Its been a rough few weeks. have been hustling like crazy...trying to find other jobs by cutting down my hours at my current job, but at the same time trying to make enough to pay the bills. So i work a few days at my current job, although a few days turned to pretty much full time and then a few days on film sets as a background actor. The extra work is cool because you meet a lot of interesting people, but it can be long and cold...especially when we have to act summer scenes in 8 degrees celcius weather.
I got a couple more interviews but they seemed too similar to my current workplace.
I spent a large part of my birthday meeting with a guy in the video production industry who was looking for a replacement videographer. He was an older man, probably in his late 50s, and he was looking to leave this lady producer's outfit but she needed a replacement for him and he thought i could be a possible candidate. He was quite honest about the woman's character and his discription of her working relationship and style kind of put me off. for the most part, it seemed if i were to take the job, i'd be on call on the weekend and it was way out in Surrey....about an hour and half away...i didnt have a car or a b.c. licence (working on that), so could be a problem.Apparently she was opening up a tv station soon and needed some crew members, preferably with their own gear and preferably people that did both camera work and editing..i found that a bit strange....but whatever..i didnt want to jump to conclusions. Anywho, this weekend I'm supposed to have a test run with the guy who's quitting and the boss herself to see if i want the job or not, or better still if she wants to hire me at all. I hear so far 2 people have come and quit this year alone.
Then there was the meeting with my bosses... a few misunderstandings since they dont talk to each other most of the time, so therefore dont communicate. i still havent gotten my 3 days of only web work as discussed and promised weeks ago..no surprise...they are yet to keep a promise.
i was given a raise, yesterday, with words not action yet...but i still have foolish hope that it will come to pass.
I flipped out 2 days ago because they put me on schedule for 10 days straight without a break...i went from asking them to cut down my hours to being put on 10 days straight! i think in some countries that's, like, illegal. but they've done it to me a few times and gotten away with it...i usually got the boxing days and new years eve and new years days at work....while some of my colleagues got those days off...i guess they figured i had no family here to spend those days with. anyways, a few days ago...i'd enough and i just flipped and started yelling at the poor supervisor who'd made the schedule...he'd never seen me so angry and so he called one of my bosses....and she asked him to apologise on her behalf and then they changed the schedule so i could get days off like everyone else. Later, the supervisor came to give me a hug and said he hoped "we were cool". so , now i know..the squeaky wheel, does indeed get the grease.
i worked as an intern for a day at some other multimedia company, but it just didnt seem worth my time..it wasnt...how shall i say...a company, i'd like to grow with...so to speak. so i quit.
One of my colleagues at work found a decent job with a major telecommunication company here...it had better pay plus sooo many benefits.we are all happy for him, because with 3 kids he seemed to have the most responsibility. He came by today to invite us for drinks tomorrow...another going away drinkup, hopefully nobody will be drunk or mistakenly get into bed with anyone.....
speaking of which, i walked in on 2 of my colleages making out at work....not a very comfortable or pleasant sight. kind of akward and somehow traumatic...for me.
I went to the washroom and i guess they thought i'd gone home, so they started making out....i quickly packed my things and left finally, yelling as I walked to the elevator "As you were. Yinka has left the building"...
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