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From July 4, 2011 til now I have been employed with a third party medical equipment repair company. Tomorrow is my last day with them. I am moving back down to the armpit of Texas and taking my old security job back.
From the beginning of this job i have worked hella long hours, been working myself to the bone and driving so many miles in my company van that i fall asleep still seeing headlights going by my closed eyelids. I saw my family more when working 7 12 hour shifts in a row in the security job than i do on a typical week at this one.
The online system we are required to put our work orders into, is glitchy at the best of times, and often takes more time to get work orders into the system than it does to actually do the work
when i moved up to Colorado for the job, i stayed in a hotel for about two months while i waited for my boss to decide where he wanted to place me. When he finally decided, i got an apartment, 6 months later, he tells me that there is not enough work to keep me there, and wants me to move a little over 300 miles away to cover an area that one of our other techs was leaving. He tells me the company will help me get out of my lease, etc...
So i break my lease and move up to where he has asked me to cover. I have been up here for two months in a hotel again...
and then two weeks ago, he calls me and tells me that he is coming up to talk to me, when he comes up, he tells me he has not been satisfied with my work, and that he has been contemplating firing me since before i moved up here... then asks me to meet with him again the following day. When we met again, he had me pick him up and we went to a steakhouse, and while he treated me to a steak dinner, tells me that he thinks i am not satisfied with the job, i lay out my complaints, and we agreed to part ways amicably.
So now after spending all these months away, i called my old boss at the security job, and he said he had hoped i would come back, and missed me since i had left, that i would be able to basically set my own schedule once i get back. Hell he never even took me off his employee list. So at least i have a job to go back to, of course i make about a third what i made up here, but cost of living is cheaper down there too.
So i am nervous about having to move AGAIN, but happy because my family lives in the area, so i will have a place to stay, hell i think they are throwing a barbeque once i am back down there. Anyway, just wanted to get that off my chest. I promise i will post some SC stories from the repair job once i am down south again and have internet once more. some of them are kinda funny...
From the beginning of this job i have worked hella long hours, been working myself to the bone and driving so many miles in my company van that i fall asleep still seeing headlights going by my closed eyelids. I saw my family more when working 7 12 hour shifts in a row in the security job than i do on a typical week at this one.
The online system we are required to put our work orders into, is glitchy at the best of times, and often takes more time to get work orders into the system than it does to actually do the work
when i moved up to Colorado for the job, i stayed in a hotel for about two months while i waited for my boss to decide where he wanted to place me. When he finally decided, i got an apartment, 6 months later, he tells me that there is not enough work to keep me there, and wants me to move a little over 300 miles away to cover an area that one of our other techs was leaving. He tells me the company will help me get out of my lease, etc...
So i break my lease and move up to where he has asked me to cover. I have been up here for two months in a hotel again...
and then two weeks ago, he calls me and tells me that he is coming up to talk to me, when he comes up, he tells me he has not been satisfied with my work, and that he has been contemplating firing me since before i moved up here... then asks me to meet with him again the following day. When we met again, he had me pick him up and we went to a steakhouse, and while he treated me to a steak dinner, tells me that he thinks i am not satisfied with the job, i lay out my complaints, and we agreed to part ways amicably.So now after spending all these months away, i called my old boss at the security job, and he said he had hoped i would come back, and missed me since i had left, that i would be able to basically set my own schedule once i get back. Hell he never even took me off his employee list. So at least i have a job to go back to, of course i make about a third what i made up here, but cost of living is cheaper down there too.
So i am nervous about having to move AGAIN, but happy because my family lives in the area, so i will have a place to stay, hell i think they are throwing a barbeque once i am back down there. Anyway, just wanted to get that off my chest. I promise i will post some SC stories from the repair job once i am down south again and have internet once more. some of them are kinda funny...
Sounds like it's an improvement! And here's hoping you do get that last pay 
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