  Honesty doesn't pay OK, now on to the next topic. I learned a valuable lesson yesterday - it doesn't pay to be honest. I recently applied for a second job. The personnel company was very impressed with my testing scores, and the hours and pay were perfect for me.
I was told as soon as I was interviewed that I had the job. Wonderful. The money was really going to help out greatly. It was to start yesterday evening. I was devastated when I realized that my boyfriend's brother's wedding fell on one of the weekends I would be working. But I told the agency rep at the orientation about it, and she seemed pretty sure it wouldn't be a problem - she just needed to know when it was exactly, in case I needed the whole shift off, or just a few hours. It turns out I could still work a couple of hours that day. Yesterday, she called me up and again assured me she didn't think it would be a problem. Less than an hour before I was to leave for this job, she called me back. Apparently it's a problem with the client - they need people who can commit to the full 4 weeks.
Yet during the orientation, it was stressed that family emergencies were valid reasons for missing a shift, just don't have 35 of them. So I was replaced at the last minute without even having a say in it. I wasn't even given the choice to say I wouldn't go to the wedding (not that I would - but they don't know how important or unimportant this wedding was to me) .
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I was simply replaced. I was crushed. I'm sure some (many, probably) people are thinking, "Oh, cry me a river .
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lots of people have worse problems. " I'm sure they do, and I know things could be worse .
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but it doesn't make what's going on any less stressful knowing that. I just try to remind myself that I believe that everything happens for a reason.
Everything happens for a reason. Not that I think I can afford to, but I suppose now I'll have the time to go car shopping. And since my loaner car, which I thought would gladly be lent to me for a month or so, is only reluctantly mine for a week or 10 days, I suppose that's a good thing.
And I'm tired of relying on other people for things - generosity of rides, mainly. Although some people offered "let me know if you need a ride", some never came through, and those who did, I can tell their patience is wearing thin. I don't blame them. So, lesson learned yesterday .
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as far as parttime work goes, I don't have a life. I just have lots of sick relatives. 
