I'm applying for a new job
It's at the Southern Hills Counseling Center in Dubois County (that's where I work now).
Here's the job descripition:
MENTAL HEALTH TECHNICIANS
Southern Hills has flex/part time (29 or less hours per week) and full time openings for individuals who are dependable, dedicated and interested in providing care and support to special-needs residents in our group homes in Dubois County. Minimum requirements are a high school diploma or equivalent, valid driver’s license, available transportation, and “people” skills. A shift differential is paid for evening/night hours worked at the group homes. All positions require some weekend and evening or night work.
Lots will go into my decision if they offer the job. Pay, hours, if I'd be able to have enough time off to go see my boyfriend, lots of other things.
This is actually kind of what I was wanting to do right after I got my BS in Psychology. So, not so bad.
Yeah, my job is not attempting to help me at all, not even a little bit, in seeing Josh. He now works 30 hours a week and has two biology classes with labs that he has to take, so I'm the one who will have to drive more.
I didn't have a weekend off all last month, and I have this weekend off, but because I close tonight and work at 10 in the morning Monday, I can't go see him. Super Bowl is Sunday night. I'm not going to miss that, and if I went up there, I'd miss it to get home so I could work.
I tried to talk to the first assistant manager, but she didn't want to listen to me. All I want, if it's possible, to either open or not work at all the Fridays of the weekends I have off and close the following Monday. It's not a huge problem. But she dismissed it without actually listening to me and didn't even give it a second thought. Not to mention she started in on how I can't ask off for 5 days in a row all the time. Um, pretty sure this is only the third or fourth time since I've been there (for a year and a week) that I've done it, and you know what? I'm glad I did. Because after not seeing him for a month, because they didn't give me my weekends off, I get to spend time with him.
I also tried explaining why I did. Wednesday the 14 (Valentine's Day none the less) is my travel day because he has class all day Thursday when the play is we are going to go see. That weekend is our anniversary so I just decided to ask off because it was the weekend and could be my regular weekend off and it's our 15 months! She started in on how the 14th was supposed to be her night to go out to dinner with her husband and blah blah blah but now it's pretty much ruined because, well, I had to go ask off for five days.
Um, sorry, but my sympathy is limited because she lives with her husband and gets to see him everyday. One other manager lives with her boyfriend and gets to see him everyday. The store manager lives with her husband and gets to see him everyday.
See a pattern? I NEVER GET TO SEE MY BOYFRIEND BECAUSE OF MY JOB. So, I'm pretty sure that I could care less that it was supposed to be her dinner date night with her husband because at leasts she gets to see him.
Am I being selfish? I see them as being selfish, not me. I'd love to be able to see Josh more than two days at a time from time to time, so I ask off every once in a blue moon. But do they care? Nope.
Sorry for the tirade. I know it's old and I complain about it a lot. I actually started it as an update for you guys and then it turned into a rant and whiny post. I whine a lot. I know. I'm sorry.
Anyway, I hope the rest of your lives are going better.
Oh, Laura, I'll get those pics emailed out this weekend. They might come in two or three emails because I have dial-up and if the attachment is too big, it takes forever to send and I'm not patient when it comes to dial up. Hee. Thanks!
Have a good and safe weekend, everyone!
Here's the job descripition:
MENTAL HEALTH TECHNICIANS
Southern Hills has flex/part time (29 or less hours per week) and full time openings for individuals who are dependable, dedicated and interested in providing care and support to special-needs residents in our group homes in Dubois County. Minimum requirements are a high school diploma or equivalent, valid driver’s license, available transportation, and “people” skills. A shift differential is paid for evening/night hours worked at the group homes. All positions require some weekend and evening or night work.
Lots will go into my decision if they offer the job. Pay, hours, if I'd be able to have enough time off to go see my boyfriend, lots of other things.
This is actually kind of what I was wanting to do right after I got my BS in Psychology. So, not so bad.
Yeah, my job is not attempting to help me at all, not even a little bit, in seeing Josh. He now works 30 hours a week and has two biology classes with labs that he has to take, so I'm the one who will have to drive more.
I didn't have a weekend off all last month, and I have this weekend off, but because I close tonight and work at 10 in the morning Monday, I can't go see him. Super Bowl is Sunday night. I'm not going to miss that, and if I went up there, I'd miss it to get home so I could work.
I tried to talk to the first assistant manager, but she didn't want to listen to me. All I want, if it's possible, to either open or not work at all the Fridays of the weekends I have off and close the following Monday. It's not a huge problem. But she dismissed it without actually listening to me and didn't even give it a second thought. Not to mention she started in on how I can't ask off for 5 days in a row all the time. Um, pretty sure this is only the third or fourth time since I've been there (for a year and a week) that I've done it, and you know what? I'm glad I did. Because after not seeing him for a month, because they didn't give me my weekends off, I get to spend time with him.
I also tried explaining why I did. Wednesday the 14 (Valentine's Day none the less) is my travel day because he has class all day Thursday when the play is we are going to go see. That weekend is our anniversary so I just decided to ask off because it was the weekend and could be my regular weekend off and it's our 15 months! She started in on how the 14th was supposed to be her night to go out to dinner with her husband and blah blah blah but now it's pretty much ruined because, well, I had to go ask off for five days.
Um, sorry, but my sympathy is limited because she lives with her husband and gets to see him everyday. One other manager lives with her boyfriend and gets to see him everyday. The store manager lives with her husband and gets to see him everyday.
See a pattern? I NEVER GET TO SEE MY BOYFRIEND BECAUSE OF MY JOB. So, I'm pretty sure that I could care less that it was supposed to be her dinner date night with her husband because at leasts she gets to see him.
Am I being selfish? I see them as being selfish, not me. I'd love to be able to see Josh more than two days at a time from time to time, so I ask off every once in a blue moon. But do they care? Nope.
Sorry for the tirade. I know it's old and I complain about it a lot. I actually started it as an update for you guys and then it turned into a rant and whiny post. I whine a lot. I know. I'm sorry.
Anyway, I hope the rest of your lives are going better.
Oh, Laura, I'll get those pics emailed out this weekend. They might come in two or three emails because I have dial-up and if the attachment is too big, it takes forever to send and I'm not patient when it comes to dial up. Hee. Thanks!
Have a good and safe weekend, everyone!