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Some real news
Sep. 30th, 2005 08:52 amGot Morgan into daycare, and am using my "days off" to apply for jobs and finish unpacking all my boxes. I have way too many boxes.
I have applied for three positions in the local casino, which is second only to the county in their nice benefits package, and has on-site 24-hour child care for employees. This is wonderful as it would give me a little more flexibility in the hours and days I am available to work. All the private child care providers are pretty much 6am to 5pm, and only on weekdays. I have never had an 8-5 Monday through Friday job; who actually gets hours like that? (Okay, Alan, I know you do, and I'm insanely jealous). But the casino providing child care means I could actually work weekends, though I would still need to be picky about my hours (Morgan has special needs at bedtime, so we would need to be home in time for me to take care of that). Two of the positions were for "days," which could mean early mornings, but at least it would be closest to a normal work day. The third (which is actually the job I had before I left for school) is for swing shift, which - if it's the same as before - is 3-11pm. Ick. The reason why I'm even considering that one is that it's front desk at the hotel, and it would be easy to switch shifts if a vacancy comes up (which they do somewhat frequently. At least they used to).
Oh, and for those of you who remember the odd and sudden nature of the termination of my last job (I still don't know exactly what happened or why, probably never will), as I was filling out these applications, I called the front desk manager, Tom, to remind him to send me the letter of reference he had said - back in July, on the day they let me go - he'd write for me. While I had him on the phone, I mentioned that on the applications, it asks for the details of any "dismissals or unfavorable separations" in previous jobs, and the reason for leaving one's last job. He said, "It wasn't a dismissal or anything unfavorable," (How is it not a "dismissal" when you tell someone "we should part ways"???) and said I could write whatever reason I liked. I told him that I would put down that I was relocating to California (which was mostly the truth), and he said that sounded fine to him, and he'd run with that if/when anyone called him to check up on me. Yay!! So it's nice to know that it's not a black mark on my resume, but it still feels like having been fired to me, and I'd sure as hell like to know _why_ it happened (if they liked me, why didn't they keep me? I'm so confused).
Anyway. That got a bit longer than I had expected. The point today is that I'm chipper about having turned in the apps, and am hoping to get a phone call in the next few days (well, probably not on the weekend, so Monday or Tuesday), asking for an interview. *crosses fingers*
I have applied for three positions in the local casino, which is second only to the county in their nice benefits package, and has on-site 24-hour child care for employees. This is wonderful as it would give me a little more flexibility in the hours and days I am available to work. All the private child care providers are pretty much 6am to 5pm, and only on weekdays. I have never had an 8-5 Monday through Friday job; who actually gets hours like that? (Okay, Alan, I know you do, and I'm insanely jealous). But the casino providing child care means I could actually work weekends, though I would still need to be picky about my hours (Morgan has special needs at bedtime, so we would need to be home in time for me to take care of that). Two of the positions were for "days," which could mean early mornings, but at least it would be closest to a normal work day. The third (which is actually the job I had before I left for school) is for swing shift, which - if it's the same as before - is 3-11pm. Ick. The reason why I'm even considering that one is that it's front desk at the hotel, and it would be easy to switch shifts if a vacancy comes up (which they do somewhat frequently. At least they used to).
Oh, and for those of you who remember the odd and sudden nature of the termination of my last job (I still don't know exactly what happened or why, probably never will), as I was filling out these applications, I called the front desk manager, Tom, to remind him to send me the letter of reference he had said - back in July, on the day they let me go - he'd write for me. While I had him on the phone, I mentioned that on the applications, it asks for the details of any "dismissals or unfavorable separations" in previous jobs, and the reason for leaving one's last job. He said, "It wasn't a dismissal or anything unfavorable," (How is it not a "dismissal" when you tell someone "we should part ways"???) and said I could write whatever reason I liked. I told him that I would put down that I was relocating to California (which was mostly the truth), and he said that sounded fine to him, and he'd run with that if/when anyone called him to check up on me. Yay!! So it's nice to know that it's not a black mark on my resume, but it still feels like having been fired to me, and I'd sure as hell like to know _why_ it happened (if they liked me, why didn't they keep me? I'm so confused).
Anyway. That got a bit longer than I had expected. The point today is that I'm chipper about having turned in the apps, and am hoping to get a phone call in the next few days (well, probably not on the weekend, so Monday or Tuesday), asking for an interview. *crosses fingers*
