job rants

in the frustration of job searching...

LET ME PREFACE THIS by saying this post turned into the most awful rant of my life (i used my 2 swears for next month) because I was stuck in this job(when brandon was deployed) where I couldn't say how I felt because I felt bad about how I felt and I loved the children I was caring for. So, in someways this post was therapeutic because for almost 7 months I kinda just sucked it up and never said anything except to my bff kirsten (and my mom). This post didn't make me a better person, but it made me feel better just because putting it on the internet made me feel like that part of my life didn't happen (because something this ridiculous couldn't really happen right? just on the internet.) So I'm sorry if this is offensive to anyone who actually knows me or is a mother trying to get babycare right now. I feel like now that I've written all of it out, I can just put it to rest and never ever think about that time of my life again.

1. if you are advertising that you have a job opening, please be as honest as you would like your candidates to be. Please list what the job actually is, not a general overview of the entire company's policies or high range pay that has nothing to do with what you are hiring for. Please list realistically what the hours will be and not crazy general statements that drive me crazy. As a person who is looking for a job, I'd like to know what I am responding to. Thanks a heap coyote ugly.

2.if you are hiring for a nanny or a caregiver, please be realistic and fair. I am not going to be the mother of your children. That's your job, it was yours when they came out of your body and it will be until the day you die (which hopefully isn't soon), don't list an ad saying you want to pay basically next to nothing for me to do everything in your house for you, i.e. "you might be needed to run the kids around and drop them off" might i? should i? could you possibly be more specific? maybe you need to hire a bus driver. just kidding. "you will need to HELP with doing, dishes, laundry, meal prep, bathing clothing, cleaning" so when you say HELP you are really saying, I NEED YOU TO DO ALL THIS CRAP BECAUSE I WON'T. Ladies, THIS IS NOT HELPING, YOU ARE LOOKING FOR SOMEONE TO DO EVERYTHING FOR YOU because frankly you are too busy to be a mother which you should have thought about before becoming one, or you are a lazy piece of poo. or maybe both. or maybe there is a better reason that i cannot possibly understand right now because i'm angry. and there is no way, in kingdom come, i am ever, EVER, ever working for a family that will pay me close to minimum wage to do their every bidding ever again.
ever.

even if i like them.
LETS BE FAIR PEOPLE.
would YOU do your own job (being a mom) for 8 dollars an hour?
hell no.
you do it for free because you LOVE YOUR CHILDS!
BUT i am not doing it for free because i need a job!
which is where we meet in the middle!



I do NOT want to accept a job under false terms ever again! I WONT! IT'S CRAZINESS. I WOULD RATHER WORK IN THE DRIVE THROUGH OF TACO BELL THAN BE LURED TO A JOB THAT SAYS HEY YOU might NEED TO DO THIS and then they tell me to do everything that they can do themselves but don't feel like doing. YOU FILL YOUR DAYS WITH STUFF YOU DON'T NEED AND THEN MAKE ME DO WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE. (i.e. shopping trips, photo shoots, plastic surgery,decorating,crafts, random romantic getaways, dinners, lunches, and sometimes (when you feel like it) work!)

I WOULD RATHER WORK IN A TACO BELL DRIVE THROUGH,
DOES ANYONE UNDERSTAND THIS?!
I HATE TACO BELL!

At least, in a major franchise that pays minimum wage and serves terrible unhealthy food that kills people- they aren't going to LIE TO ME, MANIPULATE ME, OR USE ME. I wish I had an ounce of guts when I am actually in these situations.

This has happened to me more than once.

Can you believe that?
Can you believe that a family who wants me to take care and love their child and sort of replace their time with their own children, would treat me that way? and the WORST ABSOLUTE WORST PART OF THIS, IS THAT I DO, I DO LOVE THEIR CHILDREN, I DO TREAT THEM AS I WOULD MY OWN (someday), and I don't want to leave them with their own parents! Isn't that pathetic?!


Single parents, you're alright I like you, you struggle, that's okay. Just be fair with me and yourself. Don't lie to get what you want.
Don't make me clean up your dog vomit, don't make me do every single one of your household chores, and for heaven's sake, never, sit me down and give me a lecture about how YOUR house could be cleaner. Don't leave your dishes in the sink all weekend so that when I come back to work I have to do all those plus the childrens all day, don't make me do your dirty laundry, it's disgusting! Don't make me sweep, or mop, or windex, or answer the phone and take messages, or take phone calls for your business. Don't let your children run wild all weekend eating food anywhere they want, peeing on things,eating candy galore, and then tell me I should clean it up! Don't hire me to take care of children who have serious problems that I'm not trained to handle. Especially without telling me when you hire me. DON'T tell me you'll pay me 10 to 15 dollars and hour and then pay me 8.75!
DON'T DO IT!

TEACH YOUR CHILDREN HOW TO BEHAVE! Or better yet, teach yourself how to behave! Being a bad parent doesn't make you a bad person, but all the other stuff does.

Oh, and putting a smiley face after something bitchy that you wrote doesn't make it better.

:0)