The Saga Continues
So Melissa wasn't at work AGAIN today! Lord have mercy! Anyway, I ran the front again during my down time and officially as of this afternoon Melissa was fired! I feel kind of bad for her, but I'm happy for me potentially. So tomorrow is the big day. Keep your fingers crossed!!! I'll let you know what happens, but at least Alan actually fired her which is a big step!

Still feeling the love...only in a slightly different fashion
Ok, so after about a week of waiting and obsessively checking my phone to see if that office had called me back I got the message. Unfortunately I didn't get the position. They said that it had been a really hard decision, that I have a lot to offer but they had decided to go with a different applicant. They would be keeping my application on file in case anything changed because they really did like me (obviously not enough to hire me but whatever). So yeah that kind of sucks. But to be honest I wasn't as upset as I thought that I was going to be. I expected to break down and cry, to feel totally despondent and feel like there was no hope in the job market. However, after being in shock for a couple of minutes, I realized that I wasn't really all that upset. I mean, I was disappointed for sure, but there was a part of me that was some what relieved that I hadn't gotten it. I guess in the last week, I've come to realize how sad I would have been to leave my current coworkers. Not to mention that my job has some definite perks to it, 6 weeks paid vacation to name one. Not that I'm happy with my position at work, there's no way that I want to continue cleaning kids teeth, but I was feeling ok about the whole thing. Then today, it became extremely aware to me that this new front office girl, Melissa, we hired was getting canned soon. There have been some definite problems with her, and no one really thinks that she fits. Patients have even been complaining. And originally back in April I wanted the front office job. I didn't really push for it, I was way to passive about the whole thing so no one really took me seriously that I wanted it. Anyway, Melissa was sick AGAIN today (second time in the four weeks that she's been working here) and so I ran the front desk. Funny how I can go to work, when I have stiches in my mouth (got wisdom teeth pulled on Thursday), and yet some people can't manage to make it work when they just don't feel right. Anyway, long story short, I ran the front desk today and by the end of the day pretty much everyone was saying that I should be the one filling this position. So I talked to Alan a little bit, and talked to Cate a little bit, and we have a meeting set up for Wednesday to talk about me taking over the front desk. I'm not sure if anything will come of it. They really like me with the kids because the little ones tend to love me. But it's a start. And I would absolutely love it if this all worked out. I could keep my 401k plan, keep getting those bonuses, keep my vacation time, and stay with my friends. It would be so much better then getting a new job at a new office. I didn't really think that it was a possibility but it's looking like it might be. I'm trying to not get too excited because I don't want to get disappointed but...Here's hoping!!