-=> Quoting Damon A. Getsman to Nancy Backus on 06-May-2015 16:14 <=-

 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...
 DAG> No, it got stuck on the 'load shedding' pile and I suspect it's been
 DAG> there long enough so that it will be summarily discarded before taken
 DAG> into account. Regardless, with attention to detail like the guy had,
 DAG> it's not going to take long for plenty of other complaints to take that
 DAG> one's place.  I mean there were plenty of people complaining about
 DAG> unprofessional/incompetent behavior well before I left there.
 DAG> I may still do it at some point, but even trying to salvage the

Another voice added to the uproar might not hurt...

 DAG> I may still do it at some point, but even trying to salvage the
 DAG> situation for another dozen-twenty hours at the location in the city
 DAG> here doesn't really seem worth it now that the contract is giving more
 DAG> hours.  I think I'd rather volunteer than take another food service job
 DAG> at this point, being as this has happened for both food service jobs
 DAG> that I've had in the area now.  

Volunteering might serve the purpose of social interaction just fine...
possibly even better than an entry-level job... especially if the job in
your field gives you enough hours and pay to make it possible... :)

 DAG> I suspect that with all of the
 DAG> competition for jobs around here they're just used to being able to
 DAG> find people desperate enough to handle that kind of situation... People
 DAG> that don't have kids requiring them to have honored scheduling hours,
 DAG> for instance, and don't have other fallback skills.  I mean, that
 DAG> sounds kind of bad, I don't mean desperate in a bad way, but the
 DAG> entry-level labor market is pretty tooth & nail around here.

I hear you.  Similar happening here, where there are so many people
trying for even those jobs that it's by no means guaranteed that just
because someone wants to work that they can get a job...
 
 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... :)
 DAG> Well it's now proven to do that at least for several weeks here. 
 DAG> That'll be enough to get a nest egg set up again well enough to take
 DAG> the sweat from my brow for a few months, hopefully.  Better still, the
 DAG> guy arranging this contract has other ones up his sleeve; I think once
 DAG> a decent amount of hours has been taken in stride, he'll probably
 DAG> branch out to other contracts to keep a better amount of work on my
 DAG> plate.  This has been indicated in his discussions so far, anyway. 

Definitely sounds promising... :)   Hope it truly pans out well...  :)

 DAG> I'll find something to do for the social situations.  I did have a
 DAG> good date day before yesterday here.  :) 

:)

ttyl       neb

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