Working for a Living

I went to my first day of my new job today.

Before the emergency road trip to central Aztl��n, you might remember that I'd applied for a number of big-box jobs. Well, after weighing an offer from where America shops and another at DAS ÜBERBÜY I decided that it'd be best to only shop where America does, and not have to sell anything to them.

I took my employment dependent drug test the day before we left for the funeral and was at my in-laws when I got the call that I'd passed the test and I was (according to corporate) ready to undergo employee orientation. I was told that so as to kill multiple birds with only one stone, Big Blue only does employee orientation on Sundays and I'd been therefore scheduled for orientation in 3 days.

The only problem was that I was scheduled to be in New Mexico on Sunday.

When I told them this, the reply was "no worries, I'll just have another week off and train Sunday after next." Word, another week off to work on wedding planning and then I'd get to walk into training on Sunday fresh as a daisy. Perfect.

That Sunday was yesterday.

I showed up at 10 to noon so I'd be early for my first day, cuz that's what you do, right? You show up early the first few weeks and make a good first impression. That's what you do, right? You show up early and bring everything they'd told you to bring, SSN #, driver's license, dress business casual, be ready to start, excited about working. . .apparently this isn't what you do. Because the majority of folks who were to be trained yesterday never showed up.

Apparently, only 2 of the 7 new employees that were supposed to show up for training bothered to show up for THEIR FIRST DAY OF WORK. So, they sent us home. Training is supposedly too boring to bear with only 2 people, so they sent me home and told me to come back to work on my next scheduled work day. I'd do training NEXT Sunday with a new crop of employees.

What? That's it? Who do I report to on that day? How do I clock in? What do I actually DO? Yeah, apparently none of this really matters. I managed to get enough answers out of people so that I'll actually get paid for working this week, But I'm also really annoyed because thanks to the idiocy of the 5 that didn't show up, I lost 4.5hrs of work this week. Instead of the 30hrs I was scheduled for, I now have 25.5. Bastards. Are these idiots going to give me the money they've cost me?

I guess not, because I'm pretty sure those idiots are unemployed now.

*shakes head*

Yknow, apart from the idiots, I get the feeling that this is going to be a pretty cool job.