My experience with public education. Is this weird or typical?

Question

I wanted to do good, got a job in adult ed. with public school system. Here's some things that happened--
1. The placement test had no validity; I told the admin. No answer. I called the State 'consultant'. She said "Too bad."
2. After 3 months, 1 admin. started hounding me to do data entry. I said ok, but only 2 hours a day. I have carpal tunnel. She said. "Too bad." we all work in pain.
3. I called HR person: she said: "only 2 hours?' we have people with carpal tunnel who type more than that."
4. Had meeting with HR person & admin: Admin said "You should have told us you had carpal tunnel" (But data entry was not on my job duties). HR person just sat there.
5. Asked who was my supervisor and showed my job description. HR person showed me her copy. Name on HR copy was different than mine.
6. HR person drew up letter for my Dr. to sign off on. Duties were completely inaccurate. I was doing data entry 6 hrs/day. Letter said I only needed to do 2 hrs. Letter was total bogus.
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I had three 1-hour interviews before I was hired. Data entry was not on my job duties or ever mentioned as what I would be doing on my job.If it was, I woudn't have applied. I was hired as a testing specialist. The problem wasn't typing; it was that I was ordered to enter numbers on number keypad. I did quit. When I quit, the administrators begged me to stay. Mmmmm.....

Answer 1

Every school system has it's problems, but this sounds like just plain bad administration. It's not right to force employees to do work outside their job description, but it happens all the time. But like others have said, if you're working without a definite contract, and especially in an "at will" state or company, your options are limited. If there is a legal advice phone number / office / website you can find, go to them and see what they have to say. Employers have to realize that they NEED quality, loyal employees, even public school systems.

Answer 2

If you can't perform the duties, they have no obligation to continue your employment - especially if it is an 'at will' state (like Texas) that can fire at will. Also, as worded, what exactly is your complaint? Were you terminated or are you just complaining about the workload? Nobody can force you to do a job you don't want to do so why didn't you just leave?

Answer 3

It's called PUBLIC School.

Just read through the various questions on this site. I actually read something where the person used the word "prolly" instead of the ACTUAL English: probably.