Oh god, dont get me started on how shit it is working at Coles. I started there in October 2004, and got about 2-4 shifts per week which was fine when I was starting out. Then gradualy it decreased down to none, and one week the other manager said that a few people's hours have been cut cause of the budget, so I assumed I had been fired. That was the end of August last year. Beginnning of this year, I got a letter from Coles noting that I hadnt worked for ages and did I still want to keep working there. I was like YEAHHH of course i bloody do! I have to put myself through uni and need the bloody money.
So I rang up, the new boss would give me a few hours, and he did, he started me on like 20hrs which i was very happy about. Cause I think a lot of people quit, cause it was a new store when we started, and so we were guaratneed more hours. Then that manager moved to a different job/company cause they had better pay and conditions (dont blame him at all), and so the other manager took over the hours. He said that Id be getting about 20hrs and I said that was fine but it may affect my youth allowance, and mum went pscyho about me worrying about getting that cut.
So Id be working like friday-monday which meant no time for study, and having to miss lectures to catch up on study. But since i live on the other side of town from work, i have to go and stay at mums place casue the buses around my area are shit, nothing after 4pm on wknds...and mum wonders why i want to bloody move next semester!!!!!
Then before easter, i told my boss that I needed to change my roster hours and he said why? I need you to work. But i said uni is much more important to me at the moment, i want the job as well but still. I changed it to monday, wed and fri. THe boss obviously didnt pay attention to that new roster cause he keeps giving me weekends. THe other day i worked sunday and he said now wer're gng to be short staffed casue i had to leave 1hr early so i could get home, since i dont want to stay at mums any more. And the hours have started to decrease from 20-12hrs a week. I keep telling the boss I dont want 4 hr shifts casue its annoying. but he wont listen. And they expected me to come in yesterday on call to work 5.30-9.30 and wa like yeah if you want to pay for my cab fare or drop me over the other side of town!
And this week he's only given me sat 9-1 and sun 4.30-6.30pm...wow 6hrs..thats realy going back to what happened last year.
And its depressing working there too! Most of the time i work there, its a bit too quiet and just standing there doing nothing, and Im always being put on at the very end register. Like ive been sick lately caseu of the stress of work, study and life. Mum treats me like shit so thats more pressure.
After finding out the hours for this week, I immediately confirmed that I am gong to quit Coles, or maybe just do one shift a week to keep my discount card :rofl: . But i spent yesterday calling up various hospitals and nursing agencies to find a job as a assistant in nursing cause im doing B Nursing, and want a job that is much more relevant to my degree than being a checkout chick!!!
But i finally found one agency that didnt need me to have Aged Care experience or have done my 2nd prac which im doing in May, and Ive got an interview this Friday which is great. The guy said taht the interview would just basically be a general chat, filling in forms like super.... and to bring my bank details. So it pretty much sounds like I have got the job! Thing with doing agency work is that you dont really get to know the hospital routine but hey its money! I just basically have to look after people... I might do some nights cause that pays a lot more as far as i remember from what the nurses told me on my first prac.
Mum isnt going to be hapy about me quitting coles since that pays me more money ($19/hr compared to 14 or so). But stuff her! She's the one who told me not to do nursing cause i wouldnt like it, and to do primary education instead since I liked the work experience. That was a total waste of my time. So this time I am not listening to her at all. She's not the one putting me through uni-she's too stingy to pay for me, but for sure she'll put my stupid bratty sister through uni, pay her HECS fees etc. If I had just done my nursing degree when i wanted, I would be out working now, and would be a 2nd year RN, wouldve done my grad year last year.
Hmm sorry about going off a bit off track.
oh yeah I applied last year for the Myer xmas casual, got called up for a group interview, had to reschedule cause i was sick, and then when i was meant to do the interview, coles rang me up to work that day, and so i had to ring up the interviewers and say work called me in and i cant cut back any offers, and they said they'd book me into another one but i never heard from them again. I That would be cause i rescheduled 2 intervew....not a good look. SHouldve just gone to he interview and stuffed wrk.
