started to apply for this job and that, but after going to interviews they were soon disappointed. The pay that they were offered was much less then what they were making. No one is willing to work for a $3-$5 pay cut and more responsibility. This made people think about going to school to change their career and look into other fields.  Every one who knew of a job opening told other people so they can apply too. Quite a few people applied at the same daycare. Most of them had a position offered to them, and a few didn’t. Let me tell you, it must really hurt when you know that you are one of the people that didn’t get hired and your other co-workers did, especially when you are the one that told them about the opening position.

working for Ford

After being open for five years, an announcement was made that the daycare center where my wife works will close its doors for good. These are the thoughts and experiences she has shared with me form the day she found out the center will close to the last day of work.

 When everyone heard the news they were shocked and angry. No one could believe that this could happen to them…that they will be unemployed within six months. The parents of the children that these teachers were taking care of were angry beyond belief, saying that this company is taking good care and opportunity away from their children. They organized parent groups, came up with cost saving techniques and passed petitions around hoping that the company will change its mind and keep the daycare open. Even with all the effort that the parents put forth, they did not succeed. Within the months that followed, all the parents started to look for new daycares where they could take their children to. They asked their child’s’ teachers where they’re going hoping they will be able to enroll their child there. After visiting a few centers, everyone said that there was no place like the one they are at right now and that it will be really hard to settle for one. Never the less some parents settled for certain daycares even though they didn’t like them as much. Some did it for convenience and some did it because they had no choice.

hypertext

not just about writing , but about choosing the right method of describing your ideas. let’s say that a major impact in reading someone’s blog has to do with the way that  page is designed. just choose an appropriate font size and an appropriate color contrast between fonts and background. so you are not going to choose black color fot the fonts and dark grey dor the background.(same idea applies when you design your power point presentation-see micrsoft website for some power point templates)

there is one more thing: make useful all your writtings. place a weblink next to it-make it easyer for the reader.

I will come back with detailed instructions.