I'm sorry to hear. I've been pretty mistreated by various employers in the public school system as well. I will actually be starting a new job in the fall because I was done dirty by my former principal. He gave me a perfect evaluation and a very nice letter of recommendation, yet he still called back people under me in seniority and laid me off. I think it ultimately boils down to my salary being higher than those co-workers. I could probably raise hell with the union, but it's just not worth the effort when my new job will be more secure anyway.
I hope that you can find somebody decent to work for. Do you live in a big city? I know that it's sometimes harder to find work there.
No, I'm pretty rural as far as the UK goes. The only thing linking me to a city, is a single bus route. Believe it or not, but it gets worse in some parts of the country. There's not much going on here, the few businesses that do operate in my town aren't looking for people or are medically off limits to me, and there's no money for travelling. Amazing!







