Tomorrow will be 10 days. I’m exhausted. I finished the module training for my new job at the main office in Austin. Then this week, I went to the actual group homes in a town about 30 minutes west of here. I shadowed for two days. I met all of the residents, but there are two homes I haven’t been to yet. I also met most of the staff. Tomorrow night, I’m shadowing the overnight staff. Then, I will be on my own at night on the graveyard shift.
Kevin is back in Waller and still working on the Houston crew “until they hire someone”. The thing is, they’ve hired at least six people so far “who didn’t show up”. To me, that’s a lot. Apparently, the company’s headquarters here in the Austin area is doing the hiring. Then they give the people’s information to the manager of the Houston office. The manager is claiming he’s speaking to people one time and then they don’t show up. It makes me wonder what he’s saying to them. I am suspicious that he’s trying to sabotage our move here by keeping Kevin there. Kevin disagrees adamantly, so I don’t push the idea. I keep reminding Kevin that “we already signed a lease” until October of 2027. We would not have if they hadn’t given him the transfer. Lord have mercy. I don’t think six whole people “didn’t show up” for no reason. Kevin just talks smack when I bring it up. He said, “If he doesn’t want it to be just him and his wife” then he needs to retain people. And that he’ll be here “by September 1”.
It’s very hard to leave a job and then have a spouse continue to work there because I hear about it still. And I can’t not hear about it because I can’t not ask Kevin how his day was. It’s not my place of employment anymore, so I should let it go.
I also kind of want Kevin here with me. I want my furniture too. I am not going to buy an air mattress, because I have cats and their claws put holes in them. My back hurts from sleeping on the memory foam thing only. Good thing I have a bath tub now!
I binge watched all 8 episodes of the Netflix adaptation of Little House on the Prairie. I loved it! I did not like the CGI wolves! Someone online said it would have been better with trained Malamutes, and I agree! Aside from that scene, though, it was awesome! Yes there was too much of an age difference between Laura and Mary with Carrie. But there was the same issue with the Handmaid’s Tale vs The Testaments. But I guess with adaptations, that happens.
There are a couple of disappointments with my new job. First of all, I said I was glad that I would be working with adults who have developmental disabilities instead of elderly, because elderly people die on you too often. The home I shadowed most in is full of ladies between about 60-72 years old. Sadly, with developmental disabilities, that’s roughly the life expectancy, and the woman I shadowed said there was another lady who passed away less than a year ago. The other house was also ladies about 45-55 or so. I just let it go. I also believe we end up where we end up for a reason. They were willing to hire me even though I didn’t have an address yet, and that’s huge. Speaking of the Netflix Little House- one of the ladies who lives in the group home was asking me what similarities the Netflix adaptation had to Michael Landon’s Little House. She asked, “What characters are in it? Pa and Ma?” I said, “Yes, and also Mary and Laura”. She asked, “What about Carrie?” I gave the spoiler, “Carrie is born in episode 6.” She said, “So Grace wasn’t born yet?” I said, “No, Grace isn’t born yet.” She then asked, “What about Albert?” I explained, “No there is no Albert in this one, because this one more closely follows the book, and Albert wasn’t in the book or in real life. He was made up for the old show.” She looked kind of shocked. I actually think she was disappointed to find out Albert didn’t really exist. That expression passed though, and after she asked if Nellie Olson was in it, I explained, “Nellie Olson isn’t in it because they’re not in Walnut Grove yet. The Netflix show shows them living in Kansas, Kansas not working out, and them deciding to go to Walnut Grove at the very end. So Nellie will probably be in next season.” She was so satisfied with that she forgot about Albert being fictional.
I got a new audible credit, and with it I bought another book about writing. In it, there’s a chapter on tropes. The author asks, “What are some tropes that don’t seem realistic to you?” I thought to myself- the Woke Caroline Ingalls trope from this Netflix Little House. Caroline wasn’t woke!
Another thing about my new job is that according to the ladies I shadowed, some of the other staff is going to be disappointed that I’m there and “taking their overtime away”. I’m a little worried they’ll take their disappointment out on me personally, but I’ve already met one of the ones who’s supposedly “so pissed” and she was very cordial to me. We’ll see how she is when I shadow her tomorrow night. Overtime is never permanent.
One of my biggest regrets of the past year was allowing the Houston manager’s wife at my husband’s job to run me off. I’m never allowing that to happen again. If I could go back and undo that one thing, I would. So I’m definitely not going to let it happen again. If someone is upset that they no longer get overtime, then they need to learn that overtime comes and goes. I’ve had to learn it, so will they. And the lady that trained me? She is having surgery on August 4. Overtime is coming back. I’m digging my heels in with bitches.
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