waiting for the other shoe
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wendyzski....because there is no way that this job can be this awesome.
Frankly, the hardest part of my training week is going to be putting names to faces for all the tenants (or at least their admins). I keep being told that some of the tenants are pretty high-maintenance, but I figure that after COMB and some of my former bridal clients I'm well prepared. Most of the rest of it is simply working on absorbing all of the various manuals - not so much memorizing things as becoming familiar with where to look stuff up when I need it.
Basically my job is to make people's days better. I fix things, find things, refill things, ship things, arrange things, comisserate with people having a bad day, and with a little bit of my remaining time I do a little accounting and filing. Today had everything from online bill-paying to cleaning sticker-glue off the soda machine, and I'm OK with that.
I'll have the office to myself 3 days a week, and I have a gas fireplace in my office! The other 2 days I work alongside a really nice lady who is into container gardening and has a rescued Westie named Wilson. The building is an architectural wonder and there is an awesome view of a lovely courtyard from the window.
Honestly, the worst part of the day was when I managed to break my desk! Actually, it was a screw that had been loose for a while but since no one was sitting there no one noticed - until I tugged a little too hard and the middle drawer fell off into my lap. We propped it up in place (so as not to bend the remaining bracket) with 2 trash cans and a phone book until the carpenter could come over - Clearly my boss thinks like me.
I'm putting in a few hours tomorrow and Monday at the other 2 locations so that I can fill in when we're short-handed. Otherwise, while there are a variety of routes I can take to/from there I always have the slow-but-steady option that leaves from 2 blocks from home and drops me off in front of the building. As a cost-saving measure a while back, everyone was given 1 furlough day a month, and once things got better people were offered them back and said "actually we LIKE having a 3-day weekend once a month" so I will have the 3rd Monday of every month off without pay, which will be nice nonetheless, as even with that I'm making more than my last few jobs.
So at least for now, things look good!
Frankly, the hardest part of my training week is going to be putting names to faces for all the tenants (or at least their admins). I keep being told that some of the tenants are pretty high-maintenance, but I figure that after COMB and some of my former bridal clients I'm well prepared. Most of the rest of it is simply working on absorbing all of the various manuals - not so much memorizing things as becoming familiar with where to look stuff up when I need it.
Basically my job is to make people's days better. I fix things, find things, refill things, ship things, arrange things, comisserate with people having a bad day, and with a little bit of my remaining time I do a little accounting and filing. Today had everything from online bill-paying to cleaning sticker-glue off the soda machine, and I'm OK with that.
I'll have the office to myself 3 days a week, and I have a gas fireplace in my office! The other 2 days I work alongside a really nice lady who is into container gardening and has a rescued Westie named Wilson. The building is an architectural wonder and there is an awesome view of a lovely courtyard from the window.
Honestly, the worst part of the day was when I managed to break my desk! Actually, it was a screw that had been loose for a while but since no one was sitting there no one noticed - until I tugged a little too hard and the middle drawer fell off into my lap. We propped it up in place (so as not to bend the remaining bracket) with 2 trash cans and a phone book until the carpenter could come over - Clearly my boss thinks like me.
I'm putting in a few hours tomorrow and Monday at the other 2 locations so that I can fill in when we're short-handed. Otherwise, while there are a variety of routes I can take to/from there I always have the slow-but-steady option that leaves from 2 blocks from home and drops me off in front of the building. As a cost-saving measure a while back, everyone was given 1 furlough day a month, and once things got better people were offered them back and said "actually we LIKE having a 3-day weekend once a month" so I will have the 3rd Monday of every month off without pay, which will be nice nonetheless, as even with that I'm making more than my last few jobs.
So at least for now, things look good!
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