Lost!?!

A couple of weeks ago, I received my paperwork from the Illinois Teacher's Retirement System for my pension.  I was supposed to send the paperwork to my adminstration to have them complete the report documenting my years of employement and my remaining sick days.

I sent them to the administrative assistant of our business manager.  As I was placing these documents in the interoffice mail envelope, I thought, "I hope these papers don't get lost in the mail between here and 'across the street.'

Well, a few days ago, I received an emaill from our business manager, complaining that he had not received my paperwork.  Sigh.  It looks like they have lost my paperwork!  Though I remembered putting the documents in the interoffice mail, they didn't make it a few hundred feet across the street.  Sigh.

So, at the advice of our business manager, I called the Illinois Teacher's Retirement System, and asked that they send replacement paperwork.

I was told by my adminsitration to have the documents sent directly to our business manager.  But when I asked the TRS person to send them to the business manager, he said, "I don't think we should do that.  I will send them directly to you.  We suggest that you take them directly to your business manager, and make sure he has them in his hand.

If I did my job as bad as our administration, I would have been fired a long time ago.

And the media says that the problem is with the teachers! . . .