It is Sunday and another weekend has almost passed.
This has been a real transition for me since I worked every weekend for over 13 years. I understand that people usually plan things for the weekend and I guess I should start doing that. To be completely honest, I took a Sunday off here and there every year. I had 5 days of vacation a year and usually opted to have a Sunday off when there was a party I just couldn't miss.
Some people go to church on Sunday but my church surrounds me everyday so I don't have to plan a special expedition. As a matter of fact, the Hummingbird was chatting around me this morning when I let Horace out to run. Hummingbird has flown around me since I got fired. I can see the diversity and changing direction in my Life but I am beginning to feel the Joy of being free.
I mailed out the appeal form to EDD on Friday. So I guess I will start calling them next week to try and expedite the process. When I think about all the paperwork and the beauracracy, I feel fear but when I focus on the Medicine in my Life, I know that the Creator is there and everything will fall into place as long as I do the footwork. Aho!
I hope all my fellows facing the same thing are continuing the footwork. Life is never boring. I'm trying to enjoy that although I think wishing someone an interesting life is a Chinese curse.
Peace Y'all
Sunday, July 24, 2011
Monday, July 18, 2011
Walk In Beauty
I must say Goodwill Industries is amazing. I recalled that a friend of mine went through Goodwill to get a job a number of years ago and there is a career center 1 block from my house.
So, I got up this morning and dragged myself into the new "interview" clothes and took off on another adventure.
I filled out the paperwork and talked to a job "specialist" who is amazing. She is straight forward and very helpful. I am grateful she didn't mince any words and helped me realize what I am actually looking for. I really loved my job at the publishing firm. I was a switchboard operator/receptionist and a damn good one. If that company hadn't been sold off into a Corporate Maze, I would still be there.
Dispatching was a job and I was good at it, but it was so stressful sometimes, it took a long time to calm down and get to sleep. It wasn't like the stress was really worth it. No lives were saved, just people locking themselves out of their cars or putting the wrong keys in their ignitions....unfocused, scattered people who needed help and rarely understood that obnoxious, rude behavior was So unacceptable and yet I had to put up with it and so did my poor techs. I will say there were real emergency calls now and then. A baby locked in a car when its 90 outside will cause anyone's blood pressure to rise. At least if you are dealing with life and death, like a 911 operator it would be worth the stress. Of course, I don't want to deal with life and death on the job. Doing it as a hobby is sufficient for me.
So the other adventure happened after I got home.
I had a call to return to a lady at the Dolphin Hotel in O'side. Anyone who lives here knows what that place is like. Most drunks check in there to die. Apparently, she checked into it to die and changed her mind. After 15 minutes of slurred conversation, I ascertained she drank a bottle of vodka a day and "just a little bit of Clonopin". She was coming off everything, and hadn't been able to hold down food or water for 3 days.
So I called 911 and they picked her up. She just called me back to tell me she was at the hospital and had to get off the phone to throw up in a basket. Now that's my kind of hobby. I will say a prayer for her and be grateful I am not in those kind of circumstances today.
Peace Y'all
So, I got up this morning and dragged myself into the new "interview" clothes and took off on another adventure.
I filled out the paperwork and talked to a job "specialist" who is amazing. She is straight forward and very helpful. I am grateful she didn't mince any words and helped me realize what I am actually looking for. I really loved my job at the publishing firm. I was a switchboard operator/receptionist and a damn good one. If that company hadn't been sold off into a Corporate Maze, I would still be there.
Dispatching was a job and I was good at it, but it was so stressful sometimes, it took a long time to calm down and get to sleep. It wasn't like the stress was really worth it. No lives were saved, just people locking themselves out of their cars or putting the wrong keys in their ignitions....unfocused, scattered people who needed help and rarely understood that obnoxious, rude behavior was So unacceptable and yet I had to put up with it and so did my poor techs. I will say there were real emergency calls now and then. A baby locked in a car when its 90 outside will cause anyone's blood pressure to rise. At least if you are dealing with life and death, like a 911 operator it would be worth the stress. Of course, I don't want to deal with life and death on the job. Doing it as a hobby is sufficient for me.
So the other adventure happened after I got home.
I had a call to return to a lady at the Dolphin Hotel in O'side. Anyone who lives here knows what that place is like. Most drunks check in there to die. Apparently, she checked into it to die and changed her mind. After 15 minutes of slurred conversation, I ascertained she drank a bottle of vodka a day and "just a little bit of Clonopin". She was coming off everything, and hadn't been able to hold down food or water for 3 days.
So I called 911 and they picked her up. She just called me back to tell me she was at the hospital and had to get off the phone to throw up in a basket. Now that's my kind of hobby. I will say a prayer for her and be grateful I am not in those kind of circumstances today.
Peace Y'all
Friday, July 15, 2011
Great Work Ethic
Who gives a shit about a great work ethic?
How do you even know about someone when the only way you see them is through digitized bull shit?
I have been going into the Breach since June 7th....when my employer let me go after more than a decade of service. Believe it, it was service as I have nothing to show for it. What kind of idiot works for a company that takes away medical benifits, cuts her hours, uses up every weekend and then fires her on bs? Oh yeah, that idiot would be me. Of course, I grew up to believe that working and doing a good job was necessary for survival. I also believed that going to work to help my employer was a large percentage of my job. It appears as though that is a good motivation but living paycheck to paycheck is a bad idea.
I have finally been notified that my unemployment insurance has been denied. Oh yay! Now I am waiting for the paperwork to arrive so I can begin the process of appeal. Unbelievable.
That is only the beginning of the breach and it has been over a month of hoop jumping.
Please submit your application online......OK. Now answer 50 questions in 30 minutes.....OK. We are sorry but you do not have the qualifications we are looking for. Please feel free to apply again in the future.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch, my stomach is doing flip-flops and my hair is falling out but what the hell, the perfect job will appear from the Mist and all will be well.
Then there was the EDD career center. Please attend the orientation before attempting to use our facilities. OK. The meeting is attended but if you are interested in training, our training dollars have been spent. Please call to see if we have received training dollars for the training we might be offering. OK.
I have a great work ethic. I am intelligent, mature and available to be of service to you. I just hope you are able to figure that out if you receive my resume which I sent faithfully into the Internet dimension. I have no idea that it was received as your company did not invest in an autoresponse program.
Now, back into the breach.
Love and peace, Y'all.
How do you even know about someone when the only way you see them is through digitized bull shit?
I have been going into the Breach since June 7th....when my employer let me go after more than a decade of service. Believe it, it was service as I have nothing to show for it. What kind of idiot works for a company that takes away medical benifits, cuts her hours, uses up every weekend and then fires her on bs? Oh yeah, that idiot would be me. Of course, I grew up to believe that working and doing a good job was necessary for survival. I also believed that going to work to help my employer was a large percentage of my job. It appears as though that is a good motivation but living paycheck to paycheck is a bad idea.
I have finally been notified that my unemployment insurance has been denied. Oh yay! Now I am waiting for the paperwork to arrive so I can begin the process of appeal. Unbelievable.
That is only the beginning of the breach and it has been over a month of hoop jumping.
Please submit your application online......OK. Now answer 50 questions in 30 minutes.....OK. We are sorry but you do not have the qualifications we are looking for. Please feel free to apply again in the future.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch, my stomach is doing flip-flops and my hair is falling out but what the hell, the perfect job will appear from the Mist and all will be well.
Then there was the EDD career center. Please attend the orientation before attempting to use our facilities. OK. The meeting is attended but if you are interested in training, our training dollars have been spent. Please call to see if we have received training dollars for the training we might be offering. OK.
I have a great work ethic. I am intelligent, mature and available to be of service to you. I just hope you are able to figure that out if you receive my resume which I sent faithfully into the Internet dimension. I have no idea that it was received as your company did not invest in an autoresponse program.
Now, back into the breach.
Love and peace, Y'all.
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