Kate's News!!!
Last night Kate rang and I was not around, so when I came in, Gerard asked me to ring her as she has some good news to tell me!!! Gerard would not say what it was!! typical.Well can you imagine what was going through the old grey matter?????!!!! No I won't tell you what was going through it!!!
Well I rang her back and my heart was pounding a million beats. The phone was ringing and I could not concentrate, cause what may be great news for your own daughter may not be so good for her mum!!! I did not know what to think. O.k. she has picked up the phone, wait for it...... a very flat voice says "hello", Kate?? I say is that you?? Dull voice, yes it is mum.... "How are you?" I say, she says oh o.k. still no enthusiasm, well I thought this good news is not that exciting by the sounds of things, come on girl, jump about, shake yourself, get some yippee beans in that system, at least sound happy!!!! I am having me tea.... she says, oh that is nice dear, I have not had mine yet. So........?????? what? she says..... I say.... Dad tells me you have some exciting news to tell me..... Oh yes I have... boy is this like pulling hens teeth!!!! Well what is it then?????
"Well, ................... I am going to be the Deli Manager for the next 6 weeks!!!!!" WOW!!!!!!!!!! that is so great Kate are you pleased with that decision? Yep it is o.k....................
For the last few months she has been unsettled cause she had been made the safety officer for the deli and the second in charge of the deli, but not getting paid for it, so she was not happy and also felt at the 18 she was not old enough to take on that position.
When she has been the two I.C. some of the staff are not happy being told what and when to do the work by an 18 year old who has been working there since she was 15 and they were in their 20's, 30's or 40's. Obviously management thought she was capable of it,. Hard to believe we had to almost tie her up and make her go for the interview for a casual job after school!!! When she got the job after her first two hour stint, she did not want to go back and we told her she had to stick at it for at least 6 months!!!Reluctantly she did and look at her now full time worker and second in charge of the deli and the manager for six weeks of the deli until the new manager arrives. I know she hates coming home after her shift and hates the smell she brings home with her on her clothes etc, handling fish and other gooey things!!!! But she has coped and look at her now. Am I proud??????? Oh yes of course. O.K. she still would love to work with "live" animals, but she can work towards that later on if she still wants to. At least she is earning money and paying her way. The rest of the staff had not been told as yet, so can imagine the ruffled feathers when they do find out!!! Hope she can cope with it all, she has managed so far, but as we know, get a few women and different personalities no matter their age in one room and see the spit fly!!!
Well thought I would just share that with you all...
posted by Jill @ 12:51 pm
1 Comments:
Thanks Maree, Kate has about three weeks to go and she does not want it offered to her again, although she is completely capable of doing it and I am sure she is very good at itm she is very confident with the job and knows she can do it, but the big factor apart from being totally exhausted is she only gets $30 a week extra gross in her pay packet. Being 19 does not pay so much even though she has the responsibility of running the Deli completely from ordering, to running rosters etc which not everyone could do. It is not worth it, at least she can say she can do it.
She is doing a course through the internet with animal care, grooming and one other one regarding reception, and so on in a vets, after she has finished Bob from up the road has suggested she does volunteer work for a while and then submit another ccv or whatever they are called and she may have a much better chance of maybe getting in there.
Will just wait and see what happens.
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