My New Job
So Yesterday, I reminded [[that place I applied]] that I'd applied for a job doing customer service for [[the company they do customer service for]], and was asked to come in and interview today. It was pretty obvious really, by the time I was halfway through the interveiw process that she intended to hire me. I start June 15 for the training classes. 7am to 3:30pm... so whew... early start, but then again, I'll have a good chunk of day left at the end of the day to do... STUFF... Which'll be nice. And no weekends for 5 weeks. Then I think my normal schedule may include one weekend day. I'm not sure yet. It may be one weekend day or it may be one weekend day on rotation. I'm sure I'll find out the details once I get started. Since I'm an early hire, it looks like I can pretty much call my schedule, so though I gave my availability as pretty much 8am to 12am daily, when I mentioned to the interviewer (once I had it in so many words that I had the job) that I would prefer the morning shift, she asked me to mark out my availability to be off by 6 each day. which is still pretty open availability, but prevents me from being stuck on nights after training is done. Once I get done with training, I may actually decide I like working early early and being off early early. I don't know. We'll see. I'm excited, but also a little nervous.
phoenixfyre1 applied there after I did, when I told her they were definitely hiring and that she ought to go apply. She did, and interviewed later in the day and also was hired as I knew she would be. She's probably a better more reliable worker than I am. I don't think they'll be sorry, and she's not someone who is going to walk out over something petty either, and that's what they need. We start the same day, and I'm pretty sure we're in the same training class. So I'll know someone there, and maybe I won't have to go to lunch by myself all the time like I did at the last place. That was how I knew I wasn't going to last at C&E... nobody ever suggested I go to lunch with them, and when I asked someone if they wanted to, they were always going with other people (and never suggested "Why don't you come along with us?" You know? you just know that you don't fit in when it's like that.
Anyway. Go me. Anyone looking for a job. Go get one. Now. Dress yourself up, walk in and say I want a job. Please give me one. ANY job pays more than $0. I have never accepted the idea that when someone is out of work and looking, that they won't accept a job because it doesn't pay enough. Any pay is more than no pay. It's just that simple.
phoenixfyre1 applied there after I did, when I told her they were definitely hiring and that she ought to go apply. She did, and interviewed later in the day and also was hired as I knew she would be. She's probably a better more reliable worker than I am. I don't think they'll be sorry, and she's not someone who is going to walk out over something petty either, and that's what they need. We start the same day, and I'm pretty sure we're in the same training class. So I'll know someone there, and maybe I won't have to go to lunch by myself all the time like I did at the last place. That was how I knew I wasn't going to last at C&E... nobody ever suggested I go to lunch with them, and when I asked someone if they wanted to, they were always going with other people (and never suggested "Why don't you come along with us?" You know? you just know that you don't fit in when it's like that.Anyway. Go me. Anyone looking for a job. Go get one. Now. Dress yourself up, walk in and say I want a job. Please give me one. ANY job pays more than $0. I have never accepted the idea that when someone is out of work and looking, that they won't accept a job because it doesn't pay enough. Any pay is more than no pay. It's just that simple.