The Work Thread

Alamias · Feb 13, 2020, 9:56 PM

@Auspice Is it another contract job, or dare I hope you found something permanent?

Darren · Feb 13, 2020, 10:09 PM

That is the record for quickest turnaround from interview to job offer.

Video interview at 11:30am.
Assessment test completed by about 1pm.
Job offer at 2:30pm.

Start date will be March 2nd. So I still have a few weeks of super tight finances to navigate, but I'm still breathing a little easier nonetheless!

Congrats on getting the job!

Auspice · Feb 13, 2020, 10:27 PM

@Alamias said in The Work Thread:

@Auspice Is it another contract job, or dare I hope you found something permanent?

It's an open-ended contract. So while it COULD end, it's more on-going. It's a contracting company that works with Google. But, the interviewer did say that generally, on this particular team/group, if Google changes the parameters/terms, they find other things for people to work on.

@Darren said in The Work Thread:

@Auspice said in The Work Thread:

That is the record for quickest turnaround from interview to job offer.

Video interview at 11:30am.
Assessment test completed by about 1pm.
Job offer at 2:30pm.

Start date will be March 2nd. So I still have a few weeks of super tight finances to navigate, but I'm still breathing a little easier nonetheless!

Congrats on getting the job!

Thank you!

RightMeow · Feb 14, 2020, 12:33 AM

@tek

First you ARE NOT and let me repeat that, ARE NOT useless and worthless. I'm sorry you feel that way though. I wish I had answers for you, but I like to believe there is an opportunity out there. Is there a research position maybe?

I will send you all my good thoughts.

Rinel · Feb 14, 2020, 5:12 PM

@tek said in The Work Thread:

I feel useless and worthless.

Your worth is not defined by your job.

Your worth is not defined by your job.

You are a funny, kind, and creative person who has improved my life simply because I have communicated with you over an extended make-believe session. As my therapist once told me: who the hell do you think you are to pass that sort of judgment on yourself?

Sunny · Feb 14, 2020, 5:12 PM

@Rinel said in The Work Thread:

@tek said in The Work Thread:

I feel useless and worthless.

Your worth is not defined by your job.

Repeating this because it is so important that it NEEDS repeating yet another few times. Your worth is not defined by your job.

Your feelings are valid; in our current culture we are indoctrinated from a very small age to link what we physically produce to our value and self-worth, and while it's all complete bullshit (your worth is not defined by your job, you are a wonderful human being who is delightful, creative, funny, and INCREDIBLY compassionate who is good at helping other people learn to be compassionate) it's also dang near a heroic feat to break that conditioning.

If you can, cut yourself some slack. If you can't, just know that the people around you feel very strongly that you have value.

JinShei · Feb 14, 2020, 5:15 PM

@Sunny said in The Work Thread:

@Rinel said in The Work Thread:

@tek said in The Work Thread:

I feel useless and worthless.

Your worth is not defined by your job.

Repeating this because it is so important that it NEEDS repeating yet another few times. Your worth is not defined by your job.

Your job is one passing feature in your life, sometimes it is a bug. I don't know if we have RPed but you have talents and interests beyond the job, and are someone valuable in your own right

saosmash · Feb 14, 2020, 9:07 PM

Lord save me from employers who insist that a letter that says a court appearance is mandatory is not sufficient and they need me to subpoena my own client so she won't lose her job...

Macha · Feb 15, 2020, 1:24 AM

My poor boss. My co-worker called in late today - so boss came to our office to do his audit thing. Guy never came in, never called him to say he wouldn't be in. Boss could have stayed home, because he did mine already this month.

Add in the fact that we don't get work done, because we end up talking podcasts and shows and food...

Caggles · Sep 17, 2020, 2:17 PM

Got two separate formal grievances lodged against me by one of my academics. One for the tone of voice used when telling her to please stop asking the same question again and again when we've already answered it, and please to also stop threatening us. And this latest one where apparently I, along with my head of school, head of faculty, head of HR, head of ITS, and the vice chancellor of the university have all been conspiring to read her emails, send her spam mail, and arrange cold callers from India to phone her about a road accident/PPI/a virus on her computer.

On the one hand it's laughable, on the other, she clearly needs help. Either way it's many many man hours of official investigations and due process (and because she's accused everyone who would otherwise be involved in the investigation, we've had to go to external investigators at £400 per day) for a paranoid fantasist who is so far removed from reality it's frightening. If she were in the real world, not a university, she'd have been sacked by now for vexatious litigation.

And although I know I'm well and truly in the clear - I cleared my phrasing with my head of school before sending that first email out, to be sure I wasn't being overly sensitive, and I physically don't have the ability or access to read this woman's emails - it's fucking with my stress levels and my sleep.

I do adore my job, but this woman makes me want to go out at night with a shovel, a tarp and a bath full of bleach.

Macha · Feb 15, 2020, 6:49 PM

@Caggles Don't forget the lime. Or you know, if there's a pig farm around...

Caggles · Feb 16, 2020, 8:58 PM

@Macha Got ones like this. For the G&T afterwards, right?

Macha · Feb 16, 2020, 9:38 PM

@Caggles Only if you used the pig farm option. I'm a whiskey girl, myself

Auspice · Feb 17, 2020, 9:13 PM

Welp.

I do not, in fact, have a new job.

The firm doesn't have the budget. $:\$ I guess Thursday, the person who interviewed me said yes! We want to hire her! Which is why the recruiter called me to give the verbal offer. But then the accounting team came in and went errrrrrrrrrrr we didn't get the budget to hire more people so no.

So they want to bring me on, but they can't bring me on. He said it might change in a couple weeks and I wasn't gonna start until March 2nd anyway, but.

I guess I'll keep applying any/everywhere I can, but damn. I should've known it was too good to be true.

RightMeow · Feb 20, 2020, 2:37 AM

So in the my work life is weird department, this has happened:

I decided a week or two ago to quit my job. I'm an adult with bills, so I wanted to get a job first. I haven't heard back from any of them. So I'm like, huh, maybe I suck, but whatever. Not to worry, keep apping.

I go to work. My asshat boss is strangely nice to me. He's like I realize it's not you, it's your team and I want to work with you to fix it. (I have heard this dance request before). My uber shade asshat boss (Boss of the asshat boss), tells me that it's not me, but the team needs to be reined in. --- Then one of my team quits because they had a falling out with a co-worker - BUT - it's not me and they will stay on to get me through the week of hell coming up next week. The other person that got accidentally screwed over, says they aren't a little bit angry at me.

I have told NO ONE that I'm thinking of quitting. It's been my little internal mantra.

Then today. One of the bosses in another department (on line with the asshat boss) comes to me and says they need to talk. They asked if I want to come to their department as a manager because they think I'm the SOLUTION to their problems over there. Uber Shade Asshat Boss told them that he completely agrees. - New boss says they haven't told their team as they are reviewing options, but they also want to get me a pay raise if I go to it. This was the department I wanted a year ago.

I have said nothing and it's almost like people are oddly falling over themselves.

This is weird. I'm still okay quitting, but I'm also okay with trying this. However, it's very very weird.

Derp · Feb 20, 2020, 2:49 AM

@RightMeow said in The Work Thread:

So in the my work life is weird department, this has happened:

I decided a week or two ago to quit my job. I'm an adult with bills, so I wanted to get a job first. I haven't heard back from any of them. So I'm like, huh, maybe I suck, but whatever. Not to worry, keep apping.

I go to work. My asshat boss is strangely nice to me. He's like I realize it's not you, it's your team and I want to work with you to fix it. (I have heard this dance request before). My uber shade asshat boss (Boss of the asshat boss), tells me that it's not me, but the team needs to be reined in. --- Then one of my team quits because they had a falling out with a co-worker - BUT - it's not me and they will stay on to get me through the week of hell coming up next week. The other person that got accidentally screwed over, says they aren't a little bit angry at me.

I have told NO ONE that I'm thinking of quitting. It's been my little internal mantra.

Then today. One of the bosses in another department (on line with the asshat boss) comes to me and says they need to talk. They asked if I want to come to their department as a manager because they think I'm the SOLUTION to their problems over there. Uber Shade Asshat Boss told them that he completely agrees. - New boss says they haven't told their team as they are reviewing options, but they also want to get me a pay raise if I go to it. This was the department I wanted a year ago.

I have said nothing and it's almost like people are oddly falling over themselves.

This is weird. I'm still okay quitting, but I'm also okay with trying this. However, it's very very weird.

It must be something in the air.

I applied for a different position in my agency. Everything seemed lined up and ready to go. Then I was told that I literally could not have it because of conflicts. So I applied to a different agency. Got a way better position. That same day, not an hour later, they came and asked me if I still wanted the other position and they would find a way to work around the conflicts.

It was surreal. It's like they could smell the fact that I was on my way out the door.

RightMeow · Feb 20, 2020, 2:51 AM

@Derp

THIS!! All of this. I'm like do I smell of 'I quit this bitch' or something?

Ganymede · Feb 20, 2020, 3:04 AM

Just to add to the weirdness, my partner started applying for new jobs. She got an email for an interview, but the employer apparently already decided to hire her. So it became a visit to meet the staff.

gryphter · Feb 21, 2020, 12:50 AM

https://www.inc.com/suzanne-lucas/10-simple-ways-to-get-an-employee-to-quit.html

I found this to be a very interesting read, mostly because I can attribute at least 8/10 of these behaviors to my current manager.

Time to find a new thang.

gryphter · Feb 21, 2020, 5:15 PM

I applied to a new, higher-paying (entry level) job last night, and can confirm, there is some weird shit happening whereby employers can tell you're checked the hell out. Everyone is suddenly super nice and soliciting and I am bathed in the warm glow of the support I've sought for so long now.

Same deal; I've told no one, just came to work today armed with the knowledge that I'm over it and taking steps to leave. In this case I don't know what this company could do to keep me, but I'd be interested in entertaining some offers. I have a hard time believing I won't get this entry-level inside sales job that's being heavily recruited for, so, your move, athenahealth.