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Post by Mormel on Aug 10, 2016 15:24:22 GMT -5
So work is slow at the warehouse these weeks, and there aren't enough orders to guarantee 40 hours a week for every employee. Today, I was supposed to have a day off, but instead I was called by the temp agency to work in the hall adjacent to where I usually work. The day started out kinda chaotic because they just put me in the middle of things without giving much instruction, so I was kinda aimlessly fiddling about for the first two hours or so, but in the end I still had some fun with a couple of new co-workers, some of whom had previously worked at the job I was sacked from last December.
Tomorrow day off again! This time for real!
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Post by Gene on Aug 11, 2016 8:44:01 GMT -5
If job fairs ran a "first 100 people get a free job" promotion, I'd never have to submit another résumé in my life.
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Post by Gene on Aug 11, 2016 11:30:28 GMT -5
Aaaaaaaand I just got home from rapid fire interviewing for six different employers. Fingers crossed.
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Post by Pharozonk on Aug 11, 2016 13:21:08 GMT -5
Best of luck to you, Gene.
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Post by Gene on Aug 11, 2016 14:12:30 GMT -5
Best of luck to you, Gene. Thanks. I think I might have felt a nibble from one of them, but I think they're only looking for temp work. We'll see, I guess.
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Post by The Captain on Aug 11, 2016 15:57:06 GMT -5
Good luck, Gene!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2016 21:32:18 GMT -5
Aaaaaaaand I just got home from rapid fire interviewing for six different employers. Fingers crossed. Best of Wishes to get employed and I'll be rooting for you!
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Post by Gene on Aug 11, 2016 21:41:43 GMT -5
Aaaaaaaand I just got home from rapid fire interviewing for six different employers. Fingers crossed. Best of Wishes to get employed and I'll be rooting for you! Thank you. Fortunately, I'm currently employed so a lot of the stress that usually goes along with this isn't there this time.
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Post by the4thpip on Aug 12, 2016 7:16:57 GMT -5
This has been one of the wettest and coldest Augusts in my lifetime so far. It's supposed to finally get hot again on the weekend, so of course I came down with a fever last night.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2016 8:27:20 GMT -5
This has been one of the wettest and coldest Augusts in my lifetime so far. It's supposed to finally get hot again on the weekend, so of course I came down with a fever last night. Get well, soon and get plenty of rest and drink plenty of fluids too!
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Post by Confessor on Aug 12, 2016 8:56:13 GMT -5
This has been one of the wettest and coldest Augusts in my lifetime so far. It's supposed to finally get hot again on the weekend, so of course I came down with a fever last night. This surprises me because we've had a glorious August so far here in the UK and it looks set to continue until the end of the month. Hope you feel better soon, pip.
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Post by brutalis on Aug 12, 2016 9:06:41 GMT -5
The thought processes of Administration in a hospital. Received email notice that next week we have 5 days of national/county/city disaster drills running 24hrs a day. They asked for "volunteers" or as we call it here voluntolds to do transcribing of the drills. We Administrative Assistants work Monday through Friday for 8hour shifts. We were asked to take a 12 hour shift: either 12am midnite to 12am midnite or a 12noon to 12noon. And that we must take a day off that same week to accommodate the extra 4 hours we are being asked to work. So this means our daily function in the hospital causes each of us Administrative Assistants to lose 2 full days of our work. Of course we are the in-between staff which keeps the hospital running and when we are out nobody replaces us or does our job for us. Add to that the same day this disaster drill begins the Director of my department leaves the hospital and so my 7 unit department is without a Director or anyone to fill or replace his role at this time. Needless to say when i brought this up in my email response asking that i be excused from this drill it has to go to the higher ups for consideration. This began this Friday morning and the drill starts Sunday at Midnite. Will i have an answer in time is the question. What do you think?
All i can hear is DeMatteis and Giffen JLA BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA in my head....
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2016 10:03:16 GMT -5
Good grief.
Interesting times here at work, in the sense of the alleged old Chinese curse. The executive director/chief operating officer retired effective 4 days ago during the organization's national conference. (No, I didn't attend. I've been to only one of those in my 10 years here. I'm quite happy about that.) That happened a day after a closed session by the executive board, during which one board member resigned, supposedly "in disgust." And now it comes out that the chief finance officer resigned Friday.
Of course, the COO's retirement & the CFO's resignation were thinly disguised firings, supposedly.
Meanwhile, we haven't released a single word about any of this. My supervisor is in a meeting (one hour long & counting) right now, but I wouldn't be surprised if that doesn't remain the status quo.
As for whether any of this will affect my job ... who knows?
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Aug 15, 2016 10:12:38 GMT -5
Good grief. Interesting times here at work, in the sense of the alleged old Chinese curse. The executive director/chief operating officer retired effective 4 days ago during the organization's national conference. (No, I didn't attend. I've been to only one of those in my 10 years here. I'm quite happy about that.) That happened a day after a closed session by the executive board, during which one board member resigned, supposedly "in disgust." And now it comes out that the chief finance officer resigned Friday. Of course, the COO's retirement & the CFO's resignation were thinly disguised firings, supposedly. Meanwhile, we haven't released a single word about any of this. My supervisor is in a meeting (one hour long & counting) right now, but I wouldn't be surprised if that doesn't remain the status quo. As for whether any of this will affect my job ... who knows? Hope things work out for you Dan. Don't recall who you work for, if it's a private or publically owned institution. In my experience, when those 2 positions quit, it can mean a bankruptcy filing is pending or some other bit of bad news about the company. Don't want to be an alarmist, it might not effect you, but stay on your best behavior till things sort out
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2016 11:12:15 GMT -5
Supposedly, the bit about the CFO being gone is rank hearsay. She's apparently out, instead, with walking pneumonia. I've had that three or four times (most likely a couple more than that, though I didn't go to the doctor for confirmation), & I suspect it gets more enervating the older one gets, so I can well believe that.
My place of employment is a national nonprofit, mostly financed with federal money but not a government entity per se.
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