[bksvol-discuss] Re: blind or sighted and more about each other

  • From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 12:26:23 -0700 (PDT)

Good luck, Phyllis. I'm glad you keep trying and wish
you the best. What were you selling?

Cindy

--- Phyllis Stevens <catlady1949@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I am Phyllis Stevens, have my fourth dog, as I said
> in a previous message. I 
> worked as a vendor in the state of Tennessee for 15
> years, then my stand 
> went south! It was at the Post Office and it got so
> bad that I was spending 
> my disability check to buy merchandise to stock it,
> so I quit that on 
> September 1, 2004, just before I got Emmy.  I looked
> for a job for nine 
> months and even got on some state registers, but in
> july of 2005 I went to 
> Morristown Tennessee to train to be a sewing machine
> operator.  I came home 
> to Johnson city in August and began work at the
> Lions Volunteer Blind 
> Industries on August 15th.  Now the bad news, we got
> laid off Monday, so I 
> don't know when or if we'll get to go back to work! 
> Three weeks worth of 
> product were sent back and were bad work, so they
> laid us off and only the 
> sighted employees are working to try and correct the
> mess!  they have only 
> 19000 to go through and repair or redo.  I don't
> think it will be soon that 
> we go back!  There are only 14 sighted people there!
>  The governmemnt will 
> cancel the contract entirely if more than four per
> box is bad, so i suspect 
> I'd better try to find a new job!  So that's
> probably more than you wanted 
> to know about me.  Oh yes, and speaking of bad luck,
> I also had a house fire 
> in February of 2004 losing nine cats and everything,
> almost, so I guess I am 
> going through this phaise, I don't know, but I sure
> will be glad when things 
> at least get more manageable, if that's possible
> again.  Sorry this was so 
> long, but you asked!  Thanks for listening and
> thanks for scanning and 
> vallidating all those books for bookshare that I can
> escape into!
> 
> 
> catlady1949@xxxxxxxxxxx
> 
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> 
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