Note to self

You can be TOO honest. After a series of seemingly innocuous conversations with people asking me how I was going with work, today I got asked into have a private word with my Angry Midget Boss. The conversation went like this:

AMB: "I believe you have been very stressed out & may not be staying here long"

Me: "Well, I was very stressed out, until I had that day of training. Now I think I am doing okay"

AMB: "It's just that if you think it is too stressful here, you should wait until the second week of the month. It is very stressful then"

Me: "Yes I understand. You put me on the phones with no training on the second week of the month. I think that's why I might have been so stressed"

AMB: "Well, it's just that we have interviewed someone that's really good, today. And if you think you might be too stressed or feeling like it's not your thing, then......"

Me: "I think I am doing fine. I have worked in busier call centres with more important clients. You'd have to ask the people I sit near, but I think I'm handling the work okay now"

AMB: "It's just if you are planning to leave. I mean, you really should work out what you want"

Me: "Well, I'm not going to lie to you, I'm not planning to do this for the rest of my life, but I need this job right now & there's nothing else I've got on the horizon"

AMB: "Well, the other girl can start the week after next. She is really good. You take until the middle of next week to decide what you want to do".

Me: "Err, okay."

Wowzers... my contracting agency wasn't lying when they said "AMB doesn't always like to hear the truth". One whiff that I might think I could do something else with my life than be a phone monkey & she wants to turf me out the door & replace me with someone happy to sit on their arse in that office for the next 30 years.

I'll let you know what I decide.