Hey there, how's it going? The past few days have been a blur with many mixed emotions which I will begin to spill out. For sometime I've been working very few days throughout the month as an On-call at 'Makeup' work and I as I mentioned before, I really need the money so, I've been on a mission since January to try and find a second job doing my other skill, Dental Hygiene. It's insane that I am surrounded by a sea of Dental Offices (I'm not kidding, there's about 2-3 at every intersection in my area) and despite dropping off resumes at a good 18 locations, I hadn't heard back from any of them! Which brings me to some good news I got in late February. A girl I know who was a classmate of mine in Dental school works at an office not too far away and the office just so happened to be looking for somebody. I applied, had my interview and... I am now temping at that location! Yay!
Here comes more good news. About two days ago I got a call from 'Makeup' work and they scheduled me for a butt load of days! Someone resigned from that specific location and I'm guessing I'm taking over their times until they find a permanent part timer to fill the position. Looking back at my calendar I realized that I was booked for 4 Thursdays straight going into April and even though the 'Dental' work hadn't given me much information about my schedule, I assumed that I would be temping for Thursdays only at this time since my first day is for tomorrow!
Here comes the bad. I call 'Dental' work to confirm for my first day which WAS suppose to be happening for tomorrow and I was told that my schedule fell apart, that there was no point in coming in because only one client was left on my list. I called later in the evening to see if any thing changed and it was completely empty. I felt soo upset. My mood was brought right down. I haven't worked in a Dental Clinic since school -which was last April and I was so amped for tomorrow and then this happens :( . I found out that yeah, I'm temping Thursdays so I am basically On-call for the Dental office too because I have to call in every Wednesday night to find out if I'm working on the Thursday, for every week.
Now comes the butt ugly. I call 'Makeup' work and explain my situation and they were completely cool about me having to be somewhere else on a Thursday. Instead of being able to let them know Wednesday nights for each week (until April) if I would be able to come in or not for the Thursday shift because of being On-call with 'Dental' work, they told me it would be too short notice for them so my four precious work days had to be removed :'(
Is this really what I have to go through just to get things going for me? I have all these thoughts running in my head thinking like, well I'm missing four days of work with one place and these four days of work may potentially not even happen with the other place if the same thing that happened now happens then. And how it really sucks that if I can't be at one place because they don't need me then I can't be at the other either because it's too short notice, so there goes four days of no money making. I mean, I'm happy I was called by 'Makeup' work with all those shifts so I'll take that over nothing at all but, this whole thing is just a big ball of suck right now.
Enough with the sad unknown... I guess, I will leave off with a funny story that happened to me at work a few days ago.
A man came in asking if we sell neon nail polishes. He was holding some type of metal box in his hand that I didn't get a good look at before the conversation started. I bring him to the area where the nail polish stand is and show him the neon colours and then this flash of blue light shines on the polishes and goes quickly off. I turn to the man confused at what just happened. He shakes his head and asks to see more colours, so I show him more neon colours and again that blue light goes on and then off. I got a good look at that box hes was holding and it looked like a DIY black light. So I said,
ME: "OH! You're looking for glow-in-the-dark nail polish!" Now understanding what he meant by 'neon'.
MAN: "Yes".
ME: "I'm sorry we don't carry glow-in-the-dark nail polish, only neon. You would have to look for a nail
polish that says it has that UV reactive ingredient in it. So sorry"
MAN: The man looks at me the with straightest face and says "It's Phosphorus!" and huffed out of the store.
And I'm just standing there thinking to myself, my honours in bio and chem meant nothing (sarcasm).
It gets better. Then another girl that works at the store comes over to me and was like "What in the hell was that? Are you okay? What the..? with that light thing?"
My day was made.
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