So much for the 4 truths and a lie post getting me to update sooner. If anyone cares anymore, the lie was #1. I've never worked in a bank. I wonder if things ever do get stuck in those, though? Not that I care to find out...
I arrived at work yesterday to discover my 3 remaining coworkers have been put back on temporary layoff, at the close of this, our supposed busy season. They had been working 32-40 hours per week all summer, while I never was brought up to more than 24, and I have been at 15 for a month. Because I'm all overhead. No billable time here.
Anyway, no one has told me I am laid off, so I have decided to just keep coming in. I came in this morning, bracing myself to be asked why I am here, but my boss seemed to be expecting me. Maybe they think the fact that I, a full time employee, have been working part time for 9 months, and part time keeps getting less and less, is close enough to a layoff and they might be pushing their luck to lay me off when I've received the brunt of the cuts all along.
Or maybe they simply haven't gotten around to it yet...
Or maybe in a year I will realize I haven't been paid in 12 months and that my office is now in a supply room.
For now, it's back to those TPS reports...
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Copycat
Flurrious and NPW recently did this, so I figured that I would blatently imitate them. As an added bonus, I will have to return within a day or two to tell you which answer was right.
So, four truths and a lie, work related edition. Which one of these is false?
1. I worked at a bank and while working the drive up window, a customer's deposit in the cylinder got stuck mid-transport, causing mass panic.
2. Just out of high school, I was excited to be promoted to supervisor at Record Town after only two months there, thus acquiring a key to the facility and to the register to wear on one of those springy things on my wrist.
3. I once worked at a Dunkin Donuts that was two doors down from my apartment. There was no excuse to be late for work.
4. I was forced to quit my waitressing job in high school for allegedly backtalking to my stepmom.
5. I volunteered for two months at a library before actually being hired to work for pay.
Good luck. :-)
So, four truths and a lie, work related edition. Which one of these is false?
1. I worked at a bank and while working the drive up window, a customer's deposit in the cylinder got stuck mid-transport, causing mass panic.
2. Just out of high school, I was excited to be promoted to supervisor at Record Town after only two months there, thus acquiring a key to the facility and to the register to wear on one of those springy things on my wrist.
3. I once worked at a Dunkin Donuts that was two doors down from my apartment. There was no excuse to be late for work.
4. I was forced to quit my waitressing job in high school for allegedly backtalking to my stepmom.
5. I volunteered for two months at a library before actually being hired to work for pay.
Good luck. :-)
Thursday, September 02, 2010
Bittersweet
I just dropped my son off to daycare for the last time in the foreseeable future.
He starts first grade next week, and had I been working full time, would have required an hour of care before and after school. I am working 15 hours. Because that's what I'm down to at my formerly full time job, the one I've worked at since the mid-nineties.
Hubby and I have decided that we want me to work part time, but this is kind of ridiculously part time. However, most 25 hour a week jobs would probably pay less weekly than I am making at 15 hours a week.
I may be laid off again within weeks, which will prompt an aggressive job search, as my unemployment was pretty much drained this winter. Right now I am very passively looking - Only for my "dream" part time job.
So why bitterweet? Is it because he has gone to that daycare for most of the first 6 years of his life? Is it because he is suddenly such a big kid? Is it because most of his closest friends were met there? Is it because the only job I've known for so long is probably about gone kaput?
Probably a combination of all those things. A few hours of work for me this afternoon, then off to enjoy a 4 day holiday weekend, and the first day of school...and whatever else is to come.
He starts first grade next week, and had I been working full time, would have required an hour of care before and after school. I am working 15 hours. Because that's what I'm down to at my formerly full time job, the one I've worked at since the mid-nineties.
Hubby and I have decided that we want me to work part time, but this is kind of ridiculously part time. However, most 25 hour a week jobs would probably pay less weekly than I am making at 15 hours a week.
I may be laid off again within weeks, which will prompt an aggressive job search, as my unemployment was pretty much drained this winter. Right now I am very passively looking - Only for my "dream" part time job.
So why bitterweet? Is it because he has gone to that daycare for most of the first 6 years of his life? Is it because he is suddenly such a big kid? Is it because most of his closest friends were met there? Is it because the only job I've known for so long is probably about gone kaput?
Probably a combination of all those things. A few hours of work for me this afternoon, then off to enjoy a 4 day holiday weekend, and the first day of school...and whatever else is to come.
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