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Across the Fence:  Haven't done this in....a coon's age-Update #2!!  |
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Leezard
True Blue Farmgirl
950 Posts
Elizabeth
Novi
MI
USA
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Tina Michelle
True Blue Farmgirl
6948 Posts
Tina
sunshine state
FL
USA
6948 Posts |
 Posted - Mar 06 2007 : 12:06:04 PM
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gotta go shopping this evening for comfy shoes, and something nice to wear and hair bows to keep my hair pinned up.
fun! fun! haven't done the shopping for job clothes in a long time either.
so yes..I'm excited.
~Seize the Day! Live, Love, Laugh~ |
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lamamama
True Blue Farmgirl
255 Posts
Melanie
CA
USA
255 Posts |
Posted - Mar 07 2007 : 8:14:54 PM
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Good luck, Tina!
The job prospect sounds so fun....... & how impressive that your photo skills are being solicited for such a big job. Way to go!
Keep us posted on the outcome. :) |
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Tina Michelle
True Blue Farmgirl
6948 Posts
Tina
sunshine state
FL
USA
6948 Posts |
Posted - Mar 07 2007 : 8:22:31 PM
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I start my job at the kitchen shop tomorrow!
Waiting to hear what time I'm supposed to do the photo job..but I'm pretty positive I have that job as well to do soon, just waiting to hear when I have to be there to do the job.
Alot of excitement here lately..and good excitement.
~Seize the Day! Live, Love, Laugh~ |
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Buttercup
True Blue Farmgirl
1433 Posts
Talitha
Vermont
USA
1433 Posts |
Posted - Mar 08 2007 : 01:34:38 AM
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First of all (((hugz)))!! I have missed you and being here! Thank you so very much for the card, it meant the world to me while going through that junk!! Things are much better now!
Onto your job...how neat!! Sounds like a store I could spend hours and hours in!! I LOVE kitchen things!! And how neat on the photo job!! I am thrilled for you!!! Please let us know how it all turns out!
Hugz!
Talitha
"If we could maintain the wonder of childhood and at the same time grasp the wisdom of age, what wonder,what wisdom,what life would be ours" |
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junebug
True Blue Farmgirl
2421 Posts
Sue
West Plains,
Mo.
USA
2421 Posts |
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Tina Michelle
True Blue Farmgirl
6948 Posts
Tina
sunshine state
FL
USA
6948 Posts |
Posted - Mar 08 2007 : 05:49:42 AM
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thank you all so much! It's so nice to be able to share a few things with the farmgals!
oh Talitha!! I am so glad that you are back and doing better! woohoo!
~Seize the Day! Live, Love, Laugh~ |
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cmandle
True Blue Farmgirl
846 Posts
Catherine
Minneapolis
MN
846 Posts |
Posted - Mar 08 2007 : 06:30:04 AM
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Woohoo indeed! Congratulations Tina!! That's just awesome that you scored on the job. Tell us how it goes...fun, fun!
Catherine
http://yogurtandgranola.blogspot.com |
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Tina Michelle
True Blue Farmgirl
6948 Posts
Tina
sunshine state
FL
USA
6948 Posts |
Posted - Mar 08 2007 : 06:35:56 AM
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I will Catherine..I go in today at 1:00 and when I get back I'll do a little "report" :0) It's a bit of anxiety I guess because I haven't worked outside of the home in 17 yrs..but hey if I can do this then I'll be proof that indeed it can be done..:0) it's a wee bit scarey making those first steps though..but I figured I didn't have anything to lose.
~Seize the Day! Live, Love, Laugh~ |
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Nance in France
True Blue Farmgirl
1438 Posts
Nancy
St. Laurent de la Salanque
France
1438 Posts |
Posted - Mar 08 2007 : 07:11:33 AM
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| I KNEW you would get the job, Tina!!! Congratulations, gal pal. Bet that will be a fun job, not stressful at all, and your new boss sounds like a level-headed nice woman. Nance |
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Mumof3
True Blue Farmgirl
3890 Posts
Karin
Ellenwood
GA
USA
3890 Posts |
Posted - Mar 08 2007 : 07:45:20 AM
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Oh gosh- How did I miss this yesterday? Congratulations!! It had to have been that farmgirl spirit you have! Have fun at your new job. :)
Karin |
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Aunt George
True Blue Farmgirl
1476 Posts
Georgann
Midlothian
VA
1476 Posts |
Posted - Mar 08 2007 : 07:52:55 AM
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Woo Hoooooo Tina!! things are working out for you down there in sunny florida!! How are the photos coming along? Wow, what a great job, and just think, you'll be around all of that creative cooking.....so well, just vunderbar!!
http://auntgeorgeshouse.blogspot.com/index.html
Thanks for checking out my apron and sewing musings! |
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Amie C.
True Blue Farmgirl
2099 Posts
Finger Lakes Region
NY
2099 Posts |
Posted - Mar 09 2007 : 06:55:11 AM
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| Congrats on the job, Tina. And even more so on the photo gig. How'd your first day of work go? |
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Tina Michelle
True Blue Farmgirl
6948 Posts
Tina
sunshine state
FL
USA
6948 Posts |
Posted - Mar 09 2007 : 07:07:22 AM
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I have learned already that my new boss is scatter brained..she had told me to show up on Thursday at 1 ,but then when I got there she said "oh I told you Friday"..I do not remember the mention of Friday being the date at all as everytime we spoke she said Thursday..but ahh well..I was warned...
so I said ok well I'll just use the time that I'm here now to familiarize myself with where things are in the shop"..and she was like.."oh hey..that's a great idea!"
I was warned on the day of the interview by a gal there that my new employer had a habit of getting scatter brained and that I'd have to help her find and remember things...
so ..I got my first lesson in that yesterday...ha.
So..the "official" day is today..ha...unless she tells me that she told me Saturday..ha.
At least yesterday when she asked me if I was mad because I wasn't to start that day..and I told her "oh no..I'll just take advantage of getting out of the house for a little while"..she came back by me and said.."you have a wonderful personailty..I think we'll get along great"..:0)
So anyhow...official day shall be today.
I did find out something new..that they had not told me ..I was under the impression that the shop was simply a shop where folks came in for food items..but found out yesterday that they actually cater items as well...so..I don't know yet if I'll be involved in that sort of thing as well.
So anyhow..that's the latest...I find out more today and hopefully I'll actually have a written schedule..I sure hope so.
~Seize the Day! Live, Love, Laugh~ |
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junkjunkie
True Blue Farmgirl
1306 Posts
Judy
Lawrenceville
NJ
USA
1306 Posts |
Posted - Mar 09 2007 : 12:03:44 PM
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| Congratulations, Tina, on your new job! It sounds like a nice start since you haven't worked outside your home for many years. Even though your boss seems a little "scattered-brained", she sounds flexible in your hours if you ever had family things come up. It sounds like a very nice little shop and I'm sure you'll have fun with it! |
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Love-in-a-Mist
True Blue Farmgirl
367 Posts
Shannon
Independence
Oregon
USA
367 Posts |
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Tina Michelle
True Blue Farmgirl
6948 Posts
Tina
sunshine state
FL
USA
6948 Posts |
Posted - Mar 09 2007 : 8:39:26 PM
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Well, things were just a bit "too good to be true" sounding on the job front I tell you!
Well. the first day at work today was also my last day...I have a bad
tension headache now.
It was the worst place I have ever worked.!
So unorganized and once I got in the kitchen the kitchen was a real mess and
totally unorganized.I mean a REAL MESS!
I got fussed at 3 times today for things that I had no idea where they were
supposed to go and so forth..and my boss just expected me to know..so I got
fussed at.
Suffice it to say that I nearly hung up the apron about 3 times today but
stuck it out and got through the day but told my boss that quite frankly I
was extremely frazzled because the shop was a mess and not organized and I
couldn't handle all the helter skelter way of doing things.
There were papers on the back office floor on the floor, just thrown down on
the floor.. and the boss says to me..so what am I supposed to do? stop and
pick them up? if you have a problem with it talk to Amy she's the one that
did it..you see that I was helping customers today"
.well..she did help customers but she did a heap of social chit chat/gossip
and then got hair done too.
but anyhow..when I heard her excuses for not keeping things clean I was
like..o.k. this just is not going to be a good place for me.
Today the health inspector was supposed to come and the first thing that
happened was they said "hurry get on an apron and start cleaning" And I was
like start cleaning what?
Where? In a totally new to me kitchen I had no clue where anything was so I'm going around looking for cleaners and cloths! I tell you it was weird! VEry, very unorganized!
And I booked it and cleaned everything I could then I get told "oh you have
to hurry and go wrap a package now"..
and I'm like o.k. where do I do that
at..and then when I got the one package done I wasn't told where to set it,
so I put it by the cash register so my boss would see it and she was
like..why did you put it there that's how mistakes happen? and I told her
well maam you didn't tell me where to put anything.
Then she wanted me to put packaged napkins in a basket and we had filled 3 baskets
and she said put these around out there anywhere they will work..so I did
..and then she comes back through and says oh they have to go all together
here by the door(all three big bushel baskets) told me to put them where I
thought to ..and I didn't put them by the door with the others because I was
afraid it would block customers paths..so anyhow she fussed at me about that
and in the same breath said but if you have an artistic way of doing
something please do..and I said oh that's o.k. I don't..I'll put them here
by the door.
Then with the cleanup in the kitchen..it was terrible..she has stuff
permanently stuck to the cupboards..jars that have permanently stuck..and
so..because she is part of the "good ole boy" network here
..well..they don't write her up about it..ha.The gal that was supposed
to be training me said to me"oh Miss H.... knows how to play her cards
and she will too"
Yeah I guess so because honestly anybody else would have been cited for the
stuff I saw.
I tell you the Walmart Snack Bar in South Florida back when I worked that was wayy
cleaner.
At one point today Miss H... had prepared a pork roast/raw meat but had not
wiped off the table..and so we were fixing to do something else on the table
and I asked the other girl..did she just prepare raw meat here? and she said
"oh yeah..she did" And I was like.."well thanks for letting me know..she
didn't clean it up" And we were fixing to have to make something else on the
table.
So anyhow..alot of health stuff that really was a bit scary.
I told Paul (my hubby)it was such a mess.
I told her too(the boss)..I said that I just visually could not take in the
helter skelter disorganization and the way things were so unorganized...it
was just really alot of unorganized.
Sooo..she said..well give it one more day..but naww it's beyond what I want
to do.
Her excuse for it being such a mess was .."well it's a shop and the customer
comes first"..ha.
To me..things today would not have been so very frazzling helter skelter and everything if things were kept up as they should be to begin with...but ahh well.
Anyhow..it was a wreck.
Down the hallway to get to the gift wrapping station it is like a maze to
dodge stuff.
I worked more than the gal that was supposed to train me today.I sweated and
worked my tail off cleaning that kitchen I tell you!!
but ahh well..
I was only a couple minutes into gift wrapping something for her and trying
to find my way around the gift wrapping stuff because it was so
unorganized..she hands me a box and an item and says here wrap this and put
a bow on it..then 2 minutes later comes back in..where is it? I'm working on
it maam almost done. and she was like..well my customer wants it yesterday.
So anyhow..it just won't work.
I cried all the way home, then burst into tears when I got in the door.
Just so not worth the headache.
How she honestly has stayed in business since 1972 is wayy beyond me..but as
was mentioned today.."the good ole boy network" she has alot of names in
town that go see her just to "jaw/gossip" during the day.
Well, that's the run down on the day..I still have a headache even now at 10
p.m.
ugghh.
So..I'll be able to do the photo shoot coming up..I'd much rather do stuff
like that anyhow..and funny thing..I really missed my kids today too.
Hannah(my 2 yr old) started asking.."where's mama..mama where are you" today while I was
gone..so yeah..my best job is the easiest job..just being mom.
I'll help Paul by running errands and doing the occasional photo shoot.
I tell you..I could definitely run my own kitchen shop way better if that's
the best this County has I tell you!
Well..enough of that.
That's how it went..but my husband chuckled and said to me.."now you can't say that you've never worked a day outside of the house in 17 yrs..cause today you did...haha..just a day" LOL
Ahh well...
~Seize the Day! Live, Love, Laugh~ |
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Nance in France
True Blue Farmgirl
1438 Posts
Nancy
St. Laurent de la Salanque
France
1438 Posts |
Posted - Mar 10 2007 : 01:56:52 AM
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Wow, just finished reading about your day.....think I will go back to bed now! Nance
PS Good for you to see all those red flags everywhere; you'd have been far more stressed than the paycheck would have compensated for, I bet. |
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Beemoosie
True Blue Farmgirl
2077 Posts
Bonnie
New York
USA
2077 Posts |
Posted - Mar 10 2007 : 04:36:22 AM
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Oh Tina!! Big (((HUGS))) That is just an awfull mess to be thrown into. I am glad you got to try it, and realize "There's no place like home"! I agree, the photography is truly your 2nd calling (after wife and mommy!)
Have a wonderful Saturday!
My soul magnifies the Lord, And my spirit rejoices in God my Savior. Luke 1:46,47
www.beequilting.blogspot.com
http://beemoosie-picture-diary.blogspot.com/ |
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Mumof3
True Blue Farmgirl
3890 Posts
Karin
Ellenwood
GA
USA
3890 Posts |
Posted - Mar 10 2007 : 06:28:46 AM
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Tina- I am so sorry. That woman and her shop sound like a train wreck! Good for you though, your integrity is intact and you can spend your time with the most important people- your kids!! And take your beautiful photographs!
See- it all worked out in the end! :)
Karin |
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Nancy Gartenman
True Blue Farmgirl
9094 Posts
Nancy
West Seneca
New York
USA
9094 Posts |
Posted - Mar 10 2007 : 06:33:07 AM
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Well if it wasn't for you headache, and the let down of not working, you have to say it was pretty funny. It could have been a sitcom on TV. OK, Maybe it will be a few more days before you see it that way.
If you really want to work a few days a week, something else will come along, just keep a look out, maybe a Library? That dewy decimal system, now that is organized!!
NANCY JO
www.Nancy-Jo.blogspot.com |
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Tina Michelle
True Blue Farmgirl
6948 Posts
Tina
sunshine state
FL
USA
6948 Posts |
Posted - Mar 10 2007 : 09:21:06 AM
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LOL my mom laughed and said "oh honey..it sounds like that show on t.v. that used to be called "Hell's Kitchen" LOL well..yeah..it was a big mess!
I will probably laugh about it more later..
and yes truth be told I enjoy the photo jobs when they come along..a whole lot better!
thanks gals for letting me vent about that experience..boy was it an eye opener! LOL
~Seize the Day! Live, Love, Laugh~ |
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Aunt George
True Blue Farmgirl
1476 Posts
Georgann
Midlothian
VA
1476 Posts |
Posted - Mar 10 2007 : 10:02:03 PM
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Good thing you are out of there! And I know you probably will never eat their food!
Momdom is the best place to be when the litle ones are at home. You must be very disappointed. So so sorry:
http://auntgeorgeshouse.blogspot.com/index.html
Thanks for checking out my apron and sewing musings! |
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Buttercup
True Blue Farmgirl
1433 Posts
Talitha
Vermont
USA
1433 Posts |
Posted - Mar 11 2007 : 12:31:13 AM
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Wow!!! that was awful!! And just have to say here that I owned a store for 8 years and it was never a mess...not even when we were installing the fixtures was it messy like that...that was just awful!! I am so sorry it turned out so badly but am gald you escaped!! I wish you the very best with the photo shoot!!
Hugz!
Talitha
"If we could maintain the wonder of childhood and at the same time grasp the wisdom of age, what wonder,what wisdom,what life would be ours" |
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junebug
True Blue Farmgirl
2421 Posts
Sue
West Plains,
Mo.
USA
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Across the Fence: Haven't done this in....a coon's age-Update #2!! |
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Haven't done this in....a coon's age-Update #2!!
