Working It Out
Shift Confirmation
Dear Charlene,
The following shift has been confirmed:
Date:
Tuesday October 23, 2012 09:15 AM to 05:15 PM
Location Name:
Walmart #2497
Address:
1300 US Highway 22E
City, State Postal Code:
Phillipsburg, NJ 08865
This email was received shortly after I signed up for this shift the day before it was to take place. I could not have been happier. With this shift, and the subsequent paycheck in two weeks, I would be out of my 'official' debt crisis. The weight that lifted was tremendous and for the first time in weeks I was able to fathom getting an oil change or going food shopping. Being the thorough-minded person I am, before I was to leave for work this morning, I checked my shift confirmation. Why? I really don't know. I got the confirmation email stating I was working today but I felt like just another peek would quell my thirst for certainty. I could not have been more glad I checked. The shift was not listed under my confirmed shifts. A quick call to the scheduling department and I found out that I was not in the records as having signed up for the shift and it is no longer available.
With regards to the email above, you can understand my surprise and all I could do was mumble half-hearted drop offs into the phone about disappointment and trust while laughing insincerely into the receiver. The representative on the other line offered no solutions, only apologies. She even tried to explain that I may have clicked the 'confirm shift' button twice, thereby canceling my claim to the shift.
"There's nothing I can really do at this point."
I heard you just fine the first time my dear, but not only do I hear nothing useful coming from your contributions to this conversation, but you ACTUALLY try to blame ME? So, I tell her what she is going to do. I hate doing that because, 1. NOONE likes to be told what to do, it pisses people off and 2. IT MEANS I AM DOING THEIR JOB FOR THEM! So now I am waiting to hear back from Mollen Immunization Clinics, hoping some poor schlub wakes up with a wicked migraine or ate bad shrimp last night.
Dear Charlene,
The following shift has been confirmed:
Date:
Tuesday October 23, 2012 09:15 AM to 05:15 PM
Location Name:
Walmart #2497
Address:
1300 US Highway 22E
City, State Postal Code:
Phillipsburg, NJ 08865
This email was received shortly after I signed up for this shift the day before it was to take place. I could not have been happier. With this shift, and the subsequent paycheck in two weeks, I would be out of my 'official' debt crisis. The weight that lifted was tremendous and for the first time in weeks I was able to fathom getting an oil change or going food shopping. Being the thorough-minded person I am, before I was to leave for work this morning, I checked my shift confirmation. Why? I really don't know. I got the confirmation email stating I was working today but I felt like just another peek would quell my thirst for certainty. I could not have been more glad I checked. The shift was not listed under my confirmed shifts. A quick call to the scheduling department and I found out that I was not in the records as having signed up for the shift and it is no longer available.
With regards to the email above, you can understand my surprise and all I could do was mumble half-hearted drop offs into the phone about disappointment and trust while laughing insincerely into the receiver. The representative on the other line offered no solutions, only apologies. She even tried to explain that I may have clicked the 'confirm shift' button twice, thereby canceling my claim to the shift.
"There's nothing I can really do at this point."
I heard you just fine the first time my dear, but not only do I hear nothing useful coming from your contributions to this conversation, but you ACTUALLY try to blame ME? So, I tell her what she is going to do. I hate doing that because, 1. NOONE likes to be told what to do, it pisses people off and 2. IT MEANS I AM DOING THEIR JOB FOR THEM! So now I am waiting to hear back from Mollen Immunization Clinics, hoping some poor schlub wakes up with a wicked migraine or ate bad shrimp last night.