For Davita
Tuba City, AZ/ 1 week (Navajo reservation; trained with Van) (I passed a kidney stone on Go-Live day.)
Dallas, TX/ 1 week (Trained with Carol, Herb, Diane, and Mike Garcia; Carol and Herb were let go following that week) (Flew Dallas to Albuquerque; Roxie and I drove to Window Rock through some pretty tough snowy roads. Stopped in Cuba and had the best grilled cheese sandwich either of us could remember every having.)
Window Rock, NM/ 1 week (Another Navajo reservation; trained with Roxsan) (The weather was cold with snow and ice everywhere; the way the ice formed on the leafless, and lifeless, trees was similar to what you might see on a picture postcard -- absolutely beautiful!)
Fresno, CA/ 1 week (Trained with Lyn, Nancy Mercer, Yvonne Cook, and some big ol' East Texas dykish woman whom I loved, despite my description.)
Brookfield, WI/ 1 week (Class. Trained with Adam, Jeff Pai, and DJ) (Flew into Midway, on Super Bowl Sunday to -30 temperatures; never knew such cold; given a rental car without HEAT!!!! when I returned it, with an icicle hanging from my nose, they felt guilty and gave me a Lincoln Towncar, albeit with a particularly gross stain in the back seat. Don't ask. It was in Brookfield where I first met Esther Salasavage -- great gal!)
Lake Geneva, WI/ 2 weeks (My first "New Davita" clinic; trained with Jeff Pai, Pam, Robert Jean) (This was one of the most beautiful places I traveled to, albeit extremely cold; the lake was frozen over with trucks and ice fishermen sitting out on the frozen lake, plus I stayed in a fabulous hotel room with great view of the frozen lake, as well as a frozen meandering stream with rocks and boulders creating water/ice noise)
Gonzales, LA/ 2 weeks (Trained with Calvin) (Hell hole with great, fattening Cajun food)
Houston, TX/ 2 weeks (Trained with Diane Venture and Jeff Pai)
Baltimore, MD/ 2 weeks (Trained with Diane, Greg Hill, and Jocelyn) (Had a blast, but it was one of the worst clinics I went to; scary to think how they ran things; a great big ol' nurse with HUGE HAIR had a crush on me; a man puked right in the doorway that was used to exit the building -- I chose to go out the back door.)
Charleston, SC/ 1 week (Class. Trained with Eric Whiteway) (I drove down from Baltimore, with a stopover in Williamsburg, VA; Came down with horrible toothache which turned out to be a sinus infection. Vicodin turned me into a vegetable, but luckily Eric came through and carried the week for both me and him.
Orangeburg, SC/ 2 weeks (Trained with Jocelyn, Esther Salasavage) (THE ABSOLUTE WORST CLINIC ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH, and run by a snot nose little white girl Yuppie who not only was preggers but had the worst attitude I experienced at Davita. That said, we discoverec a fabulous gardens in Orangeburg that made up for the crap at that clinic. And while I'm hating, the Hampton Inn should be blown off the earth, and the FA should be put in jail. Worse, the barbecue sucked!)
Fort Myers, FL/ 2 weeks (Trained with Yvonne, Anthony, Charmayne; the FA complained about me and told Yvonne, the primary trainer, to tell me not to train anymore; I sat shiva for about an hour, licking my wounds, then the FA/wench left for the week and all the big shots in the clinic came to me specifically for trianing. Go figure!)
Miami, FL/ 1 week (Trained with Bernard; stayed in hotel on Atlantic ocean, woke up daily to the most beautiful sight and sound ... oh, it was a little piece of heaven; jbandel and I went out several times, eating down on South Beach and driving up to Fort Lauderdale.)
Tucson, AZ/ 1 week (Class. Trained with Rhonda)
Nogales, AZ/ 2 weeks (Trained with Lisa Storer who is worth her weight in gold many times over!) (Stayed at the Espelendor resort about 10 miles north of Nogales; a great place for people who like birding, in fact, I had a bird's nest just outside my doorway, and every morning and evening I woke up or returned home to a virtual symphony of melodies from Birdland.)
Escondido, CA/ 2 weeks (Trained with Diane Venture and Bob Race)
Tucson, AZ/ 1 week (Class. Trained with Rhonda Thompkins)
Tucson, AZ/ 3 weeks (Trained with Darla, Randy, Ken, Robert Jean) (This clinic was the most problematic of all the clinics I trained for Davita.)
For Merrill Lynch
New Jersey (T3) (On Thursday of the T3 week I was "let go," ostensibly because I 'refused' a teachback. Now, the fact that I'd already completed nine teachbacks apparently carried little weight.)
For Technisource
Frisco, TX (T3)
Under Home Arrest (All I can say to anyone considering working for this country: DON'T; they are the closest to 'nuts' I've met in this business ... and there are lots of flakes and nuts involved in contract training.)
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