Pat still lives... and whores for his company...
so I'm gonna give you guys the gist of my story like normal, considering i never am good at the writing thing...
I applied for the customer help rep posting @ TELUS in late november. I ended up getting interviewed, and got the job december 8th. that day i handed in my resignation, and my last day at Convergys was December 13th.
I started at TELUS on the 14th, and was holed up in the TELUS Toll building (102 Ave/100ASt, the one that looks like a tall concrete bombproof version of the remand center) for 2 weeks, learning the trade of cutting trouble tickets and telling people how to use their calling features and voicemail.
After suffocating in the nearly windowless building along with my semi-personalityless classmates (I couldnt be my smart assed self since none of them got it), i ended up in the TELUS plaza south tower, where I now enjoy:
$17.41/hour
1.5 time on OT joined with my shifts ($26.12/hour)
Double OT if I take an hour between my shift and the OT, as well as any hours I work on Sundays ($34.82/hour)
Triple OT on Stats ($52.23/hour)
Full time hours
IMMEDIATE benefits (80% on most extended health care and dental, 75% coverage on my AHC, etc.)
40% off my TELUS bills, 30% off my cell phones
And the best one of them all, I'm in a union, where no one is grumpy towards the management, and where the management doesn't try and pull any crap (like what Convergys does).
What this post really is, in a sense, is me trying to get everyone to work where I do, so that I can have friends there (cause most of the people that I've met so far have personalities only slightly better than paper bags), and because I know most of you deserve better than what raw deals you're getting (especially you at the Con...)
In other news,
frogprincess23 and I ended up hosting her birthday party last Saturday night, and we had a blast, among other things getting (slightly...) inebriated, playing MADGAB, and enjoying the company of
shizumu,
jiasaykea,
hsgranger, her guy Karl, and
trustnoone1981 and her guy Tyson.
We all had fun there, and now this weekend,
frogprincess23 and I, along with
jiasaykea and others are going to be going to karaeoke for
shizumu's birthday! I'm excited, since most of the people who will be there have not heard my pipes yet, and as well, I'm gonna be seeing pretty much my best friend from high school, Vince, there, and I havent seen him in almost 7 years...
Anyways, I gotta jet since I wake up at 530 tomorrow...
I applied for the customer help rep posting @ TELUS in late november. I ended up getting interviewed, and got the job december 8th. that day i handed in my resignation, and my last day at Convergys was December 13th.
I started at TELUS on the 14th, and was holed up in the TELUS Toll building (102 Ave/100ASt, the one that looks like a tall concrete bombproof version of the remand center) for 2 weeks, learning the trade of cutting trouble tickets and telling people how to use their calling features and voicemail.
After suffocating in the nearly windowless building along with my semi-personalityless classmates (I couldnt be my smart assed self since none of them got it), i ended up in the TELUS plaza south tower, where I now enjoy:
$17.41/hour
1.5 time on OT joined with my shifts ($26.12/hour)
Double OT if I take an hour between my shift and the OT, as well as any hours I work on Sundays ($34.82/hour)
Triple OT on Stats ($52.23/hour)
Full time hours
IMMEDIATE benefits (80% on most extended health care and dental, 75% coverage on my AHC, etc.)
40% off my TELUS bills, 30% off my cell phones
And the best one of them all, I'm in a union, where no one is grumpy towards the management, and where the management doesn't try and pull any crap (like what Convergys does).
What this post really is, in a sense, is me trying to get everyone to work where I do, so that I can have friends there (cause most of the people that I've met so far have personalities only slightly better than paper bags), and because I know most of you deserve better than what raw deals you're getting (especially you at the Con...)
In other news,
frogprincess23 and I ended up hosting her birthday party last Saturday night, and we had a blast, among other things getting (slightly...) inebriated, playing MADGAB, and enjoying the company of
shizumu,
jiasaykea,
hsgranger, her guy Karl, and
trustnoone1981 and her guy Tyson.
We all had fun there, and now this weekend,
frogprincess23 and I, along with
jiasaykea and others are going to be going to karaeoke for
shizumu's birthday! I'm excited, since most of the people who will be there have not heard my pipes yet, and as well, I'm gonna be seeing pretty much my best friend from high school, Vince, there, and I havent seen him in almost 7 years...
Anyways, I gotta jet since I wake up at 530 tomorrow...