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Someone tell me why my body insisted that I get up at 6:30? Ugh. It's a day off, I should be sleeping til 10! (As if I've ever been able to manage that.) Maybe tomorrow I can manage 8? That would be nice. I'd say I'd take a nap this afternoon, but Yoda has his grooming appointment at 12, which is going to tie up my schedule for most of the afternoon. Oh well, maybe tomorrow. I don't have an appointment on Friday until 3:30, so I can loaf the day away.
Mostly, appointments aside, I'm planning to just be a lump most of the next two days. Next week, I'll have three days off, but they're adjusting the trainer's schedule, so we only got two this week. Every 6 weeks, we have an extra day of work, and will only have two days off, just to equalize out our hours, since some weeks we are only working 4 days because of the whole 8 day week thing. I'll never be paid for less than 40 hours, though.
I'm grateful that I'm on dayshift for the bulk of my training, but I'll admit, the 7% differential for night shift or the 10% differential for overnights would be nice, too. I'm like a border collie. We're both reward motivated. Especially for Holidays. I am exceedingly reward motivated for holidays.
I got into our schedule software, and if it's correct, I'll be working on Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's Day, to the tune of $612/day with overtime. Bless super holidays. Next holiday is Veteran's Day, which I'm working on, yay! Extra $200 for the win!
Yesterday, all the trainers had a meeting, and the result was that our trainer decided that it was time for us to start taking live calls!
I took about 6 calls yesterday, and did reasonably well. I was completely terrified, and then my first two calls were administrative calls. I finally had an actual 911 call for my third, and I did pretty well. I had one police call that I floundered on, but once my trainer guided me to the correct protocol, I was good. I'm not scoring 100%. but, I'm a respectable C average right now.
I felt bad for my co-trainee, who got a completely freaked out cardiac arrest on her second call. The trainer took over, because she kind of froze up a bit. Which is totally understandable.
By the end of the day, I wasn't quite so white knuckled, so that's good. Saturday, we'll start taking calls all day, which should make the day go much faster. We trade off, she'll take one, with the trainer monitoring, then I'll take one. In a couple of weeks, we'll be taking them simultaneously mostly independently.
We don't count towards the number of calltakers for two weeks, so I think our trainer is going to take it easy on us for the moment. In two weeks, we have to go into trainee status, which means that if we're available, the call will offer to us first. That way we get plenty of calls to practice on.
For now, we're in general, so we're only getting a call every 5-10 minutes.
Did you know that there are food items with Cordyceps mushrooms in them? People, this is how you get the zombie apocalypse! I'm sure Ric Flair's energy drink is lovely, but I've seen the Last of Us, dammit. Apparently, it can be very beneficial, but I just don't know that I trust it.
Okay, guess I should get myself together and maybe put pants on. Everyone have a wonderful Thursday!
Mostly, appointments aside, I'm planning to just be a lump most of the next two days. Next week, I'll have three days off, but they're adjusting the trainer's schedule, so we only got two this week. Every 6 weeks, we have an extra day of work, and will only have two days off, just to equalize out our hours, since some weeks we are only working 4 days because of the whole 8 day week thing. I'll never be paid for less than 40 hours, though.
I'm grateful that I'm on dayshift for the bulk of my training, but I'll admit, the 7% differential for night shift or the 10% differential for overnights would be nice, too. I'm like a border collie. We're both reward motivated. Especially for Holidays. I am exceedingly reward motivated for holidays.
I got into our schedule software, and if it's correct, I'll be working on Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's Day, to the tune of $612/day with overtime. Bless super holidays. Next holiday is Veteran's Day, which I'm working on, yay! Extra $200 for the win!
Yesterday, all the trainers had a meeting, and the result was that our trainer decided that it was time for us to start taking live calls!
I took about 6 calls yesterday, and did reasonably well. I was completely terrified, and then my first two calls were administrative calls. I finally had an actual 911 call for my third, and I did pretty well. I had one police call that I floundered on, but once my trainer guided me to the correct protocol, I was good. I'm not scoring 100%. but, I'm a respectable C average right now.
I felt bad for my co-trainee, who got a completely freaked out cardiac arrest on her second call. The trainer took over, because she kind of froze up a bit. Which is totally understandable.
By the end of the day, I wasn't quite so white knuckled, so that's good. Saturday, we'll start taking calls all day, which should make the day go much faster. We trade off, she'll take one, with the trainer monitoring, then I'll take one. In a couple of weeks, we'll be taking them simultaneously mostly independently.
We don't count towards the number of calltakers for two weeks, so I think our trainer is going to take it easy on us for the moment. In two weeks, we have to go into trainee status, which means that if we're available, the call will offer to us first. That way we get plenty of calls to practice on.
For now, we're in general, so we're only getting a call every 5-10 minutes.
Did you know that there are food items with Cordyceps mushrooms in them? People, this is how you get the zombie apocalypse! I'm sure Ric Flair's energy drink is lovely, but I've seen the Last of Us, dammit. Apparently, it can be very beneficial, but I just don't know that I trust it.
Okay, guess I should get myself together and maybe put pants on. Everyone have a wonderful Thursday!
