News on The Job Front

Our 2nd long, solo day, was mostly filled with the usual community tasks. We did receive an email from our Regional Director informing us that there were no current openings in any of the 4 Phoenix area communities. He offered to transfer us to the community in Temecula, CA, Chateau at Harveston. This is probably the only community in our region that we would want to transfer to, so we are seriously looking at it. It is only about 10 minutes from Menifee where our trailer is located and would be terrific for our off days. We drove through Temecula a few years ago when we were working at the Blu-In campground in Borrego Springs and always liked the town. We drove by the community a couple weeks ago and posted a photo of the outside of the building which is one of the more beautiful in the Holiday Retirement portfolio. We asked our RD a couple questions - like what is the time frame, our roles there, etc. - and will wait for his response before deciding for sure. The other option we are considering is leaving the company now, but we haven't yet achieved our goals for working here. We'll see what the next step is.

There was an episode with one of our prospective residents though, that has us leaning toward leaving the company. It seems that our Sales Leader sent an airline ticket to a prospect that lives in Renton, WA, to come down and spend a 3 day visit with us to be near her son who lives near here and consider moving here from WA. She arrived late yesterday afternoon and we got her all set up in her guest apartment and she and her son had supper with all of us in the dining room. About 8:15 last night, as we were preparing to leave the office, she called to ask about how her front door lock worked because she wanted to make sure it was locked for the night. Josie told her how it worked, and she was fine. Then, at about 9:15 PM she called again, while we were home, telling Josie that she was having an anxiety attack and didn't want to stay here and that she was calling her son to pick her up and take her to his home for the night. Josie went upstairs to her apartment and sat with her, talking about her concerns, until 11 PM last night. The net of the conversation was that she didn't know how we got her name, she didn't want to be here, and she will never move here away from her friends. Her son arrived and took her away. That's the kind of tactics that the company uses to get people to move here and, frankly, we don't like it and don't believe in it. The company wasted the money on a ticket to fly somebody here that isn't even a qualified prospect. We have a hard decision to make.

We're glad we have the next 2 days off. It's nice to have a Mother's day to celebrate away from a flower shop. We will enjoy the day somehow and have a nice dinner someplace to celebrate.

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY !!!