I Got a Job!

Well, its the same thing I have been doing at the LCC POD, but I will be getting paid now. Not much, but enough to cover the gas that I use when I run out of battery power; LCC is outside of the 17 mile range of the Crosstrek. When I bought it in February 2020 I did not anticipate driving 18.3 miles one way to volunteer with the vaccine clinics; at the time 95% of my trips were around 5 miles round trip.

I had started out the morning making a fennel greens proothie. It's been a while since I had one of those and I had missed the flavor.

As soon as I was settled in, I called Staffing Solutions since I was unable to find the job description for the LCC POD data entry positions last Friday evening when I returned home from the POD. Everything is going to voice mail so I left another message. Then I went to double check my basic application and discovered it did not save properly, so I redid it.

I also sent an email to the Staffing Solutions general email after I redid my basic application. I got a phone call about 20 minutes later; had I been constantly checking my email I would have seen that Rose had actually replied to my email 9 minutes after I had sent it. Rose asked me to email my resume to her, she would review it and then call me back.

When Rose called back she asked a few questions, made an appointment for me to attend a hiring orientation later in the afternoon, and said she would send me a link to the hiring information packet that I needed to fill out before the hiring orientation. Her email included a pdf of their Employee Handbook. She also informed me that the paid work starts tomorrow! In Marjorie's email last week, it indicated the transition would occur by June 16th. I am guessing that means the full transition to only paid staff doing the work since there were only 4 of us at the orientation today and we need 22 people for the Data Entry Center. 

I'm glad I had 4 hours between the time I got the email with the hiring information packet I needed to fill out and the hiring orientation; I needed all that time! The packet was 21 pages long!

The hiring email also had a photo of the entrance to the building. I'm glad it was included, it made it so much easier to find since the easier entrance to access is on the back side of the building.

During the orientation in the afternoon with the Staffing Solutions' HR manager Xylia, I met Paris, Elton, & Daneen who were also hired to do data entry at the LCC POD. It sounds like we have very different but interesting backgrounds. After I left Staffing Solutions, I stopped at Otto Cake to pick up some cheesecake to celebrate! I got a slice each of Green Velvet, Irish Creme, Peanutbutter Chocolate Chip, & Orange Chocolate Chip.

L to R: Green Velvet, Irish Creme, Peanutbutter Chocolate Chip, & Orange Chocolate Chip.

Before I left to go to the orientation I saw that there was an email from MRC about last weeks statistics on how many volunteers and hours of volunteering there were.

The Potential Most Favorite Roommate took the day off; he had a medical appointment in the morning but decided to take it easy for the rest of the day. He made lasagna, garlic bread, & roasted root vegetables for dinner.

DT is now feeling some side effects of the 2nd dose of the Pfizer vaccine that he got yesterday. He alternates between a headache and feeling feverish but still having energy. Heʻs wondering whether he can go to work tomorrow.

The Aix weather app forecast a very rainy day with thunderstorms in the evening. The day wasn't too rainy, in fact it was dry before noon. But later it began to drizzle a lot. Before I went to bed I didn't hear any thunder or see any lightning but it did rain a lot; we are under a flood watch right now.

Dry at 11:06 am.

Still dry at 2:43 pm.

Its wet on the way to my orientation.

And Maui is flooding. There is concern over the Kaupakalua Dam being overtopped and potentially failing; people downstream are being evacuated.

It looks like it's raining on Hawai'i Island, the web cam from the Kīlauea caldera looks like it is vaporizing some rain. The news said there was heavier precipitation on the east end of the state.

There were 45 new cases of COVID-19 reported today, bringing the total known cases to 27,935. There were no new deaths reported so the death toll remains at 445; currently there are 648 cases considered active. The 7-day average of new cases on Oʻahu is 24 with a 0.9% positivity rate.  

Hauʻoli lā Hānau e Alejandro, Anastasia, & Hāpuʻu! The Hāpuʻu has now been in the ground for 2 years.