Re: Re: Hassles At Work
  By: Nancy Backus to Damon A. Getsman on Mon May 04 2015 18:27:46

 NB> That's really a shame.  Did you ever connect to the upper management
 NB> about the situation...?  That all sounds just unprofessional, even if it
 NB> is "only" foodservice...

  No, it got stuck on the 'load shedding' pile and I suspect it's been there
long enough so that it will be summarily discarded before taken into account. 
Regardless, with attention to detail like the guy had, it's not going to take
long for plenty of other complaints to take that one's place.  I mean there
were plenty of people complaining about unprofessional/incompetent behavior
well before I left there.
  I may still do it at some point, but even trying to salvage the situation for
another dozen-twenty hours at the location in the city here doesn't really
seem worth it now that the contract is giving more hours.  I think I'd rather
volunteer than take another food service job at this point, being as this has
happened for both food service jobs that I've had in the area now.  I suspect
that with all of the competition for jobs around here they're just used to
being able to find people desperate enough to handle that kind of situation... 
People that don't have kids requiring them to have honored scheduling hours,
for instance, and don't have other fallback skills.  I mean, that sounds kind
of bad, I don't mean desperate in a bad way, but the entry-level labor market
is pretty tooth & nail around here.

 NB> And hopefully the contract work will blossom and pay well enough to
 NB> sustain you.  :)   It certainly has the potential to be more satisfying
 NB> a job, even if it doesn't get you out of the house... :)

  Well it's now proven to do that at least for several weeks here.  That'll be
enough to get a nest egg set up again well enough to take the sweat from my
brow for a few months, hopefully.  Better still, the guy arranging this
contract has other ones up his sleeve; I think once a decent amount of hours
has been taken in stride, he'll probably branch out to other contracts to keep
a better amount of work on my plate.  This has been indicated in his
discussions so far, anyway.  I'll find something to do for the social
situations.  I did have a good date day before yesterday here.  :)

 NB> Even some professional jobs don't offer much respect... even if they pay
 NB> a little better and maybe even have better benefits... been there...

  This is true, and probably a good thing for me to keep in mind at this point.
Still, I'm happy where things are going right now.  :)

  -D
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