The Cat Hair Makes Me Want to Barf

Alternate title: Janny's First Full Day of Work
Yeah, I thought that would get your attention.

Today I started work at a call centre. I was hired for inbound tech support calls but I can't start training until next week. They ask if I'd come in this week and help with outbound customer care calls. I started my training last night with the expectation I'd be making my first calls today.

What a gong show. There were so many technical problems. One of the supervisors (a long time friend who got me the job) was supposed to listen to my calls and give me feed back but her phone setup wasn't working. She suggested we use another supervisor's phone. Sitting down in her chair, I immediately had an allergic reaction to the cat hair on her coat. Wow, I have never had that bad of an allergic reaction to animal hair (let alone that little of hair). Immediately my throat swelled up and my eyes started to hurt and water. Whenever my eyes hurt, it eventually gives me a migraine which makes me nauseated. Fortunately the other supervisor needed her desk and phone so we just had to wait around until the other phone setup was fixed. I was so glad to get away from that coat.

There were many technical problems through the whole network so I didn't get a lot done on my first full day. From what I was told, the calls I were able to make went well. I didn't think I did that well but then again all I could think about was not throwing up from the cat hair. Not pukey Janny will be a call centre superstar.

I showered and took an anti-histamine. My eyes and throat are better but anti-histamine doesn't help the nausea.