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Joe Quigley - NW Classen Update: August 21, 2002


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The following is an email from Joe Quigley
(Posted 8-21-02)

     At our monday (08/19/02) meeting which included myself, the Union Rep and the principal, I thought we had pretty much arrived at somewhat of a solution to this non-existent copier/fax problem. Basically in accordance with the contract the principal would make whatever copies are needed by those who handle discipline and subsequent grievances, and that when he gave me a memo whether it was a notification of a meeting or anything else related to this or any other new or ongoing"issue", he would include up to four copies so I would not need to make them.
   I am more than sure of this as I took notes and the principal had no problem with my taping the meeting.
    The whole copier/fax policy will be brought up to the faculty escpecially as it was more than obvious that I had not violated any procedure or policy, and perhaps everyone should be clear on the use of these two machines, as according the principal he was aware of such abuse.
    I did mention for the record that I had never abused either the fax or the copier, and that I have never reached or come near my yearly allotment of copies.
   So it was quite a surprise today (08/21/02) when, standing talking to some people in the office, my suspicions cultivated during all the mess of the last three years kicked in and I approached the copy machine. There were teachers there running off various things which I did not bother to check, so the machine was in fine working order. When they were done I entered my pass number ( 3 0's followed by the last four digits of one's social security number) and received the message that I was denied access as I had exceeded my allotment. During the meeting the principal had noted on more than one occasion that the number of copies he saw me make was four.
     Does that mean that whereas all others can run off up to 20 copies at a time for class use, my allotment for the academic year 2002-03 has been held at four?
     I also found it as interesting as the fabricated summary of our meeting of 08/12/02 which seemed to appear as "evidence"that I was neglectful of duty and  indifferent toward policies and proceedures as outlined plainly in the faculty handbook, that within a day of pointing out my never reaching my allotment, the machine now says I have.
     So, is the principal attempting to fabricate a case for termination by first misrepresenting the content of a meeting to make it appear I am what I am not, and now having a machine accuse me of something conveniently after the fact?
     Another question arising would be if I am held to the same performance requirements of other teachers when I am (AGAIN) singled out for treatment? Remember, this happened with that poster memo for a whole year.
     And, I will end with this.
     The principal in having nothing upon which to base an accusation of copier abuse brought up his objection to teachers taking jokes off the internet, making copies in the office and then distributing them to other teachers. Although this had nothing to do with me as I had, and the principal agreed, been running off four copies of a memo he wrote on school stationary, during school time, about something school related, he thought it needed airing in the friendly, chummy part of the purposeless meeting.
      Yet, in the notebook I was using at this very meeting I had a xerox copy of a cartoon taken from the internet by another teacher, copied in the office, and then given to faculty members which bore at the bottom of the page the letters "OK' along with the principal's signature and the date 08/15/02, the date of the day before he wrote the memo calling for the meeting to discuss office copier abuse.
     Your guess is as good as mine as to when this will stop. I thought it had, but I was apparently wrong.
      joe quigley

 

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