Wha?

Another good day at work?

I have an interview scheduled for Wednesday. They're willing to stick around til 5:30 to meet me...but the pay scale for the potential job is pretty low. At it's TOP, it's $10 less an hour than I am getting now, and $5 less than my last job.

...and you can bet your bottom dollar, they don't start ANYONE at the top of the scale.

But we'll see.

It's these good days at this job that really throw me off, though. I've been having more of them recently.

Oh, and I don't have to go to Tulsa tomorrow after all.

What, I didn't tell you about that?

Thursday, my supervisor came into my office and announced that I would have to drive to Tulsa on Friday (the next day) for some training.

Um...scuse me?

I told her that I have never been to Tulsa, and I am literally terrified to drive on highways, especially to a place I've never been, that's 2 hours away!

She laughed, and said "Okay, let's google the map." She completely blew off what I had said.

So, I called Dave when she had stepped away for a second.

He called back after she returned, and WHILE she was sitting there, I explained to him that they were requiring me to go to Tulsa the next day, even though I explained that I have a literal phobia about driving on highways.

He said he'd take the day off and drive me. I got off the phone, turned to my manager, and told her this.

She NOW realized that this was not a laughing matter to me...and said "....well, we can't ask him to do that....let's see what else we can arrange."

I explained to her that I filled out the NO TRAVEL box on the job application....she said "Well, we assume that means you don't want to go out of state. Not that you don't want to go to other buildings within the state."

I said "It doesn't SAY that...it just says TRAVEL: Yes or No. I marked NO, because that was what I meant. NO travel for work. My commute is all the travel I am comfortable with."

She said Okay, and left to go see what else she could work out.

Later that day, she came and told me that she had to go to Tulsa the next week, on Tuesday, and that she had arranged to reschedule my training for that day, and that she could drop me off.

Fine.

I thanked her, and apologized...but also said that people DO have phobias. " I have no idea why I have this fear, but thank you for working with me on this."

She said it was fine....she understood now.

Then today, she said the trip, which was to be tomorrow, was canceled, and I would have to get the training over the phone.

So...now I have to ask.....why couldn't we just have scheduled the training over the phone in the first place?

It hasn't stopped them before!

Whatever.
It actually fits right in with all of the other clusterfecks I have witnessed....but it ALSO made today a better day than it already was!