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Pay's so low at districts in our area that anyone who's not already doing it and has free time isn't gonna sign up for even more exposure to Omicron, for what t

Pay's so low at districts in our area that anyone who's not already doing it and has free time isn't gonna sign up for even more exposure to Omicron, for what they pay. Talking like $100-120/day and no benefits (of course), depending on the district. Even for this low CoL area, that's shit pay for someone with a degree. Between the low pay and the nature of the work (no guaranteed work, may have to travel to any of several places for work on a given day, background checks, et c.) they'd basically already tapped all the people willing to do that, at the rate they were offering, before there was also a pandemic on top of it. And unlike teachers if a sub gets omicron they just aren't getting paid, for that or any other job, for a couple weeks.

rdtwo 5y ago
The people doing it before we’re basically volunteers for what they were paying. The pay is not even close to enough. They need to pay folks like they pay travel nurses to get staffing levels they need
- brimble 5y ago
  Oh yeah, totally, before it was relying heavily on a population of bored retired teachers wanting to pick up a little money to go drop at the boats or whatever, licensed teachers who hadn't yet landed a full time role and wanted time in a classroom plus some networking for their job search, and a handful of others that can go in some kind of "miscellaneous" bucket. The trouble is there are only so many of those, and most who were interested were already doing it. [EDIT] this is actually yet another case where a universal healthcare system would help. $120/day and an uncertain schedule is a lot more appealing when your healthcare's covered. Not saying it's great, but that would help a lot.
  - rdtwo 5y ago
    None of them signed up to be babysitters of last resort of sick kids in a failing school system. It’s kind of the difference between working at a nuclear power plants and doing nuclear clean up post melt down. The levels of risk and required pay are completely different
    - brimble 5y ago
      Definitely. Plus most of those retired teachers doing it are older, so higher-risk, and might, understandably, not be super eager to hang out all day in a germ factory for $100.
      - rdtwo 5y ago
        Yeah I think it’s basically asking them if they want Covid in high doses right now for what would have been low pay in good times.

rdtwo 5y ago

The people doing it before we’re basically volunteers for what they were paying. The pay is not even close to enough. They need to pay folks like they pay travel nurses to get staffing levels they need

brimble 5y ago
Oh yeah, totally, before it was relying heavily on a population of bored retired teachers wanting to pick up a little money to go drop at the boats or whatever, licensed teachers who hadn't yet landed a full time role and wanted time in a classroom plus some networking for their job search, and a handful of others that can go in some kind of "miscellaneous" bucket. The trouble is there are only so many of those, and most who were interested were already doing it. [EDIT] this is actually yet another case where a universal healthcare system would help. $120/day and an uncertain schedule is a lot more appealing when your healthcare's covered. Not saying it's great, but that would help a lot.
- rdtwo 5y ago
  None of them signed up to be babysitters of last resort of sick kids in a failing school system. It’s kind of the difference between working at a nuclear power plants and doing nuclear clean up post melt down. The levels of risk and required pay are completely different
  - brimble 5y ago
    Definitely. Plus most of those retired teachers doing it are older, so higher-risk, and might, understandably, not be super eager to hang out all day in a germ factory for $100.
    - rdtwo 5y ago
      Yeah I think it’s basically asking them if they want Covid in high doses right now for what would have been low pay in good times.