Yes potentially triple yay.
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Possibly good news, but what is a āVL?ā 
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Well, thatās another year dealt with - and while itās not exactly āeasyā yet, following the Life Breaking Glitch, this one was an improvement on the previous one, and the year before that and the year before that. So thatās that. 
This is a victory I should commemorate, dammit, so yeah: Happy birthday to me.
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Visiting lecturer, itās a limited term position, with a heavy teaching load (in this case, a 4/4, meaning 4 classes per semester, fall and spring). Itās a 2 year appointment, and I donāt believe itās renewable. But it gives me a job for the next couple of years while I look for a tenure track, full time position (and work on getting a book contract for my dissertation).
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Iāll drink to that!
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I would gladly read your book
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One day, letās hope!
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I found out yesterday that the secretary I crowbarred off the allotment committee has been kicked off the site for stealing Ā£600 from the allotment funds. We knew heās done something dodgy when he claimed to have paid a plumber Ā£800 for work on the site and we very definitely didnāt have Ā£800 worth of work done. Weāve finally managed to get hold of the invoice and he canāt lie his way out of this one.
Itās sad though to think of how many people have been forced off the committee and off the site by his bullying behaviour over the years.
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I got the job at the discount crafts store I applied to about a month or so ago. I start on Tuesday, 7/25/17.
I burst into tears after I got into my car when I was about to leave. Iāll have to give up a lot of my assisted-living singing gigs. Iām happy, Iām anxious. The owner of the store looks like a cross between Sir Patrick Stewart and Frank Gorshin, leaning more toward SPS. I am NOT kidding.
Everyone is very friendly. Itās a diverse place, employee-wise. It opened up in 1991 at the location Iāll be working at, which happens to be only three miles or so from my house.
THIS IS SCARY FOR ME FOLKS, lol! I did NOT expect it to happen so quickly. I didnāt expect it to happen, period! When I first applied, I didnāt find out till afterward that it was for warehouse/driver, which Iām not. I gather from what the owner told me during my interview that folks who couldnāt make it in to work on time got fired and they need replacements.
And the employee manual says nothing about drug testing. And I think heās ex-military, because the manual lists the order of management as āchain of commandā.
Iām still freaking out. I need to eat something.
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Congratulations!!!
I have some insight into the warehouse job business and showing up is THE big thing they look for. I know one company that spent so much time hiring people who wouldnāt show up that they hired a temp agency to keep bodies showing up.
Are you excited? You say you are scared. Why is that?
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Iāll working the floor, lots of customer service but also restocking. Heck, I thought showing up on time was vital for any job, lol!
Iām scared/excited (scexcited? excitared?) because I havenāt worked with people on a regular basis outside the home for over eight years.
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Youād be shocked how many people donāt make it to work on time, or every day.
I like the chatter around the water cooler aspect of work; meeting people in the hallway and being like, āOh, got the Mondays?ā or āReady for the weekend?ā
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I was about to say the same thing!
@Lucy_Gothro be friendly but avoid any staff-related drama if you can. Customers can be great but they can also be awful. Just remember that you may have to deal with them being arseholes for 10 minutes but they have to deal with being an arsehole for the rest of their life - donāt let it get to you.
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I worked in the subscription department of a local publishing venture in the Detroit area for four years - one of the teenagers hired by my dept. manager ended up hiding cocaine in the warehouse, then breaking in with her boyfriend, whoād previously pushed her downstairs while she was pregnant and cut her hair off and dropped it off at her motherās house, and stealing it. I got in trouble for reporting it to a local newspaper; the cops werenāt even called.
I got fired, actually. And thatās just the LAST incident I experienced there. It had more drama than any soap opera ever ever ever ever!
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I like the getting-paid aspect of work.
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woah. Thatās insane. But you got fired? because???
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The reason I was told was that I couldnāt be trusted with credit-card tranactions, which was quite frankly bullshit. It was because I talked about talking to a reporter at the Macomb Daily about the incident after finding out that the law wasnāt notified. The girl later passed out trying to huff PC duster. The whole thing was very sordid. Anyhow, I talked about telling the MD in front of someone who didnāt like me, but whom I didnāt think was a tattler.
shrug
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I just got a check in from some freelance work. Itās so overdue that I had to budget around it like it wasnāt ever coming - although I had full faith in its arrival, the timing was all mucked up.
So I get this sweet sweet check. And I deposit it. And I notice that suddenly my balance and my credit card debt areā¦ almost identical.
And then I did the right thing, and paid that mofo off. Ramen all week, but who cares. Iām back in the black.
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everyones a tattler. I accidentally threw my own boss under the bus to IT my first day at a new job about something he was doing that was very security risky. People talk, and talk, and talk.
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