As of next month, I will be moving into an apartment downtown with a girl who found me on Craigslist. Exciting! I also have an interview for a full-time administrative assistant position at the headquarters of an online public school on Monday and I REALLY hope I get this job because it'll be a great opportunity for me to get experience working in education (which is the field I'm going into), and it'll be the security of having a full time job, which leads me to the reason behind this post:
As some of you know, I am currently working a part-time job at a department store. The situation I'm in, however, is that I'm a part-time status employee working full-time hours. And although I can afford to move out right now and definitely will be able to if I get this new job, there's always the chance that I won't get this new job and will have to rely on my current position while I search for another one. The thing is, if I don't get this other job, I'll need to be bumped up to full-time status so that I know I'll be able to afford to live in my new apartment. Otherwise, as my boss put it to me, my salary could easily be cut in half on a whim and while I have a good bit of money saved up, it wouldn't last forever and I'm scared that if something happens and my hours get cut, I won't be able to afford my new place.
My supervisor has already tried to get me on as full-time a couple times, but -his- supervisor won't approve the status change -- apparently, according to her I don't do enough for the department, but what she forgets is that there are more times than not that I work my department by myself (I'm either the only person scheduled or someone calls out; a lot of times its cause someone has called out) and I end up doing WAY more than my job actually calls for simply because I'm the only person available and willing to do it. And because I'm often the only person in my department, something always gets missed because I'm only one person and I can only do and remember so much. As far as she's concerned, it seems to be a lose/lose situation.
I've thought about going to the HR manager myself if this other job doesn't pan out and just seeing what they can do for me and my situation. Do you think it would be unwise for me to do this? I wouldn't threaten to quit or anything; I thought it would be a better idea to go about it as seeing what my options are with them. If I were to quit my current job, I'd prefer it to be for something substantial and opportunistic like the job I'm interviewing for on Monday, but the bottom line is if I'm going to be out on my own, I'm going to need some kind of security so I don't lose ground. If my current job can't at least offer me security, I mean it's not what I really want cause I'd hate to bounce from one crap job to another crap job while I find what I really want, but I'd -have- find something else. It's imperative.
So my question is: what would you do in this situation, or rather, how would you handle the situation? I want to be professional and I don't want to step on any toes or shoot myself in the foot and lose what I have going on all together. What would be the wisest decision here?