And so it’s late October…

Bad sign: the catalog company i’ve worked for over two past holiday seasons usually starts advertising for seasonal workers the last week in september, starts testing and interviews first week in october, and starts the first training group around the 13-14th of october. Here all three dates have passed, and not a word yet.  

usually they are pretty safe in the economy, being filled with very cheap (junk) items, and a lot of their customer base on a fixed income to start off with. but maybe not even thats enough this round.

I’ve thought about driving out to see if they are taking aps in person, but its close to half an hour drive away… so i’ve yet to make it. which freshly reminds me of how much i hate this drive, especially in winter… especially when snowing…. as its out about 2 miles from where the highway goes down to just 2 lanes, and isnt plowed or sanded at all…. nor is the parking lot… where i’ve had to have help with shovels a few different times to get my car out at the end of a shift.

Which actually reminds me of a whole host of other things I hate about this job… including the pushy sales expectations of random items following nearly every single item they order, especially when their customers are mostly homebound older people who don’t understand very easily. sometimes the sales thing is actually helpful…. they order the snowman shower curtain, i offer the matching hooks, rug, “commode cover set”, towels, etc so then they don’t have to give me the 10-12 digit item code for those. but its based on the same sort of thing as the “customers who purchased this item also frequently purchased”… so… if hercules hooks went on a half price sale the same week as a revolving christmas tree was, guess what i get to try to push on confused people buying the tree a month down the road?

and, probably the bigger deal breaker…. i physically can’t do the work extendedly. 

my wrist has issues with tendonitis…. that flare up when i’m typing extendedly without breaks of doing other activity. and the cubicles are not adjustable to change position or make things even close to ergonomic. so even with my wrist brace, after the 3rd or 4th week i’m taking pain killers at least daily… and dealing with numbness and sometimes twitching.

the wrist has flared up throughout both seasons of working for them before. so i have no doubt it will again.

 

so, i know that i dont like the job. and dont really want the job.

but still…. knew i could get hired for the job easily, and make it through a few months anyway before back to looking for something permanent. and right now, a job i dread is probably better than no job at all…. so i’m still kinda thrown a loop by their lack of online hiring. 

made for a nice security blanket of hope anyway.