So here's a little update on how things have been going with me.
My mood has been up and down; today just happens to be down again.
I found this diary on here about tapping into the hidden job market and have been using it this week. I've had a few interviews, but nothing promising yet. I found about 85 local places, plus the 50 that I sent resumes to in Portland and Seattle. Three places in Seattle wanted to interview me, but then lost interest when they found out I'm still in Utah. I got a call from another grocery store here saying they were probably going to call me for an interview about a week and a half ago, but of course I never heard from them. And so I wait and keep trying. I am just not a lucky person.
They want me to come back to work on the 30th. However things there have been getting even worse, so if I don't have another job by then I'm just going to quit. The head baker at the headquarters store left and so they transferred our head baker to that store, brought back the girl they transferred from our store to another one after Christmas and made her our head baker and hired someone else for the store she was at. I would have liked to transfer there but they didn't even give me a chance. And they're going to cut the rest of the bakers hours, even though the work load is the same or actually more as now they're doing bread samples by a schedule so there's twice as much of some breads to make some days.
Our incompetent buffoon of a GM hired a girl he shouldn't have hired for us; he interviewed her for the grill but didn't think she could handle it so he hired her as a baker instead without having her interview with our head baker and corporate baker like they're supposed to; she's been there a few weeks now and she's still really slow. And they STILL will not get rid of him!!
They were planning to start earlier on Sundays so the two girls that need to be off early for church could go, and my husband was going to have a three day weekend this weekend. But then the corporate baker went in and shot that idea down.
It really hurts because I really liked that job and I was hoping it would lead somewhere, or at least start offering health insurance. I busted my ass and did everything they asked of me and then some for a year and a half, and there's basically nothing left of my job. They just don't value their good employees, and they don't get rid of the ones who suck. Nobody has any say in anything except the owners. It doesn't help that our former head baker let it slip to the corporate baker that my husband and I were looking for other jobs a while ago, so they've been trying to replace us ever since. And it's all completely legal so I can't claim it's retaliation for me using FMLA because they would have cut our hours regardless of if I had been on FMLA or not. They're probably just doing it to get out of paying for health insurance or paying the fine, because they're assholes.
So I'm probably going to be unemployed again. There's nothing to go back to. Either way we're probably going to have to move back in with my mother-in-law because my husband wants to go to school this summer and we can't afford to stay in our apartment if only I'm working. And that's IF I find another job within the next couple of weeks here.
I take some comfort in knowing it's not just me; I'm not a failure, it's the system that's rigged and that's how it is in this country now for basically everyone. This is just another example of how you can get ahead simply by working hard is a big fat lie. Still doesn't make it suck any less though.