Hello Beloved Family, I wanted to share a quick testimony update on how my job situation has been going lately:
So back in late January I had gotten an on-call position at Kaiser as a scheduler in the Cardiology department paying $35/h. My hours were full-time for a couple weeks while I was training and then went to mostly 4 hour shifts at my own availability every week. I wanted a full-time position in the first place, but I figured if I did a good job with my foot in the door at Kaiser, it would lead to good future opportunities. The job itself is pretty straightforward, there’s just a ton of different terms and procedures and schedule times to memorize and it takes time to get used to where everything is supposed to go and get done. I only have one coworker, a single mom that’s my age, and she works the full time hours while I support. At first, she was training me on how to get everything done and all of the in’s and out’s of the department. It was a lot to take in but I was learning slowly but surely. Then, once my training period ended, something changed in her attitude and she began to become very rude towards me anytime I asked for help. I would ask her simple questions clarifying thing she’s taught me and she would respond very sarcastically and talk down to me in a condescending way. If there’s anything that rubs me the wrong way, it’s when people treat me like I’m stupid, and this girl was doing it nonstop. I was also making a lot of mistakes since I was new, and every time I’d mess up on something big or small, she’d screenshot it and message it to me without actually speaking to me (even though our desks are right next to each other). At a point she even started just saying “I don’t know, guess you’ll have to figure it out.” I could go on and on. Even though my hours weren’t very long most of the time (unless she called out or left early), the days felt very long because of this and I couldn’t wait to go home.
I knew that during this time, I wouldn’t be able to transfer away due to my 3 month probationary period, so I decided to just put up with the bad attitude and pray God would open up another door. Even though she treated me poorly, I always tried to remind myself that she was just a person and she probably had stuff going on outside of work that had nothing to do with me. I didn’t take it personally. About a month ago, she went on vacation for a week and I was left by myself in the office. During this time, I performed surprisingly well and got to build trust and rapport with my manager more as well as the doctors I have to answer to. There was a lot of grace and most things that came up I was able to focus on and stay relaxed while juggling everything. The atmosphere was night and day. She came back after 2 weeks and still began calling out fairly often, so I hardly saw her at all (even though I’d still get screenshots from her about things I did wrong). Still, I didn’t argue with her about it and said okay. I even started to notice she was making a ton of mistakes on her end, but I would just correct them on my own and leave her be. It wasn’t worth the retaliation.
My 90-day probation was coming up at the end of April, so I started praying that God would open up a new position so I could get more hours. Suddenly, I overheard my coworker telling one of the nurses that she’s depressed and also pregnant, so she’ll be taking more time off work. It felt like an answer to prayer, being that I’m the only other person available to work her missing hours.
Then, today, she came up to me and told me that she’s gonna cut her hours down to part-time permanently, and any of her full shifts are up for grabs. This came at perfect timing, as my performance review was submitted last week and was very positive overall. The main things my boss noted were “very positive attitude, always willing to learn, team player, takes full accountability for mistakes”.
I believe that because I passed my tests dealing with my 1 and only coworker, that God opened up the door for me to finally get consistent full time hours. I’m still technically on-call and I’m learning every day, but I am now the only person who can get the job done now.
Praise God! He is so good 🙏🏼
Joshua Mata
Praise God!! ☺️✨
If we want to obtain anything, we need to conquer it! God won’t just hand things to us.
Senior Pastor Yoojin Kim
Good job enduring to the end without complaining or becoming discouraged!! 🔥🔥
Senior Pastor Steve Kim