I feel overwhelmed.
Checking with the school's financial aid to get a grant, doing paperwork that MUST be done ASAP before the Fall semester, going to the DOR for assistance with my disabilities in finding a job and doing school, dealing with the EDD to find a job or at least keep looking and putting in my resumes anywhere that even SEEMS to be what I can do, to hopefully get a job...
Plus Barry's away until Sunday. I feel lost, like I don't want to leave the house unless I HAVE to.
Usually when I have to save money I'll have my color & cut done professionally, then 6 weeks later I'll do the roots and color, cut my bangs and the sides of my hair myself.
I TOTALLY screwed it up. TOTALLY. I didn't count the number of minutes I was supposed to leave the color on in just one place, I put the color on all over my whole head, then left it on for LESS than half of the time it was supposed to be on!
You've heard the term 'dirty blond'? How about 'Blah Blonde' or 'Muddy Blonde'?
Now, about GOC:
A LOT of people have left/been let go/fired/whatever since December 2013.
Remember, a couple of posts ago I had counted appx 30 people gone?
It's gone up again.
It's sad really-I feel for those who are still left, who are now left looking over their shoulders for the next zinger. When people leave, it not only affects the person leaving but the coworkers they leave behind, with a lot of shaking of heads and wondering whatinthehell is going on. Of COURSE there's no notice, all of a sudden people disappear into some HR black hole.
I know there's a lot of reshuffling going on, but reshuffling to the tune of giving those few who are still there, giving them more work to cover from the people who were let go.
You've heard the phrase, 'Root, hog, or die' meaning hog, you gots ta dig up your dinner or else you not gettin' any dinner?! If I may paraphrase that, at Goodwill, with all the tasks and responsibilities being shuffled around, it'd be "Time Management, hog, or be gone".
The count of people gone, no matter how, is now
9 people from ETES: Job Placement/Vets 4: HR 4: Finance 3: A/P 3: 6 people from MarCom/Development: and Trans 2.
There are a couple of odd ones here and there, but those are the ones that come to mind NOW.
In ETES, one person who I counted that had to leave is actually working in Human Services, so I took them off my count.
There weren't that many people in MarCom/Development to BEGIN with! Of course, two of those who left were high-falutin' creative people who left because they got other jobs, but still...
Data Processing lost 5 right off the bat.
A couple of people gone from satellite facilities, several gone from other internal departments, HR people left/were let go, it's unbelievable.
Why do I bother doing this, this counting, shaking my head, wondering why? Because I do, I can't explain it.
There were some really GOOD people, EXCELLENT people who left.
It reminds me of some stories I'd heard of Nazi Germany, when the Nazis were on the warpath against all sorts of people & not just the Jews. A LOT of people who left Germany just before war broke out were doctors and scientists, so basically Nazi Germany drove out or imprisoned some of their best talent. (I'm still looking for proof of that theory, but it sounds logical so I'll use it)
Comparing GOC with the Red 'Witch' hunts/McCarthyism and with Nazi Germany, I'm really rolling along here! It's a bummer because up until about a year ago, I'd tell people I worked at the second happiest place on earth.
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