Got Job!

That about says it all. It's a temp-to-hire Accounts Payable Specialist position at a Fortune 500 company located 5 miles away from home. SWEET!! Will be working under Accountemps for now. And if they like me, they will hire me full-time after a while. Have to go for a drug screening test tomorrow morning...so I guess no sleeping tablet for me tonight, haha!
I will have to say that I am impressed by Accountemps' professionalism. They have called me back every time I have called them. They called me to check in even when they don't have a job for me. They found me a job that paid what I asked for.
Unfortunately the same cannot be said about AppleOne. Maybe it is just the individual who was my accounts rep. She has never once returned my emails. Neither my call. Got me a 2 week temp assignment paying below the minimum of what I asked for. Needless to say I will not be recommending this company to anyone I know in the future.

Job Search Continues.....

Still searching for a job. After waiting a week and a half for Appleone (temp agency) to call, I decided to call the Accounts Rep. I have been assigned to, to check in and ask what is going on. Well, it's been two days since I left her a message and 5 days since I emailed her. Still nada. I must say that her work ethics must be quite unprofessional for someone working in that line, well actually, as a matter of fact, any kind of line. So I went ahead and signed up with Accountemps yesterday and I got a call this morning to go in for the interview. Called a little after 8:30am and silly me picked a 10.00am appointment! So here I am rushing all over the place. Picked clothes to wear. Shoes. Shower. Shave. Blow-dry hair. Iron. Got directions from Google. Okay. Out the door. Except that somehow the directions were wrong and ended up going a totally different way. Which was just as well because there was a bad traffic going that way. Made it to the agency 2 minutes late. Filled up the application, and was asked to take 6 tests(!!!) A/P, A/R, AlphaNumeric Data Entry, 10-Key, Ms EXCEL, MS90. Took me 1.75 hours. Grueling. Especially when I was not expecting to be tested so soon. Well, I made above average on all of the tests except for MAS90, I was just average. :( Then the lady interviewed me and said she might have a job for me, she will call in 2-3 days. So let's see where this takes me.

Where is My Job?

I always have this fear in the pit of my stomach that no one is going to hire me because I am just not good enough. I am now feeling the same thing as I felt 7 years ago when I came to America and was looking for a job. I had gone to an employment agency called Appleone. I said I was willing to take any kind of job, temp, temp-to-hire, whatever, just to get my foot in the door. So I got kinda desperate when after 2 weeks I had not heard a peep from them. I started looking for a job on my own and found one that paid a MEASLY minimum wage which at that time I think was $6.25/hour. You will realize that unless you have worked in America before, most time your previous work experiences will count for zilch! Furthermore, when you are asked what your last salary was, the computer won't even allow you to put in the amount since an error message will come on to say that you have made a mistake, there is no possible way you earned so little for a month's work, may they suggest instead that you meant WEEKLY? So there ya go... so anyways, back to my story... So here I was working in this hole in the wall company processing invoices for a wireless service provider when I get a call from Appleone 3 days later to say they have a job for me. Pay is of course considerably higher. Can I start next week? I say yes. (BUT OF COURSE!!!!) So I told the supervisor that I don't think this is my kinda job and I don't think I will be coming back. Well, she immediately calls her boss and then the boss came on the line and told me that although I have been working there only 3 days, they liked my work ethic and told me I was really efficient and how about they bump my salary up a dollar and maybe in 2 years' time, I could even become a supervisor myself and get a higher salary of x amount of dollars? Well I thanked him very gratefully and said no thank you. That is because what I would be earning in my new job is already higher than what the poor supervisor is earning! Well she is very young and so is the boss. They might not mind starting from the bottom of the pile but I am too old and cannot afford that. Got bills to pay. They are probably still living with their parents and are carefree.
So here I am 7 years later, same place, same Appleone, same situation...it's like deja vu. And the same 'fear' in the pit of my stomach. I will let you know soon if I resort again to accepting minimum wage!