Administrative snafu

Its my third day of subbing and I've already had my first administrative snafu for the school year. I arrived at the school (which had the worst parking of any school I've ever been at), and there was already a substitute there for that same teacher. It gets worse, they didn't even need a single substitute. So there are two of us there for zero openings.

The other substitute left right away, but I stuck around to make them figure it out with the substitute office at district headquarters. Supposedly what happened is that the teacher had been scheduled to go to a math inservice, but the staff development office never informed the teacher or the school's principal about the training session. Heads will probably roll, but absolutely no blame can come my way.

On the plus side, the substitute office didn't have any other openings for the day so they were required to pay me for a half day (a full day would have been better). But I am quite content to be paid for sitting at home (actually catching up on sleep at home).

This isn't the first time that this has happened to me, it happened a couple of times last year where staff development ordered a substitute but didn't inform anyone about training. Talk about a waste of education dollars.

Anyone care to make a prediction about the number of administrative snafus I will have to deal with this school year? I am prediciting 3 incorrect assignments.