I was starting to get worried if I would ever get a job interview at all. I have been sending out Resumes left, right, and center and I haven’t heard back from any of them at all. Not even a PFO Letter.

I’m not getting my hopes up, because it is afterall, just a Job Interview, and I am competing against about a billion others. Not for one opening mind you, but 150 openings for a Call Center job.

When they called me today, I asked the big question and that was, “Is it a Sales Driven Service?” She said no because it’s a Client that’s here in New Brunswick, that is very strict on how they do business. It’ll be for a Cell Phone service and it’s strictly Customer Service.So tomorrow afternoon, I’ll be gone for the day.

She told me that it will be inbound and it will involve helping people with their Cell Phone questions (Like you would call if you have an issue with your cell phone) and handeling Billing questions or issues. Although I have been lied to before about a company not being sales driven, I have the feeling that  tis time I was being told the truth, since I’ve called into a couple of Customer Service centers involving different Cell Phone Cariers here in NB, and I’ve never had to deal with sales pitches.

BUT! If it does turn into that sort of shit like I had dealt with in the past, I will be getting the hell out ASAP. I will never do that bullshit again. Because the last time I was told to jam shit down customers throats, I nearly went into a nervious breakdown and had to have my Doctor put me on Stress leave for a month and a half.

The only problem is that it is on the North Side of town and it’s a long way away from here, so Cab fairs might eat away into my budget and I’m stuck in a Year least on this place till next summer. Another thing I’m not looking forward to is the Training Wages are frightning! 15 days training at $7.50/hour, and then 5 days after training it will be just $9/hour and then after that it goes up to $11/hour.

That $7.50/hour would cover CAB trips.

Why the hell can’t I just win the lottery?

I didn’t want to jinx this or anything so I kept it all hush-hush up until now.

Yesterday I had a job interview and it went perfect in my opinion. Perfect because they called me this morning to tell me that I got the job!

The job will be working in a kitchen still, but it will be a lot more laid back than my current one. It will have regular hours, it will be five days a week with weekends and holidays off. It pays more! It will allow me to have a life. It is Unionized and has good benefits but no dental unfortunately.

It is a job that will require me to work with clients with special needs, which sounds like a rewarding job on its own.

SCAMP tells me that there are a lot of extras that come with it also that show you just how much your appreciated by the employer. Especially around x-mas time.

So, I’ll be going in to the hell hole shortly so I can get there early to drop the bomb that they really don’t want to hear. I’ll be giving them my two weeks notice.

So this was something I was keeping to myself over the past couple of weeks because I didn’t want to jinx it at all. It is a job that I really think will be my niche for a long time.

Thanks have to go to SCAMP for working her magic in getting me the job by recommending me to them!

I got a phone call from the Tech Support job that I applied for last week. It was basically an over the phone interview.

I was asked a few questions about my computer and internet knowledge, and why I believe I would be a good candidate for the job. You know, the usually job interview questions.

The new site is expected to be having classes start as early as the first week in February. So I won’t hear anything on whether or not if I received the job or not until around that time.

I really hope that I do, because this sounds like something right up my alley. As I do consider myself as a bit of an Internet junkie really.

When I received the phone call, I was actually still sleeping, so my head was a bit foggy the first couple of minutes of the call, but I hope that didn’t come through on the phone call.

The past couple of days have been hard to sleep as they’re doing something in the hallways again, and they’re not very quiet doing whatever it is that they are doing. So the constant interruptions in my sleep is starting to effect me.

I have all that video and photo’s I need to edit and upload from the staff party, but I’m so burnt out right now from the lack of sleep, I really don’t feel like doing anything right now.

This morning, they were so kind as to bring in this enormous Pepsi machine into the hallway, making a ton of noise doing it. They were hollering, yelling, laughing, and making a racket that was really unnecessary. They totally disregarded the signs in the hallway that read basically to shut the fuck up in the hallways. So that got me up a few hours earlier than I had planned.

I hope the pop machine doesn’t make a lot of racket. Or it might end up mysteriously having it’s plug pulled all the time.

Yea. I’m grumpy and tired right now. I wouldn’t want to be the person who rubs me the wrong way tonight at work. I PITY Da’ Foo!

Well I think I’ll sit back and watch this movie I have here. I don’t think I’ll like it though. Meh, something to kill time.

Well. Wish me luck!

UPDATE: Well that went well… I think.

The typing test went well, I got 30wpm and one typo. It wasn’t a typo though really. It was one word that was a noun. A name of a street called Lyons. But in the typing test it’s spelled with a lower case ‘L’ so lyons was the word I typed wrong, even though I was right technically with the spelling with the upper case ‘L’. HA! Even the spell check is saying it wrong as I type this post. It’s supposed to be an upper case ‘L’ because it’s a name of a thing.

Well anyway, I don’t think that typing test will hurt me any. I just hope the personality questions were answered in a way that they liked. Geezers I hate them type of questions. I never really know what to say! Things like, “Describe a moment that you hated most about a person and how did you over come the moment. yad-yada-yada..”

I am the person that really doesn’t hate a person, unless they make me.

But anyhow, I think I answered them ridiculous questions OK.

We’ll see just how well I did when I either receive a phone call, or get the e-mail. Lets just say I want the phone call, as the e-mail is the PFO letter.

Everybody cross your fingers with me!

For the life of me, I can’t seem to wake up at all today.

I’m pretty sue the coffee I have here isn’t decaf. But it’s acting like it.

A pot of coffee later and I still feel like I have just got out of bed. My eye’s are still heavy and puffy as if I’m still in the first few minutes of waking up.

Have I become immune to caffeine? Shit! I hope not!

I have to go in tonight from 10pm till 4am, and need to make sure I’m as sleep as I am now because I have to get up early for that interview tomorrow. Chances are that I will be wide awake when it’s time to go to sleep when I get home. Lets cross out fingers and hope it isn’t the way.

Yup that’s right. I have an interview at 2pm. I hope it goes well this time. I hope that what ever kind things that Corey might have said will be enough for them to let me in. I could really need a normal job, as far as normal jobs go.

All I’m looking forward to in a new job is;

1. A life
2. Better hours
3. Very Good Benefit packages
4. Paid Holidays Off
5. Did I mention, “A life?”
6. More time to entertain you
7. No more pain in my arms
8. Fresh Air
9. Quieter Work Environment
10. Do my own job and not have to depend on others to pick up their slack ending up with me doing their share.
11. A chance to advance in the career.

What? No mention of more money?

That’s right. It’s not entirely about making more money. Although it has a small role, it’s not the main reason for looking. I’m not physically cut out to do the current job anymore. The pain from the Tennis elbow is getting pretty intense, and I have to say, “It hurts like fucking hell dumping shit out of the fryer baskets over and over again.”

So here I am, trying to kill some time and also trying to wake the fuck up.

I watch a movie, drank a shit load of coffee, ate dinner and I am still needing to hold my eyelids open with toothpicks.

The coffee has failed me and I have reached my limit of coffee before it starts to make me sick. So chances are I will be dragging my ass at work. I don’t drink the coffee there or I should say, I try not to drink the coffee there because it tastes like shit. I don’t know what shit tastes like, but I heard this coffee at works is very similar.

Speaking of work, I had better get up and get ready. Lets just hope this shift goes by quickly and I get back to bed really easily. As I don’t want to be half asleep at the interview tomorrow.

TTFN