Okay, this all-of-the-gigs-landing-on-the-exact-same-dates thing is getting frustrating, especially with how very little work I am finding.
I'm already not thrilled about putting, first, lowest paying gig on hold, probably pissing him off in the process, to wait on a maybe from a better paying, closer gig that would prevent me from taking the first gig. Meanwhile, I just got a notice from third, even better paying gig, with days that conflict with the second gig, but are only for a couple of days, as opposed to a five week run on the second gig, which is a maybe.
I'm probably just going to have to turn down the first guy, who seems like a grumpy gus already, and will likely never want to hire me again. He hates "flakes," and would likely view my backing out as flaking. I'm currently inclined to hold out for the second gig, but this is really more of a right-now-only opportunity to get in with this place, which means I'll have to turn down third gig. While I've accepted work from the third gig (the Wallis in Beverly Hills), I've also mostly had to turn them down due to scheduling conflicts, and I don't know how many more times I can do that and stay on their call last rotation.
And on top of everything, I'm down to begging for handouts just to eat and get around.
I'm glad I have friends, and I'm really glad I'm still dong well in school, otherwise I might be a lot more frustrated and blue.
{{{Sean}}} I'm sorry that everything continues to be so frustrating. I'm happy at least school is a positive in your life.
Oh yeah, and all of my non-theatre realated applications have gone ignored.
Having to look for work sucks.
And sometimes having a job sucks. People are calling from all over the country demanding police take further action on that cat attack situation because obviously they know more about cat abuse/child abuse from the 3 paragraph articles they have read on the interwebs than the responding police officers sussed out while there on the scene. I've talked to three different people in 3 different states (and a lady in Minnesota who has called FOUR TIMES and been referred to call Animal Control FOUR TIMES because police WILL NOT do a follow up to check on a cat who might not be in the best living situation possible.) I get the concern, I really really do, but calling police in another state over an article you read on Buzzfeed? Thinking our police are so incredibly incompetent it might not even OCCUR to them to consult with DHS or Animal Control? *headdesk*
I am trying SO HARD to be polite to these people. So. Very. Hard.
"Please don't be an idiot. Thank you."
There. Polite.
Sean sorry the job hunt isn't going smoothly.
I need to be in bed. There was a midnight launch for titan fall and the guy working the opening shift worked. And called out so I got to work a double and I open tomorrow. Every one else who worked the launch also opened and showed up.
Oh and we are supposed to get 10-20" of snow and white out conditions tomorrow.
In sucky job news, my sister got "early retired" from her employer of 27 years. They have gone through several office managers in the past couple years and the latest one really did not like her. Of course sis didn't exactly appreciate the string of people coming in as her boss 'knowing' so much more about the operations there than she did.
They claimed she wasn't catching on to the new software they implemented fast enough. Which was not remotely true since the other employees were going to sis to help them figure it out. She had to read the manual because they held the training upstairs and she can't climb stairs.
It all sucks mightily because at 64 with plenty of medical issues getting another job isn't likely to happen. I have a huge backlog of work so I told her it worked for me because I sure needed her. Still rotten stuff.
They claimed she wasn't catching on to the new software they implemented fast enough. Which was not remotely true since the other employees were going to sis to help them figure it out. She had to read the manual because they held the training upstairs and she can't climb stairs.
That sounds like ADA territory.
