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I can hardly believe it but I finally got the phone call that I got the job! I am so excited about the opportunity to be working for this wonderful company!
Some things that were shared with me: this job will be paid on a bi weekly basis. I've always been paid on the 15th and the last day of the month so this will take some getting used to. I did however find an awesome website to tell help me calculate what I will be getting paid. The website is www.paycheckcity.com (please note I'm not affiliated & I just happened to google it and think it's awesome). It basically allows you to put in your salary and play around with your deductions and it's also state specific. It's pretty easy to use to boot.
I start my wonderful job next week and I can't wait to be earning an income again!
The last few months at my job were HELL. My job was one where I was forced to take when upper management decided that another unit needed me more & that I would benefit from handling more work. Needless to say the position I walked into previously had 3 people in it and now they expected me to do the work of 3 people. Not to mention that the turn over for that position was astronomical.
The day I was let go started out like a normal work day - lots of stress & deadlines but overall just an average day. Around 8:30 my boss calls me down to her office. She tells me that they have to let me go due to my inability to get my job done in an 8 hour day. Talk about a kick to the gut. I was pretty upset because I felt that I was doing all I can given the circumstances. I went back to my desk and packed up my belongings and left the office for the final time. Before this, I had never been fired before and I didn't know how to feel - anger certainly because I felt like it was unjust, sad because I truly cared about the people I worked with, resentment because I was drowning in work & no one cared.
In all honesty, I did not want to continue my employment there and had thought about resigning once I had a job lined up. But since I was working 13 - 14 hour days, I didn't have the time to interview and by the time I came home at night, the last thing I wanted to do was sit in front of the computer to look for another job. As I drove home that day, I kept asking myself why I stayed for so long when I knew my boss didn't have my best interest at hear??
In hindsight, getting fired was probably the best thing to have happened to me. I scored interviews with 3 of the largest companies in the world and received multiple job offers within a week. I accepted a job that is paying me $15K more a year than my previous job, it's up the street from my house & they will pay for me to complete my education and the big one, my health care is completely paid for. As of today, I'm waiting for my background check to clear and my official start date.
