Well, since I didn't get hired at work you'd think I would be all bummed out.
You'd be wrong.
I told the hiring manager since only two people applied for the weekend job instead of picking one or the other of us he should just hire both of us. He insisted he couldn't. They're a small company & don't want to grow too fast, whatever that means. Right now they have maybe 30 or 40 assembly workers. At least half of them are temps. Switching two from temp to permanent employee instead of one isn't going to break the bank. $1 an hour more & pay for insurance for both of us doesn't seem like that big a deal. There'll still be 20 or so temps if they need to downsize temporarily a couple of them can go & everything's good.
So I go to work the other day & what do I see on the bulletin board? They're hiring again. More than last time. This time they're hiring two people for first shift, two for second, and what do you know, another person for the weekend shift.
Should have hired both of us like I said.
I could have applied for one of the other shifts, but I decided to stick with the weekend shift. I have a better chance of getting hired that way. I heard some other temps talking about applying for the new jobs. I'm assuming they're not applying for the weekend shift or they would have applied last time.
So maybe I'll get hired at King after all.
Or maybe I'll get hired at MTM. That's Medical Transportation Management. I don't remember if I wrote about them before. I applied there last summer. One of the many many many job applications I sent out. I really thought I was going to be hired there. I worked at Verizon with one of the supervisors. I even had an in-person interview.
Apparently I sucked because they didn't hire me. You would think they would want somebody with telephone experience & a good solid work history but no. They hired some other people. Who didn't work out. A friend said his cousin or niece or somebody works there & she told him hardly anybody who was hired with her still works there. Some people just can't cut phone work. That's why they should have hired me, but did they? No, they hired some losers that probably lasted about a month.
I reapplied a couple of months after they didn't hire me because they still had job openings on their web site but just got an automated 'don't call us we'll call you' email back. After I got passed over at King I started looking on-line again because $9.75 an hour just isn't enough to live on. I either need a better paying job or a second part-time job. That's when I saw MTM was still hiring. Or hiring again. Or whatever.
So I sent in another application online. Today they called me & I had a telephone interview. Did you know showing up for work on time every time is a big deal to an employer? The lady on the phone just wanted to make sure I understood that. Who knew? Maybe they'll call back & set up another in person interview. Not that the last one did much good.
King is accepting applications until April 30, & MTM is going to set up a new training class May 5, so I should know something next week. You watch, I've been turned down by both companies & now both of them are going to want to hire me. I wouldn't be surprised if Serco, the Obamacare phone support office in Wentzville I was 'conditionally hired' for last year, calls & wants me to come in, too.
I just don't know what to do. If both of them offer me a job which do I choose? MTM would have more, I don't know, style. Working there would be more socially acceptable than working at King, but I like King. I'm working there now. MTM told me fuck you last year. King also didn't hire me, but they had a really good reason. I can't think of a good reason MTM didn't hire me. How many experienced telephone operators with a good attitude & bad-ass work history could they have interviewed? Even if there were so many there just wasn't room for me in that training class they could have given me a shot the second time around but no. Sorry Ruth, we don't want you.
Well, sorry MTM, maybe I don't want you.
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