Thank you to everyone for the replies and well wishes! The new job is going fantastic so far. It is taking a little longer each night than I want it to right now as I am trying to get the location up to my preferred specs. Once I get it up to par with my level, time at work will drop a lot. That process is moving forward a little bit each night. But I keep finding new projects that need my attention as I take out one or two of them. For those that don't know already, I am a sanitation specialist for a dialysis clinic (now). At my previous company, I was dealing with a couple of the clinics and a sock mill too. So I go in the building after the patients have left and completely sanitize the entire building to get it ready for the next day. The previous person at this clinic was just a cleaner (or janitor) and didn't do half of the job that I do. That place was not sanitary AT ALL when I first walked into it. It was the last place I would want to go into to be treated for kidney disease or kidney failure. Even before the pandemic hit, this place would hve been terrible. I would hate to know what the life-loss level was at this clinic before the pandemic hit. They did get a renovation during the winter to upgrade the clinic, but there was no post-construction clean-up to remove many air-borne particles created by such a renovation. I am now sanitizing all of those surfaces that weren't even cleaned after the construction. This place was a disaster waiting to happen! It won't happen on my watch. Those patients already suffer enough with kidney disease and I won't let the place they go to get treated be another source of suffering or advanced disease. Since I first started "cleaning" dialysis clinics in 2006, I have learned a lot about what the patients have to go through and how important it is for the clinic to be more than clean, but completely sanitary. That's how I got to the level of sanitation specialist. It is also why I quit my previous job a few months ago as the boss treated me like a "janitor" when he knew I was much more than that. He didn't care what title he gave me, what my work ethic was, or even that I had worked for him for nearly 20 years. I quit in mid-March and he lost one of the clinics I was working at when June ended. He lost another clinic at the end of July and that is the clinic that I have now on my own. Karma is a b***h and he got a hard lesson there, while I got exactly what I needed. I got the freedom from the BS of the minor company, relief from all the stress he put on me for doing exactly what I was supposed to be doing anyway and now I get to work my hours without anybody checking up on me to see how long I am working. "How long" was never supposed to be a problem until the former boss got greedy. We had an agreement that I get paid x amount of hours per location and the actual hour didn't matter. He tried to back-track that in 2020 and that is when the problems started. A $1 per hour raise is not a bonus if you lose half your hours!!! I refused to report my actual hours and stuck with the original agreement. When he started having someone track me, that was the catalyst for me to quit. He'd really rather pay someone to see how long I worked than pay me what he agreed to pay me in the beginning! THAT is the #1 reason I quit. Now his company is in a downward spiral that is way worse than it was when the pandemic started and dropped all of our gyms and churchs from their contracts. He got so greedy that he ran off the ONLY employee that ever stuck with him for more than 8 years. I was literally one month from starting my 21st year with the company and I was the ONLY employee for about 3 years from around 2002-2005. I'd hate to be a vindictive person, but I kind of want to for the crap he put me through the past 2 years when I am the entire reason that his company became successful in the first place. His Top-2 references are the companies that I personally handled since 2004 and 2006. I BUILT that company, not him. He just piggybacked my work ethics into a successful company and now he is driving it into the ground.
"M_" thanks for understanding and you are still one of the members on my hand-written trade list. I basically posted this thread to use it as a mass-reply to several trade request PM's I received over the weekend. I am happy to be working again as I was starting to get bored sitting at home all the time after getting so much stuff done around the house. I was running out of things to do and the beer belly was growing too fast! It's past time to burn that off now. I've already burned off a little bit of the excess belly in just 2 weeks.
What is funny about the new job is that it is in the city of Eden. Adam found his way back to the garden of Eden!!!
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