JJJ
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I actually had a nice visit with her this week. I stopped in for about 90 minutes and brought her dinner and then hung out with her on one side of the living room while another mom hung out on the other side with her daughter. Mostly the other mom just watched her daughter play BandHero on the Wii. It was nice to have other people in the room cause it kept Kanga on her best behavior.
I had her create a budget for how she wanted to live at 18. She picked an apartment, cable, internet and cell phone. Add in utilities and basic food and at her current hourly wage, she would need to work 10/hours per day 7/days per week 365/days per year. She was really bummed. Then she decided to use "her" college fund to pay for her apartment. Huge problem with that, she doesn't have a college fund, we had to cash it in to pay for help when she was younger. She was not happy about that either. But she held it together and did not make any threats
Since then, she has turned in her two weeks notice at her job, cause it interferes with her "sports and fun". Wow, she worked a whopping 3 hours/week during the school day and she was getting a credit for it. And as long as it was a school related conflict and she filled out a time-off request with at least 1 weeks notice, she was always given the time off. I told her that she quit in the right way (written notice, doing her two weeks) but that I didn't understand her choice to quit her job. She assured me that as soon as an opening came up on the shift she wanted, she would start working again. Well, the shift she "wants" is the one after hers, so it would still interfere with sports. And she could have kept working her current shift and had higher priority to get her shift changed.
I asked her how she was going to explain to the interviewer that she has had two jobs this year and that she was fired from her first one after just a few weeks due to sexually inappropriate activities at work and that she lasted about 3 months at the 2nd job before she quit cause it "interefered" with her fun. She has no clue why anyone would hold that against her. I REALLY hope that they use this as a learning opportunity and have her get turned down for the next few jobs for which she applies.
I had her create a budget for how she wanted to live at 18. She picked an apartment, cable, internet and cell phone. Add in utilities and basic food and at her current hourly wage, she would need to work 10/hours per day 7/days per week 365/days per year. She was really bummed. Then she decided to use "her" college fund to pay for her apartment. Huge problem with that, she doesn't have a college fund, we had to cash it in to pay for help when she was younger. She was not happy about that either. But she held it together and did not make any threats
Since then, she has turned in her two weeks notice at her job, cause it interferes with her "sports and fun". Wow, she worked a whopping 3 hours/week during the school day and she was getting a credit for it. And as long as it was a school related conflict and she filled out a time-off request with at least 1 weeks notice, she was always given the time off. I told her that she quit in the right way (written notice, doing her two weeks) but that I didn't understand her choice to quit her job. She assured me that as soon as an opening came up on the shift she wanted, she would start working again. Well, the shift she "wants" is the one after hers, so it would still interfere with sports. And she could have kept working her current shift and had higher priority to get her shift changed.
I asked her how she was going to explain to the interviewer that she has had two jobs this year and that she was fired from her first one after just a few weeks due to sexually inappropriate activities at work and that she lasted about 3 months at the 2nd job before she quit cause it "interefered" with her fun. She has no clue why anyone would hold that against her. I REALLY hope that they use this as a learning opportunity and have her get turned down for the next few jobs for which she applies.