4 Hours
I decided to try to go back to work. I keep hearing people talk about how hard it is to get a job and I have had 3 offers since we moved here in February. The first was supposed to be a trainer position for a life insurance company but you had to start as a sales person first. So, yeah that wasn’t going to happen. The second one was to be a manager on duty for a local movie store. They wanted to pay minimum wage and give 20 hours a week. So once again that wasn’t going to happen. Then I called a few Vet Clinics and what do you know I had a job. I started on Tuesday morning. It was just a receptionist position so this was something I could do in my sleep. I have worked for the Army for years in Vet Clinic’s after all. I am a quiet person at times but for the most part I like to talk and am usually the goofy one. I make faces, skip in the halls, and do crazy silly things because I hang out with the kids all day and I think it’s just embedded in me. But this was my first day and I was tired from being in the ER with Giggles all night. So, knowing all the things that normally piss off the doctors I stayed up front and did the busy work. You know the work that takes time but you never want to do. I filed all the files from the morning clients and pulled the next days and got them in order as to how they were coming in. I had been answering phones, and learning the computer system. That was the funny part because at first the office manager told me she was going to wait to teach me but hey it’s slowing down and there wasn’t anything else for me to do so I started checking people out. I had been sitting back taking note of everything, how the clinic ran and seeing where they needed a little work. I noticed that the only time they talked was when it was to bitch about a client. I noticed how they were somewhat rude to clients without being completely obvious. I saw how they yelled across the counter to the clients instead of completely checking them. There were a lot of little things that they could have done to make the clinic more efficient and run smother but it was my first day so I kept my mouth shut. I figured in time I would bring up ideas but today was not the time. Well lunch time came around and everyone went to lunch and I sat outside and ate and walked around the farm looking at the horses. Then after lunch was over they started getting clients in again slowly so there wasn’t much to do and one of the receptionists asked me to come with her. I followed her to the back and said cool you have something for me to do. That was when she told me it wasn’t going to work out. I looked at her and said what? I am being fired? Why? I thought maybe I had pissed of a client or one of the doctors and waiting for the answer trying not to cry I was told the doctor said I was too quiet. Too quiet! It’s my first day it’s only been 4 hours. What did she expect me to come in and be loud and obnoxious? I know I was told they tried to tell her but apparently the doctor had made up her mind. I was told sorry and that if she the doctor didn’t want me there than I didn’t want to be there either. She would make my life hell they said. I was upset and confused and then was told they would write me a check for my time. What I don’t even want the money I told the receptionist. I called DP all upset and told him what happened and he came to get me. He had a hundred reasons of why and that it was BS and wanted to go in and yell at them. He said no one gets fired on their first day. Well I just did and it only took me 4 hours. He tried to make me feel better and I love him for that and then he took me to his office where our friend who had the boys and my car was going to meet me. Yeah I didn’t have a car I had decided that since the job was a two week trial that I would have a friend keep the boys, my car and take WC to school and just pick me up when I got off. This way if it didn’t work out I could keep him in the same school and wouldn’t have to put either one of the boys through so much change for nothing. I am glad I did it that way because WC doesn’t like change and this was going to give him time to get used to everything. But in the end I didn’t have to change a thing. I am contemplating looking again. I really do like staying home and the freedom of not having a job but I would love the extra money. I have called a few Vets in town and they all want me to come in and drop off a resume and fill out an application for when they do have an opening but I am not sure I want to. I know the saying when the horse bucks you off get right back on. I know that I should just suck it up and keep on trying but in the end I am not completely sure that working is what I want to do. I want to go back to school and get my degree. I want to work but I also love my time with the boys and I am just not sure I am ready to give that up. Who knows only time will tell. I just hope I can make it past 4 hours on the next one.
