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Updated: March 8, 2006
Hey! Well I am back to update this piece!
What's new for me. I am still in Portland and you are welcome to visit at any time. Just holla! TRANSLATION: Contact me if you would like to visit sometime.
I already quit one job and found another. The names don't really matter these days it seems. They just use letters. ACS is the name of the new company and I have no idea what the letters stand for. I have no intention of making it a permanent home so I probably will never learn their name behind the letters. It's another phone job. I am just working there until I can get my insurance licenses and get my insurance business off the ground. Yeah I am headed back to insurance. It beats non-stop phone sales.I wake up everyday and say 'Until I get started'. It helps a little bit but not nearly enough. The truth of the matter is I can't stick with a job because I keep taking jobs that don't challenge me. ACS is probably the worst job I have ever had. The training is lackluster, they send you to the phones with only a tiny glimpse of your responsibilities and all the trainers act like you are a total bother when you ask them a question. Let me give an example. The training is 'self paced', TRANSLATION "Here is the computer and here are the computer lessons. GO for it." I passed the test that was full of a lot of things I had never learned in training and this last Monday was supposed to be my first day of taking calls. I showed up with 2 other people from my class that had graduated at the same time and had opted for the shift that happens to be before the big man in heaven gets up. Otherwise known as 4 AM. Yeah that sounds crazy. Mike up at 4AM. Yeah I heard it already. Thanks for the support. Back to the story. So anyways the 3 of us roll into work and the guy acts like we are from Mars when we tell him we are ready to start. He says he has no logins for us and then proceeds to write down our names and sends us to listen to calls which we had already don for 2 days. I hate listening to people take calls. I hate taking other people's calls as well but I did it. The next day the 3 of us show up and he does the same thing except the writing our names down and as I started to wonder how they knew I was there. So I came in today. He aks me 'are you new?' I'm like no this is my third day here. I just need a log in. My other compatriots also tell him they need a log in. He says log onto a computer and I will help you check for a log in. So we do. We sit there and chat. I find out that all the other classmates even the people that drool have their log ins. The 3 of us are the only ones. 30 minutes go by.... the supervisor guy is talking about his home to another inbred supervisor. An hour goes by and now he is talking about gaming online and how he wants to be a pixy or whatever. We start murmuring about the crappiness of this completely unbelievably low paying pointless and dreary job that no one seems to care if we do or not. 2 hours go by and he pretends we are not there. Maybe the chairs we chose are in a vortex of hades, who knows? It hits three hours and I seriously saw myself age. My scooby gang starts talking about just quitting. three and a half hours of the supervisor managing to avoid us at all costs and those two leave. Yes they leave for good. I finally break at 4 hours. I track this incompetent peon down and I say.....
You don't care about that, what am I rambling for? Let me get to some news you guys care about.
So I got a fish the other day. He is a betta. When I got him he was in one of those little tiny cups. I transfered him to a huge 2 gallon tank. I started singing "moving on up to the east side! We finally got a piece of the pie-hi-yi!" Everytime I walked past I would sing that song and I was watching him and every once in a while he would squiggle a bit. Not going anywhere just moving a lot in one spot. I started thinking about George Jefferson doing his little move he did. I started singing again. I sat down and started watching tv. I got up again and as I passed I said "Hey fish!" I sat down with my glass of lemonaid and I said I can't call him fish he needs a name. A litany of names for dogs came: scar, lassie, spot, jack, fang, tiger, monkey, fido, sula, piano, Mr. T, cereal, Elvis, Mista Mista, ballerina, tiny, bug, mojo jojo, no, bad, down, candy, circle, cube, whiskers, sox, frito, monk, notorious. You know the usual list for dog names. They didn't seem quite right though, then I started thinking of fish names: hey fish!, bug eyes, sir swims-a-lot, reverand fin, dj jazzy scales, monkey, the notorious f.i.n., floppy, scrappy, juju. None of these were right there was a name that suited him.... but what the devil was it? Wait, I am doing it again. You don't care what I name my fish.
Ok, moving on. So I have been heading to work every day. Then after work I head to the insurance school so I can log monitored hours. I then get home and spend way too much time avoiding sleeping. Then I wake up in the morning and wonder why I am so tired.
Well I guess that's that..... What? What do you mean finish my stories? I don't think you really want to know.... You do? You want a more complete update? Well OK.
So I walked up to the training supervisor and I said. "Hey. So will I be getting a log in today?" His Response: "I'll get to it. I am very busy." My response: "Well I have been sitting for 2 and a half days waiting for a log in. Today I was told by you at 4 AM to sign on to a computer and you would help me and it is now 8. I have not been ackowledged since 4 AM, when you asked if I was new. SO can you get a log in for me so that I can do the job." His response: "I will set you up to sidejack (TRANSLATION: listen to some other slackards calls)" My response: "I have already done that for 4 days now. I would like to get my login so I can take my own calls. I have been waiting for you to get that set up for 4 hours. I am not interested in doing anymore sidejacking. I just want to do the job you are paying me for." His response: "Well I will have to have you sidejack." My response: (At this point I am a little irritated) "No. I don't think so. I think I will head home and when I come in tomorrow I want you to have my log in." Then I left. I spent the extra time at the insurance school.
What? I am not saying that I handled the situation at work well. In fact I am not sure what will happen tomorrow. I never gave that guy time to say anything I think I shocked him speechless. I may walk in to sign my walking papers. If that is the case HR will get an earful of the incompetent trainers they have employed at this place. I doubt that will rock their world but that is ok. So I may be looking for my third job in Portland in four months. Damn, talk about a winning resume. I keep telling myself "it is only temporary", but like I said before that doesn't help much. If I could just get on the phones at least I can do something.
SO I know you are dying to know the fish name. Well I ran through lists like I told ya and 'monkey' kept popping up. So, of course I named him George Jefferson. Because he is 'Moving on up'!!!! Pictures to come sometime in the future hopefully before he dies.
On a totally unrelated note I have recently been ordained as a reverend. Make that Reverend Michael James Williams. Yeah I know that name isn't long enough. I need to become Catholic long enough to figure out how to pick up some extra names so my full name takes like twenty minutes to rattle off. So I am ready and excited about marrying Maryann and Glenn! The event of the millenia, March 19th!! Sunday! Sunday! Sunday! You'll pay for the seat but you'll never get to sit down! With special guest appearance by... Robosaurus!!!! Woohoo...WHAT?? No robosaurus??? D'oh! That's it for now.
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