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posted by: rustymadgal at 06/18/09 17:37 | link | comments |

Attention fellow red-headed step children!

Big bad news!

Worse than when they switched Darren's on Bewitched.

posted by: rustymadgal at 06/11/09 07:22 | link | comments (10) |

Where in the hell is my summer?

Second week of June, still wearing a jacket and still turning the heat on at night in the Southwest!  Forget global warming this is the start of an Ice Age. 

The boys spend a cold rainy afternoon cuddled in bed. 



For the first time in two years I made it out of town and to the big city for a whopping 36 hours. 

Crowds at our airport. 


The plane flights were hell.  Out of our tiny airport we flew the prototype of the Spirit of St Louis.  That flight was so delayed due to feeding of the hamsters and replacement of rubberbands behind the propellers that a snotty air waitress informed us we only had 8 minutes to do a 1 mile to run to catch our connecting flight. 

It was the run from hell, I have endurance but not built for speed and I had to pee.  Some godlike w#@ker, I think from the tarmac was helping us on the dash.  If it werent for him and roomie I would have stopped and caught a later flight.  My chest was on fire and I couldnt stop coughing but we made it in record time and were seated, just in time to hear the pilot announce that that flight was now on a one hour delay.  Fuckers.  Recirculated air totally grosses me out so I did inform the poor woman next to me I wasnt diseased the hacking was due to being out of shape, she said she had asthma and was ready to hand over her inhaler.

I definitely felt the 100% humidity on top of the heat in the big city and stopped by for a cold beer and some universal health care but nobody was home.  Should have called first, he was busy sucking up to the middle east.  Maybe next time.  Have another trip planned next month being Trailer Park jetset and all.  When you think about it a plane is just a flying Trailer.
 

Havent really gotten started in my job yet.  Its home care for all kinds of disabled folks so there is a lot of personal info they want from me and like any good business they stretch what could be 2 hrs into days of training, but my super did call me and gave me the number of a man to call who needed temporary help fast.  I went over and met him and we hit it off great.  So I'll fill in a bit now and he's interested in me becoming part of his regular help next month when one of his aides is quitting.  I'm still filling in a little for the other man too and he's still great.  I'm really liking these people.

For the most part I'll be on my own.  I wont go to the office but just to peoples homes after I get my clients.  The hours can be screwy because most of them the state pays for and only allots so much time to be split up over the week.   Some clients may only get an hour or two a day to have help.

The w$#k could be respite care, housew$#k, help getting in or out of bed and getting cleaned up, so the times are all over the place.   I'll just need to make sure I'm not only pulling two hour jobs over the prime times.  What was freaking me out was the employee manual says we cant do this same kind of w#@k elsewhere because my plan was to hit a second agency if I only ended up with 10 hrs a week or something.  It turns out I know a new cow$#ker and they said hrs shouldnt be a problem and they do w$#k for other places too, so thats a relief.  Maybe this is where things fall back into place.

posted by: rustymadgal at 06/09/09 20:39 | link | comments (2) |

Finally!

I got a job!  My new supervisor seemed thrilled too.  We were just talking and knew a lot of the same people so after that came up she was really happy.  I didnt have to beg or crawl.  I'm happy too, I knew they did one thing and thats what I applied for thinking I'd give it a shot but then they told me about another department and thats what I really wanted to do in the first place.  The negative is the dept I picked wont be full time but I'll get my schedule after training  and hit other agencies doing the same thing to fill in the hours.   Or if I want to make a switch later to what they offer full time I can.   Its still w$#k and I'm sure going to have its sucky times but at least its something I'll feel good about doing.

posted by: rustymadgal at 05/29/09 12:50 | link | comments (6) |

I went in with a positive attitude and tried my best but this job absolutely sucks!  I'm seriously screwed.  The red flag popped up before the 8 hr mark.  I have to hand it to them for making an insane profit on what I guess I would call luxury item crap and keeping a business going with they way the world is right now but it sucks.   I consider myself fluent in redneck and generally I get along with them but throw in a good dash of arrogant good ole boy and I'm ready to dig a pit in the backyard and bury myself alive.  Over the past few months I had found some jobs to apply and get turned down for but now in what should be the height of the job season the ads have trickled down to nothing.  I hope anyone reading this feels as sorry for me as I do.  Poor poor poor me.  wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh   

Wait I'm not done crying yet.  I've been up since 4,  its still too early to call anyone and cry some more over the phone.  One friend did call last night to see how it was going so I got to vent but I need more,  much much more.  I would wake up Roomie but hes vacationing.  The dirty rat emailed me photos of them on the beach yesterday.  So i sent back one with his guitar on the curb with a Free sign.  

Another aide from my last job has also ended up with a PT equally evil position where she is totally being taken advantage of but a few bucks is better than nothing.   This is not a case of what goes around comes around because neither one of us walks on water but I can whole heartedly say after the last year we put in something much much better should be coming our way but its not going to happen.  Dont even get me started on my late boss's family.   For the most part they always treated us like part of the furniture, his sister could be downright nasty but they outdid themselves on greed this time.  Shame shame shame.

posted by: rustymadgal at 05/27/09 06:47 | link | comments (10) |

It finally happened!  It's a sick sick world when a job makes me so happy but I got one today. 

Part time and the pays not great but its not for corporate america, I will totally sit on my ass all day super easy w$#k, no dress code, no public and most importantly no fryers involved.  The owner seems really really nice too.  It was just like being hired in the olden days when people took you for your word and didnt check everything from credit to urine.  I told her about my plane ticket to DC coming up and she said they w#@k around everyones time off.

I'll still have to find something else PT but already being employed does sound better to prospective employers.   Like when bartenders seed their tip jar at the beginning of the shift by throwing in a few dollars of their own.  I've picked up a few more hours on the caregiving gig too.  He's so damn nice its not like w$#k at all.  I met a cute young man with intense blue eyes who has a big fat baby dog he adores and he brought up going hiking and wine.  Maybe this is where things finally get good again.

Or maybe not but it cant get much worse than the past few years have been.  I'm back in the game.



 

posted by: rustymadgal at 05/22/09 12:42 | link | comments (5) |