Spitting nails
Well, I'm not anymore, but I was about ready to yesterday afternoon. Yes, Friday at 5:45.. get a load of this story.
I was getting ready to go pick up Alice and head to High Point to visit Tucker & Don. As I walked out to my car, one of the neighbors came out with her big german shepherd mix looking dog. So she started talking to me.. she had been up in Greene/Binghamton, NY working for a while and moved back. She used to have a dachshund, but had to give him away cuz he bit her. AND, she has an insulin pump. So, we were chatting, talking about her son who is also diabetic. My phon rang & I just muted it thinking nothing of it.. perhaps babysitting people calling to let me know times and such for the weekend. Well, I get in the car and remember to check my phone and see that it's Success Behavioral Healthcare that called... my new employer. What?! At 5:45 on a Friday!? So I'm like what the heck. Finally, the voice mail popped up and I listened to it. Holt shit.. this is the message these crack ass people left me.
"This is so and so from Success (not even the bitchy HR woman who's job it is to do this shit...) you're scheduled for orinetation at our Gastonia offices on Monday morning. I'm calling to let you know that we're going to have to reschedule the orientation for sometime later in the week. We'll call you back when we know what day this will take place on and when your start date will be. If you have any questions, here is Debra's direct cell phone # and our office numbers. We will call you the first of the week to let you know when the training has been rescheduled"
What the F**K? Ooooh no. I listened to this as I was driving the 2 mins to Alice's and arrived at her door fuming and shaking and ready to cry. As I told her what happened, I was like 'I should just call the VP (Shirley- yes, a guy named Shirley) and vent to him. So, we kept ranting back and forth and Alice was like "Dammit Nicole, call him. This is nuts!" So, I did, and made the point that "I resigned my other job to start here on Monday, I have no income right now, this can not happen!!" He was like 'I know nothing about this, let me call them and see what's going on, I'll call you right back." Less than 5 mins later he did, saying that he couldn't get through to anyone in the office (duh, it's now almost 6 on a Friday) but that he has no idea why this is happening, and that being the VP he can go over their heads and make decisions. So, he told me to come to the W-S office on Monday and I could just shadow one of the 2 people that are working up here now. He went on to say how frustrated he is with this hiring process, being that it's been almost 6 weeks and he's only got 2 employees yet he's said yes to hiring a dozen or so. I was like "Ya think? I feel your pain, I bet I'm more frustrated trying to plan my future without being able to know!!" So, he also told me that he has no doubts that I'll be able to hit the ground running with all my experience from TCH, and that I'll be able to get out of a lot of the tranings there b/c of that. YES! And he said he figured I'd be a couple steps ahead of some of the people hired b/c of TCH as well. He said they're up to 44 families with only 2 people working right now! ZUT! So, he told me to call him Monday morning between 8:30 and 9 to find out for sure where and when to come, and he'd get to the bottom of the Gastonia people then as well. I hope other people have been complaining to him about these slack ass people in HR. I need to call Yashman and tell her to call him directly from now on. She was supposed to hear something on Friday.. hah right.
Anywho.. I felt much better after that, especially knowing how confident in me he is, and how much he wants me to just GET there and start working AND moving up. He mentioned that too.. about how much upward movement he saw for me. Yes!
So.. that's that. Lord help me restrain myself whenever I meet this Debra woman... I might have to bitch slap her AND her cd player.
Other than that... the last day at TCH went well.. we had a very chill evening. Made smoothies after school, listened to music and played outside. Then got $40 to go to HT and get real food to cook. We got chicken, corn on the cob, garlic bread, salad and apple & cherry dessert bakes. YUM! We still had the grill from our family day cookout on Sunday, so we fired it up again. The kids loved it!! They all made me various cards and pictures and stuff. And, I bought them all cheapo plastic frames that we decorated and took lots of pics with my digital camera. Yay.
I've not gotten to enjoy my 'time off', I've been babysitting every day so far! And I'm abobut to leave to go babysit now! Tomorrow will be my only "me" day. Zut!
I was getting ready to go pick up Alice and head to High Point to visit Tucker & Don. As I walked out to my car, one of the neighbors came out with her big german shepherd mix looking dog. So she started talking to me.. she had been up in Greene/Binghamton, NY working for a while and moved back. She used to have a dachshund, but had to give him away cuz he bit her. AND, she has an insulin pump. So, we were chatting, talking about her son who is also diabetic. My phon rang & I just muted it thinking nothing of it.. perhaps babysitting people calling to let me know times and such for the weekend. Well, I get in the car and remember to check my phone and see that it's Success Behavioral Healthcare that called... my new employer. What?! At 5:45 on a Friday!? So I'm like what the heck. Finally, the voice mail popped up and I listened to it. Holt shit.. this is the message these crack ass people left me.
"This is so and so from Success (not even the bitchy HR woman who's job it is to do this shit...) you're scheduled for orinetation at our Gastonia offices on Monday morning. I'm calling to let you know that we're going to have to reschedule the orientation for sometime later in the week. We'll call you back when we know what day this will take place on and when your start date will be. If you have any questions, here is Debra's direct cell phone # and our office numbers. We will call you the first of the week to let you know when the training has been rescheduled"
What the F**K? Ooooh no. I listened to this as I was driving the 2 mins to Alice's and arrived at her door fuming and shaking and ready to cry. As I told her what happened, I was like 'I should just call the VP (Shirley- yes, a guy named Shirley) and vent to him. So, we kept ranting back and forth and Alice was like "Dammit Nicole, call him. This is nuts!" So, I did, and made the point that "I resigned my other job to start here on Monday, I have no income right now, this can not happen!!" He was like 'I know nothing about this, let me call them and see what's going on, I'll call you right back." Less than 5 mins later he did, saying that he couldn't get through to anyone in the office (duh, it's now almost 6 on a Friday) but that he has no idea why this is happening, and that being the VP he can go over their heads and make decisions. So, he told me to come to the W-S office on Monday and I could just shadow one of the 2 people that are working up here now. He went on to say how frustrated he is with this hiring process, being that it's been almost 6 weeks and he's only got 2 employees yet he's said yes to hiring a dozen or so. I was like "Ya think? I feel your pain, I bet I'm more frustrated trying to plan my future without being able to know!!" So, he also told me that he has no doubts that I'll be able to hit the ground running with all my experience from TCH, and that I'll be able to get out of a lot of the tranings there b/c of that. YES! And he said he figured I'd be a couple steps ahead of some of the people hired b/c of TCH as well. He said they're up to 44 families with only 2 people working right now! ZUT! So, he told me to call him Monday morning between 8:30 and 9 to find out for sure where and when to come, and he'd get to the bottom of the Gastonia people then as well. I hope other people have been complaining to him about these slack ass people in HR. I need to call Yashman and tell her to call him directly from now on. She was supposed to hear something on Friday.. hah right.
Anywho.. I felt much better after that, especially knowing how confident in me he is, and how much he wants me to just GET there and start working AND moving up. He mentioned that too.. about how much upward movement he saw for me. Yes!
So.. that's that. Lord help me restrain myself whenever I meet this Debra woman... I might have to bitch slap her AND her cd player.
Other than that... the last day at TCH went well.. we had a very chill evening. Made smoothies after school, listened to music and played outside. Then got $40 to go to HT and get real food to cook. We got chicken, corn on the cob, garlic bread, salad and apple & cherry dessert bakes. YUM! We still had the grill from our family day cookout on Sunday, so we fired it up again. The kids loved it!! They all made me various cards and pictures and stuff. And, I bought them all cheapo plastic frames that we decorated and took lots of pics with my digital camera. Yay.
I've not gotten to enjoy my 'time off', I've been babysitting every day so far! And I'm abobut to leave to go babysit now! Tomorrow will be my only "me" day. Zut!
1 Comments:
At 5:07 PM ,
erica said...
Dude. WTF? I REALLLLLLLLY hope that this crap you've been getting isn't symptomatic of what you'll have to deal with once you start working. At least this Shirley person has a good head on his shoulders and recognizes what an asset you are. Maybe you'll be able to get something done from within regarding the HR situation. I'm glad Alice convinced you to call him! =) Good luck with training and getting things sorted out there!
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