Phone Calls to be Fretful About
Here's a potentially interesting development. A few weeks ago, the manager from my former place of employment - the Alaska Bead Company - stopped into the fabric store by chance with a friend. She didn't know I worked there, but was pleasantly surprised to see me and we had a really nice chat while her friend shopped. Then, the week before Christmas, I went to the bead store to get some stuff for the gift I was making for my company Christmas party. The store owner was there and I talked with him a bit. He asked me if I missed counting all those beads, and I honestly answered that yes I did. Doing inventory at the bead store was a good job, I enjoyed it. The only reason I left the place was that I was trying to go back to college. I told him that if he ever needed an inventory person again, to give me a call.
So, yesterday, I arrived at work to find a message waiting for me. From the bead store manager. I couldn't return the call right away, because we were busy. By the time I had a minute to call her, she had apparently already left for the day, so I left a message. I later discovered that she'd also called my cell twice (not allowed to have it on the floor at work), and my home number (the one that goes straight to voice mail).
Obviously, I'm really anxious to know why she's calling me. Naturally the first thought that comes to mind is that they want to offer me my old job back. If that's the case, I will accept in a heatbeat. Not only is it a more enjoyable job, but it paid more than what the fabric store can offer me. Even if they wanted to offer me receiving, or any of the other stockroom positions, I would probably accept. Providing it paid more than SLH, but I think those positions all did, iirc. Of course, I'm trying to not get too excited, because maybe she is just calling to catch up, or to let me know about the new metal smithing classes that I'd expressed interest in. Who knows. But here's hoping... I'll give her a call as soon as it's late enough in the morning.
In the course of checking my straight-to-voicemail number, I also discovered a message from my Dad. He said "I'm just giving you a call" and that he'd try again the next evening. He may just be calling in response to my Christmas card, in which I expressed desire to actually be kept in the fricking loop with the family news (a year ago I was told one of my brothers was expecting his first child, and the other was engaged to be married, and then I never heard another word from anyone). But I'm going to worry about this one any way, because it seems like the only time I do hear from them is when there's bad news, so I'm braced to expect the worst. I hope I'm wrong. I'll have to call him back too, since he's trying to get a hold of me through the number I never answer.
Wheeeee! *swinging between extremes!*
So, yesterday, I arrived at work to find a message waiting for me. From the bead store manager. I couldn't return the call right away, because we were busy. By the time I had a minute to call her, she had apparently already left for the day, so I left a message. I later discovered that she'd also called my cell twice (not allowed to have it on the floor at work), and my home number (the one that goes straight to voice mail).
Obviously, I'm really anxious to know why she's calling me. Naturally the first thought that comes to mind is that they want to offer me my old job back. If that's the case, I will accept in a heatbeat. Not only is it a more enjoyable job, but it paid more than what the fabric store can offer me. Even if they wanted to offer me receiving, or any of the other stockroom positions, I would probably accept. Providing it paid more than SLH, but I think those positions all did, iirc. Of course, I'm trying to not get too excited, because maybe she is just calling to catch up, or to let me know about the new metal smithing classes that I'd expressed interest in. Who knows. But here's hoping... I'll give her a call as soon as it's late enough in the morning.
In the course of checking my straight-to-voicemail number, I also discovered a message from my Dad. He said "I'm just giving you a call" and that he'd try again the next evening. He may just be calling in response to my Christmas card, in which I expressed desire to actually be kept in the fricking loop with the family news (a year ago I was told one of my brothers was expecting his first child, and the other was engaged to be married, and then I never heard another word from anyone). But I'm going to worry about this one any way, because it seems like the only time I do hear from them is when there's bad news, so I'm braced to expect the worst. I hope I'm wrong. I'll have to call him back too, since he's trying to get a hold of me through the number I never answer.
Wheeeee! *swinging between extremes!*