Monday, March 22, 2010

Catching Up

I figured it was about time for me to write again.

It's been very busy now that I'm working again. In fact, I'm working 5 days a week most of the time,as I was made Team Lead, assisting my manager. I work her days off, help the events specialists (new title for demos) organising their demos, do some paper work and generally run a lot. I still do some of my own demos, but not every day. I try to keep the kitchen in good shape and help my manager with ordering supplies and submit our papers to the store management.

I have had to take an online course in Food Safety Management,in addition to the Food Handler's Permit we all have to have. Now I have to take the test for Food Manager on Thursday.It's a 2 hour test and I have to go up to the University. I'm going to be glad when that's over.

Driving into Salt Lake 5 days a week has really played havoc with my gasoline bill, as the price is doing it's summer increase early this year. I work between 6 and 7 hours each day. I'm hoping to be able to go to 4 days of 8 hours each eventually.

I've been getting tired and stiff some days, I just got out of shape when I was out of work for 5 weeks. At my age, it doesn't take long to get soft. Fortunately, I've been running off a bit of wieght too.

We do all of our time verification, reports and all,including quite a bit of training on line. That's the reason some of my old team mates didn't get hired, or got discourged about even applying for this company. Several of them didn't have access to or much skill at computers. The reliance on computers means that the first thing I do when I get home from work is log onto my company website to do my report. Im on the computer more, but not doing much on Facebook or my blog. I guess I'll get organised eventually.