And The Beat Goes On

[Rico]

Well, it has been just a wonderful last few days. NOT! Last week, on Wednesday, to be exact, my wife asked her boss if she could get more hours. She was concerned about the gas situation, as was I, and wanted to do her part to get more hours. Well, her boss told her she could transfer to another part of the park, the water slides, and she would get more hours but she'd have to change shifts to 11-7. No problem for her. She filled out the paperwork and at the end of her shift the boss told her not to come back for two days while the transfer was going through. Again, no biggie. She showed up for work on Saturday, as instructed, only to be told she'd have to wait another week to two weeks to know if she'd be transferred and she couldn't go back to where she had been working. So, the wife is basically unemployed now, pending whatever these geniuses decide to do.

If that isn't bad enough, I got an email this morning from the main company I have been working from home for. They gave me what is called a BOC (breach of contract) over having voicemail. I promptly contacted them and told them there must be some mistake because I have no features whatsoever on this phone line, no call waiting, no three way, no voicemail, nothing. The lady gave me a call and then called me again just to verify. She told me it would have to go to a supervisor for review and she couldn't tell me how soon it would be before they could get back to me. Well, lo and behold, I then got an email saying my contract with them had been terminated. No explanation, no nothing! They basically showed me the door for no reason.

So, I am now going to have to work more for another company, that mainly has call volume at night, when all these infomercials are running. I really don't care too much for this type of call taking because it involves a lot of selling this or that, on top of what the caller called about in the first place, and I just don't like being so pushy with sales. I am going to do it, because my family is counting on me, however.

This couldn't have happened at a worse time. I am supposed to start classes on the 25th and it was supposed to coincide with my working from home. Now I have to move all my equipment, (phone, computer, printer, desk, router, etc.,) from my room to the kitchen because taking calls late at night in this room keeps my wife up.

I am very aggravated, to say the least. I am thankful that I have this other work at home job to fall back on, but that isn't the point. Neither my wife nor I have done anything to have what's happened to us happen to us. Anyway, all I can is...........................the beat goes on.