BLUEEYEDBRIGADIER'S BLOG
Another Less Than Triumphant Return – Or At Least Visit – To the Fold
Sunday, February 10, 2008 12:04 AM
Friends! Browncoats! Fellow disciples of Joss Whedon! Lend me you…eyes, I guess!
Been another long gap since I last dropped words around the Blue Sun Room, and for that, I am truly regretful. The 5 months, 2 weeks and 1 day since I last blogged have been filled with lots of action and excitement, joy and sadness, triumphs and failures…along with more than my fair share of near-death experiences, IMO. But hey…what’s a close shave or six in the grand scheme of things?
To give everyone a heads-up about how things from before are going now, let me say this: I QUIT MY JOB!!! And part of me regrets it honestly. Why, you might ask, when my previous spiel made mention of constantly being exhausted and sore from uncomfortable job tasks, and being an illegal employee because of my lack of certification and registration? Simple, really: other than my boss, I thought the world of my co-workers and except for the less-than-pleasant parts of the job, I actually had fun meeting with potential and return customers looking for a good deal. My last day as an employee of --- CENSORED --- was Friday, October 5th and it was honestly a bittersweet day. Yeah, I was finally done with a place that probably would have seen me sick, injured or in trouble with the law…but getting honest well-wishes from co-workers and a little party where I was asked to give a short speech made me feel a lot guiltier about my decision to leave. At this moment, my memories are somewhat rose-coloured but I still know why I left…though hearing radio ads in the morning talking about the lot’s success and need for expansion to 2 locations and a larger product base kinda makes me grumpy, since I moved product on a regular basis and often made suggestions for helping to expand the business that were eventually taken up
In any case, between October 5th, 2007 and January 11th, 2008, I was unemployed and debating about going back to school to finish my Bachelor’s degree. However, I did finally found a job in the strangest of places: a call centre run by a company called TeleTech Holdings Inc. in London, a city 30 minutes from where I live. They have offices in the States and in the Philippines and they hold the contract for supplying tech support for Verizon’s internet services. Specifically, I am what is designated a VCTS Frontline Agent, or V erizon C onsumer T echnical S upport…basically I am the first line of help when a DSL Internet customer calls in for assistance. I get to spend 8 hours a day – currently working the 7AM to 3:45 shift – taking calls from Verizon customers in areas once served by Bell Atlantic and GTE (aka US Eastern Seaboard and the Southwestern US states that border Mexico). So if anyone has Verizon high-speed internet and needs to call in…you could get me as your agent
If you’re still wondering about my near-death moments comment from earlier in this blog, I was referring to almost falling from a height greater than 6 feet while in my last month of work at the car lot job…and almost killing myself when I lost control of my mom’s SUV on the way to work this past Thursday morning. Seems even 4-wheel drive doesn’t prevent traction loss from black ice patches
I’m OK and all, but it was definitely a hair-raising experience to endure…though I didn’t need my dad telling me that had I been just 100 metres (about 110 yards) farther along the road, I would have slid into a concrete water culvert running under the road rather than a farmer’s field bordered by bushes.I guess the point of this little rant/blog/chat is to say “I’m still here!” and re-affirm my obsession with Firefly and Serenity . That and to hopefully enlighten curious parties as to why my cheerleading efforts have been seriously curtailed from previous levels to the odd beta job. Working the hours I do are not conducive towards having oodles of conscious leisure time….
BlueEyedBrigadier
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