Cautious hope
Dec. 15th, 2007 08:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pegkerrRob's old boss called him this past week. He has landed as a manager at an Ultimate Electronics store in Burnsville, and wanted to sound Rob out to see if he'd be interested in working there. Andy said that Rob is the only person he has contacted about the opening, that he wants Rob. So Rob went in and talked to him.
My objections to Rob going back to working retail were twofold: the pay sucked and the hours sucked. Apparently, with this job, one of those objections evaporates: the pay doesn't suck. Not at all. In fact, Rob's former boss said that he considers Rob to be a better salesman than any of the people he has on staff now, and one of them is going to earn six figures this year.
Yes, the hours would still suck. But the store opens at 10 a.m. instead of 9:00 a.m. as CompUSA did, and since Rob is a night owl and has difficulty getting out of bed in the morning, this is great news. With the later start time he would be able to make pancakes for the girls on Saturday mornings, which was one of our rituals that I bitterly resented CompUSA taking from us. Another advantage: the floor is set with stock at night by the warehouse staff instead of the sales people, which means that Rob can leave as soon as the store closes at night, instead of having to hang around an hour afterwards.
Now that the girls are in the most senior karate classes, their class hours are later at night, which would make it easier for him to do some of the karate runs, at least on the days that he works day shift. Still, it would mean he would be working some nights and many weekend days. And yet . . .
It's a job. It's the first real bonafide job opportunity he has had since losing his last one six months ago. It's coming just as the unemployment is running out. Nothing seems to be happening on the legal front at all, and the way Rob hunts for jobs I'm not sure that anything WILL happen on that front. Rob knows and likes the boss he would be working under. Rob is a good salesman and likes sales. I think that this may be the answer to the prayers I've been praying for the last six months--at least some of them. It's not perfect. But I can't stand this uncertainty for much longer. I can live with non-perfection and be grateful.
Rob would have to meet with the district manager, who is coming into town next week. I've told him that it's okay with me if he goes ahead and applies. Rob thinks that it would be unlikely that if he applies for the job he wouldn't get it, unless the interview with the district manager goes drastically wrong for some reason.
Keep your fingers crossed.
My objections to Rob going back to working retail were twofold: the pay sucked and the hours sucked. Apparently, with this job, one of those objections evaporates: the pay doesn't suck. Not at all. In fact, Rob's former boss said that he considers Rob to be a better salesman than any of the people he has on staff now, and one of them is going to earn six figures this year.
Yes, the hours would still suck. But the store opens at 10 a.m. instead of 9:00 a.m. as CompUSA did, and since Rob is a night owl and has difficulty getting out of bed in the morning, this is great news. With the later start time he would be able to make pancakes for the girls on Saturday mornings, which was one of our rituals that I bitterly resented CompUSA taking from us. Another advantage: the floor is set with stock at night by the warehouse staff instead of the sales people, which means that Rob can leave as soon as the store closes at night, instead of having to hang around an hour afterwards.
Now that the girls are in the most senior karate classes, their class hours are later at night, which would make it easier for him to do some of the karate runs, at least on the days that he works day shift. Still, it would mean he would be working some nights and many weekend days. And yet . . .
It's a job. It's the first real bonafide job opportunity he has had since losing his last one six months ago. It's coming just as the unemployment is running out. Nothing seems to be happening on the legal front at all, and the way Rob hunts for jobs I'm not sure that anything WILL happen on that front. Rob knows and likes the boss he would be working under. Rob is a good salesman and likes sales. I think that this may be the answer to the prayers I've been praying for the last six months--at least some of them. It's not perfect. But I can't stand this uncertainty for much longer. I can live with non-perfection and be grateful.
Rob would have to meet with the district manager, who is coming into town next week. I've told him that it's okay with me if he goes ahead and applies. Rob thinks that it would be unlikely that if he applies for the job he wouldn't get it, unless the interview with the district manager goes drastically wrong for some reason.
Keep your fingers crossed.