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So last night I get a job offer at 4:36 P.M. from a temp agency here in Indy for a safety watch (I found out what the hell that means 10 minutes ago) job in Fredonia.
Fredonia is over 30 miles to the north of here. My car gets 18 miles to the gallon.
60 miles a day/18= 3.33 gallons
3.33x$4.00= $13.32 per day.
That's not a great thing.
Anyway the original offer was May 2nd to May 15th, 8 hour shifts. "Outdoors and indoors". I said I was iffy, but I think you people know I'm a very cautious and calculating person- I'm not some idiot that commits to every damn offer under the sun.
So-
After making the round trip (which was actually quite a pleasant (albeit LONG) drive) (parentheses inside (parentheses=time paradox)) and getting to the cement plant's gate, I think to myself "yeah I can probably do this".
Its a 40 minute commute too. That's unheard of where I come from. Anyway- 12/hour 40 hour weeks 2 weeks. Almost $1000. Not bad right?
I call this morning for the "yeah I can probably do this job" (training is effing Tomorrow 8:00 and they call me 4:36 Tuesday?)
And I catch a little attitude for having an "uuuh" moment.
My "uuuh" moment?
"Okay, the details of the job have changed- its 10 hour shifts, no confirmation on night/day yet, and its only April 25th-29th, and we're only going to be able to hire half of the people"
"... uuuh"
"I need someone at %100 for this job!"
"I'll be honest, I'm at %80 and that's because of the sudden flux in the job, and I'm really not that spontaneous of a person"
She continued to squawk while my dog knocked over an antique lamp upstairs, and about some of the most inane shit I had heard, but I kept smiling, and kept blowing smoke.
I may be a compulsive truth teller, but I'm charismatic about it.
More importantly, I found out training was in Indy, and I basically just radio for help IF someone gets hurt. Most likely, no one will be hurt, indoors/outdoors.
I won't know til this afternoon if I'm accepted into the 4hour paid training class.
Y'know what "spontaneous" says to me, in almost every environment?
Inability to plan.
Someone in this equation was unable to plan properly, and that shit irks me. But I should probably drop everything get paid $460-$600 for 5 days of work and I should be expected that someone in the equation other than me clearly has an inadequacy in planning/budgeting/telling people all the details before all the details are revealed.
Is that something YOU like hearing?
Oh yeah... it just occured to me that this job would start 4 days after a morning training session... that's pretty fast to flip your internal clock and make alternate arrangements for anyone/thing you're responsible for if I catch the nightshift.
