This morning, I got a call back from the US Census Bureau. They asked me if I was interested in an Office Operations Supervisor position. Considering it was an "inside job" (Full Time) located less than 5 miles away from home (Peekskill), I figured that I might as well say that I was interested in this temporary position, and accept that I could make a few extra bucks while waiting for a better position to come along.
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Normally, I don't answer my phone between 9 and 10 in the morning. Once Fred Steiner's tune (Park Avenue Beat) begins to play and Raymond Burr's image (as Perry Mason) appears on my TV, my telephone will not get answered until the end of the show. It is a guilty pleasure of mine, and it might be the one reason I may eventually subscribe to the CBS All Access streaming channel in the future. (Of course, having Star Trek and The Twilight Zone there doesn't hurt either.) But once the show ends, I make myself available to people who want to talk with me. Today was a day where I followed my typical routine.
Around 9:30, the lady called from the census bureau looking to contact me. A little while after the show had ended (and I had a chance to fully wake up), I called her back. A short description of this position follows:
As an Office Operations Supervisor, you will be responsible for the supervision of the day-to-day activities of the office clerks who support payroll, recruiting or supply management. Also monitoring the quality of work including the status and production.
However, the script that was read to me had much more detail than the two sentence blurb above. When she read the script about the position, I picked up on the following information:
Assists in:
- Payroll
- Inventory Management
- Clerical Tasks
- Flow Control
- Quality Assurance
Hired on for 8 weeks at a time.
Trains Clerks and reviews their work
Monitors Progress against time critical schedules.
You'll note that the two sentence blurb contains all the same information I wrote down in my notes. But with both my notes and the blurb, I have a better idea of what will be expected of me - and from this job, I could eventually get an office manager job at a small business. (This just happens to be the same kind of position that my late wife had. My collar may be getting pinker every day.😀 ) However, this is not the position I really would have liked to have been called back for. (I had applied for a position which involved the maintenance of computer equipment on the same site.) But if it can keep me from having to drain my savings account for a few months, it's worth taking on the position for 8 weeks at a time. The only problems I see are that I can't schedule my vacation cruise when I want to take it, I lose my flexibility to do things in the daytime, and I may have to be at work by 8 am. OUCH!
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The big question: Would I be able to socially transition on the job?
PS: The more I looked at the email and paperwork I received, it looks like I've been given an offer, as long as I pass a background check and get fingerprinted. Although they had a training class the week following next, it interfered with long booked plans. So I scheduled my fingerprinting for the day before that class, so that I'd have to be scheduled for a later class. But I will ask one question before I go in for my fingerprinting - I am gender non conforming, with plans to transition. Can I go for my ID card in my feminine presentation, and have the familiar, not my formal given name on the ID card?
