Finally Getting a Schedule

We finally got our schedule yesterday and also a set of keys. When we received the schedule, we noticed that we were going to work 7 straight days before having our first day off. Josie mentioned it to the manager (Marlene), and she casually said: "Oh, well take Sunday off"' That would have been the 7th day so we still work 6 days straight until then before our first day off. Worse, and more scary, is that today and tomorrow, Josie and I are the only two people on the front desk. It's hard for us to believe that we will be the lone workers on the front desk with the little bit of tools we have been given to do the job. There are so many unique situations here that we are not familiar with that it makes it very uncomfortable to have this responsibility so early in our jobs. We'll just have to do the best we can, with what we've been given.

This, as mentioned before, has been a very disorganized experience for us so far. We still don't have our ID numbers which are necessary to perform transactions on the system. We have been using one of the other employees' numbers to do our job so far. Also, we still don't have access to the time reporting system online so we are still writing down our hours on paper. Even though the pay period ended yesterday, we will have to wait another 2 weeks to receive our pay for the 2 days we worked this week prior to Wednesday. Things have to improve in the office or we will be forced to move on, which we would hate to do. All of our work experiences have to be satisfying, or they aren't worth the time or effort. We left the stress filled world a long time ago, and will not allow it to sneak in again.

Josie starts work at 8 AM and works till 4:30, and I start at 8:30, and work till 5 PM. We'll see how it goes today...