Update on job thing-Thank you so much for the advice, it was well received

May 9, 2006

Hi!

I asked the night front desk clerk and she said that the switchboard

operators can take as many breaks as they need as long as they don't

abuse it. We do not have to ask permission to go, but we do have to

call up and ask them to take the phone and turn ours off. I just

say, that I have to be away from my desk for a few minutes. It was

the long smoking breaks that some people take that they did not want.

I worked standing the entire time on Monday from 3 to 11, in my case

it was leaning. When I came in today, Rachid said that I did so

well I was off training and I went downstairs to the comfy chair and

my own desk. About 1pm, he brought the new front desk clerk in and

asked me to train her, he said, " Penny is a real nice lady, just

listen to her answer phone for awhile. " and after a half-hour, I put

her on the other desk with instructions to put people on hold and

ask me if she needed help. Here I am training on my first day off

of training....

I got home and there was a message from a bank for an interview and

then I got an e-mail about photo submissions for a glossy area

magazine, addressed to talented local photographers. Someone must

really have been praying or thinking good thoughts for me. Hugs,

Penny

ps. My biggest problem is the fact that I do not have the freedom

to take the most exciting job for me, I have to take a job well

beneath my qualifications. However, due to my physical limitations,

it does not matter what my brain can do, if my body will not let

it. Thank goodness, my family is fairly easy to take care of or I

would be flat on my back. The eight hours seem about two hours too

long, but that is the shift(actually 7 1/2 hours once you subtract

the lunch half hour. The truth is: this job is a disabled persons

dream come true. One of the full time operators has been in a

wheelchair all her life and takes about $500 of prescriptions for

various conditions. She was born with a hole in her spine.

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