I'm extremely irritated right now. I only worked 10 hours this month (I asked for 24 a week). Each week is a "what if"--What if I get hours, what if I don't? My superiors are constantly criticizing me over trivial issues: Call us if you have questions, we prefer that you don't; don't call us an email is best, we wish you would have called us instead of emailing us; don't call this person, call that person, but you really should have called an entirely different person; etc. I have been working with this company since November and yet I have only met the hourly requirements I need to pay my bills.

The last straw I had with them is when they took me off the schedule for a client who had changed their availability for caregivers; however, I found out today through a mass text that my shift was given to someone else who called out sick, and they did not ask me personally if I could cover that shift, they sent that call-out to the entire department of caregivers. That set me off. Three other people called out, and when they texted me and called me to fill in for those who called out, I ignored them all. I guess I could work, but I also need to set my foot down. I don't feel respected by them at all. They said they could work around my school schedule, but I've only worked 10 hours for the month I've been in school. They're always criticizing me, and I feel that I only get the clients that are last to fill. I've had no consistent clients like the rest of the other caregivers, even when I had no school or other obligations, I worked two hours here, two hours there, spaced out through the whole week and where clients were far enough away that the money I earned only covered the gas needed to drive to these clients.

So I have an interview for an entirely different company. It's something I've done in the past and its close enough where I can walk to work, and it's also something that will provide stability in my hours and it's a job that requires little thought, just go in, do your job, get paid. I need something stable while I go to school.

It really made me upset to find out they gave my shift away and then find out when that person called out sick. I can't take over that shift anyway because I scheduled the interview for that time.

I'm sure I'll get a call from work tomorrow, and I don't know what to say. I feel like a "last resort employee" and completely disrespected. I'd love to be mean and nasty and tell them off, but that's not who I am; I'm a very kind person and would rather lay low until I get in with the new job. But it's so frustrating and it makes me very upset to be treated like this.