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dolariI am sick as a dog. The one bad thing about working in a call center with hundreds (well 50) people at a time is you get sick REALLY quick. Sunday night I started noticing I wasn't feeling too well, but we'd just had a front blow through and I figured it was allergies.
Monday I still didn't feel too good, but because of the really stupid and fucked up point system at work I came into work anyway (3.5 points and you're on probation, 4 and your terminated - three weeks in and I'm already at 2.5). I worked four hours before I turned into a coughing aching sneezing sniffling zombie unable to work.
That's when I got the call. A store in Anchorage called in and I did my opening spiel. In the background I heard "Hey, guys! They have a guy named Jennifer working there!" and I snapped back before I could stop myself. "No, I'm a woman named Jennifer, and have been one since 1997" and hung up on them. I fucking HATE that kind of rudeness, and I get it every day, multiple times a day. I just snapped. Hanging up on the customer is a Big No No. I only hope they didn't call back and complain about something they brough on themselves.
I went to my manager to ask him for the rest of the day off (I looked sick, and wasn't so hot). Before I could tell him anything, he told me my weekend (Tue-Wed) was being split and they wanted me to come in Wednesday. Good: In the evening. Bad: When it comes close to the weekend, I'm on the verge of burnout. Right then and there, though, I just asked for the day off. I needed to leave, I was ill, I was mad, I was frustrated.
Went straight home and just got ILL. I'm still a nasty mess this morning, but at least I got a 1 1/2 day weekend. I hope they don't split weekends.
Anyways, the reason for the (possible) split weekend and evening shift? Five people up and quit in the last week. Considering how roughshod the scheduling is there, and the overtime, I don't blame them. I would, too, if I didn't so desperately need the money.
And why do I have to be so good at a job I despise so much? I swear this will be my last phone job, ever.
Today I hope to get some comics done. And it's going to feel good to go to bed at 4AM. :)
I started the shift over last night, getting to bed about 1AM. It was nice to see Adult Swim again. :D
Oh, made my first honest-to-goodness DVD last night, using the new DVD burner. Gwen wanted some of my Space Ghost episodes, so I took the DivX ones I had from the mini-marathon the other night, blew them up to 720x480 and burned them into a DVD. With a nice little SGCTC menu and everything.
The image seems a TINY bit over blown up (Am I supposed to blow it up to 720x480 or 640x480? The manual doesn't say), but other than that, they came out really really nice. Much better than VHS! However, it seems I can only get about 1 1/2 hours on a DVD in MPEG 2 format. If I just burn DivX format data files, though, I can get hours and hours and hours on a DVD.
Anyone know a good DVD authoring program? DVDBuilder is nice, but forces you to do so many silly things to get a good looking DVD.
Monday I still didn't feel too good, but because of the really stupid and fucked up point system at work I came into work anyway (3.5 points and you're on probation, 4 and your terminated - three weeks in and I'm already at 2.5). I worked four hours before I turned into a coughing aching sneezing sniffling zombie unable to work.
That's when I got the call. A store in Anchorage called in and I did my opening spiel. In the background I heard "Hey, guys! They have a guy named Jennifer working there!" and I snapped back before I could stop myself. "No, I'm a woman named Jennifer, and have been one since 1997" and hung up on them. I fucking HATE that kind of rudeness, and I get it every day, multiple times a day. I just snapped. Hanging up on the customer is a Big No No. I only hope they didn't call back and complain about something they brough on themselves.
I went to my manager to ask him for the rest of the day off (I looked sick, and wasn't so hot). Before I could tell him anything, he told me my weekend (Tue-Wed) was being split and they wanted me to come in Wednesday. Good: In the evening. Bad: When it comes close to the weekend, I'm on the verge of burnout. Right then and there, though, I just asked for the day off. I needed to leave, I was ill, I was mad, I was frustrated.
Went straight home and just got ILL. I'm still a nasty mess this morning, but at least I got a 1 1/2 day weekend. I hope they don't split weekends.
Anyways, the reason for the (possible) split weekend and evening shift? Five people up and quit in the last week. Considering how roughshod the scheduling is there, and the overtime, I don't blame them. I would, too, if I didn't so desperately need the money.
And why do I have to be so good at a job I despise so much? I swear this will be my last phone job, ever.
Today I hope to get some comics done. And it's going to feel good to go to bed at 4AM. :)
I started the shift over last night, getting to bed about 1AM. It was nice to see Adult Swim again. :D
Oh, made my first honest-to-goodness DVD last night, using the new DVD burner. Gwen wanted some of my Space Ghost episodes, so I took the DivX ones I had from the mini-marathon the other night, blew them up to 720x480 and burned them into a DVD. With a nice little SGCTC menu and everything.
The image seems a TINY bit over blown up (Am I supposed to blow it up to 720x480 or 640x480? The manual doesn't say), but other than that, they came out really really nice. Much better than VHS! However, it seems I can only get about 1 1/2 hours on a DVD in MPEG 2 format. If I just burn DivX format data files, though, I can get hours and hours and hours on a DVD.
Anyone know a good DVD authoring program? DVDBuilder is nice, but forces you to do so many silly things to get a good looking DVD.
