Yeah, the hope for life insurance is always that I won't need it, so I'm not really too bothered,and I do have a policy I got while I was unemployed since I have all too much experience with waiting for payouts so my beneficiaries would not be quite so screwed.
I don't get the reasoning for it, frankly. And my one boss said she was really pushing to keep me salaried because she thinks the job is just that kind of job but it was out of the question, and I don't understand that either.
The actual work, so far as I have been trained anyway, is fine and might be interesting. We'll see. Although I just got a notice for training to work the front desk (because that's how they deal with laying off the receptionist, rotating that duty among what I thought were volunteers). I've been a receptionist before and I really don't want to be again. Sigh.
OMG I forgot to tell y'all. Yesterday one of the coworkers that I actually know from before starting talking to me in the bathroom as I was leaving and she was coming in and then KEPT UP THE CONVERSATION FROM THE STALL. So awkward. I couldn't just walk out the door while she was talking, that would be rude, right? But those are never conversations I ever want to have, I'm sorry. So I'm concerned that that's going to be something to watch out for.
Oh,and I get paid on Friday for the second half of September and then switch to the hourly schedule, so I'll get paid for the first week of October on the second Friday so my income will be, like, 3/4 of the usual for the month. So that'll be fun. But after that it should be pretty regular with the possibility of overtime.