The Other Shoe Drops

[snowrabbit]

So yesterday I talked about how I was asked to stick around my current temp job until well into 2006. Today, the plot thickened. I get to work same as usual this morning and Sarah, one of my two departmental coworkers, is on the phone with a family member and on the verge of tears. Without any explanation to the rest of us (Save possibly our bosses

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[snowrabbit]

Hi! I'm glad to be hearing from you again, I was worried you had fled LiveJournal. I hear what you're saying but they don't call me a temp for prosperity. It's because they really, truly actually can't hire me as a real employee. They have this policy that relatives can't be employed together, so either my sister would have to quit or I'd have to figure out a way to "divorce" my sister in order for them to hire me. Then I'd be given all the perks of a real employee such as overtime pay, a real wage up to par with everyone else, expanded network access including a pager, job security and expanded benifits. Being a temp, the best they can offer me is minimum benifits. They probably wouldn't allow me to have overtime and I'll never be paid what my coworkers doing the same job are. Plus, I'm not being trained to do everything on purpose. As long as I'm a temp, it's seen as a waste of time to train me to do anything specialized. Yea, the money is real but it doesn't erase the fact that for me, a media artist, it's a dead end job. If the job is in high demand, give it to someone who wants to do it for the next few years.

On a side note, love is always a risk. I'm still very young. I have many opportunities to have my face rubbed in dirt. Thankfully, if that happens with Jaci, I've got a support group of family and friends in Portland. It won't be the end of the world. It's a risk I'd survive, win or lose, and be a better person because of it. Then I'd know for sure if Jaci is meant for me and I for her.

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[worshipgr8pygmy]

No have not fled like the stinking sack of underbelly that winds it's way down the sewers at night! I'm often brave, and facing live journal has only taken the strenth of fighting time...as I'm sure you understand. *nod* Time, is often fleeting, and winding as the willows in a blizzard of nuclear fecal explosion.
Anyway, I am posting more often, since my shifts at the ER changes.
Could your bosses not hire you on under the title Temp., for posterity, rather than for prosperous intent? (Prosperous for you! ;)
They seem willing to keep such a well working as you...maybe that is their way around relatives working hard.
But, you said minimum benifits...I suppose that is a heavy weight for such a keen title as temp...what a strange incestual policy they have!
Are you perhaps having luck in media? I say, I thought you were going to make movies! I would love to see them. It's hard to be moveing in a hospital. Hollywood would be keen!

Ah love...it is often a risk of a dirty face.... I and many of my friends have learned this the hard way. I am often harder to learn than others, because I take risks!
Well, my only advice is if she is true to you, and you to her, you will both make magic together! (Hopefully movie magic for you SnowAdam?!) Hopefully you are now going to a land of opportunity!!!!

I enjoy our writes! Pygmy favor you

RB

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[snowrabbit]

They are willing to keep me and being a temp is as good as they can give me. I think the no-relatives rule stemmed from another coworker some time ago wanting their spouse to work in the office and that irked a lot of them. They could get rid of the rule on my behalf, but that'd mean letting in the spouse and I think in that situation it would be a conflict of interest or favoritism.

Bottom line, I grow to loathe the job more and more everyday. It's not me. I don't feel like I fit in and I feel like I'm dragging my feet. Yes, the money is good and no, I'm not having luck finding a media-related job. Those count against me and most rational people would stay with the paying job if they liked it or not. But... I constantly ask myself, "what am I missing out on while I play doctor's assistant?" Because, in the end, that's all I'm really doing: 'Playing' assistant.