In having nothing to do this afternoon at the college, I called Walmart to see why I haven't heard back from them in 1.5 weeks. Of course, while I am on hold with Walmart, the switchboard line rings... I put Walmart on hold, and answer the call, only to have Walmart hang up on me, because I was not there. I call Walmart again, this time I get the lady I am looking for, and she puts me on hold again. This time when my phone rings, I forget to put her on hold when I answer the other line. So I call back again, but this time, the girl at the front has a message for me when I admit that I was disconnected (I don't tell her why). She tells me that I have not been called back because of my availability (and I say to myself, what the hell is wrong with 7:30 am until 10 pm! What, am I available too much now!?), and she will transfer me through to Personnel to talk to them. I wait, and my call comes back to the girl. She now passes me through to the Manager I was originally talking with, who passes me back to Personnel, who actually answer this time. The girl there tells me that because of my other work schedule, I will need to talk to the manager to try to juggle schedules. I tell her that I do not have another job, I have some time in August where I am busy, but I do not have another job, and I didn't submit a work schedule. She tells me she will call me back, because my folder was definitely set aside with the people who are not fully available. She also tells me that they had almost 40 interviews last week. So, she calls me back before I get home, and tries my cell before I can answer it – I was driving home, and it was at the bottom of my bag. Now she tells me that she has no idea who's schedule is in my folder, but if it is not mine, there has obviously been a mistake. The newest word on the answering machine is that they will call me back by Wednesday with further information on my getting into Walmart adventure. Of course, my 2 weeks where I can only work evenings will bother them, but I did admit that I had some other things going on in August. Hopefully this works out! Working at the College just doesn't have much appeal to me when I sit and do nothing. I don't care how much they pay me when I am bored, I cannot like my job. At least at Walmart I should be busy!
Today, I got to be the person at work that no one else wants to be. I get to enforce rules which although have always been there, are now coming into effect. I get to tell students that have paid their fees and everything, that they are not qualified for the course. Of course, someone else (probably the person who marked their tests) said that they were qualified for it, and we take the notes from the markers as final word. No one else wants anything to do with this this year. And I agree. This should come into effect next year, before anyone registers. Notices should go out to all students currently in the program that says that as of April 2011, this will be the policy, and if that means you are not qualified, you will have to do the upgrades before you can continue. It should not be happening a month before classes start. It will be the staff meeting tomorrow. I know it already. It is all we will accomplish in the hour – if we get anywhere. It will be a “we will come back to this” but Jenna will have already done the damage to students. I love it when we piss the students off! It's not like our jobs depend on Students or anything!
We have two people (one is me) in the office right now, fighting over random jobs that anyone can give us to help. I would rather not be there, and I know the other lady feels the same. She is covering 2 desks and still doesn't have enough. She could easily have covered the desk I have been at this week as well. Next week one of her desks has a lot going on, so next week might be a different story, but for now, we figure that tomorrow we should play crib all day!
I went to the lake last night with some old friends from my Chevron days. It was really fun. I haven't hung out with them practically since I quit, so it was nice to catch up. The rain clouds parted for us, and the sun came back out, so we headed into the lake – waist deep, and chatted there until we were cold. By then it was 9 pm, so we headed back home. I have been up late too many nights! I am so tired! By coffee today, with a mix of tiredness and program BS, I was ready to call it a day. I had a chocolate covered granola bar at coffee break to try to make me feel better. It didn't really work but it was worth a shot.
That's about all that is going on. I start house sitting tomorrow, so I have a car for a while. Planning to take Nate to the Lake on afternoon this weekend. Life is good in the hood I guess.
Thanks for everything! I still love you bunches!
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