Brief Life Update
So, I know I that I don't post here all that often. Hell, I don't update most of my social media sites all that often these days. Why? I can't really put my finger on it, but it's not that important.
Anyhow, I've quit the shitty call center after being off on stress leave for a little over five weeks. Thank goodness for getting EI on the go after being off for the first week or I'd have been extremely broke for all of that time. And I didn't stay on EI for long either, although a part of me is thinking I should have kept it on the go for those weeks when I don't get enough hours at my new job. But such is life, and I'm sure if I wanted to I could reopen my claim.
I'm now working at a downtown hotel as a housekeeper. The hourly wage is way better than what I was getting at the call center, and it's entirely less stressful. Less stress means that I have a better handle on my mental health issues, which can only be a good thing, right? It is supposed to be mostly f/t during the summer, so long as the hotel is almost at capacity, but this week I was scheduled for three days of work, two days of being on-call, and two days off - my second on-call day is tomorrow but I somehow doubt that I'll get called in. Call it intuition, I suppose.
The new job is MUCH more physical than anything else I have worked at in a very, very long time. For the most part I can handle it, but after bending over and crouching for good portions of my shift my back hates me. I can handle my feet and legs hurting me, but it's the back pain that is the hardest on me. I know why I deal with excruciating back pain though, and short of finding a really good corset that flexes and supports in all the right places I'm going to have to take pain meds and deal with the pain. Between being very heavy chested and having broken my back in my teens - yes, I saw the x-rays my chiropractor took a lot of years back, and even had them redone in the event that the originals had been screwed up somehow (they weren't screwed up, sadly) - it's no wonder that I deal with the back pain that I do.
As with anything, I will persevere and get through this. And also look for a decent paying job that is not so difficult on my back! I do have a brace that sort of helps, but I need something more. I do have the means to make myself a couple of corsets with steel boning, it's mainly a matter of clearing my sewing area off so that I can actually make at least one corset!
I do know that whatever my future holds that I will never work in another call center. Over the years I've found that my tolerance level for the bullshit that goes on in call centers has severely diminished. And it also seems that they way these places are run is just getting worse and worse - my kid still works at one (almost seven years there) that I used to work at, and it's clear from everything they have told me that the place is going more and more downhill each quarter. And my very first call center employer no longer fills the entire building it was in back when I worked there - it's been relegated to about a third of the building, slowly losing space as they've lost clients and changed hands. Such is the call center life cycle though.
In the meantime, I'm going to do what I can for as long as I can, and keep my eyes peeled for a job that isn't going to cause further damage to my back!
Anyhow, I've quit the shitty call center after being off on stress leave for a little over five weeks. Thank goodness for getting EI on the go after being off for the first week or I'd have been extremely broke for all of that time. And I didn't stay on EI for long either, although a part of me is thinking I should have kept it on the go for those weeks when I don't get enough hours at my new job. But such is life, and I'm sure if I wanted to I could reopen my claim.
I'm now working at a downtown hotel as a housekeeper. The hourly wage is way better than what I was getting at the call center, and it's entirely less stressful. Less stress means that I have a better handle on my mental health issues, which can only be a good thing, right? It is supposed to be mostly f/t during the summer, so long as the hotel is almost at capacity, but this week I was scheduled for three days of work, two days of being on-call, and two days off - my second on-call day is tomorrow but I somehow doubt that I'll get called in. Call it intuition, I suppose.
The new job is MUCH more physical than anything else I have worked at in a very, very long time. For the most part I can handle it, but after bending over and crouching for good portions of my shift my back hates me. I can handle my feet and legs hurting me, but it's the back pain that is the hardest on me. I know why I deal with excruciating back pain though, and short of finding a really good corset that flexes and supports in all the right places I'm going to have to take pain meds and deal with the pain. Between being very heavy chested and having broken my back in my teens - yes, I saw the x-rays my chiropractor took a lot of years back, and even had them redone in the event that the originals had been screwed up somehow (they weren't screwed up, sadly) - it's no wonder that I deal with the back pain that I do.
As with anything, I will persevere and get through this. And also look for a decent paying job that is not so difficult on my back! I do have a brace that sort of helps, but I need something more. I do have the means to make myself a couple of corsets with steel boning, it's mainly a matter of clearing my sewing area off so that I can actually make at least one corset!
I do know that whatever my future holds that I will never work in another call center. Over the years I've found that my tolerance level for the bullshit that goes on in call centers has severely diminished. And it also seems that they way these places are run is just getting worse and worse - my kid still works at one (almost seven years there) that I used to work at, and it's clear from everything they have told me that the place is going more and more downhill each quarter. And my very first call center employer no longer fills the entire building it was in back when I worked there - it's been relegated to about a third of the building, slowly losing space as they've lost clients and changed hands. Such is the call center life cycle though.
In the meantime, I'm going to do what I can for as long as I can, and keep my eyes peeled for a job that isn't going to cause further damage to my back!
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