Monday, December 24, 2007
Working on Christmas Eve
Thursday, December 20, 2007
Nothing much going on
Anyway for my part, I didn't know anything about hanset when I first start that job. I got my pay check today, it's not so bad, but I would have like a bigger pay check, especially knowing that I can barely work at my second job with the crazy work schedule. I heard that if we were willing to do 3 to midnight from Monday to Friday, we can have the Saturday and Sunday off, at least. If the job was paying just a bit better, I could see myself there for quite a long time. For now, I have a job, at least. I discove a full of things on different co-workers, one was in New York on September 11, another change of job because someone got a promotion while he was knowing everything, an another one couldn't get a 21$ per hour paying job because of a criminal record. I told her it wasn't so bad, that she was going to work with me lol. It's seem like we all have our little things.
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
My new job is getting more usual
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
Why a cell phone is being call an handset?
For that one, I really don't know. How come a cell phone is calling an handset, I trully don't know and I don't really understand the word handset, it's all new fo me. There's all kind of words related to the cell phone and it's make it difficult to serve in French and English at the same time. It can get very confusing and there's all kind of thing you need to know.
I actually need to give my employee id to a guy was unhappy with the services I provide him. I resolve his call in 30 minutes (it's only my third day there lol) and I throught I was doing well because I has been able to do everything I need to do for him. It's just it took me some time to answer a question he got at the end. It took me some time because I wasn't able to find the information and I didn't want to tell him something wrong.
I came out with the right answer, all proud of myself. But unfortunately, the guy wasn't satisfy. Because of the waiting period he got before getting me, and after that, the time that he pass with me. I didn't hesitate to provide him my id employee because he actually ask for my last name, which he were told not to provide, only our id number. I don't mind because anyway, we were told that almost each call are listen by someone and if I wouldn't had given my id number, I could have get in trouble and the guy could believe that I am hidden or something.
Sunday, December 2, 2007
Getting through my third week in a call center
Friday, November 30, 2007
My life as a customer service representative
I pass through the 2 weeks training without too much trouble, if it wasn't for the trainer guy. But anyway, I didn't complaint and it’s a good thing, because I didn’t get fired yet. Lol! They are so in need of people at that call center that some people work sometimes up to 70 hours weekly. So I was really happy to learn that, I which to make that much hours, once I get more used to the job.
I received my first calls today. I answer to about 4 calls. I was so nervous and excited at the same time, it was hilarious, especially when I start putting customer on hold “for one or two minutes” and started running everywhere for HELP. Lol! But it’s actually what happens. And I have been quite lucky because I actually got help almost right away. I don’t know if it’s a bad or a good sign. But anyway, it won’t bother me that much if I get fired from that place, I will explain why.
Monday, November 26, 2007
I am being rude by the training guy at work
For a reason or another, I have a poor guy as trainer who strictly look me in the eyes when he speaks in front of the class and who keep saying bad things about my voice. The thing is, I have found that job in a call center.
Since the hours are flexible and that after 3 months we can basically choose our work schedule, I was quite happy about what I have found for job, even if it’s only paid 12$ per hour, because I will be able to combined that work with another job that I have right now. I combined the 2 jobs, 2 full-time jobs by the way. But I don’t mind, since cash keep coming in.
Anyway, I was quite happy about the job until now. It’s like the trainer is getting hard on me for a reason for another and keep ridiculing my voice. I have a girl voice, but it’s a regular girl voice I believe. I have been working in a call center thing doing surveys for several months now and I have been doing ok at the job. I thing it’s a way to make me leave because they seem to let people come in, any kind of really at that job, so I thing the guy want to make me leave. But I will pie on him and won’t leave for nothing in the world, just so he gets upset. And I am about to complaint to their human resources because at the first day of the training session, we had someone from the human resources talking to us, saying we shouldn’t take about religious, no racism, no sexism, etc… So I am about to ask the human resources if intimidation is pat of the training and if I am supposed to get been pushed down during their training session. And that might drive them mad at me.
Because hey, I really don’t give a damn for that job, I can easily find another job someplace else. And after what I might file a real complaint. The poor guy will get what he deserves at the end. I promise. I was looking for a good work experience, not sexual harassment.
Sunday, November 25, 2007
I am now a prepaid babe and I still don't have the Internet at home
But the good news is that I have been able to fit my other job in my work schedule and that's very great. I have been working more than I should for this week, but I don't mind woking so many hours if the pay is what I expect at the end.
And for the Internet at my new place, well, I have the Sympatico package, but it's not working and I don't know what to do in order to make it work. I would like to have it fix before Christmas... lol
Sunday, November 18, 2007
Tomorrow is my first training day
I am also working today until 20h.
I wonder if my life will go on like this for a long time. I can't see the end over it. Working an average of 70 hours per week at small salaries drive me unsane. It will be better if I could have more without working that much.
I have another project on trap but I am only doing from time to time because it's kind of tricky.
But anyway, I am leaving now. I want to take a walk around before starting my too long 8 hours shift.
Friday, November 16, 2007
I have a job who start on Monday!
It might be a mistake from my part, to accept working as a so low salary, but nevermind. With 2 jobs, I am able to make a good salary, so I don't mind very much. I just wanted to find myself a job very quickly and I did.
But I was quite surprised, during my job search, to find out that job offers that I reply to were paid between 10 to 12$ per hour. What makes a job search so difficult is the fact that there are so many jobs offer out there, and too many don't put their hourly rate in their job offer. So at the end, you reply to a lot of offer, get a lot of replies, but find out at the end that they pay very poorly. And than, you find out that you just loose your time and you have to start your job search from the beginning, all over again.
Anyway, I am all set up for now. Since there's night shift for that job, I might be able to extend my search t find a better job, if I feel I need to find for a little more job that give a higher pay. I am exhaust and I barely know what to do.
I once meet a person kind like me who use to be a freelancer and stuff and she told me she got some debts because she only accepts work related to her field. I don't want to get into debt just because I cannot find the right job for me. I am willing to do almost anything. So much that I actually have been a cleaning lady for a couple of weeks.
I don't worry getting into debt now since I have found that job. But I am still asking myself if I should have waited to find something better. But the only thing is that I am scare to be stuck and to not be able to find nothing. Its scare me to death.
Thursday, November 15, 2007
On my job search strategy
Time will tell.
I wanted to look around the Internet and check on how I could make money online but making money online is just not working for me. It's exhausting me more than anything else. I guess it's the stress of not knowing if I am going to get paid or not.
Take for exemple that CashCrate thing. You get paid to complete offer. But you don't get paid right away. Once you complete an offer, and something you have to give your address, phone number, etc..., you will receive an email from CashCrate later on telling you if you will get paid for this or that offer. I don't like CashCrate at all because sometimes, you have to pay a small amount of money in order to complet an offer. But it could happen that you won't get paid for an offer that you actually give a few bucks on. So it's make your life very miserable and I have to say it, I hate CashCrate.
So for now, I prefer to keep looking for a job until I find something.
I hate being a job seeker. It's exhausting me already. What I am going to look like after a full week of seeking... I don't know :)
I have been somewhat lucky so far, I never deeply, super actively looking for a job. I just pray that something will show up very quickly so I can do other thing than looking for a job. I am tired of my life as a job seeker.
I still don't have the Internet at home.
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Job job job
The weather is getting colder so I get my coat to the dry cleaning and I kind of run a little bit everywhere today. They are replacing my fridge in my little appartment, so I wanted to escape for the afternoon. I will try to get at least the Internet for tomorrow. I find a great offer, 14.99$ per month for Internet. I have to look for that one. It's a good deal.
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
I am now living in Montreal
I think the owner of my old place know she did something wrong to me because she actually give me back a 400$, saying it was for the last month I paid her. But the last month check, she was unable to cash it, since it was made in date of more than 6 months ago. I was very angry for the 6 months agreement she makes me sign so I left. I treat her of pig to her niece when she told me that the last month had been cash in. When I am angry, I am angry, and everything started to explode!
Sunday, October 28, 2007
Getting ready to move for November 2
Will this moving will be the good one? I pray that I will stay at least one year... But to tell the true, I have been thinking about Alberta since last summer...
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
My high school reunion: 1998-2008
Happy to be back in Montreal once again
This time I enjoy my stay at home. I took several pictures. I just need to download them.
I have a few other things to do before moving. My room is a mess and I need to put my things in order. I keep thinking my mooving and I can't wait to actually move. And than the first thing I am going to get is Internet. No phone is ok since I have my pager, but no Internet, no way. I have been actively bloging and it's because I want to be able to make money from PayPerPost.
I never gave up on the idea of making money online. It's just I have been occupy at other thing and I am getting tired at some points, always running everywhere. But my misery will not be over after my moving since I will have bigger bills to pay and that my day job ends on December 4. After December 4, I will only have left the survey job. And it's quite scary knowing that I will still have too work like that for quite a long time before getting a rest.
Friday, October 19, 2007
Going back to New Brunswick for 5 days
I was fortunated enough to find a new place to live yesterday. So I don't have to thing of that anymore. I was supposed to catch the bus at 6 this morning to go to NB but I never waked up. The next bus goes at 15h today. It's hard to believe everything that been going on lately. I plan to go Quebec City to see a friend but she's lost her car.
If it wasn't for the place I find yesterday, I was about to move to New Brunswick and leave everything behind. I visit so many dirty and strange place. It's because I don't no Montreal very well. My first visit was around Metro Parc, at Parc Extension. The place wasn't so bad, but the bathroom wasn't so great. And I find it a little bit strange. I couldn't say why. I visit after that a studio on Clark St. Which also wasn't great. Another one was at metro Laurier, but it was in the middle of no where, except for the metro that was close by. I just reply to the guy I wasn't taking it, since I promise to reply. But I think he just page me on my pager, which I shouldn't give to him. I got a few calls to my pager and I just didn't check them.
My new place is extra nice, a little bit more expensive, but after visiting the place near Papineau, I call at the nice place right after and I book the deal. I am just tired of visiting and since I am going for a couple of days, I wanted to find something, latest today.
I am having so difficult times these days. I am running everywhere and I can't wait to go. I trully can't wait. And like if it wasn't enough, I have to find someone who will move me and later on December, I have to find a new day job. Could it be easier?
It's seem like not. A bunch of people at the job have similar problem, and even bigger problems than mine. So I am not alone. But for me, it's different, I didn't talk to people about it. I don't like to let people know about my stuff. What a girl there knows for sure is that I am from NB. She began to talk about Montreal-Quebec rivality, and than I told her that there was a Quebec-New Brunswick rivality too. And so on... There's no such thing as a Quebec-New Brunswick rivality but I don't know if she understood the joke because it's was too much hilarious.
And maybe I am finally going to get that hair cut after all.
Saturday, October 13, 2007
Being rude by the Tim Hortons guy
I anm not use to gay man, but it was not the kind of man I taught it will be. I taught gay man where all extra friendly with everybody. I guess I was wrong. No more Tim Hortons for me.
My search for a new home continue
I won't mind staying in Montreal for another year. I didn't have real difficulties to find myself a job. It's just I have to invest myself more in my search but I am working more than I can right now and it's ok for now.
Monday, October 8, 2007
Working on Thanksgiving day
Today was quite cold and was wearing sandals. I thing it will only get colder in the days to come and I will need to wear my shoes and I just don't like my shoes, either my coat. I try to save my money right now and it's really not easy. So I decide to buy anything until December. But there's still about 2 months and it will be quite long.
I have learn yesterday that I will have to move because I don't want to sign an agreement with the person who rent me the room where I am right now. It's going to be quick move. But still, I cannot stands the locator and the person I live with. I had to sign a 6 months agreement went I first get there, with all my stuff, and she didn't told me about it before, just when I arrive and I find her really miserable. And I hate the building. The apartment floor are old and the all apartment need to be paint. It's an old aprtment who never get attention from the building.
I will try to find a studio or something small only for me and a new comer, maybe a little cat. It's about time anyway I live on my own. I cannot stands my roomate and her boyfriend and the apartement owner no more longer. I just wonder if I will be able to find something soon. I might go to a cat shulter and find myself a kitty and stay all winter long with it in my new place. The question still remain is where it's going to be.
And it's about time I move along. I will be more than happy to sign a one year lease. I am quite tired moving from place to place with people I don't like. Last time, before here, I was in Brossard and back than, Anna Nicole Smith died and the woman I rent a room to, she was a nurse, told me that Anna Nicole Smith was "une salope" (a slut) and I didn't like it at all because I want to be just like Anna Nicole Smith. If Anna Nicole Smith was a slut, than I want to be a slut just like her.
It make me feel mad because I had a thing for Anna because she was a great entertainer and I felt there was no bad things about her and that she was the sweetest of all. So hearing that she was a slut from a nurse make me feel mad. But she's only a nurse anyway so should I care of what she things about Anna Nicole Smith.
Friday, October 5, 2007
Adventures in the Montreal Metro
But for in the metro, I notice that person, in his fifty I believe in a wheel chair. He didn't sit up straight in his chair and he was asking for some money. He seems unable to move. The way he was sitting in his wheel chair, you could tell that he was severely handicap. I don't like to see those kinds of thing. Quebec should take care of handicap person. And the other question is how is the ashole who put the handicap person in wheel chair in the metro? The handicap cannot get there by himself that for sure. I saw the same person in a wheel chair this evening in St-Catherine Street.
One day, I will stay near by him and I want to know who is the person who left him there. I just want to take a look of the ashole.
I don't know if there's anything to do about it. Not that I want to change the world. But I had notice the person a couple of times and it's not normal. Maybe the police should be call. I really don't know.
Another incident happens at Berri-Uquam. This time, it was a woman who was crying and saying things. She seems to be confused. She walked around, cry, say things. There was a bunch of people that were looking at her. I didn't move. A man next to me talked to her, and she replied she didn't want of his help, especially coming from a man. Anyway a woman went to the convenience store of the metro and told the man there was a person in need of help.
Other thing that I notice in the metro, sometime homeless gets through a metro and asks people some money. I really hate it.
And it's about it for the strange things in the metro for now.
Sunday, September 30, 2007
On my everyday life
I have been working quite long hours these last days and it’s seemed to have too much to write enough, to not say too much.
For every call, I call to sound smiley and quite happy about the work I do and it take a lot from me and from my time. But the advantages are that I can work evenings and weekends there, so I make me extra money in my pocket.
I am planning a trip in
Sunday, September 23, 2007
What's up
I pass quited some time around Mont-Royal because of my job and I just hope to see him again. I took a picture of the place I saw Michel Tremblay for the very first time. I can't wait to post them here.
Also, I meet Brian Mulroney on Sept 16. He was at the Renaud-Bray Library, also located on St-Denis. I buy his autobiography and he sign it to me. He asks me: "C'est pour qui?" And I said: "Pour Julie". And I thanks him and it was about all. I find him quite charming and he has very beautiful deep blue eyes, just like Stephen Harper...
I heard that Jean Chrétien was also planning to write his own biography. I hope he will also come to Renaud-Bray.
I am still working at my bugs thing and call center thing and it's about all for now. I will be quite busy until Decembe 4, which is my last day of work.
And also, I have apply for my Quebec license on September 11. So let's say that I am now officialy became a Quebecker and that really suck... lol
No, it's all that bad. I needed to change my papers for quite some time now and now I am almost all done with everything.
Paris Hilton is downtown in Montreal tonight in a club located in the Old Montreal. I would liked to see her, but I am exhaust. Around 19h, I begin to lost all of my energy after drinking a bad coffee and it's make me break down for the rest of the evening. I work until 21h30, I had stuff to do at home after, but I wasn't able to do it all. I didn't iron my clothes, for example, and I didn't prepared my lunch for the all weeks, for example, and I didn't do my grocery. I didn't do as much and it's annoying.