Coworker constantly interrupting my classes (GED teacher in corrections)

I (25F) work as a full time GED teacher in a medium security men’s prison. There are three other teachers in addition to myself. We have this one lady in her mid 40s who works as the placement specialist, yet acts as if her job duties entail supervising us teachers. When she’s not policing us around, she just sits at her desk and shops online and/or applied to other jobs.

This woman (call her A) does absolutely nothing for most of the day, except police everybody around. Our boss is gone 60% of the time as he works at different facilities, so she pretty much gets away with everything because of this. One day an inmate was not on the right call out list to be excused from his dorm (so that he could come to class), so while my inmate TAs and students were all gone to lunch, I followed typical protocol and walked down to the central gate to make sure the COs know to release him still. The CO acknowledges and makes a note, so I did my job and all is good. I turn around and A is right there. She then starts scolding me on how I “need to be in the classroom at all times so that way I’m there when my students return”, so I respond with an ‘alright’ and went back to my classroom.

Two weeks later, Ms. A ‘no call no shows’ the morning I get in to work. My boss was frantically looking for her bc the two of them had to travel to a mandatory meeting at a facility 30 min away. I asked the other teacher and she went on about how much she absolutely hates miss A and that surprise surprise miss A is the main reason my colleague is transferring to another facility 😂 She and I spent a good hour just spilling on how much we dislike her. Apparently she applied for one of our positions and the educational director refused to hire her lol.

A has also apparently gone around and tried to get each inmate worker fired. Our boss is too afraid to fire her himself bc he thinks she’ll file a discrimination lawsuit against him (she’s POC), even though she’s only been there three months and still has seven to go before she’s off probation.

I found out today that our other teacher is now also leaving. I have (since last week) started the paperwork to transfer to another facility bc I just CANNOT stand this woman and her false sense of authority. I’d be in the middle of class and she’d just barge in the room yelling at me about “making sure “ to do stuff (that’s not a part of my job at all). Right in front of my inmate TAs and students which is just highly inappropriate!

At this point I’m just hoping my boss grows the balls to fire her before I transfer out (I think it’ll be another two weeks before that happens). I’m just tired of going into work everyday with the threat of her fire breathing hanging over my head.

I’ve just had enough.

Submitted February 11, 2024 at 06:00AM by powderpuffpenguin https://ift.tt/g8rs1tR