welcome to my mind ...

I tired not to overreact except I started to over-think. And over-thinking led to slight panic and a lot of self-doubt, none of which was necessary.

The reason the manager hadn't called me back by the time she stated she would was because she was out of the office, in meetings all day both days. She contacted me yesterday, just as I was texting someone else that I was beginning to think I hadn't gotten the job. I filled out the background check consent form yesterday and I have to go to the lab for a TB test on Monday {it's the only one from the checklist that I don't already have on a recent file.}

I got the job people! After searching for how long? And getting turned down from how many? I got the job! Christmas will be my last day as a security officer. Best Christmas gift ever? I think so.

My boss was pissed; the asshole that he can be. I received word around quarter after 1, went to work, on my day off no less, to give notice so that I could provide them with a full two week notice, rather than waiting until Monday. "You could have told me sooner." is what I was greeted with. Not congratulations. Not way to go. No positive connotations whatsoever. Does he really think that I'd been holding on to that information for several days and I purposely waited until quarter til 2 on Friday, just to make him leave a few minutes later than he wanted? Jerk. I can understand being pissed because of losing the best person they had {not trying to toot my own horn, but it's true} but be happy that I'm moving up in the world.

I fully plan on working my entire final two weeks. I have 32 hours of sick pay so if I suddenly come down with something, I have the available time to call out. If I don't call out sick, then I just lose the pay. The vacation and personal days can be cashed out {and believe me, that's one email that I will be sending out first thing tomorrow morning} but the sick pay just gets swallowed up. Which is fine. I might be more inclined to use it if I had more than 40 hours saved up. Though, this does make me wish I had taken that extra sick day last week ... oh well.

2015 is going to be a great year. It's starting out fantastically.