Coast Guard (civilian) job

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Today, a woman from a Coast Guard (civilian) sales clerk job, that I applied for, phoned. We scheduled a job interview for Friday @ noon. $16/hour. 0-19 hours/week.

Current job: Home Depot, Lot Attendant, $21.67. Hours have been cut the past couple of months. Been working about 20 hours a week lately. Do not know if they are going to increase hours, cut hours, or keep the same hours. Home Depot has some pretty rough mannered employees and customers. Wondering if customers @ the Coast Guard exchange are more polite or more rude than Home Depot. On the other hand, it is not possible to measure etiquette, and not a representative sample. Besides, there is more to a job than etiquette.

The other thing, is that in 2021, a doctor wrote a letter that I was not allowed to lift over fifty pounds (due to back pain). However, fifty pounds of concrete is much harder to lift than a fifty pound barbell. Also, I am a 110# Chinese woman, 41 years old. Due to aging, I have rapidly been getting physically weaker and soon will not be able to lift fifty pounds anymore. (However, plenty of restaurant, retail, and sales jobs require lifting fifty pounds.) That was fine with Home Depot until June 2024. Then human resources told me that I had to get a doctor to fill out a form if I wanted to keep the same work accommodations, and that I had to do that ever six months or every one year. However, I showed an assistant manager, a copy of the job description, and it says "lift fifty pounds". So I asked the assistant manager why I had to get a doctor's note, when I fulfill the requirements in the job description. The assistant manager said that sometimes customers demand that lot attendants load eighty pound bags of concrete, and the doctor's note was to protect Home Depot. (Which I think doesn't make sense, b/c Home Depot should just [change the job description to "lift 80 pounds"], [2] during the job interview, ask "Can you lift eighty pounds of concrete?", [3] require a doctor to fill out a form that you are allowed to go to a lifting test [4] lifting test [5] label the weight of all the merchandise in the building). But, Home Depot. Wreak havoc, disorganized, chaotic. Disaster waiting to keep happening. And I got the doctor to fill out the form a couple week ago. However, I am 41 years old and rapidly getting weaker and pretty soon won't be able to lift fifty pounds. (But Kaiser did not have a lifting test either.) Also, I have Dyssergenic Defecation and Home Depot doesn't have enough toilets. (But I do not know how many toilets the Coast Guard Exchange has.)

The schedule says that I work on Friday, and I told her that, and offered to come in next week. She said that next week, the two supervisors are on vacation. On Friday, I could either (1) work (2) job interview. Even if I go to the job interview, there is no guarantee that I will get the job. Besides, "at will" employer. Been working @ Home Depot for three years and nine months. I am very bad @ coping with change. Especially having to deal with different coworkers and customers.

Congrats on being offered an interview.
How does it compare in terms of the commute or distance from home?

isabella

they are both about one and a half hours public transportation distance away from my cage.

they are two miles away from eachother. however, i do not have a car and i have to go over a bridge. the job interviewer said that the bridge is pedestrian accessible.

been exhausted all the time especially lately. there is no way i could work both jobs on the same day.

also, public transportation is very inconvenient before a certain time and after a certain time.

i just feel like nothing i do is going to be good enough to pay: room, board, utilities, insurance, bus.

there's nothing about the job description that i like or that i am good @. however, i do not like many things and i am not good @ anything and i do not, thus far, qualify for government benefits.

and it does not make sense to move closer to work, b/c "at will" employer.

Decided not to go to the coast guard job interview because I had to work that day

The coast guard job is just "intermittent" anyways. 0-19 hours a week. $16 hour

Currently I earn $21.67 hour,

Hours recently cut

But I have been really curious for a long time what a military base looks like but whatever

That's a smart decision, but I can see how it would be frustrating to miss the opportunity.

It is just too inconvenient to search for jobs when I have a job already

The phone interview and the in person interview have to be on my days off. Lunch at work is only 30 minutes and the entire home Depot is way too loud for a phone interview

Also I have to print my resume, job description and direction and I can only print at the library on my days off

Might as well quit looking for a job until the current job has the nerve to make my worthless corpse redundant

A coworker tried to clock in and it didn't work and he said "fired?".

Before every shift I log into the portal to see if I still work there

"At will" employer

Tattletale tom and Justin the Karen have been micromanaging me and they might be having sex with the boss

"At will" employer. Home Depot is not required to give me a "fair trial". Home Depot could make my worthless corpse redundant for any reason or no reason. Home Depot doesn't have to tell me I did anything wrong. Home Depot has to follow the law, EEOC, ada, OSHA, flma, but home Depot has its own lawyers and I am sure they have exceptional job skills.

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