Looking for rooms for rent:
Sitting in a café, having a cup of coffee and eating goldfish crackers. Waiting for somebody to respond off of Craigslist about a room for rent, who previously bailed out on me last Thursday when she was going to show it to me the first time.
The job:
Oh well, I am doing a customer service job for an internet business. It's basically a call center and it pays really low, they hire people in batches, Let me see there were 7 people in the back row of the "training class" and two of us are left from the back row. There were 7 people in the front row and 5 are still left. 7 people are gone. It's a certain kind of business model I guess.
They have a computer system called Avaya that forces people to take phone calls, emails and chats all at the same time. I thought I was pretty good at multi-tasking but this really is frenetic. At least when I "multi-tasked" before I had control of my process and work-flow. We also are suppose to put people on hold forever instead of resolving the issue and then calling them back afterwards.
There is some sales involved, we don't get any commission at all, nor is there any kind of profit sharing and it's owned by a very large stock-holder controlled business. It's a company name that everybody has heard of.
So after 2 months there is like a 50% drop off rate in the staffing. The cgompany recently hired like 3 class rooms of people. Probably over 30/40 people. I guess they make more money by doing business that way.
It's sort of fun to get an inside view of businesses just to see how they operate.
My "friend" at work Olivia disappeared.
The company is sort of shady, one of the mangers Don is his name burps in my face. They have got a really low opinion of their employees at that place.
My schedule is 9:30 AM-6:00 PM....I want the 7:00-3:30 PM schedule so it frees up my afternoon to do something else.
Between, rent, and bus fees it's about 100.00 dollars a month to take the bus here. Food... I still can't afford to go to the dentist etc.
This is a sit down job that is the Only good thing about it because I was doing stand on my feet job, a much funner place to work but my veins were bulging out of my flesh when I got home and it was painful. I'm feeling really old and just worn down by life.
The minutia:
The room-mate that I am living with is pissed off at me of course. She sent me some emails asking me to do stuff for her and I just ignored her, because it's no kind of emerge and it's stuff she should be doing herself. So she responded by getting in my face and being all pissed off at me. It's just too much for me, at the end of the day I don't want to have people in my face etc. She is Filipino, the only girl in a family of boys, I think she is used to people doing stuff for her. Her mother comes over to the condo and puts soap in the soap dispenser and vacummes. She is 35 years old....
It's also rather dirty to say the least, not so much messy but grimey, the doors have stains around the handle areas, the newer cabinets in the kitchen are coated with finger grime stains etc. The carpet is about 20 years old. Two weeks after moving in she wanted me to do a "deep-cleaning" with her....I just told her no I am allergic to dust mites and I rather not disturb the dust....so then she decided she wasn't going to clean anything.
It doesn't matter really, I just intended it to be short term anyways. But I think she is pissed off at me for not cleaning her grime.
Her brother owns the place, she kind of just comes and goes and does what she wants to do which is fine, but she doesn't really "keep house". I feel like I am too old for this.
There were a couple of times she was getting quite intimate with guys in the living space....which one has to travel though to get to the other rooms. She didn't even bother to tell me she was going to have a date night or anything kind of heads-up. It's pretty awkward. I woke up one morning and there was a naked bi-sexual guy sprawled out on the floor with her...and I walked over them so I could get some coffee before I left for work. I just shrugged it off and decided to be chill about it even though I thought it was kind of inconsiderate.
I just don't want to be a voyeuristic participant in her dating life, the condo is too small. If was a house and they had a section of it to themselves...then fine. She kind of looks at my face after she has a guy over to read my facial expression for whatever reason and ignore her and give a poker face and I think it pisses her off. The thing is we aren't really friends, so I don't care.
The more important things:
For a while I was going to orientations at some community colleges, there is one that has some really good programs. Though as usual I don't really seem to have the resources to just be able to make it happen, There is my full time job that doesn't cover my needs...and I don't have a car to commute to the classes, it's all absolutely as hard and draining as it could possibly be.
