but which I’ve done at least three times since I swore not to do it….

So, the job I do really requires three people. Not three people every day, just three people in rotation, two at a time on Fri and Sat nights…. the other nights we can work alone. The reason it needs three people is just in case anyone wants to take off work or be sick or whatever, they can do that and the third person who only works two nights a week can fill in easily. But lately, well for quite some time now, there’s only been two of us. This job is a really hard position to fill for several reasons: 1. The hours suck unless you love the third shift, like I do. 2. You will never find someone who is experienced at this particular job, because it’s the only job like it in the state, pretty much. 3. Some people get the job, work a couple of weeks or less, and THINK that it’s really hard and that they will never learn it and what the hell were they thinking hiring her/him for this job.

BUT number 3 is really not the case. It just takes a good 2 months to really learn the job and a good 3 months to REALLY be able to work alone. But once you really learn it, you find out, hey this is a snap, and what was I scared of? Anyway, number 3 is what happened to the last girl they hired. She was there 3 weeks and never came back. A few weeks ago is the last we saw of her. That was a bummer too, because it took so long to find someone to hire. So I guess my boss decided to give a call to someone who used to work there, doing that job, ever since that job was even invented, or close to it. I had heard all about her anyway, she was a legend. Bossman asked her if she could come back and work two days a week for awhile. She agreed. She started this week and they wanted her to come in with me this week before working alone so that 1. she could get back into the swing of things and learn anything that’s changed and 2. she could teach me anything that they didn’t (because even they didn’t know everything she knew).

AND here’s the part I really wanted to tell you about, but I had to tell you all that first so you would get this: THANK GOD FOR HEIDI. She has shown me so many things (and here I thought I pretty much knew it all) that will make my job SO MUCH EASIER. Some of the things she showed me, I was just like… WHAT? Are you SERIOUS???? There were also some things that had changed since she was here before, that when I told her “we don’t have to do that anymore” or “look at this new easier way,” she also was like “THANK GOD.” But it’s just amazing the things I never knew about that she’s shown me in two days.

I hope she stays awhile (awhile=forever), although she does have a full time day job.