Sometimes You Just Gotta Clean

   I know it's not Wednesday, but it's been one of those days that deserves a blog. The very first thing I learned when I got to work was that the client expects us to hire 15 to 20 people by this Friday. Fat chance!

   It takes 15 business days just for a background to come back. We have been waiting on 8 backgrounds since the 18th. Fortunately, if the applicant didn't mark yes for background we can start them right away. However, apparently most of the population of North Dakota either have a DUI or some sort of drug charges. 

   I hired two people with no background concerns last Thursday, so I told them they would start today. Well come today and we still haven't gotten the drug test results. We cannot hire anyone before we get the drug test results back. We usually get them back within 24 hours, so I have no idea what's taking so long. 

   So after coming up with a game plan with the boss on how to hire a ton of people I have a meeting with an employee. He tells me that he is going to start looking for a new job if he doesn't get Christmas off. 1) Its f*****g February. 2) I get it Christmas is the most important holiday for most, but it's also the busiest day of the year for us. 3) Its f*****g February.

  I was somehow able to appease this employee. He ended the conversation with, "I'll be sticking around for quite some time." So then later I have a TM meeting and a conference call, which went fine. Then I had to go over the verbiage of a coaching for a very difficult agent. This very same difficult agent created a crap ton of drama for me just because I didn't choose her for the trainer position. She also had a meeting with my boss a couple hours before.

   One of my TMs delivered the coaching, but of course everything he coached her on isn't true and there is nothing wrong with her. So a few minutes later she wants to "talk" to me. I pull her into my office and she proceeds to cry and scream at me. My boss's office is right next door to mine. He said he didn't want to leave until he made sure I was okay afterwards.

   Long story short I had a crappy day. I worked 11 hours today and I felt mentally drained by the time I got home. When I'm mad or upset about something I have to clean. So that's what I did when I got home, I cleaned.