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So I had left my job of 10 years a year ago and started this new gig as a chemical technician. I took a big pay cut but I loved not being in the office and travelling all over Alaska learning some new skills and working with tools. Was working 16 hour days sometimes and with the pay cut was still making good money and I didnt mind being at work so long cuz it was an adventure everyday. Well, a new manager shows up about 6 months after I start and changed everything. Hes made some big decisions that a lot of folks disagree with and is making us lose a lot of different accounts because he ruined the relationship with our old chemical supplier and is holding off on rolling out our new chemicals so we can get rid of what we have in the warehouse. The problem is a lot of these chemicals need to run together during different cycles of laundry or dishwashing.
For instance, a typical low temp dish machine in a restaurant needs detergent, bleach and rinse aid. We have bleach and detergent. But no longer have rinse aid, or we have rinse aid, just in 5 gallon jugs vs the 1 gallon jugs the customer was previously using. The problem is a lot of customers dont have room for 5 gallon jugs and also the 5 gallons arent as concentrated as what they previously had causing results issues making us stay at the account longer to reprogram or have to return later to fix the results costing us more in labor. He also cut all our overtime. Rumor is he gets a fat bonus the more money he saves so hes constantly cutting corners causing more and more problems with the customers and thus ruining our relationship with them and weve been losing accounts left and right or accounts that loved us now are on their way out. Bunch of other stuff I dont feel like typing out.
Yesterday was my first day back from my furlough. I was making more money on unemployment than I was at this job and I was the only one brought back, so I'm hitting all these accounts that arent mine and I have no knowledge on that are already pissed off about how things are going and see some new guy that isnt their regular rep asking them questions that they feel I should automatically know and every visit has been me just being a verbal punching bag for these people. I texted my old boss asking if she still needed some help at the detox center. She said absolutely and I have an interview tomorrow to go back. I didnt love that job, but I was in a different head space when I left it. It will suck going back, but the bonus is that I will be getting paid 6 dollars more an hour (she offered me more money than what I was making when I left), a secure job for 40 hours a week, paid holidays (every single holiday), good insurance, PTO every 2 weeks, and it will be a small amount of the stress I've taken on this passed year. They also offer academic leave for people going to school.
Today I was thinking over my options about going back and I really want to find something I'm passionate about or enjoy so I looked at the college classes for the university up here. Tons of writing classes and film classes that I want to try out and see how I do so one day I can become a writer or possibly write my own tv show or movie if its everything I'd hoped for. If it isnt, there are tons of classes for trades offered there. So I will be putting in my 2 weeks either tomorrow or thursday when I get my official offer and begin working at the detox program again here in Anchorage, living a lot less stressed and making much much more money.
Also, everyone at my job also hates my manager so literally all of the techs are leaving. 3 out of 5 have already put in their 2 weeks notice. I will be the 4th.
