Ok, so nothing is official yet, but a little bird told me (ok, my workmate told me) that my supervisor is changing! Anyone who has asked me about my new job may have noticed that my explanation boiled down to: supervisor = sucky, everything else = awesome. So the news that he is changing is greatly appreciated! The other ALT is particularly pleased - he has been campaigning for years to have the supervisor changed and has watched five JET participants like myself come through and have problems with this guy. I had already planned how I would warn my replacement not to take it personally how rude the supervisor is and not to hold back on asking for help, even when he does try to push it back onto the ALT ("Hello, I can't read this Japanese form! That's what you're for!!").
Having said that, this supervisor hasn't caused me too much stress. Because I've been married to an ALT - one with an excellent supervisor, I should add - I know what supervisors do and the kind of random issues they expect to help out with. So I've had no qualms about TELLING my supervisor what I need him to do, and if he tries to tell me I need to do it myself, I tell him I can't and I need HIM to do it. That has worked fairly well and my biggest issue with him, really, has been about personal hygiene. I am very very very appreciative this means no more journeys in the car with him and his body odour!! Unfortunately, his no longer being my supervisor won't stop him standing in front of the office fan in summer, while it propels his personal stench all through the room, but you can't have everything!
I have no idea who will be taking over, but as my supervisor is currently the most antisocial member of the staff (so bad that the nurse was giggling at me having to share a car with him), anything is up from here. In all seriousness, every other member of the English department is super lovely and I'm very excited to see who is my official minder as of December!
No comments:
Post a Comment