First thing this morning, one of my most popular tutors came in to give me his two week's notice. Fabulous. So he'll be leaving right before finals. Excellent. I'm pretty annoyed. This semester, folks have been dropping like flies and I don't know why. I think it's just bad luck, because they all seem to have pretty unique reasons. I really wanted to explain to him how this could negatively affect my willingness to give him a reference, but then I realized that was BS since he is giving two week's notice (though I would have preferred he just stuck it out through the end of the semester), and he's leaving because he got a better position, so he doesn't need a reference from me anyway.
This also annoys me because I was contemplating firing another tutor who really hasn't been up to par, but now if I do that I'm basically wiping the schedule clean.
Luckily in about 45 minutes I'll have a new hire come in to discuss her schedule, so I can at least salvage some of the gaps.
Sigh. How's your Monday going?