Yes, that's correct. Since "no one" is hiring, I have found another job. And each one of my jobs keeps getting better and better! But it has also seemed that with my jobs, they all start great at first and then turn to crap. Lets review. In the past two years I have had four new jobs.
Directv, blah. No need to get into detail there. Training was fun, and then it went to crap fast.
From Directv I got hired on at Craft Warehouse. I was so happy to have that job so I could run as fast as I could away from Directv. Even though it meant a three dollar and seventy-five cent an hour pay cut :/ I didn't care! It was fine for the first couple of months. Then people started showing their true colors. And yes, there is drama at any place you work (trust me I know. Have five hours and I can tell you about Men's Wearhouse. Men are worse than women, not kidding) but its different when people just tell blatant lies about you. I'm sorry I'm 30 years younger than you. Take that one up with God. But I do my job. Anyway! The last three months of working there where just awful. I loved some people I worked with, but others I couldn't stand to be around anymore.
So finally, my big break!! Or so I thought. I got a job at St. Lukes! Yes! A hospital job! This is going to be amazing! Its so hard to get into a hospital and once your in your golden! Yea right! I was hired as a flex employee in Central Processing. They do a lot for the OR. Pick case carts for surgeries, put instrumentation kits together, auto-clave (aka sterilizing) instruments, and clean dirty instruments from surgeries. It was discussing. But I didn't care because I thought it was going to be super easy to get an MA job since now I was in the system. The good: I got out of Craft Warehouse, it paid two dollars and seventy-five cents more and hour. And even though I was flex my training would take about a month, a little more and I would be working full time on the day shift. 7-3:30. The bad: Well, from my very first day people where already complaining to me that they hate their job and that their boss sucks. Really people? Its my first day. Give me a little more positive feed back here! And on my first day I found out that I have to work for six months before I could transfer. Ok, that's not that big of a deal.
I got through my first week of training and a few days of my second week when the assistant told me that her and the boss wanted to talk to me. I thought great, I've been here a week. What did I do already?! They informed me that up stairs in the OR (ok so you walk into the hospital and your on the main floor, the basement is the OR and we where below the OR!! No windows, artificial light. We where the basements basement!) they have orderly's. They run around and help during surgeries. Getting equipment, taking specimens to the lab and etc. And that everyone that was working on the night shift had quit or transferred to another position. (that should have been my first clue) Jim, the director over the OR and in CS (central processing where I work, they called it CS) needed some help and wanted someone from CS to go help in the OR until they hired their new staff. I would be doing a huge favor to Jim and blah blah blah. So my supervisor made it sound like I could go help and if I liked it I could chose to stay up there or to come back down to CS. So I go help. I did because I knew it was another guarantee of 40 hours a week for at least another month. But it was the night shift 3-11 so that sucked but you got paid more. So that was awesome. I got to walk in on some pretty awesome surgeries. Some drama but again that was to be excepted. Mostly just some misunderstandings about what we where suppose to do. I got annoyed only because I was never trained. I was thrown up there and they just expected me to know what to do. An orderly from the day shift came and helped but she got annoyed too because day shift and night shift was really different and people just expected her to know what she was doing. She did, but during the day they do it different. Anyway that got resolved in a day or two. So I was up there for just over two months. The supervisor told me that if I wanted to stay they would give me and interview. So I applied, and I got my interview. I thought really it was just a technicality. At that point I was pretty much trained. So you would think that they wouldn't want to waste any money and just hire me since, again, I was already, for the most part, trained. Interview went really well. The next day he came up to me and said, and I quote "we are hesitant to hire you because you went to school to be an MA and we are afraid you are going to find a job in two weeks and leave us and we will be back to square one." Really? Freaking awesome. I was pissed. There was a lot of transion going on. It was a mess. To make a long story short, I didn't get the job. They hired two other people, and I HELPED TRAIN THEM. Does this make any since to anyone? Then one day they said, ok we don't need your help anymore. You can go back downstairs. One of the great things about an MA is we are trained in everything. Yes, you see them more in doctors offices but we got trained in, front office, back office, lab, pharmacy, etc.
So I went back downstairs. I got hired on full time down in CS but on the night shift. That it was fine, I got benefits. So I finished my training. Took about another month. Since I had to start all over. I was just so upset. I got to know everyone up stairs, then I got to know everyone on day shift down stairs just in time for me to be thrown into another shift with different people! I just wanted to stay in one area! I was tired of having to get to know new people all over again!! And oh my there was some interesting people that worked on the night shift. I was ready to go crazy. I hated it and I didn't care if people knew. I wasn't rude or anything but if they asked me if I was liking it I would say "no". Haha I think that threw people off a little bit. I'm not really known for speaking my mind, but working there kinda changed that a little bit. They last day I was working days, the supervisor (the one who no one liked) asked me if I was excited to go to nights. I said "no". She kinda looked at me funny and said "I thought you where excited to be working full time" I said "I am. But that doesn't mean I'm excited about working nights." She said "you where so excited when I offered you the full time position." I replied " again, I'm exctied to be working full time but not happy about the hours." She replied with " well, I like my employees to be happy." So I said "really, that's good. I'm not." Now that may not seem like much to you. But you have to know me. When it comes to supervisors I'm usually all, oh yes everything is great I'm so happy blah blah blah. As I walked away I was over come with holy crap! You just said that to a supervisor! I was very proud of myself, speaking my mind. I wasn't rude, per-say, I kinda had an attitude in my voice but my mom doesn't call me Catitude for no reason.
What really was the breaking point for me was when my grandma died. Now, if you know anything about my extended family you know there's some family drama. Again, there's drama in every family but I think my fathers side has more than most. The grandma that died was my dads mom. Now we haven't talk to her in like seven years I think. I haven't even ever ran into her. My dad has but the last time I saw her was our family trip to Arizona back in 2003 (i think) Now we found out on a Tuesday. I was working nights, so when I got off at 11:30 I had a text from my sister saying that she had passed. So, now what I'm going to tell you may sound awful and judge me if you wish but I was needing Friday off to go to a friends wedding and I was just going to call in. Well, her funeral was on Friday. But in California, so we weren't going to the funeral. (My dad didn't even go) So I was going to go in the next day tell me that she passed, which was true, and that her funeral was on Friday, again all true. I never said that I was going, I was only speaking facts. Anyway, both the supervisors where gone on Wednesday. So I thought well crap I want to give them at least a few days notice. But oh well, not my fault they where gone. Well Thursday came and the assistant was gone. So I saw the super in the locker room. I asked her if she was leaving. She said no that she was going to a meeting and asked me if I needed something. I said yes. And these where my exact words "my grandmother died. Her funeral is on Friday. So I'm not going to be in." She said, ok when I get back from my meeting we will talk and TAKE A LOOK AT THE SCHEDULE. What? Take a look at the schedule? No I'm sorry no nothing. It doesn't matter if we where close or not. You don't say that to someone who's relative just died. What if we where super close and she said that. That just pushed me over the edge. You have to have respect for your employees. And she did not. If it didn't effect her, she didn't care. Well, she got back from her meeting and just left. She didn't even talk to me. So I told a few people what happened and that I wasn't going to be in the next day. I tried to give them plenty of warning. Not my fault they weren't there. So on Monday the assistant came up to me and said so i see there was some confusion about you needing time off. What confusion? "Cindy said that you had talk to her about needing time off but that you never followed up with her and didn't know why you needed it off" I was so mad. I said "I told Cindy in the locker room that my grandmothers funeral was on Friday and I wasn't going to be in. She then told me we would talk after her meeting but she just left after it and ever followed up with me. How the that confusion? I found out on Tuesday you and her where both gone and Wednesday and you where gone on Thursday. I tried to tell someone. There was on confusion. I told her." That little statement could have gotten me fired. But I didn't care. At least if they fired me I could get unemployment until I found a job.
I was so tired of just settling for jobs because they where giving to me. I was tired of waking up in the morning dreading going to work. There's a difference between having one of those days where you just don't feel like working. Everyone has those days. And dreading you job. On my way home from the wedding I was talking to Joe about how I was feel about my job and such. So I looked on Craigslist on my phone. And I saw an add for a Front Office Coordinator for a Physical Therapist. As soon as we got home I applied. The next day, Saturday, I got a phone call and set up an interview for Monday. From the moment I set up the interview I felt like the job was mine. I did the interview and for once an interview felt like it went well. I can never really tell. A few days went by and early Friday morning I got a phone call offering me the job! I was so happy! I started that coming Tuesday. Monday was the fourth. So I didn't give two week. I didn't really care because if your employer has no respect for you, why should you give them respect. There was some more "confusion" about me working they fourth. She scheduled me to work day shift on the fourth. She didn't even ask me. She just did it. I said no, I work nights. Now if you want me to start working all days I will. But that's not the case for just because its convenient for you I'm not working on the fourth! She was actually mad when I said no. I told her I would work nights if they needed someone cuz that was the shift I worked.(again could have been fired for that statement) YOU DIDN'T ASK ME. It may have been different if you did. But you did. So sorry! I only worked there for four months anyway and I'm not going to use them for a reference! Plus they needed me to start right away and I couldn't pass it up. I called in on Friday so I could have a four day weekend. Went into work late Monday night, got my stuff and slipped a note under her door, thanking her and telling her sorry I couldn't give two weeks but that I QUIT. Amazing feeling.
So I have been working at Physical Therapy of Idaho for about a month now. I like it. I can get boring at times but usually I find something to do! I get paid more, they are flexible with time off. (That was another thing. I St. Lukes you had to have PTO to take time off. I think that's stupid. I know alot of companies do that. But don't you think they would be happy not to pay you? And I guess the supervisor was really bad about giving people time off even if they asked for it months and months in advance.) Now with my track record, I don't want this job to turn to crap :( I like working the front desk. I hope it doesn't! Its funny. The therapist that hired me resigned like two weeks after I started. So I have a new therapist already. Not too much drama.
Wow, this post was really long. Sorry! Well, I guess I could give you an update on everything else that's going on! Joe finished his summer semester and is starting fall semester here soon. He took Chinese this summer. Ne Hao. He would come home and talk about it and then we would start craving chinese food! haha. He is going to have a full work load this fall. Its the first time he isn't taking on line classes!! Three classes mwf and two classes t th!! Busy boy! Joe works in the morning pressure washing a few sonic parking lots. If you need anything pressure washed he'd be happy to do it! He's pretty much a pro! That's really it for now. Maybe if we where a little more interesting I would post more. Maybe one day we will be!
