My Resume

I've been working on my resume, & it's almost done. I'm at one of the parts I hate(not that there is a lot of things I do like about making a resume) I'm formatting it to look pleasing to the eye, trying to make sure it's easy to read & your eye flows through the whole thing, & that always needs a second or third set of eye's to look over it. As of right now it's in the hands of a good friend of mine, I'm waiting to here back what she thinks. To me it's only so-so, but I'm having trouble trying to figure out how to fix it without making the whole thing 50 pages.(total execration)

Some Places Just Don't Get It

I've worked for a few different places, some that understand now how to reward their employees in meaningful ways, & I have also worked in companies that do lip service to rewarding employees & some that are just clueless at how their employees feel about the company at all.

I worked at a store that clearly only cared about the manager, supervisors & their office staff. How did I know this? Well all those people got a higher discount then the regular staff, they also got better benefits then the regular staff, & after this companies Christmas party was cancelled because some teenage staff decided to show up drunk to one of the Christmas parties, the mangers supervisors & office staff still had a dinner with the owners and a nice swanky joint downtown. The place I work at currently has no clue either. Our imitate managers do us right, we get pizza parties, prizes that we like, Gift Cards for stores we'll actually go to & employee of the month things too. But when the higher ups put on a company wide contest it SUCKS CHUNKS!!! During Christmas there were a lot of contests on different floors on the building, I participated in a paper air plane flying contest (which I suck at BTW) & that was fun, I won a $25 gift card to Chapters from a draw, it was fun in Dec. So the higher ups (literally they're on the top floor of the building) decided they would have a contest, it was a contest to draw stuff (a little childish but could have been fun) the winner would get a jacket with the company logo on it, not so fun, & super cheap since those jackets are stored on my floor & there are a TONNE of them! Now they've come up with something that is just absolutely ridicules! The higher ups are having a video contest. They want the employees to make a video about a great experience here & with our customers. & the prize is a donation to a charity of our choice, we get some little plaque saying we won. I look at this & just think that 'hey free commercial for our company!'

I have also worked at a company where I was paid relatively little but I would have worked there for free because they were awesome to work for. I loved the people that worked their, our managers stood up for us, we had awesome Christmas parties & everyone was treated equally. I have also worked for a large company, one that spans the globe, I worked at Walt Disney World. I was only there for 6 months, but I did qualify for benefits while I was there, I had access to their discount employee store, I could take courses at the 'Disney Univeristy' if I wanted to. I know a lot of companies that try to emulate Disney, but the do a terrible job of it. I know part of the employee loyalty is the name, but there's more to it than that, all the stuff they give to anyone who works for the company is the biggest thing for me.

There are sooooo many companies that don't take care of their front line workers, those companies will eventually go under. Why? Because if you don't take care of the people who interact with the public they won't represent you in a positive light & they'll stop caring.

Resume Status

Today I worked on my resume for about an hr. I had taken all my previous resumes & had put them all into one word file, from that I looked over what I had written before & rewrote my resume, now I just need someone to take a look at it to make sure it's not a total fail. Next is the formatting, and then the job searching, oh the dreaded job searching! The biggest pain of changing jobs, finding stuff that you would absolutely love to do, but find out you're not qualified, or you are & you never hear back, or other lovely issues.

I QUIT!!!!! Kind of

I'm a temp agent for a larger company, I do a lot of telemarketing things, inbound, outbound, all kinds of stuff, stuff that doesn't even seem to go together. Lately though it's been getting worst & worst, I won't go into the dirty details, there's enough to fill a novel right here, but I'm done I can't take it any more. It's customer service so I get yelled at a lot, especially over the phone, people don't see you so they feel like they can say anything, the problem is that it's not only the customers. We deal with a lot of door to door agents, they're supposed to confirm their sales with us at the customers house, and they're trying to scam us by changing their voices or calling from their friends place. And there's another group who we do credit checks for & they yell at us and generally giving us attitude. See these are supposed to be co-workers, we're all trying to help out the company at large, & when we complain to our supervisor the reaction is pretty much don't let it bother you. So yeah I'm done, I'm losing my mind, & I believe I saw my brain dripping out my ear as it turns to mush. But I still need a job so I asked my agency to get another assignment, however they can't move me from the place I'm at right now, I had my contract extended until the end of July, & this extension is the 4th extension at this place, I've been there a year now, I'm done. I'm going to be looking for a new job even harder now, but now I've got a deadline. As of Aug 1st I will be unemployed if I haven't found a job. So overdrive for the whole thing now.