Lost in coffee rings and fingerprints

Listening to: Frou Frou
Feeling: better
Well, needless to say, as the pattern of my life continues without any letup, I did not go to Ohio. Once again another hope, and another letdown. I was really hurt, and kind of maniacal. For some reason, every time something terrible happens I act like I didn't expect it. And then once I calm down, I realize, well, I should've seen it coming. So, since I haven't gone to Ohio, I've basically been at the apt or at my mom's house. Neither one is fun. I go to the apt so I can see everybody, and I wind up only hanging out with Wyatt and Jeff. Once or twice I got to see Jenny and Christina, and that was just because Jeff was going to hang out with them. Every day i was at the apt I got high. I didn't like that. It got to the point where I boiled all of Jeff's pieces to get the resin out, and then once we smoked that, We just lit the resin caked to the sides that we couldn't boil out. i burnt my damn lip doing that. It was fun at the time but once I came down from that delicious high I was disgusted with myself. I mean, during my highs I did a lot of heavy thinking an it kind of paid off, but it still doesn't validate it. I find that now, if i'm at one place for more than 4 days I get really antsy. Like I HAVE to be moving constantly or i'm going to be stuck there forever. Maybe i'm just going crazy. lol The good news is that I've devised some kind plan. It's a little sketchy, but it's a goal. I seem to have lost sight of my goals lately. On Monday i'm gong to be taking care of a lot of loan problems that having been weighing on me for quit some time and i'm also going to be raping the boardman strip for jobs. I know i have a really really awesome and intense pre interview with ATT but that could be a month before I get a yay or neigh. So, i'm going to take the first one that offer me a job. out of like....a shit ton of places. And if i so happen to get this job at ATT i'm going to go against everything i stand for and just leave the first place. Because i'm sick of seeing people just drift through life and just leave jobs and pick them up like nothing. i do everything responsibly and i BUST my fucking ass to keep a good reputation anywhere I go. And everything turns to shit. So i;m going to start a new approach that encorporates a little of my structure and a little of a fuck the world approach. i'm so done with trying to impress other people, and dong for other people. this is my time to really work on me no matter where i am. if i have to lay low at my moms and work 50 or 60 hours a week to pay off Arcadia and save up for my own apt in pittsburgh. then i'm going to do that. otherwise i'm oing to get nowhere, and i have to get out of new castle. it's just something that HAS to be done. i'm not happy here, i dont go out in public, i'm losing my friends slowly somehow, i just cant be here any longer than i have to be. and as far as my father is concerned, i don't have one. he stole my car, and bought an expedition. he i treating everyone like gold except for me. so whatever. i dont need him. i do miss layla and lane though. it really upsets me that i cant be there to watch them grow up. layla is getting so big. and i've only been gone for about a month. well, i took two melatonin so i can sleep through the night. i hate that i have to take sleeping pills to go to bed, and drink caffeine to be awake. it feels nice to word vomit. have a good day or night. i'll be back sometime soon.
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Good luck! You'll have to let me know how it goes.
Yeah, it's not too bad. The only thing that bothered me was the shift because you could be scheduled as early as 5:30 AM some days and as late as 10 PM. I'm definitely not a morning person, especially when I worked until 10 PM the previous night and had to be at work again before 6 the next morning. The position is full time, so you'd get 40 hours and you could have an Employee Rate Plan account which gives you discounted wireless service. From what I gathered, you aren't allowed to miss any work or be late.

If it doesn't work out with AT&T, West Corporation seems like a pretty good place to work. I'm not sure how far Niles, Ohio is from New Castle but my guess is it's a shorter drive for you than for me. I start training tomorrow and my shift is from 4 PM until 1 AM throughout the week and 1 PM to 10 PM on Sundays. I'm off on Saturday's and one other day throughout the week. West also requires 95% attendance in the first 90 days.
I actually applied for the AT&T Customer Service Representative position and I attended the pre-interview in Boardman (I'm from Salem). All you have to do is listen to the trainer talk for about 10 minutes and then you sit down at the computer to do a personality test with questions similar to those on most online applications nowadays. After the personality test, you begin a simulation where you put headphones on and listen to a mock call to customer service. You are shown around the system and then you get to do your own calls where you take pretend bill payments, re-ship orders that were lost in the mail, etc. Basically all you do during the simulation is choose the response you think best suits the customers concern. After that you go up front and the trainer lets you know if you passed. I don't know what happens from that point on because I was told at that point that I cannot be reconsidered for employment with AT&T for 6 months because I was recently terminated.
I was a retail sales consultant with AT&T for about a year until they fired me in June. They have high expectations and will chew you up and spit you out if you don't live up to them. I've seen them shut down whole stores for a month and hire new people because the employees weren't hitting their quota's. The pay is sick, though. I work for the AT&T call center now but it's through West Corporation.

I have relatives in New Castle. I feel your pain.