I don't even know what's going on anymore...
They've extended the layoff date at work, so I'll actually have a job til September 30th and not May 30th. They called a bunch of us into an office one at a time to extend the offer and asked to keep it confidential, 'cause not everyone was being asked to stay and I guess they didn't want to hurt any feelings? 'Cause, yeah, my team has had a great history of keeping things quiet. That news was out within a day. And I don't even know why they bothered to ask, the first layoff date was April 9th. Pretty sure the rest would have noticed when next week rolled around and people came back to work on the 10th.
From what I understand, training isn't going as quickly as anticipated and they're not gonna meet deadline to have our work rolled out overseas. If they'd have asked any one of us on the team we could have told them that it wasn't going to be possible. Not with less than two months to get training material put together and then barely two weeks of training. What we do is a lot more complicated than our job title implies and it's very detail oriented. I've been working in this position for seven years and I still get issues that throw me for a loop. I can't imagine trying to do my job with just two weeks of training and no one around with actual hands on experience to help me.
Customer Service is still going to be leaving next week and pretty sure Parts and Service will be going in July. The floor is going to be so empty, it's going to be creepy. I would suspect they're going to want to move us upstairs with Finance and Executive Office except the registers are too expensive to move, so we'll probably just be left to work all alone. Unless, of course, they do let our replacements take over the retail side of our job, in which case we won't need the registers. Hmmm... The possibilities are endless.
Two days ago the floor manager came over and asked me and Lisa (the team's performance coach) to go up to HR to sign some paperwork. It's to get access to a program that handles credit card issues and requires a criminal record check, and they're laying off the people that are currently doing the credit disputes and they want to add this to our workload. 'Cause, you know, we're not doing enough already. I don't understand, okay. Why not just keep the people already doing the work? Who already know what they're doing and have been doing it for years?
It's probably 'cause they're Customer Service and make upwards of two or three dollars more than I do.
In the middle of all this, I got a Facebook message from Jen and she and Mike are coming home early and they'll be staying down here from now on. No more teaching during the school months, Mike's got a job twenty minutes from the house and I'm about to have permanent roommates. Not that I'm complaining, mind. This is their house and I'm lucky to be able to stay even when they come home, just with the bullshit going on at work I've not been a very good housekeeper and I'm gonna have to clean like a lunatic next week before they come home. Because, I meant to do a bit of that today, but then I slept til after noon and woke up with a headache because of it and now I'm lazy and sitting on the couch instead.
Also, Jen's cousin Kyle and probably his girlfriend will be staying here this summer. I dunno how that's gonna work, five of us in a two bedroom house. I mean, Christ, I have the master bedroom and I'm the only single person going to be here. Jen thinks they might turn the laundry room into a make-shift bedroom, but that's a tight squeeze for two people and it's attached to the bathroom. It's gonna get awkward when someone has to shower or use the facilities in the middle of the night. And, anyway, I was thinking about offering to let Kyle and Sofia stay in my room while they're here, but I dunno. It would mean shifting all of my stuff somewhere else and I've become something of a clotheshorse.
My life. My life. I don't know what I'm doing.
From what I understand, training isn't going as quickly as anticipated and they're not gonna meet deadline to have our work rolled out overseas. If they'd have asked any one of us on the team we could have told them that it wasn't going to be possible. Not with less than two months to get training material put together and then barely two weeks of training. What we do is a lot more complicated than our job title implies and it's very detail oriented. I've been working in this position for seven years and I still get issues that throw me for a loop. I can't imagine trying to do my job with just two weeks of training and no one around with actual hands on experience to help me.
Customer Service is still going to be leaving next week and pretty sure Parts and Service will be going in July. The floor is going to be so empty, it's going to be creepy. I would suspect they're going to want to move us upstairs with Finance and Executive Office except the registers are too expensive to move, so we'll probably just be left to work all alone. Unless, of course, they do let our replacements take over the retail side of our job, in which case we won't need the registers. Hmmm... The possibilities are endless.
Two days ago the floor manager came over and asked me and Lisa (the team's performance coach) to go up to HR to sign some paperwork. It's to get access to a program that handles credit card issues and requires a criminal record check, and they're laying off the people that are currently doing the credit disputes and they want to add this to our workload. 'Cause, you know, we're not doing enough already. I don't understand, okay. Why not just keep the people already doing the work? Who already know what they're doing and have been doing it for years?
It's probably 'cause they're Customer Service and make upwards of two or three dollars more than I do.
In the middle of all this, I got a Facebook message from Jen and she and Mike are coming home early and they'll be staying down here from now on. No more teaching during the school months, Mike's got a job twenty minutes from the house and I'm about to have permanent roommates. Not that I'm complaining, mind. This is their house and I'm lucky to be able to stay even when they come home, just with the bullshit going on at work I've not been a very good housekeeper and I'm gonna have to clean like a lunatic next week before they come home. Because, I meant to do a bit of that today, but then I slept til after noon and woke up with a headache because of it and now I'm lazy and sitting on the couch instead.
Also, Jen's cousin Kyle and probably his girlfriend will be staying here this summer. I dunno how that's gonna work, five of us in a two bedroom house. I mean, Christ, I have the master bedroom and I'm the only single person going to be here. Jen thinks they might turn the laundry room into a make-shift bedroom, but that's a tight squeeze for two people and it's attached to the bathroom. It's gonna get awkward when someone has to shower or use the facilities in the middle of the night. And, anyway, I was thinking about offering to let Kyle and Sofia stay in my room while they're here, but I dunno. It would mean shifting all of my stuff somewhere else and I've become something of a clotheshorse.
My life. My life. I don't know what I'm doing.