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Only once. I was laid off for six months in 2001 and the only job I could find the entire time was telemarketing. It was, unsurprisingly, awful. A three-dollar drop in hourly pay if you missed more than two hours, no benefits, mandatory Saturdays ... ugh. The one thing that wasn't awful was that they didn't enforce their attendance policy at ALL. You could just take the hit to your paycheck and nobody seemed to give a damn.
When I finally found a decent full-time night job at another place, I started only coming in for a few hours a day, just 'cause. I got away with fifteen-hour weeks for two weeks or so before the boss called me into her office and said, "You have to be full-time or you can't work here anymore."
"Okay!" I said cheerfully, and practically skipped out the front door.
I'm not even joking about that. Possibly even including the skipping.
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Project Runway's next season is starting in just 29 days?! WOOHOO!
I'm holding out hope that it'll be a good season, or at least better than last season, and that list of designers for this season -- not to mention back to New York and more of Michael Kors -- looks promising. Look, diversity! And they all sound a shade better than season six's crop.
Only once. I was laid off for six months in 2001 and the only job I could find the entire time was telemarketing. It was, unsurprisingly, awful. A three-dollar drop in hourly pay if you missed more than two hours, no benefits, mandatory Saturdays ... ugh. The one thing that wasn't awful was that they didn't enforce their attendance policy at ALL. You could just take the hit to your paycheck and nobody seemed to give a damn.
When I finally found a decent full-time night job at another place, I started only coming in for a few hours a day, just 'cause. I got away with fifteen-hour weeks for two weeks or so before the boss called me into her office and said, "You have to be full-time or you can't work here anymore."
"Okay!" I said cheerfully, and practically skipped out the front door.
I'm not even joking about that. Possibly even including the skipping.
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Project Runway's next season is starting in just 29 days?! WOOHOO!
I'm holding out hope that it'll be a good season, or at least better than last season, and that list of designers for this season -- not to mention back to New York and more of Michael Kors -- looks promising. Look, diversity! And they all sound a shade better than season six's crop.
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Date: 2009-12-16 11:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-16 11:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-17 08:40 am (UTC)I (finally, after a year) got full-time work, and they'd been fucking me around/not paying me correctly etc as it was so I just called up and said "So... I'm not coming in Friday. Bye!"
I'll be interested in seeing whether I have to fight for the day and a half of leave I'm supposed to be paid out.
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Date: 2009-12-17 10:29 am (UTC)"Sometimes at Fashion Week... they ask designers what inspired their collections, and... the answers are usually like, 'sweat, humidity, and grime,' or 'that moment between waking and sleep: ethereal dream fog,' or 'the futility of our meaningless existence. Also, oranges.' And then Michael Kors will pop in and be like, 'pretty ladies on yachts!' and you realize that, even if he is extremely tan, at least that man is honest."