thanks all!
Posted By: brookeb on 2008-03-23
In Reply to: You should do well with Career Step - MT
thanks for the welcome!
the problems i had with the woman i worked with as an IC were because i put my family first. this is strange, considering the fact that the job was sold to me by a woman from my CHURCH no less, on the idea that it would allow me to do just that.
the first time i was fired, my daughter had been projectile vomiting for three days and then i got the same bug, then my backup sitter got the bug, so i had no one to take her the day i was ready to go back to work (her daycare wouldn't take her back yet). i got up the morning my daughter was able to go back to daycare, all set to work, and had a big YOU'RE FIRED email in my inbox. this is after being told that all i had to do if i was sick or needed time off was to email or call beforehand, which i did... i missed two days of work total. this was two months into the job, i had trained for two weeks, was close to 1000 lpd.
i was mature enough to admit fault and got my job back four months later, but then i moved my mother who was ill to Michigan from Texas to live with me so i could care for her. when i had to take a couple days off in order to get my mother's affairs straight, i again woke to an email telling me to sign off the system immediately and delete all my programs and files. this came two weeks after moving my mother in, three months after starting work again. at that point i was doing 1300+ lpd, 40-50 hours a week, plus weekends. i'd been missing out on many of my daughter's firsts because she was always at daycare or with a sitter, i had no social life, i was almost failing my classes in college because i worked so much.
needless to say, some re-prioritizing was necessary. now i know what to look for (or demand) in an employer. my husband and i have talked about this and there is no way i'm letting things get that out of hand. from the start i will let my employer know what i expect, or at least ask them questions that lead to the answers i need to make the right decision. i KNOW i'm a good MT, it was unfortunate that i had to deal with that.
sorry this got long... but MT and i have a history :)
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