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The saga continues:
First, let me say that I've been told the phrase "twice a month", in two languages, by four different people, about a dozen times over regarding this job.
After sorting out the scrambled information I heard in the meeting and looking at a printout in a language I can't read, I arrived at twice-a-month "Schedule A" for the appointed work. Not much to my surprise, this was not the correct schedule; but I had no idea just how wrong the whole shit was.
The work is not twice a month, but four times a month, with a different schedule for each week. All the appointments I thought would happen on Week 3 are actually scheduled for Week 4. The appointments from Week 1 will repeat on Week 4 as well. Weeks 2 and 3 were nearly identical.
Week 1 went fairly smoothly. Two weeks later, the above disaster happened on Week 2. When I explained my confusion, I was told that what I was talking about was not, in fact, my job but the work of my predecessor in the company and no longer existed. After thoroughly apologizing for having to listen to these people fail to communicate not keeping good notes, I created a new schedule. Let's call this twice-a-month "Schedule B"
The next week, with nothing scheduled, I get a suprise call to remind me to come in... for Week 3, which should be next week... My new schedule was a lie: the appointment I had prepared for on Week 2 is the work for Week 4, which is real and will happen. Week 3 was the same as Week 2. Supposedly Week 5 will bring out yet another unique schedule.
So it's like this: The work I did on Week 1 was apparently a half-day, and will repeat on Week 4 with an additional, new appointment. The work I did on Week 2 repeated on Week 3 and may also repeat on Week 5, but not necessarily on the same schedule as Week 2 or 3.
Even more confusing: the appointments all take place in the same two locations.
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