Sally Foster
Sep. 23rd, 2008 09:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tinhuvielartanisI started the new job tonight. It was supposed to begin tomorrow night, but they called me in a day early. It's fabulicious! I'll be working in the computer control room, filtering orders out to the warehouse and basically keeping my pulse on the ebb and flow of the work being processed on the mini-shift from 5 to 9 PM each night. The young lady by the name of Brandy (sp) training me is incredible. She's a natural at teaching and is a really sweet girl, being only 29. I took tons of notes, none of which I'll be able to read because my writing is for crap, so I'm depending on my memory to keep my afloat until I learn everything I'm supposed to know. My boss, Frank, had heard about my car accident and told me he was glad to see me present and in one piece considering the situation. I told him I was glad, too. I felt genuinely at ease in a very short period of time there. It was like being back in the music club portion of BMG when it was still the RCA Music Service.
One thing that's not very cool is the Chocolate Room. I capitalise it because it deserves capitalisation. This room is just this side of refrigerated and it contains nothing but specialty chocolates. It smells of milk chocolate and every bin is filled to brimming with rich, buttery chocolate and toffee. It's a chocolate-lover's paradise if the chocolate lover gets to indulge. We employees do not get to indulge and, in my case, someone with PMS pretty much suffers when finding themselves in the Chocolate Room. Fortunately, there's no need for me to go in there, at least I don't believe so. For me, the Chocolate Room is the third ring of Hell.
On a brighter note, employees get goodies during our seasonal employment, so I will probably get some of that chocolate, and some gift wrap and other stuff. Also, we receive bonuses. If I'm there on time every day and work my alloted time each day, I'll be getting an extra $40 a week. That pumps my pay up to $12.00 an hour. This job lasts for 8 weeks, so I need to make this count. If I make a good enough impression, hopefully the temp agency will be able to find me something else once the Sally Foster project is complete.
For the first time in a long time, I'm looking forward to going back to work tomorrow.
One thing that's not very cool is the Chocolate Room. I capitalise it because it deserves capitalisation. This room is just this side of refrigerated and it contains nothing but specialty chocolates. It smells of milk chocolate and every bin is filled to brimming with rich, buttery chocolate and toffee. It's a chocolate-lover's paradise if the chocolate lover gets to indulge. We employees do not get to indulge and, in my case, someone with PMS pretty much suffers when finding themselves in the Chocolate Room. Fortunately, there's no need for me to go in there, at least I don't believe so. For me, the Chocolate Room is the third ring of Hell.
On a brighter note, employees get goodies during our seasonal employment, so I will probably get some of that chocolate, and some gift wrap and other stuff. Also, we receive bonuses. If I'm there on time every day and work my alloted time each day, I'll be getting an extra $40 a week. That pumps my pay up to $12.00 an hour. This job lasts for 8 weeks, so I need to make this count. If I make a good enough impression, hopefully the temp agency will be able to find me something else once the Sally Foster project is complete.
For the first time in a long time, I'm looking forward to going back to work tomorrow.
