Hi.
I'm in a mood today, but better update before I forget for another 10 years...
So.... I still work for Honda... longest 5 months of my life since I started working there. Still love my coworkers (most) but now I work in the Customer Service department and it... is different. I was completely used to telling people to pay up, "no you can't wait to make a payment, you need to do it now". Now I have to be super nice and all "How may I help you? ....... Is there anything else I can assist you with? Thank you so much for your call!" It's a hard job I feel like I suck doing. I honestly don't have enough space in my brain for all the policies and procedures Honda has. I also don't get the point of waiving late fees just because the customer had a big enough tantrum about it... late fees are there because you paid LATE. That's the purpose of them. Take the late fees away and, just like the Friends episode with Phoebe and the Christmas Trees, they don't get to fulfill their life purpose. Sad late fees.
I'm also super excited since the holidays are soon! And this week is the only week in November that I don't have a day off from work! YESSSSSSS! I go to NYC at the end of next week and won't get back til the beginning of the following week, then Thanksgiving and a doctor's appointment. And this weekend I may be heading to the mountains with my parents! I love roadtrips of any kind, and I've been dying to go to the mountains for a while!!
Oh about the doctor... I've been getting sick to my stomach every few weeks for over a year now. It makes my stomach hurt so badly that I get chills from the pain and can't stand. Joy. My doctor's thought I had Crohn's Disease or something else I can't remember. Or my thyroid, or gallbladder or a million things. Apparently I don't have those... or anything else they can think of right now. I don't have any kind of medicine to prevent me from getting sick, only for making me feel better once I am sick. Joy again.
BUT quickly with my obsessions of the week... Snowboarding (and snowboarder Kevin Pearce), hockey (has been an obsession for years, but I just went to a game after not going at all last season and I'm hooked again... not to mention the Russian rookie on ATL's team named Alex Burmistrov... Mmmm), my new and amazing red coach purse, and frozen yogurt places like Yogli Mogli and Pinkberry.
Well...sleepy time. Work in the AM.
Monday, November 1, 2010
Sunday, June 27, 2010
I suck at blogging...
First post in 6 months. Wow. Nice one, Emily...
Let's see... a quick update on the first half of the year is in order:
My last post was the day before graduation. So... I graduated. I "walked" and everything (though I was still running a fever with Swine Flu, Mom made me go). My grandmother was so happy she cried, made me feel a bit awkward and proud, blah blah blah. I moved home to ATL... it was very sad to leave Auburn and my friends (but good riddance to my roommate and the hellish situations she gave me/put me through). I then decided to take a bit of time off to get over being sick and adjust to living with my parents again and having every one of my actions analyzed. One night out with one of my "guy friends", my grandmother called me every half hour til I came home. I finally got home around 4am and actually woke my mother up to complain about her mother calling me all night. But good news is, I think my grandmother realized how much I hate being called and she doesn't do it anymore. haha
So... I started looking for a job, mostly applying to be a flight attendant or wedding planner's assistant (still think I would LOVE those jobs!), but I started my first full time "big girl" job at Honda Finance last month. I'm a customer accounts representative for the region 2 financial office of American Honda Motor Company. Yeah, I'm a collector. I call people all day who don't pay their bills. People yell at me, people tell me to eff off. Fun times. Thank God my coworkers are so awesome! I already love them all to death! Just a few days ago, one of my supervisors was distracting me while I was trying to leave someone a message and I said my name was the customers name, which wouldn't have been so bad except my supervisor hid his head because he was laughing so hard and another coworker erupted into the loudest laughter I've ever heard... which made me laugh through the rest of my voice mail message. I'm fairly sure that person I called will NEVER view Honda in a professional light again. Oops.
But thank God for this job opportunity! I feel rich with a paycheck that is more than the $150 max I would get at my old job (but I still work at Build-A-Bear on some weekends). I now am completely responsible for the expenses of my dog. I feel like a grown up with a kid. Unreal. lol
Um... that's pretty much the last 6 months. Yep. Oh, and I got to go to the beach for a bit right before I started my new job (I literally was at work less than 12 hours after I got back to ATL). I stayed at my uncle's condo, which I am really wanting to move in to. I love it there. It always feels like home. When I sit on the comfy couch with the balcony doors open and read a book while listening to the sound of the ocean waves, that tiny condo is absolute heaven. Aaahh... I want to go back right now!
Current (new and old-but-still-going-strong) obsessions: buying cute work clothes and shoes, the ocean, The Silmarillion by JRR Tolkien and the book's characters of the seven sons of Feanor (who can resist literature with 7 strong, unbelievably attractive young men?? and yes, I'm a dork), headbands, classical music, art... :)
Well... hopefully I'll have at least one more update in year 2010. lol
Let's see... a quick update on the first half of the year is in order:
My last post was the day before graduation. So... I graduated. I "walked" and everything (though I was still running a fever with Swine Flu, Mom made me go). My grandmother was so happy she cried, made me feel a bit awkward and proud, blah blah blah. I moved home to ATL... it was very sad to leave Auburn and my friends (but good riddance to my roommate and the hellish situations she gave me/put me through). I then decided to take a bit of time off to get over being sick and adjust to living with my parents again and having every one of my actions analyzed. One night out with one of my "guy friends", my grandmother called me every half hour til I came home. I finally got home around 4am and actually woke my mother up to complain about her mother calling me all night. But good news is, I think my grandmother realized how much I hate being called and she doesn't do it anymore. haha
So... I started looking for a job, mostly applying to be a flight attendant or wedding planner's assistant (still think I would LOVE those jobs!), but I started my first full time "big girl" job at Honda Finance last month. I'm a customer accounts representative for the region 2 financial office of American Honda Motor Company. Yeah, I'm a collector. I call people all day who don't pay their bills. People yell at me, people tell me to eff off. Fun times. Thank God my coworkers are so awesome! I already love them all to death! Just a few days ago, one of my supervisors was distracting me while I was trying to leave someone a message and I said my name was the customers name, which wouldn't have been so bad except my supervisor hid his head because he was laughing so hard and another coworker erupted into the loudest laughter I've ever heard... which made me laugh through the rest of my voice mail message. I'm fairly sure that person I called will NEVER view Honda in a professional light again. Oops.
But thank God for this job opportunity! I feel rich with a paycheck that is more than the $150 max I would get at my old job (but I still work at Build-A-Bear on some weekends). I now am completely responsible for the expenses of my dog. I feel like a grown up with a kid. Unreal. lol
Um... that's pretty much the last 6 months. Yep. Oh, and I got to go to the beach for a bit right before I started my new job (I literally was at work less than 12 hours after I got back to ATL). I stayed at my uncle's condo, which I am really wanting to move in to. I love it there. It always feels like home. When I sit on the comfy couch with the balcony doors open and read a book while listening to the sound of the ocean waves, that tiny condo is absolute heaven. Aaahh... I want to go back right now!
Current (new and old-but-still-going-strong) obsessions: buying cute work clothes and shoes, the ocean, The Silmarillion by JRR Tolkien and the book's characters of the seven sons of Feanor (who can resist literature with 7 strong, unbelievably attractive young men?? and yes, I'm a dork), headbands, classical music, art... :)
Well... hopefully I'll have at least one more update in year 2010. lol
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