So, a few days ago, I received an email inviting me to participate in a class-action lawsuit against my employer Anthem, on behalf of employees who had been required to be at work before clocking in or after clocking out, to be able to start taking calls on time or finish leftover work. Basically, they're accusing Anthem of wage theft, and not ( Read more... )

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It started out like any other Monday. Then about half an hour into my shift, my manager asked me to come to a conference room. I went more than a little nervously, my "principal's office" instincts acting up…then you could have knocked me over with the proverbial feather when I found out what she wanted ( Read more... )

Training has been going better, the last week or so. We've been working with actual systems involved in doing the kind of work we're going to be doing on the phones (though they're the older, more complicated system that most representatives don't use anymore, because the new one still isn't available to us yet), which has given us the chance to ( Read more... )

The job training proceeds apace. We're learning a number of useful things, still out of context, but at least we're starting to get some vague ideas about how they'll come together. I got to work with one of the systems I'd used in one of my previous temp job sessions, and was happy to find I still remembered a number of useful details about how it ( Read more... )

( This is how my first couple of days went. )

So, here I am. Day before I begin my new job at my old workplace. ( Jitters and stuff. )

More life changes, but of the good kind this time. ( I got a job! )

So, I imagine everybody is wondering how my first day at work went. And I'll tell you. But first, I'm going to drop back in time to Wednesday, when I went in to check out and immediately fell in love with my potential new apartment.

( Apartment, hoooo! )

I recently got word that my apartment house has been bought out from under my bankrupt former landlord, and received notice that if I have a written lease, I will be permitted to stay until the end of it, but otherwise, I'm going to be moving soon. (If I ever did have a written lease, it has long since vanished into the mists of time. I've been ( Read more... )

So I got a job. I haven't mentioned this in the LJ, as I really haven't felt the urge to write in it much lately. Haven't had the energy. To be honest, I don't feel like I have the energy even now. But I finally realized, if I don't sit down and do it, it won't get done at all, so I figure I might as well tell the world what I'm doing ( Read more... )