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Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Reasons Why I Love My Job
It is a good day to be a Comcast employee.
I have been incredibly worried about what I was going to do about the time that I unexpectedly took off, due to my cold. Yesterday, I was chatting with some of the folks who were hired around the same time that I was, and I found out that we do, in fact, have our flextime already! This saves me not only a ton of time, but a ton of headaches, too. It means that all 29.5 hours that I was out of work last week, mostly spent sleeping, will be paid for by Comcast in their wonderful, wonderful benefits package. We get a lot of crap about our prices, with the occasional person who seems genuinely happy with the services that they’re getting, as well as the pricing they’re getting it for, but for all that, Comcast is fabulous to their employees. There is no doubt about that. It does make me quite sad to have to leave Comcast when I move. But, rest assured, I am still leaving. Hopefully Cox or Time Warner will hire me and treat me just as well as Comcast has done.
It is such a reassurance to know that I can get paid for that time, even though I was sick. My paycheck will not take any blows, except for the possible commissions that I will have lost, and for that, I can work a few hours of overtime to make it up. This takes off a huge pressure regarding the move and regarding my upcoming trip to Ohio. I won’t have to stress about whether I can really justify spending any money while I am there now, since I didn’t take an approximately $310 cut in my pay for this pay period (pre-taxes, of course.) The move is now not quite so frightening as it was last week while I was, in my hazy sick-induced state, stressing over how on earth I was going to make up for the days spent in bed, recovering from whatever that cold was.
Johnathan is helping me by screening the areas of about seventeen apartment listings. If he is so inclined, he may even visit some for me, so that we can get information and narrow it down to a short list of, I’m hoping, around five places that I could live without much issue. The ball is rolling toward my eventual move date, and I am very excited. I’m going to see about calling some places on my days off to find out about the possibility of renting a full sized van, rather than a minivan, for the move, which will be much more reasonable for the move itself. It is such an exciting proposition, if a little stressful, getting this all sorted out.
Johnathan also bought tickets to see The Drowsy Chaperone tour when it comes to Cleveland in October. If that’s not reason to be moved to Cleveland by then, I don’t know what is! (Obvious reasons aside.)
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