Work Options

It was an interesting day for Josie - both of us, actually,  - as she spent about 1.5 hours interviewing with a familiar employer at a familiar location. She interviewed with her old employer of nearly 8 years back in the early 2000's - Cactus Flower Florist - at her familiar location at the store in Glendale at 67th Ave. She made contact with them last week and arranged this interview as an option to her very uncomfortable, split working arrangement at Phoenix Flower Shops where she has had to travel to 7th St at the downtown location a couple days a week. Also, Cactus will pay her substantially more than Phoenix Flower Shops who does not believe in giving raises to employees. In eight years, Josie hasn't - nor have any of the other employees at that company - had any salary increases. It is a terribly unfair policy to the employees and results in them losing many valuable people.

Cactus Flower wants Josie to come back - and immediately. They have also offered a management position which is even more money to her. The store where she is most needed is the Cave Creek store location which is in downtown Cave Creek next to Carefree. That has a lot of appeal to us as we love that area and could be a possibility for us to rent a home nearby. Any split working arrangement between the Glendale store and the Cave Creek store would be so much better than her current arrangement, even if we stayed in this area. So, she has a decision to make before going to work tomorrow.

We expect to begin seeing some rental properties (on paper, at least) this week that satisfy our requirements. At this point, we don't know where to concentrate on these offerings until Josie's work arrangements are finalized. That should happen sometime this week.

It looks like another good day of football on TV as the Seahawks play the Redskins this afternoon. After another close loss by Penn State yesterday, their 2nd in a row, I'm ready for a blow-out win by the Seahawks...