I was only looking to leave Thyme because of the distance for work. I love my job with Thyme, i love the people i work with, and i love how i can make my own schedule. The pay isn't outstanding, but it's definitely enough that we can live comfortably with Tylers income included.
When i met this representative, there was no passion within her voice, no excitement, very cut and dry. Let's be honest though lady, It's retail! You sell product at the end of the day and it should be enjoyable! She kept bringing up how she hadn't worked a 40 hour work week in years (insinuating that I would work more) and that you often have to go above and beyond the job and have to come in at 5 am to do floorset changes. (which doesn't make sense to me for this type of retail business...) Also, the company has a policy that Store managers only get 2 sundays off a month, and they cannot take mondays off because of conference calls. So that leaves me with no days off with my family, and they also don't condone 2 days off in a row. There's got to be some give and take! When it got to discussing wage, this manager said the wage expectation was too high, and that it would most liekly be $5000 less...which was different than the recruiter and HR told me. So in all reality, it doesn't put my pay up that much higher than Thyme, and i would never see my family and apparently devote my life and time to this business. Also, i was told by the recruiter that i talked to, and HR that there was room for growth into an ASM position as it's just expanding in Western Canada, and the rep i met with said this would never happen, and if it did, it wouldn't for a very long time. So again, no incentive to leave really.
I told her i was still interested and emailed HR my references last night, as im interested to see if they would even come back with an offer, so we'll have to see.
But now that all of this stuff with Thyme is clearing up and things are looking positive, i don't really have a need to leave, especially for a position like this.Hmmmm. It seems to me i think i just made my decision!
Now that the time is drawing closer to go back to work, I realize how important my son and Tyler are to me. Although i complain and really hate making dinner every night, it's so nice to be able to sit down together as a family. I love my time with Tyler after Jacob is in bed and we can just hang out. I think all of these things outweigh a pay cheque at the end of the day.
The Ped had some weird things she wanted us to do. One of which was she thinks he's drinking too much forumla, he drinks 4 X 8oz bottles a day, so 32oz total. For a kid who was 14.6lbs 5 weeks ago...i dont really think that's alot! She says at 9 months a baby should only be having 24oz. She wants me to double his food intake. He currently eats breakfast, lunch and dinner. And i'm not kidding, he's already the equivalent to 10 jars of food a day. And he also eats real people food on top of that like a whole banana , toast, farley cookie..etc... I think he eats enough...especially considering he put on so much weight last month with the simple switch to forumla. She recommended giving him cream cheese too? wth??? Even i dont eat cream cheese! I get it that she wants him eating more fat, but come on, cream cheese every day??
I'm going to follow up with our famiy doctor, as i'm not really sure what to do with the information she gave me. It's just weird.
But i'm soooooo happy that he's putting on weight! He looks fantastic and he's so close to crawling! Tyler said last night when i was out, he pulled himself up on the toybox all by himself!
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