Happy Day :)

Good news today! While at work, at the City of Westbrook, I got a call from my old boss from the City of Portland, and he was seeing if I could come back to work for them!!!!! I got laid off due to budget cuts a little over a year ago, it sucks because I loved it there, and it was a great job! This is some wonderful news for me. I've been with the City of Westbrook since the end of May, it is a temporary position that I've been filling while one of the girls is out on Maternity leave. She will be back in two weeks, then I would have been jobless......again.

My old boss said that this morning he was notified of an issue with one of this staff leaving, immediately thought of me, knew I was at the City of Westbrook and called. I had just got off the phone with one of the girls at the City of Portland too! I needed registration information, so he knew I was on today :D. Shockingly happy :D....... It will be for at least the next 3 months which is great, right up till my due date. We will find out if it can be a permanent position after a few weeks, which is HUGE! I'm not sure who it was that is causing me to get my job back....(even if it is temporary), I am thinking it is the girl that transferred to the department.

Oh happy day!


Of course to top it all off, my last customer of the day was a complete and utter BITCH! She was pissed at me just because I was there. She wanted Vanity plates, which you can only get at the Department of Motor Vehicles.....which I am NOT. I work for the Municipality. We are full service (the City of Portland is not) so we are able to give out plates, transits, etc. But we are not allowed to do Vanity Plates, that is specifically through the DMV. Well apparently she called us and we said that the DMV does vanity plates...which is true. I'm not sure *who* she talked to. It may have been me, who knows, but if someone asks me Where do I get my vanity plates...I tell them.....But unless asked I don't go into the details on when to go, when you can go, etc. Because it takes to long to explain the whole process, when it doesn't matter for them to know beforehand. In *most* cases.....

So she comes in this afternoon after going to the DMV to which they sent her to me, BECAUSE her registration was expired. Which means she has to register her car THEN she can get her vanity plates. The DMV (in maine...) can not accept excise taxes for the individual towns to register vehicles, so the individual is required to go to their Municipality FIRST...and then depending on how many services that municipality offers (ie: full service....Westbrook....or re-reg only...Portland) they may or may not have to go to the DMV to finish. In this case, she would have to go BACK to the DMV to get the Vanity Plates AFTER she pays for her Excise with me.

She was NOT happy that she had to come back to the City of Westbrook, and of course since I was the one waiting on her, I'm the one that got the *lecture* She was freaking out because she believed she was being run around, and didn't want to have to go back to Motor Vehicles, and wanted me to do it all, and wanted me to call them to fix it for her. Which I can't do...its her responsibility to go and get her vanity plates, sign and pay for them, etc. She asked my name which I gave to her, and spelled out. She said she would like to know who the manager is so that she can speak with them. So I told her it was Sue *********** and that she was here today and she could speak to her. But of course in a huff she said well I don't have TIME for that today because I have to go back to DMV.......Of course there was a lot more back and forth, which included her yelling at me a lot, and not listening to my explanations on how the process works....No wonder why she didn't know anything to begin with she listens to what she wants to hear. *grumble* stupid lady!

But the day was STILL a great one. I don't let people like her get to me. :)