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Not the Best Two Weeks
These past two weeks have been hard, I knew it was going to be when I decided enough was enough at the Spa job. It's a tough decision to make, but if you are really unhappy in a job I don't think you should stay there.
The ideal situation would have been to have a job before I left that company but things just got way too bad there. Last night I was even starting to wonder if they had me going through the books properly, the reason I'm saying this is when you start a new employment you have to sign two personal tax credit forms when you start work. With the spa job I didn't do that. The reason that I realised this is because yesterday I went into the big City of Edmonton for an interview. I'm going back into Temporary Office work (at last), part of the paperwork was to sign this tax form and I remembered having to do it when I first started my other job as well. Alarm bells are ringing here, is/was there something funny going on!
So moving on, the interview lasted about 2 hours, she sat and had a chat with me then I was tested on Word, Excel, and did three typing tests. One numeric, one numeric with text and the final one was text. Well i'll be honest my typing speed isn't the best but I got a 96% accuracy rating. The one down side of the interview was that she has to phone the Spa to confirm my employment, Ahhhhhhh! I could have let the ground open up and drop me down the 12 floors of that building there and then.
I got so upset, I told her the whole story, afterall I had nothing to hide and still to this day I can say that I didn't do anything wrong. It was horrible, I didn't want to slag off my old employer even if she was horrible to me that just isn't my style. I explained to the girl that the boss made me very uncomfortable during my time working there and it was made even worse when I handed in my notice. One of the nice questions she asked which said a thousand words was. "Does she have a high staff turnover?" to which I replied "yes" The girl then proceeded to tell me of an employer that made her life miserable when she wanted to quit a job. She made me feel so much better.
I don't know why I got so upset, I just hate not knowing what people think about me and when you are trying to make a good impression it really matters. If I get onto this temping agency I can kiss the whole of retail goodbye and at last be back in my admin role again working normal hours and getting a half decent pay!
They want to get in touch with all my past employers in Canada, which is fine. I phoned my old boss this morning and he is more than happy to give a reference. I also called my assistant manager to the other store I worked at yesterday and she was happy to do the same. She even gave me her home number to use, as she was due to go on holiday today for the next two weeks, so that was really nice of her.
Lets hope that at last, after nearly two years of "interesting" jobs in Alberta I am finally going to be in something I truely enjoy.
I'm still owed some money from the Spa job, i'm not sure if she is going to try and keep it but i'm so very willing to fight her for it, afterall I have earned it!. There's about two weeks pay, she paid us monthly which is odd here. The norm is generally every two weeks so I'm waiting till the end of the month then probally give another three days for the post and if I don't see it i'll be sending her a letter.
This is one of the problems living in another country, you are vunerable and open for people to mess you about. I've started reading up on employment law now, I think it's a wise and smart thing for everyone to know what their rights are. |
Posted: 04:34, Friday 20 August 2010 |
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