February 10, 2006
Snowy Aloha Friday
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Its snowing here in my little corner of the world... just enough to make things pretty, and blustery. People have retreated and even the freeway, which I can see from my office, is less congested.
The situation here is difficult. Our team is over populated by 4 workers now that the big account isnt comming on. People are restless, bored and figgity. Thank goodness I have something to do. The CEO was in yesterday and popped around the corner right in front of my desk. I was working on a spread sheet for the store and looked very occupied. Im just glad that he wasnt too interested in numbers going on a cash flow chart, and that he came when he did. A few minutes earlier I had a live phone interview with a firm that supplies home based call center workers, and I had to read a script cold. I got applause from my desk mate, the guy that trained me when I started here a few months ago.
Yes, work from home. As most of you know these sorts of jobs are few and far between. I thought that they were impossible to find. I have only met one person that actually had such a job, and that was the horrid woman that gave me a sight unseen offer on my house in Hawaii and then strung us along. I saw her work in my house as a translator on the day we had the inspection.
You can read the post here I still have nightmares about it.
I have passed the intial requirements and am now training. Soon if all goes well I will be one of the people that answers the phone when you have the urge to shop HSN at 3 am. They have dozens of firms that use them so eventually I will get to the place where I can work 40 hours and if this "day job" falls through I can just do that. I actually have two firms looking at me but one of them has pretty much said yes if I can pass the training.
"So, Hoku," you are thinking, "How many jobs can you do?"... as many as needed. One of my friends has already commented that Woody is going to be shamed into looking for work. Maybe or maybe not, I just know that one day he will have to look at himself and ask if he has done the right thing. I just want to be prepared to look after myself, for I dont know what tomorrow will bring. I do believe that God takes care of us, but the field has to be plowed for the crop to come up. It wont grow by itsself.
To that end, I saw job postings on the company intranet, for jobs that would be considered lower down on the totem pole. I notified the HR lady that I was interested and that I knew that I was demoting myself but with the current surplus of workers I will take what ever is offered to me and if it means a slight pay cut then so be it. Something is better than nothing. And I fear that there will be layoffs soon as there are about 40 excess workers here now. Managers are getting shuffeled around but us worker bees are expendable, especially the newest of us.
If something happens while I am off for my surgery then Im ok with that, and that is very likely.
We will be finishing up with the store setting it up and getting the product in. I have some decorating to do and I am puitting in a few collectible peices that I want to sell, better flea market stuff, since we dont have enough product to fill all of our shelves up with Hawaii stuff. Who knows we might do really well with that. I have art work, paintings and drawings that I cant hang in the new house and just other things. Some of it is family stuff, but since I have no heirs why not? Im just lugging it around.
So we shall see... Ideas are floating around like the snow flakes, I just keep after them trying to figure out what is best. I know one thing for sure, God is watching out for me. His mercy is new every morning, Great is His faithfulness.
