Stresses of Training

I would really like to name this one Word to the Wise as well, but I wont. I just have to say that I really hate training people who will be taking my position.
The story begins with me giving my two weeks notice (note that my last day of work at Union Tank is this Thursday). My boss, Gilbert, goes through SOS Staffing to hire new employees until they can bring them on fulltime. Gilbert takes the first person SOS sends over and I don't think he even interviewed her. Anyway, Tuesday she, will call her Crazy, comes in to my office and I start to ask her questions about what we do at our shop. Wow, she blew me away. I thought I was asking Gilbert what we did here. I don't think I ever heard it explained so well before. I knew right then that she was going to work out. I start to train her and get pretty far, she seems like she's understanding it. Wednesday, same thing. Thursday she starts to do everything by herself and explains what she's doing to me and why she's doing it. SHE IS TOTALL MIXED UP! I start to explain to her that she's mixing everything up and start to explain it again. Misty, the girl I originally trained before I left Union Tank the first time is in my office as well listening in. Crazy begins arguing with me and is basically telling me that I don't know what I'm doing and she knows what she's doing. I then tell Misty I'm going to walk away for a minute to calm down and asked if she would try to explain it better for her to understand. I don't think I have ever felt my blood pressure rise before now. I feel as though I am one of the thermometers in cartoons where the red is rising and going up to the bubble at the top and pulsating right before it is going to burst.
I calm down and come back and just sit in on Misty trying to explain it more. It's 5:00 and Crazy leaves. Misty and I talk and decide that she would tell Gilbert what happened since I don't work Friday's. Well, Gilbert wants to see how she does Friday so Misty gets to have her all day in her office while she works on her stuff. Not much of my work got done Friday so she got to come back in Monday.
Well, Monday I went in at 10:00 and planned to work until 3:00. It was the worst of the days...I find out that she can't even file right. How hard is it to tell the difference between a 5 and 6 digit number? My goodness. I thought I might scream. She also told me more than once that she didn't know if she were ever going to figure that part out. Anyway, I let that slide for a minute and start to do what we were doing on Thursday. Misty was back in my office listening in. Here we go again...She thinks I don't know my job and starts arguing with me AGAIN. I had had it. Misty sat down and told me to go to her office and finish what she was working on and see if she could do better to make Crazy realize what she was doing was wrong. I had not been able to do any work yet that day so I still had a whole days worth of work at 1:30. I tell this girl that since the day is almost over I'm going to do it and she can watch. 4:00 comes and Crazy leaves. Gilbert comes in and starts to talk to Misty and me. We tell him what happened and he says that if she's thinking she knows more than we do then that wont work. She's done.
Gilbert calls someone that brought her resume' in the day we started training Crazy lady. She comes in today at noon and tells us that she can only work until 2:00 and wont be in the rest of the week. Again note, my last day is Thursday. I start to train her the best I can with the little time that I have. She leaves at 1:45 so she can be to her destination by 2:00. I don't have anyone to train anymore. I just get to do my job the rest of the week and now poor Misty gets to train someone for my job and do her own at the same time. I feel so awful, but I don't know what else to do.
I guess these are the joys of training a new employee that thinks they know everything about everything. Now I guess the crazy girl knows that it doesn't cut it to think you know more than the person that is training you.

A Word to the Wise

Yesterday was a very busy and stressful day. Not including the packing half our apartment and moving it all to the storage unit, Paul received a call at about 3:30 from his co-worker, Aaron, that was working this weekend. In the conversation we learned that Dennis, Paul's other co-worker, a 56 year old man was last seen at 8:10 that morning when they all got off work.His wife, Andrea, got worried at about 1:00 and went down to the maintenance shop where they all work. The gate, which is usually locked, was wide open. Dennis' car was there with the keys in it. The doors to the shop were locked. She then called Aaron to find out what was up. He said he hadn't seen Dennis since that morning and that he would meet Andrea at the shop to go through it to see if Dennis were there. They find Dennis' office unlocked with his wallet and keys to the shop on his desk. The police were then called.They came out and then all the rest of the employees show up including us. We stayed there with Andrea and her kids for about 2-3 hours. They had cops going around the native, tall grass, at the golf course with a fourwheeler and horses to make sure his body wasn't there.We went home to shower and feed Zack. We go right back and no one is there. Aparently they sent everyone home to wait. We ran into the local Dective and let him back in the shop to look around some more and to check out his wallet to see if there were any notes or if it looked as though anything were missing. Nothing, so we went back home. He also told us that Andrea told them that Dennis had once before gotten disoriented and couldn't find his way home. We said a family prayer for Dennis and went to bed.This morning at 8:30 Paul got another phone call from his boss, Jim. Jim informed him that they found Dennis in Wendover, of all places. We are assuming that he got disoriented and walked over to the Flying J behind the golf course and hitched a ride with a truck driver. This is what we are hoping for because if it isn't the case he will be dead anyway from his wife and kids killing him.I could never imagine, nor do I ever want to know what Andrea was going through.Now the word to the wise, never ever do this to your family. If something like this does happen and you get lost. Go to a psychologist and find out what is triggering it. It will save your life with your family.I guess this word to the wise is more for Paul than anyone, but I just thought I would warn anyone that would even think about it. Never leave without telling anyone where you are going.

With Life, Comes Change

We thought you might like to know if you don't already...our family is packing up and moving to Utah next weekend. We will be working for my brother, Jeff, in his new business. Paul will be working the warehouse and I will be working from home (so I can be home with Zack and wont have to pay for daycare)I'll be working in the call center making calls to current customers. I am so excited and can't wait for this new adventure. We also made an offer on a home in Springville and since it's a Short Sale (nothing like it sounds), it could take forever for the bank to accept our offer. Still just waiting to hear from them. In the meantime, we will be staying with my parent's in Orem. I'm sure they are just thrilled to have their guest room filled again with their children (wink, wink). So, if you need to get a hold of one of us we will still have the same phone numbers, but we will no longer be living in Evanston, Wyoming after July 31st. Can't wait to be closer to those in Utah, but sad that we will be leaving those in Wyoming. Wish us luck in our future endeavors. We'll keep you posted on our house situation.