Well hello all, I apologize for my long absence from the blogging world. A lot has been happening since the last post I have made. Where to start... where to start??? OK this is a good jumping off point.... as I told you before when I moved down here I got a job as a administrative assistant at a housing complex. Well that is no longer what I am doing.
The housing development I was in was great, they were training me to be a leasing consultant and I was going to be very happy there. As it turns out my string of bad luck was just about to happen. I go into work one day and start doing my normal routine of answering the voice mail and checking the vacant apartments and my then my assistant manager told me that he was leaving the company. He had already let the main boss know what was going on, and that threw her into a panic and she started to look for people to fill his position and... MINE! So I am thinking to my self " Self, what the hell am I going to do now!? I have no other job openings that I can see and my money is starting to be replenished..." (yes I use big words in my head... thank you very much!) So it turns out that there is a lot of training that is involved with leasing apartments, and I just couldn't be trained in time for what they needed. So one Thursday I went to lunch and I was contacted by the temp agency that put me in that location and they told me not to return to that location.... i felt like I hit a brick wall going 300MPH! I didn't freak out though because I thought that the temp agency would find something else for me... oh how I was wrong!
After the temp agency told me not to return to work I started to go out and look for a job. I got to tell you that in this economy and the job market of today it is very very very very hard to find a job! I was out there everyday looking for something... anything... but I just couldn't find anything. My money was dwindling and things on the home front where not getting any better.. Yes my girlfriend loves me but when she has to pay for everything and start sacrificing things that she wants to do it just gets to you... and it is not fair.. not fair at all. I would get these interviews and they would turn out to anything and finally... finally I got an interview that looked very promising....
That interview was for a car dealership, well as I find out it was for a recruiting agency for a car dealers. So I go to this interview/training thing with an open mind and ready to do what ever it takes to get a paycheck. Oh just to keep the time line in your head, I moved down here in the very beginning of June, I lost my apartment job around the middle of June.. right around the time of my birthday... now it is July and I am doing this interview for the car dealership people.. so there is the time line.... OK back to the dealership thing..... So I get to the hotel that the interview/training is taking place... and I am the only "professional" looking person there, and there was about 15-20 people there. This interview/training thing is about 5 hours long and gives you all the tools to start out selling cars, it is really a good training program.. but at the end of the training I had my interview and I was told that I would be making at least $40,000 a year plus commission and that was great! So I leave my interview and I am all happy and excited to go to the dealership and get my job! On the way home I was behind a truck and all of a sudden a rock hits my windshield and it chips!!!! FUCK!!!!! So now I am pissed at this now.. and as I am driving the chip turns into a crack.. ... then into a long spider of crack.... my day went from WHOPOO HOO to SHIT!
So fast forward a few days and I am outside a Saturn dealership and I am called in for an interview... 1. I thought I have already got the job and 2. I was told that I was the only person to be interviewing with them that day and it turns out I was the 2nd person there from the training seminar from the other day. So now I get in with the manager from the dealership and he is talking and we get to know each other and things went well.. up into the point that I asked him what the salary was and he told me that it was a salary it was only commission and I nearly fell off my chair... I finish the interview and even before I left the lot I call up the place that set up the interview and told them it was a commission only job and that I wanted another assignment. They were "shocked" that the place was commission only and they set me up with another place and this dealership was about an hour away from where I live.. so that sucks! So the next day I head on over to an auto park that is an hour away and the same thing happens to me again... the whole deal was a commission only job. No I am very frustrated and near the breaking point.
So there I am.. no job, barely any money, and tempers are starting to boil over. Just as I thought I was never going to find a job I get an email from a cell phone company... dun dun dunnnnnnnn.. VERIZON! So I am bouncing off the wall with excitement in anticipation for this great new adventure selling Verizon Wireless! This is where things go from bad to absolute worse... OK time line check in time!... Now we are about 3 weeks ago from today.... So back to what I was saying... The first day of work and it is paid training at $8/HR and after the first week it will then change to $7.25/HR plus commission so that's not that bad. There I am first day of work and I get there and I am told to have a seat and that training will start soon..... 4 hours later I am finally getting a chance to fill out paper work and start my training. So that is the start of what is going to be a bad bad series of events to come.
Now it is the second day of work/training and again I get into work and I am told to sit down until training continues, but this time I only wait 2 hours before I start training again.. now there is another new person that is training with me and he has to get caught up and I am once again casted to the side. Now this is when things get really messed up. I overhear the new guy ask the manager about the pay structure and he is then told it is a commission based system... that's when my ears perk up and I told the manager that I was told that it was hourly plus commission and he proceeds to tell me that no one gets paid a hourly rate besides the regional managers.... So I kinda lose it and told him that he lied to me and that this isn't Fair, and the manager told me if I didn't like it then I could leave.... so I did! That was a huge mistake.....
This is the shitty part of my story that I completely brought on myself. When I get home I tell my girlfriend that the manager left early and that I was not allowed to stay there with out him and I got out early (LIE!). Then the next day I told her that I was going into to work and that I had an interview at 4 with another company (part LIE! and part truth.). I stayed home and attempted to clean the house when all of a sudden she walks in on me when she thought I was at work and she figured out that I lied to her... Now she leaves and things just go from bad to even worse because my mother is coming into town and my girlfriend isn't exactly a fan of her (my mom has made some mistakes but she is trying to make those mistakes go away) so now my girlfriend is completely pissed at me to the point of not talking to me... Then it hit rock bottom the next night when she walked out on me... just a reminder I BROUGHT THIS ON MYSELF! So I go out the next day to go job hunting and I go to the North Gate mall to continue the search. I happen across a T-Mobil store and hand in my resume.... Then had a mini lunch with my mom and her boyfriend and then I call my girlfriend that has spent the day with her brother in law. I told her I missed her and that I was worried about her and when I was done with the mall I went over to the brother in laws house to talk... I understand now that LIE-ING is very very bad and that I need to communicate better with her and not make rash decisions without talking with her first.
Time line check time!!!!!! Present day as of today... well this past week. I get a call from T-Mobil and he wants me to come in for an interview. So the net day I go in for an interview and it goes really really well... so good in fact that I GET THE JOB!!!!! This is a hourly plus commission. I have been working for T-Mobil for about 4 days now and everything is going great. Also on the home front things are starting to get better....
OH also I am going on vacation in 2 weeks! This is the first vacation me and my girlfriend have been on together in the past 5 years of our relationship. We are going on a cruise to MEXICO and we are leaving out of New Orleans.... Oh and we are staying in New Orleans for an extra 3 days after our 5 day cruise... I am super excited about this vacation that we both desperately need...
Well that has caught you up for now.... there are some more stories from the past couple of months but those are for later... the next entry will be about my "BEST BIRTHDAY EVER!!!"
Till then Stay YEKNOM and stay Everlasting!!!
-Brian
