I had forgotten just how much work was involved in setting up a new online identity. I’ve been working off and on all day and I’m still not really satisfied, but I’m tired and I was determined to get a post up before I called it a night.
I really need to be doing actual work since I have no jobs lined up at the moment.
I was supposed to be doing an event at a local store this whole month but a car that wouldn’t start yesterday caused me to have to cancel.
Honestly, that felt like a disaster waiting to happen anyway.
I got a job that I should have had about two weeks to prepare for two days before the first of five events was supposed to take place. There were emails, videos with quizzes, a kit to sort through and organize and mountains of manuals and paperwork to go through plus a script that was supposed to be memorized with four different scenarios.
Oh, and did I mention the deadlines?
I realized on Wednesday, the day after I got the event, that that was the day I was supposed to have my W-9 faxed or emailed to my supervisor and it was the day I was supposed to make contact with the store the event was being held in to see if they’d gotten my shipment of signs that were a mandatory part of my job.
You got the mandatory part, right?
I know you guys may not have gotten a memo, but the store did. A memo telling them I was coming and so was the shipment that they were supposed to store until the day of the event. I know they got one because I had two copies of the same memo in my kit and the member of management I spoke with was expecting to hear from me soon, so I was really confused when she told me that they had, indeed, gotten my shipment but no, they didn’t have my signs. They had been thrown away because their DM (District Manager) had made the decision that their particular store wasn’t big enough for such signs.
You remember that mandatory part, right? As in, not only was I supposed to put these together and place them around the store in specific places, per a placement chart included in the training manual, but I was also supposed to send in pictures of them when I had them placed.
By the time I got off the phone, I was really frustrated in general with whole thing. I was already short a cling I was supposed to have had in the kit, I’d been up nearly around the clock already trying to get a handle on two weeks worth of work in two days. I was nervous already because of my social anxiety and the fact that it would be the first of this type of job for me.
Oh, and did I mention that I would be audited by the company I was representing at some point in my day while doing the event I had practically no time to prepare for and half the things I was supposed to take pictures of missing?
It may sound unprofessional, but I was actually kind of relieved when I gave up the assignment.
Unfortunately though, I have no other jobs booked at the moment and the loss of the income the job would have brought in will be hard to replace.
I feel like I’ve been running on empty all week and I’m exhausted. Probably not the best time to have done everything I did today, but part of me is glad that I did it.
Tomorrow, I’ll start trying to fit my blogging around work and the rest of my busy schedule and I’ll put up something a little more personal than just me complaining about work.
Until next time,
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