The Search goes on

One of my friends found a job within two months but it was a 'poor fit' for her with lousy hours and an even lousier work environment so right away she started looking again and just by chance three weeks ago a former coworker called her about an opening and she got the job!! Prayer answered...
Now another friend who was laid off in January and found a p.t. job fairly quickly has just found another p.t. job doing something similar to what he did before....maybe it will develop into something FT with benefits...keep praying
one of my family members has been out of work for six months and is feeling down...he has an interview coming up....prayer still needed here as well.
Psalm 37:5

Sharing or not

A recruiter who has positions to fill sent me an e-mail. Although I am not looking right now, I sent several referrals to her. A week later I get another e-mail from a different recruiter at the same firm. I tell her that I just sent several referrals to recruiter 'a' and they would be the same people I would refer to her. In other words check with her. Anyway the second recruiter sends me another e-mail which says that she checked with recruiter 'a' who said she did not have any contact info for the referrals I sent her. Could I send her their info? Wait a minute here, recruiter 'a' has the referrals but has no way to get in touch with them? How do they operate at that place? Makes you wonder. I sent an e-mail to my friends who if they were interested could get in touch with the second recruiter directly which they did.
Come on now people learn to SHARE..people need jobs.

And so it goes on

I was just talking with someone how the handwriting is on the wall and sure enough the people I trained have been laid off. They are going to have to scramble right away looking for new jobs. There are a few out there but there is also a lot of competition. Two of us have been trying to help with links and names. I wonder what will happen. Nobody I talk to says have them call me right away as they used to in the past.
My boss used to get swamped with resumes when the word went out that there was an opening now I imagine anyone who has openings is getting buried in a blizzard of applicants.
I think that the volunteer opportunities may become scarce only because the work is less and heard this from one place where I volunteer.

About to start a new start

So it really has been a long time since I've posted on this blog. Tomorrow I am back to work after a week off and I am wondering how the new people that I trained have gotten along and whether their mentors, 'mentored' them. This week they will have time with me as needed and I have to create at least one more slide and edit another one depending on how the process it describes has changed or is going to change. Like many places right now things are in a state of change and have been for a while. I have very mixed feelings about the next couple of weeks. I may need to rethink and deal with a lot. The new start has begun for them and is about to begin for me.

There's Money and then there's money

I have to try and be understanding when money isn't available for someone to have a necessary piece of equipment or a larger screen to be able to see because there's not enough money in the budget and others have to buy their own soap and toilet paper for the bathroom (a vendor, can't be found, who is cheap enough). Yet there seems to be plenty of Money in another part of the budget for sending gifts to hundreds of people and buying holiday decorations neither of which is necessary. Someone did manage to scrounge up a bigger monitor screen and another person gave up the equipment that was needed since they weren't using it. But really does that make sense? I would gladly do without decorations or a gift so others could have what they needed to do their jobs and have soap and toilet paper in the bathroom.

Time and Time

I have been working really hard on finishing my assignment and leaving on time. It's a problem I have that many days I leave late. There's no overtime so if I stay it's on me unless I can leave a little early the next day. However as I said leaving on time is a problem for me so leaving early is next to impossible. There is a person who works in the next cube who always leaves on time. It seems that way anyway. No matter how heavy the workload that day, on the dot, they leave. We have a 24 hour deadline, within 24 hours of receiving a report we have to have it reviewed, send a response and forward it on. With 10-12 reports to do, requests regarding other reports, spreadsheets to check, phone calls and e-mail all part of the regular day if one report or call takes a lot of time I'm sunk. Yet this person never misses a beat, and leaves right on schedule. I can't figure it out. My goal is to improve on leaving on time. Today I came very close. Maybe tomorrow. However, I can't do anything but work from the moment I arrive until I leave. All work no play.......

Back to full time

I have now had one week of being back up to full time and have started my second week. I am really tired because I have had class until 11 PM on Mondays and Wednesdays plus homework and papers to do. Sunday nite I didn't get much sleep because I had to get up early Monday to get a test done. So yesterday, Monday, I was yawning all day, stayed later to make up for the time I missed for the test and then went to class. Fortunately we got out early but I wasn't able to go to sleep early. Today I overslept which meant I had to stay at work later again. So the second week of back up to full time has gotten off to a rough start. Rougher still because on the way home I could not remember if I sent out the last fax that I had to do. Too tired I think. So I worried about that for a little while then I decided to call my office number and leave myself a message to check on it in the morning. That way if I forget about it by tomorrow morning there'll be a reminder waiting for me.
Anyway I have the feeling at the moment that I have no major responsibilities for projects, nothing shows up on the Master Project Record (MPR), just backing up people. Well whatever I say, but I feel a little off about that.