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Three Months
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By:
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DuckyMrsS
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Mood:
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disappointed
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Date:
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07/19/2008 22:43:18
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Music:
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None
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Late March and I submitted my application to a National Corp. The next day I was asked to come in for an interview. Showed up and found it was a lead position on a very busy station and set a date to meet the chef the following week. The day befor eI showed up, they had a young person, who had been on leave, call and say he wanted to return to work for the company. They gave him my position.
They offered me a job as a cashier. Benefits and a decent hourly wage..... I accepted the offer. I started work mid- April.
The first two weeks were difficult and I was having alot of over-rings and shortages. I was slow at beverage stocking. twice aday.
Iwas up at 4:30, drove 25 minutes into the city (17.5 mi.)and started work at 6:30.
The cash register and I eventually became associates and I was completing tasks assigned, early.
I was then asked to go to anaother cafeteria to cover for a maternity leave. I was to shadow the mum for a week and then she would leave.
Baby came 3 weeks early. I started the new job with minimal outlines of work. Each day I spent trying to learn a new (to me) old cashregister. I was also told to learn the machine. Day 2. Things went from bad to worse on the till and the other jobs had become easy and almost mechanical.
What didn't improve were my over rings and shortages. There is no way to void a transaction or change an item unless you cash out and start over. After my second week, Corporate said I had to be terminated.
Funnily after my second week at the first location,I told them that I would like to be transferred to the kitchen. They kept bringing new people in and I stayed where I was.
I know that we should persue our strengths, but I also felt that learning another aspect of the industry was as important.
Right now I feel I was set up for failure whilst trying to learn a new situation. I'm very disappointed in Large Corps. that from a distance , are not bothered with the situation a person has been put in but the black and white numbers that show failure.
I spent a weekend being angry and crying. I then organized my cooking and baking supplies and cleaned up from a party for 50 that I had done this past weekend. I cleaned house and helped lay sod. I silently cursed my husband for tilling to deep and cutting the phone cables which disconnected my phone and internet.
Friday, I called to set an interview appt. I have been delayed until Monday morning.
I will look in the paper again tomorrow, Sunday.
Am I doing the right thing? Am I right in feeling hurt and disappointed at the way this was handled?
I will contine to search for a job and figure out what I'm supposed to be doing. I Know that I'll find something and that it will be the right place for me.
Tags: work
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