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Need others Perspective!

So I need the perspective from someone 60 or older.

So I called and sent a text to a coworker who is 60+ asking them what time they plan on coming in? I was waiting for them to reply back to ask them if I can come in to help/assist. But she never replied. So I came in anyways. She informed me last week that I will only be paid for Tuesday-Friday but I wanted to come in just to help. So I called another co-worker and she said we were supposed to come in at a certain which is 8:00am. So I came in ahead of time.

The co-worker that is 60+ years old thought that I was going somewhere else today but that was why I wanted to call her and ask her if I can come in a bit early to help before for parent/teacher meeting in the evening.

She said I can do my bulletin board but I didn't have the materials with me today but I did tell her my plans on what I was going to do with it because she mention about how I can come in on Wednesday to set up. But I figured I can come in today just for the kindness of my heart to help her. So since I didn't have the materials for my bulletin board. I figured that I could do some professional development courses online at my jobs computer since I have a issue logging in at home or other devices. And I mention to the 60+ co worker if you need help let me know. After a few minutes, she brought me a list of 5 things to do. I did them.

Then I asked her what else she would like me to do and she pointed to the bulletin board again. Now the conversation went by soooo fast that I can't even recall everything.

I was trying to express to the teacher that I tried to communicate with her this morning to ask her if I can come in to assist her even if I am not being paid for today but I never gotten that chance because she never texted me or called me back. So I came in So all I wanted her to know is that I am here to help her.....I don't think I even got a chance to finish my statement and here she go saying "Well you can leave if you want......" I was like what am I doing or saying that comes off as if I don't want to be here? And I left it at that and walked away to get something to drink.....like if anything if she didn't need my help....why show me a list of 5 things to do? Which I didn't mind doing lol. So why you telling me "Well you can leave if you want." Why couldn't she just leave me on the computer focusing on my professional development then? Lol

What you all think?
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hippyjoe1955 · 61-69, M
She wasn't prepared for your help.
OpalFlower · 31-35, F
@hippyjoe1955 Ok so if she wasn't prepared for my help....why not just leave me alone at the computer doing my professional development courses that she keeps bugging me about to do....when I keep having a issue logging in from anywhere else.....Then trying to contact the school board to help me fix the issue is like trying to get in contact with the President lol