BronyCon, my job, and other things, I guess. · 12:13am Jul 27th, 2019
So, it's well known at this point that I will be attending BronyCon. I will be working at the con as a VIP handler. Since the guest has been announced, I'm 90% sure I'm allowed to tell you who I will be a handler for.
Cathy the Spike Wesluck Dragon. If you see her, I'll be right there as well, so if you desperately want to meet me, there you go. That's where I'll be.
The books for the BronyCon bookstore have been ordered and shipped. They should be there by the con.
You know who is surprised that I'm going to the con? My employers. Here is the chain of events: 1. I get hired by the con to be a handler.
2. I get hired by my current job.
2a: while being hired, I inform them that I have a trip to Baltimore in August that I've already been hired and paid for. I'm told that's fine.
3. I tell my training manager about the trip. He says it's fine.
4. I get moved to another department and tell my new manager about the trip. He says it's fine.
5. Said manager gets fired, replaced with temp. Temp asks for our availability.
6. I go to doctor and find out that my epilepsy means that I can't get a driver's license. Tell employers who talk to HR and will likely be firing me here shortly.
7. Temp manager says that there's no record of me going to the con, they're short-staffed anyway, I haven't been there long enough, and I'm in coaching for bumping a few cars. Keep in mind, I've been told three times that I can go. Am told "sorry, I don't know what you want to do about the fact that you've paid for the flight, hotel and books. Here's the schedule for that week with you on it."
8. Alright, time to go find something else.
Keep in mind they're about to fire me for having epilepsy, so this might be moot. Also, at the exact same time they're doing this to me, they're doing it to somebody who has told them since May that he's going on a cruise to the Bahamas. Same response. "We don't have any record of it. You can't go."
Now, I work in a car garage prepping cars at a dealership. What only the smart people there know is that as the back goes, so goes the front. If the front doesn't do anything, we don't care. We'll clean stuff or just mess around on our phones. If we were gone... anarchy. Only the smart sales reps know this.
The back is losing people like crazy. One is moving to Ohio with her military husband, one got a better job, and the other sales rep and myself might be leaving because of the vacation thing. And the epilepsy. Either way, on the 31st at 6:05 AM, I will be on a plane to Baltimore.
I have a few other job opportunities lined up, so if I do lose my job, it will be annoying, but not the end of the world.
In any case, looking forward to seeing you guys there!
Also, science has once again recognized my baby as the cutest ever.
And if you try and get it in writing or even photo or video it, theyll drop on you for violation of privacy, security etc, while selling your details or just wondering whay their Nigerian back from last weeks email has dissapeared along with the years profits that they cant tell anyone about.
It'll be swell to see you again, assuming our paths cross.
Glad you're coming and hope to see you there. Cathy is one of the autographs I plan on getting while there so I'll likely see you then!
Man that’s super shitty about your job. See you at BronyCon!
They’re trying to work you over and make you think you have to work. They’re hemorrhaging staff and management is starting to panic.
Unless you’re not in an at-will employment State, or unless there’s a contract in place, they can’t compel you to do anything. You’ve told them you’ll be on that plane, so be on that plane, and if they tell you that you won’t have a job when you get back, tell them you understand, and you hope that hiring goes well.
Stick to your guns. If their situation gets desperate enough, they may ask you to stay. If they do, and you don’t mind the work, and have another opportunity you can take, ask them for more money.
Have fun wrangling the dragon mayor. I'll see if I can see you.
Now I can't help but think of how different your assignment at Bronycon would be if MLP-FIM were a live-action show instead of a cartoon. Spike is nibbling on the hotel furnishings, Rarity is doing unicorn magic to random people's outfits, and Applejack keeps biting people who don't bring her apple slices when they pose for photos.
And here's my schedule for that week with you not on it.
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That's a meta-fic in the making if ever I saw one
Sounds like a new manager is trying to scare you into working a schedule during a time when they're short staffed. Depending on what his duties are, it'll probably look bad on him if they don't have enough people to make everything flow properly. It's the type of thing that's going to make his supervisors look down on him and demand if he even knows how to do his job. So when choosing between making his supervisors unhappy and making those under him unhappy, he's going to choose making you unhappy and put pressure on you to try and stop the bleeding that's happening to the staff. Considering it sounds like you're on the way out anyways, I wouldn't be too concerned about going to BronyCon if money isn't a huge issue. Either your training supervisor will can you and exasperate the problem he's under, or he'll keep you around for a while longer as a stopgap measure.
I hope you get to enjoy BronyCon. I'm heading there as well, so maybe I'll get to see you at some point.
I'm starting to think you have the same life as I do, you always run into people who want to make your life miserable.
Sucks about the job thing. :( I hope you find new work quickly!
See you at the con though!
Sorry to hear about your job mate.