New Job!
Well, at long last.... I have a job. And Ari and I have flip-flopped.
Basically a week ago Friday Ari was fired. She was told that as we live in an "at will" state, they don't need a reason to fire her, they just did. She was also told it was because of a 10 hour discrepancy between her reported hours and her log-in/log-off times on her computer. The fact that her boss told her she could take stuff home and work on it evidently was completely irrelevance to this calculation.
That left us completely unemployed for one terrifying weekend, before the next Tuesday, I was called and offered a job. (I've been offered two other jobs since, but the first one was the one I'd already decided I really wanted, so that worked out well.) So in the course of a few days we went from her being the sole provider and me being the housedyke, to me being the sole provider and HER being the housedyke. It's taking some getting used to.
So what is this job, Smeg? It may or may surprise you to learn I am now a used car salesman. I joke. I mostly sell new.
It's a crazy, completely different thing than anything I've ever done before. Well, I was doing some selling before, but that was in-house, one on one, no supervision. This is... quite different. I've been there a week and been in training (kinda) the whole time, when I go back on Tuesday they'll actually let me start talking to the customers. I say kinda training because their version of training is 'here are a bunch of Dvds about selling... and some books about our products. Learn all this and observe so you can figure how what we do.'
I'm still a little nervous about the job, if I'll be a good salesperson or not, but the dealership claims to be low-pressure, and what I've sen actually agrees with that. And everything is automated so that whole several hours it normally takes to go back and forth on price/payment/etc they aim to do in 15-20 minutes. And a lot of that is the time it takes to run a credit check.
The scary part is because it's a commission job I have very little clue what my paychecks are going to be. Not to mention there are about 10 things that factor into said commissions. I have no doubt that in a few weeks the whole system will be very familiar to me, but right now it's so much greek.
So I apologize in advance if my journal turns into a bunch of car-selling stories for the next month or so as I try to find my feet in a totally new job.
Basically a week ago Friday Ari was fired. She was told that as we live in an "at will" state, they don't need a reason to fire her, they just did. She was also told it was because of a 10 hour discrepancy between her reported hours and her log-in/log-off times on her computer. The fact that her boss told her she could take stuff home and work on it evidently was completely irrelevance to this calculation.
That left us completely unemployed for one terrifying weekend, before the next Tuesday, I was called and offered a job. (I've been offered two other jobs since, but the first one was the one I'd already decided I really wanted, so that worked out well.) So in the course of a few days we went from her being the sole provider and me being the housedyke, to me being the sole provider and HER being the housedyke. It's taking some getting used to.
So what is this job, Smeg? It may or may surprise you to learn I am now a used car salesman. I joke. I mostly sell new.
It's a crazy, completely different thing than anything I've ever done before. Well, I was doing some selling before, but that was in-house, one on one, no supervision. This is... quite different. I've been there a week and been in training (kinda) the whole time, when I go back on Tuesday they'll actually let me start talking to the customers. I say kinda training because their version of training is 'here are a bunch of Dvds about selling... and some books about our products. Learn all this and observe so you can figure how what we do.'
I'm still a little nervous about the job, if I'll be a good salesperson or not, but the dealership claims to be low-pressure, and what I've sen actually agrees with that. And everything is automated so that whole several hours it normally takes to go back and forth on price/payment/etc they aim to do in 15-20 minutes. And a lot of that is the time it takes to run a credit check.
The scary part is because it's a commission job I have very little clue what my paychecks are going to be. Not to mention there are about 10 things that factor into said commissions. I have no doubt that in a few weeks the whole system will be very familiar to me, but right now it's so much greek.
So I apologize in advance if my journal turns into a bunch of car-selling stories for the next month or so as I try to find my feet in a totally new job.