day off

So I realized that having a blog would require me to have more access to the internet than i currently have but I am still going to do my best. So my job situation over the past year has been a nightmare. So lets just tell that whole story. 2 summers ago I did an internship for a independent league baseball team, the Sussex Skyhawks. I have always wanted to work in sports and this was a great opportunity. So I went to new jersey for the summer and busted my ass for this baseball team doing a variety of things, ticket sales, promo sales, sponsorship sales, media relations, on field promotions, stadium maintenance, running the ticket office, develop my own promotion day, the list literally goes on. Well after that I was pretty much sold on the fact that that was what i wanted to do. Well at the time I had a gf and she had graduated and moved to Kansas City for her job. As the semester winded down and i graduated that december, I accepted a job for a marketing company and had planned to move to KC. Well about christmas time my old boss emailed me about moving back to the northeast and being a marketing rep for one of his hockey teams as he had just accepted a job to be VP of Marketing for a hockey league in the northeast This is the entire reason i went to my internship, to bust my ass, make a good impression and get my foot in the door after I graduated. At this point I had quite a decision on my hand. I really wanted the sports job but also did not want to leave my gf of three years behind. Follow my dreams of follow my love? Well we had the ol h2h talk and she says come to KC i love you i want to spend my life with you etc. etc. chic flic bullshit blah blah blah...And sooooo I did I gave up my job offer and moved to Kansas City. Well the marketing company I worked for was the standard pyramid scheme marketing company, you do this for 6 months then your a leader, then you do this for 6 months and your a manager, you do this for 6 months then you are a director of an office blah blah blah. If youve ever had to search for a job you have probably run across this type of thing. And its the worst. I worked one day. The job consisted of "marketing" quiznos. And what my job task was, was to drive around to businesses in the metro area and solicit coupon sheets to them. You know you get them in the mail or sometimes with your order, well these were you standard BOGO coupons, 5 dollar off, free delivery, etc. I sold them for 5 dollars and made commision of them and no hourly wage. And you are wondering why I lasted a day?

So I quit with nothing else lined up for the next two months (Jan-Feb 09) I searched for jobs in KC with no luck. Finally I just got to the point where I decided to take ANYTHING just so i could have some money. So i get hired on with GE in the consumer finance division as a customer service rep. Lay terms. Credit card call center. decent pay and great benefits, leadership oppos, tuition reimbursement ( and this should have been my first red flag, they only did undergrad reimbursement....but wait i already have a bachelors degree..and as i came to find out, i was about the only one in the entire building who had one.) So it doesnt sound to bad and all i do is talk anyway so it seems fitting. At first it wasnt to awful people made me chuckle about how dumb, irresponsible, and mean they were. But it got OLD real quick. Every day all day, people yelling at you for no reason, dealing with peopls bullshit stories (once told a customer that they could not bullshit a bullshiter, yea definitely got in trouble for that.) about why they couldnt pay their bill, yet they still went out and used their credit card like it was going out of style. Some didnt understand that they needed to pay the money back, most people were old (because lets face it, anyone who is young, smart, responsible, etc. pays online and understands things like interest rates, late fees, credit limits, credit scores etc. ) and old people dont know shit. Trying to walk an old person through logging onto a website, or registering on a website, is like the most annoying most frustrating shit ever. I also hated the corporate bullshit i had to put up with. No bend, no break, no nothing. Play it by the book all day everyday, if you go against that you get in trouble. I understand the reasoning and logic behind that sometimes but seriously cut me some slack. It really IS NOT MY FAULT if im twenty mins late because there was an accident on the highway that backed up traffic for miles. I lived in kansas, and kansas drivers fucking suck. there was a wreck on i35 on a daily basis, i left 45 mins early to get somewhere that took me 15 mins, just to compensate for the inevitable wreck.

So Jan '10 my buddy says he can get my on at the IRS doing tax returns, boring work but easy and work on your own kinda thing. I would get paid more money and it was two blocks from my house? hell yea. It was a seasonal 5 month position, and I thought that would really give me time to search for a job i liked/wanted in sports because i was tired of doing stuff i hated. Well I started on Feb first and trained for 1 week. They didnt tell you this when they hire you so as to not scare you off, but after training they lay you off until the work picks up. Oh great. Well im thinking a week or two, kinda thing. Nope two fucking months. TWO MONTHS. Not doing shit, everyday thinking I was going to start working again the next day. Well I finally gave up on that and started applying for jobs elsewhere. I apply to a job with the Kansas City Chiefs that I get called to do an interview for. I go in and rock the bitch like I always do. (Ive never been interviewed for a job and not gotten it.) Start date is April 15th. Well i dont hear anything for awhile and i just assume i didnt get it. So then about a week ago i get called back to the IRS. Man I was at least glad to get to work so i could have some money. I start working there and then the NEXT day find out about the Chiefs Job. I got it. Of course i did! So after all this bullshit Ive been through I finally have gotten my break starting thursday. And I am not going to deviate from my plan this time. And ill never do anything for a chic again. Today was my last day at the IRS and I am glad becuase i was seriously bored out of my fucking mind. GEESH! So I am going to be a ticket sales rep for the chiefs, and im pumped to get to talk about football all day. Cant wait. Ok well im done for now. Upcoming post about Mizzou Sports will be following later this evening or tomorrow.