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Welcome to my nightmare....
Okay, this must be the part of the
sleeping cycle where I can't get to sleep until dawn for a couple of
nights, so I'm forced to take melotonin for awhile until I get back
to my normal sleeping cycle. Then I sleep past my alarm and feel like
shit for awhile, until the coffee kicks in. Geeze, I love that....
Yup, it's been awhile since I checked
in. And major changes are up, all for the better. The big one
starting today would be a new job.
The last one? Well, it got my foot in
this town's door. Met some great people, friends I'll probably carry
through life. But the job itself still wasn't the greatest idea.
It was a sales job, for one thing. And
although I'm a phone professional of 12 years' standing, I hate
doing telemarketing. I'll do survey work, appointment setting,
qualifying, customer service, anything BUT telemarketing. And I
violated my own law for once, just to start making a paycheck.
But...three
weeks in, and the joint's ownership decides production's not what it
should be. Everyone's sales are down, due to the natural scaling back
of purchases once school kicks in and families are reeling from
having just bought clothing and school supplies, etc. But the
ownership decides we're all just slacking. So crap gets dumped on the
management's heads, and it starts running down and plopping on the
heads at my level.
Well,
I was micromanaged last week until I had four anxiety
attacks in a row. After not
having any of those for a year. Is this healthy, I ask you?
Not
for me, it isn't. And when Sunday night became Monday morning, and I
was still awake, listening to my alarm go off, and I get a fifth
anxiety attack thinking about having to go to work on no sleep,
knowing I had been promised yet another talk about my
performance (when I am doing the
best I can with what I have), I decided I wasn't going to sit through
that talk. Nor would I sit in that office again.
Two
days later, I applied at a magazine subscription service for a
customer service position and got it. I start today, at a far better
pay scale than what I had at the telemarketing place.
Now I
gotta run. I need to clean up and do some stuff before going in for
my first shift there. More tomorrow and the next day, including some
big changes at “RADIO NAPALM,” a new (to you) obscure protopunk
band's resurrection, and all that other fun stuff. Thanks for reading
this.