Waiting For Something To Happen
Interesting if you enjoy seeing someone’s brains splattered across the screen-not literally you sicko…Basically this bad-boy has become a source of cheap therapy.Archive for work
So 24 hours later….
So here it is. The interview went exceptionally well, so well in fact that despite the standard “we’ll be interviewing the next two weeks so we’ll be in touch” I received on the way out from HR, I guess I made an impact on the guy who would be running the department who sat in because later that day I had a request for a second interview.
Said second interview will take place on Monday morning.
As for my current job, I’ve packed in some overtime. One of the joys to being one of a few who can actually fill in for a job that cannot be left unstaffed for even a minute. It’ll feel great in the wallet, but so far all I’ve felt has been exhaustion. Right now in fact I’m writing because even though I’m tired, so, so tired…..I can’t fall asleep.
Also I might add, one of the bonuses to not having anyone to go home to is being able to accept overtime and schedule changes on the fly like I have the past two days. Thankfully the cats can bear to not have here I’m sure.
OK my eyes hurt, I need to try to sleep.
Back to laundry.
So it’s happened. While talking to my mom today, she mentioned a son of a friend of hers – a year younger than myself – who just had a baby.
I knew this was coming, there were hints, plus I am almost 30 and she is over 50….someone wants to be a grandmother.
Dammit.
Cats can count as children right? They better.
Also, I begin tomorrow three weeks of boredom as they begin to retrain me to take inbound calls. Hoping this is a method to buy time as they find a better fit for me. They must know I’ll quit, fuck, I can take calls at any of the 15 000 call centres in this city really.
Back to laundry.
…warm feelings for this crap…
Nothing really to blog about, my brain is fried from a long week on a different shift, full of random issues that had us all busting our collective asses to fix.
That, and there was a snowstorm, and then it got cold afterwards.
That, and I hate Christmas this year and am more annoyed at the hassle of spending money to get back to NS than anything else. I do need to see the family again, only saw them last Christmas…..but oh man….I so don’t want to do a damn thing this year for it. I honestly couldn’t care less about this holiday.
I wonder if it’s gone for good? Any warm feelings for this crap I mean.
I have heard having kids changes things, or so I’ve been told. I’d hate to think I’ll hate this holiday forever.
This weekend will be spent recovering lost sleep form the previous week, and cleaning….between myself not necessarily making a mess, but not really cleaning up after myself through the week, and Team Chat tearing the place apart, it’s a disaster really.
Part of the problem is though that this apartment was never really fully moved into. Partly due to a lack of furniture. Many months later, here we are, with stuff all over the floor in all corners, in all rooms. Easy prey for cats looking to cause a ruckus.
On a sad note, I received an email stating that my mixtape account will be no more quite soon…but really every account will do that. I guess whatever fight they had been waging to keep one step ahead of the copyright laws finally gave out, so there was a decision to just give it up.
So those dead links claiming mixtape fun? NOT MY FAULT.
…Team Chat cat fight…
So lots of getting up in the morning this week….also lots of trying to sleep all night and not being able to. So far I’d say I’ve had 6-7 hours sleep in two days. Yippee.
Also, there’s a Team Chat cat fight happening on me right now.
Tomorrow is supposed to be a snow storm, so that means plenty of call-ins tomorrow at work, and plenty of extra work for me to catch up with it all – plus apparently they decided to schedule my 2nd supervisor interview for the morning, so I get to get up even earlier and go to the other building to write.
At least it’s OT – makes up slightly for the OT being canceled this upcoming Saturday.
I apparently wrote the first test in “record time”….really it was beyond easy so I have no idea what they’re talking about.
Below is a funny zone.
Snowman anyone?
Snow storm? Apparently. It is here, now.
I know because after work I spent 20 minutes in a breadline at the grocery store as the place was being ransacked in preparation.
Snowman anyone?
Also I’ve determined that work does not pay me enough to put up with the shit I handle. My chest was so tight from the stress I was wondering when the heart attack would hit. Also I do believe I swore a few times, quite loudly.
Fredericton will be like an extended vacation I suspect.
There’s no line worthy of a title here.
So I’m one step closer to getting my move. We had another meeting, this time with the head of HR for all the provincial sites, who is going to get things going himself. We’re aiming for January, not only because my current job is scheduled until then, but as I suggested why bother to pay to retrain me to go back on the phone when I can instead start in Fredericton and be trained there.
So there we have it. Nothing definite, but we all seemed to be in agreement on the timeline.
In other news, I stopped a car from rolling into the front doors of the building (and possibly into any number of random people using the parking lot as a shortcut to the grocery store). I was moving the car on my break when I watched a woman pull in, and park out front on the banked part of the parking lot. It’s a pretty steep grade, but if your brakes work, you’ll be fine. Hers did not. Well they did, but I suspect something worse was going on, like the transmission was having issues.
Anyway long story short – she had gone in by this time, and the car was moving downhill a foot at a time. So I grabbed the biggest rock I could find, jammed it under the tire, and ran inside to find her.
I suspect she’ll be using the parking brake a lot more often now.
…I don’t expect my hand held throughout life…
So I understand change is good, but I have to admit I never foresaw the changes that would lead me to being stuck in the situation I’m in.
I feel as if 1) I have no future prospects whatsoever, and 2) I’ve been abandoned on a few different fronts and that is contributing to problem #1.
Now I mean, no one really owes me anything, so I don’t expect my hand held throughout life, and everyone is free to make their own decisions, but it seems like I went from awesome to shitty pretty quickly.
Work has hit a dead end, with only vague promises of what “could be” as long as I’m willing to make certain sacrifices – well to be honest I believe I have sacrificed enough thank you – I’m no pushover and I’ll prove it by leaving trust me.
My personal life has gone to crap as well. I mean, I really do enjoy my space and freedom, but this is too much. I’m now finding myself alone in a two bedroom apartment with just my cat for company. Most of the old crew of friends I have either been at odds with recently, or the ones I talk to are in relationships and are obviously enjoying being a couple too much – which I don’t blame them, partly how I got here I suppose.
I went through facebook and sent messages to a few people I used to hang out with – but yeah, everyone has their own things on the go now. I’m happy for them though, some of these same people weren’t happy with things back when we last saw each other so that’s good at least.
It’s not fair to say no one is around, there are a few still hanging around, but to be honest I’m not into constantly hanging out with say the same one or two people over and over again. It actually makes me feel more sad then if I just did my own thing at home with the cat.
Well time to go, I need to go get the laundry from the dryer, then most likely hit up the usual job search sites in the hopes something was posted yesterday that seems like my ticket out of the dump….then….well I suppose clean up. I’ve gotten into the habit of not cleaning at all throughout the week, so by Saturday morning this place is a disaster.
OK here’s something that can cheer up anyone I’m certain of this.
…superfantasticawesome.
So I updated the “about me” section again…..seems as if it had stored a previous version of the page….man, hoping that wasn’t the page being displayed the past two weeks……blah.
Tried to find another youtube video of another song I’ve heard recently and think is superfantasticawesome. No luck however, but what I can do is link you to the MySpace for Dee. The song in question is Weight of the World, although the first track Hot is pretty neat as well.
So the early week has so far been going good. Pretty much fine with getting up at 7:30 a.m. now. Yesterday was plain nuts, the Montreal site went down – crazy Autumn snowstorm killing the power in central Canada. Soooooo we took all their calls, plus ours, plus we’re not set up to handle more then the occasional french call…..needless to say I was working through my breaks just to keep everything from going to hell.
But not only did I pull it off, but I rocked the shit out of it. Hope management was paying attention.
In “bigger” news, I’ve been feeling like a change needs to happen fast. I’m just bored with the same old, and I can say with all honesty I am actively trying to provoke change….but so far nothing, so frustrating. I need something new….so lets get on with it already huh?
THIS IS BORING.
It would be fun to try the National Novel Writing Month but I suspect I really have no energy to want to try. Seems all I do now is either work, sleep, or work towards getting better work. Oh, and I play with the cat occasionally, like right now we’re playing….I have to, if I don’t he screams, then to really get my attention if that doesn’t work (because I can tune him out now), he hops up on my laptop. Fucker.
Hoping the new cat addition soon to come will give him another outlet apart from me.
OK this is boring me as well, I may just hit the exercise equipment while I’m on a roll (I actually did it, the other morning I used it before work, it actually wasn’t all that amazing really)
Lates
…little victories.
I am so tired right now. Exhausted really. I’ve been getting up earlier and early, with the culmination of my efforts tomorrow in about 10 hours or so, when I get up at around 6 a.m. or so.
I could have gotten out of it, but I really just wanted to prove I could do it. If not for the management types, then for myself.
Sadly all I have lately are these little victories. That and a cat who screams a bit too much.
Thinking a road trip would be the ticket.
