Havent felt much like posting of late. Still dont really, but I figure an update is way overdue.
1) Last wisdom tooth, gone.
This is the one my last dentist in NY convinced me was worth saving two and a half years ago. Not too tough a job since I’d had the other three out over the previous six months. It was, however, more than half filling, and occasionally uncomfortable. This time it abcessed. OUT OUT ENOUGH. So we had to pay $275 to a BUTCHER for the privilege of me keeping an extra tooth for two years, when if I’d had the nerve to argue for more pain it would have cost zip to pull. *sigh* 20/20 hindsight, thats me. He didnt even prescribe antibiotics. But two types of ow-ease…
2) Employment.
So the tooth came out Wed, and about an hour before my appointment I was called about an interview. This is a corporate call center, with a lot of locations. ONLY inbound calling. I was quite interested, since after my last experience with small business nonsense reminded me why I prefer the corporate environment.
So they have a new client and the training for it starts Monday. So if I wanted a gig, I HAD to interview on Friday at the latest. Two days after an extraction. *wince* I arranged for the interview to be as late in the game as possible and prayed.
Yesterday I woke still in pain, really unsure if I was going to go. Took the scrip the Butcher had given me to be filled. I’d held off since I *had* a supply of tylenol3 on hand, hoping to save us a little cash, but I needed more. Adding Advil 600’s to the T3 did the trick. To my surprise it eased the swelling a lot too. So I drugged myself stupid, dragged on a vague approximation of an interview outfit (Gods, I wore JEANS! And no makeup! And my hair looked like shit!) readied an apology for my appearance and went down.
They hired me on the spot. I start training 7:45 Monday morning.
Considering the other applicants I saw there I can honestly say Im not surprised, if they were representative. Hoodies and belly shirts are not interview-wear folks. I at least had a shirt and jacket on, and wasnt loudly cracking gum. The HR woman who interviewed me was actually honestly surprised when my answer to “which of your skills needs improving” was my typing. Apparently 35 WPM with a 95 accuracy rate was pretty damn good on the bell curve of what they’d been getting. Kinda appalling, considering that in my experience, those figures are the low water mark for “acceptable”.
The hysterical part is the client is a NY based financial company, and I’ll be working on the US holiday schedule. I had to move to Canada for this?!?! Im outside ur country, steelin ur jobs…
