2/8/08
One of my jobs as a loan processor with Usury, Inc. is to verify employment. Yesterday I went off the deep end about various schemes people use to feign employment, trying to figure out what goes on in their heads and other nonsense. Reading it twenty four hours later underscored the fact that such words were pointless and non-constructive.

Anyway verification of employment requires me to research the job and find their telephone number and ensure that the number is legit. Next I call an applicant's employer, talk with human resources or hear the receptionist say "Oh, he can't get calls" or "She doesn't come in 'til seven tonight". Sometimes, sadly, the answer is "They were let go back in November" or some variation on that theme.

Places like Verizon call centers, Dell and other companies exclusively use toll-free numbers which are never listed. I always presume this is due to the fact they want to protect their employees from agitated customers who had a sub-par customer service experience and are out for minimum wage blood. Sometimes the unlisted eight hundred number goes straight to the office and it always amuses me that when I ask if someone works there only to receive a response in the negative I deny the application right there and then, do not pass go, do not collect $200 $300.

I can't approve someone without seeing that their employer is legit (listed, not a cell, etc.) yet no one bats an eyelash when I deny someone for not being employed at a job which isn't listed with any of the directories.

Someone more intelligent, charismatic and clever could've written this in a more engaging fashion.

Thanks for reading tho...

The more out-of-control my life becomes, the more self-destructiveness manfests in my personality and actions.

I can't say anything more. Most of this is internalized and it just works in my head.

How do I maintain control without breaking myself with too many crazy rules? I have enough of those already from being raised back in New Jersey, learning by example from various sources WHO ARE NOT JUST MY PARENTS and other random crap.

The only two people at Usury, Inc. who work the eight to five shift have been allowed to work seven to four ensuring a full, eight hour work day. This means me and the former collections manager from two years ago who was rehired last year. Out of the forty people in the company we were the only ones working eight to five and always being short five hours a week, every week since fucking September.