Back to Work

We are back to the working world. Well, only for two weeks. We started looking for temporary jobs after we got back to Ireland from Turkey because we are only here until Christmas Eve. After a week of handing out resumes and searching for a job we got a call back. I started working at The Response Group last Saturday. They handle all the customer service calls for a multitude of different companies. I answer the phone for people inquiring about the Value Club Card at a store similar to Target. I have the joy of talking to rude people all day who are mad that they don't have more points on their card than they thought. Now, the Irish accent is not always the easiest thing to understand. Especially the Irish accent from the country. I also register new cards so I take people's address over the phone. Irish addresses are hard to understand. Some are in gaelic so I have to have just about every call spell out their address. But remember the Irish accent is sometimes hard to understand, so you can just imagine me asking someone to spell their address for me but not being able to understand what letter they are saying. It keeps the job interesting. I only work until the 13th so I think I can handle it until then.
Michael also got a job with The Response Group but he is in a different office doing outbound calls. He is one of those annoying people who calls you to see if you want to do a survey. It is great that we work at the same place because it is about an hour long commute using three different buses. Its nice to be able to do the commute together. The place we work is actually only 7 miles from Tadhg's house but there is no direct way to get there except for a taxi and those are too expensive. So we use three different buses. Hilarious.
We work about another week and a half at these jobs then we are off to Venice and Barcelona for a few days, then we are in Ireland for a few more days and then we will be in Atlanta Christmas Eve. Home for Christmas!!!