The Work Thread

[Ghost]

@silverfox the current state of CPS breaks my heart.

[GreenFlashlight]

Just had to send a resident to the hospital because a routine vital check showed they were about fifteen minutes away from having a stroke. In the course of investigating why on Earth this should be, the charge nurse discovered the patient had fallen on evening shift, but evening shift didn't record anything on it or do any follow-up because "no one saw it," which, if you're not in medicine, is code for "let's pretend this didn't happen because I don't want to do paperwork about it."

I'm thinking hard about calling in tonight. I don't know if I can handle my feelings about my job right now.

[silverfox]

@GreenFlashlight
That is horrible. I'm so sorry you have to go through that.

[Testament]

I work in a laboratory that created a non-invasive type of test for a particular type of cancer(and that's about as detailed I can get about it for company policy reasons).

Ever since March, we were able to develop, create, and distribute Covid testing. Covid has kept me employed, hell, even got me a promotion. There's a weird realization that it's helped me more than anything.

But at the same time, working in the environment that I do, being around literally, not figuratively, thousands of Covid tests a day, I've become a bit numb to it.

I think about that a lot. My family asks me how I'm not scared of it. I call it adaptation. Or perhaps a certain level of acceptance that allows me to do my job.

Dunno. Just felt the need to write it down somewhere.

[Auspice]

So it's been 3 weeks since I got the verbal job offer.

I emailed 1-2 times a week to do a light check-in to find out if the contract was ready yet. Nothing, nothing.

Last Thursday, the recruiter said 'I'll have more info for you this week. Failing that, more before Thanksgiving.'

It's just shy of noon the day before Thanksgiving. I haven't heard anything yet. Now, there's nothing to say that the job offer has been withdrawn (I mean that'd be a quick phone call / email), but three weeks without any updates is a little ridiculous IMO.

Would it be wrong to reach out to the people I know at the company itself (the guy I'd be working for or his assistant) and ask if THEY know what's going on? Because I am getting really anxious.

[Snackness]

I think you should wait until after Thanksgiving to ask what's going on. But only just.

[GangOfDolls]

@Auspice

I'm not sure if you've done this yet but - I would look at Glassdoor and see what current employees and past applicants have said about their interview to offer process and typically how long it takes. Some places are just slow as hell because their own internal processes enable that or there's someone out of office for the holiday or other reasons that isn't progressing the contract along.

I would avoid going outside the bounds of your contract recruiter, though without talking to the recruiter that you're thinking about also contacting the company and getting their blessing. You don't actually know what the recruiter and the contract administrator in the company have talked about and it will more than likely succeed in pissing off your recruiter (no matter how slow, lazy, shady, sus they may be- if they are on those things) and it will send up red flags to the contract administrator about the ability to follow directions and go with the flow that may not reflect well on your ability to convert to FTE or at worst case, they may decide this is already starting out on a note they don't like and decide to use another contractor.

In the meantime, you probably already know this and are doing this - but keep applying for FTE and contract jobs. Contract work is extremely ephimeral in tech circles and has a more frequent tendancy to fall through or see big delays or push backs.

[Macha]

My boss really is a pretty great guy, and I know that he's got people over him.

But when you talk to me to address something about 10 or 30 day cases on Weds, and we're off for Thanksgiving, I do not need to be browbeat with it on Friday by you coming into my excel sheets and highlighting shit in red.

Priority means #1 thing on the to-do list. You can't have 2 different things both be number 1 for me to do.

[Aria]

@Macha said in The Work Thread:

My boss really is a pretty great guy, and I know that he's got people over him.

But when you talk to me to address something about 10 or 30 day cases on Weds, and we're off for Thanksgiving, I do not need to be browbeat with it on Friday by you coming into my excel sheets and highlighting shit in red.

Priority means #1 thing on the to-do list. You can't have 2 different things both be number 1 for me to do.

I remember the time that I walked in to have a chat with my former boss during my last days as an executive assistant....

"So between you, your direct reports, your project managers, and that marketing manager you've been working with on <special thing> this last month, here is a list of things I've been told are your number one priority over the next week that everything else needs to be moved to accommodate. You have twelve 'number one priorities' and that's literally not how numbers work, soooooooooooo we need to take a look at this."

Fortunately, he had a sense of humor and laughed.

[Aria]

So I just applied for an internal positing at my company.

Into the exact role and department that I've been eyeing up for four years. Under a leader I really like, and whose boss I really like. I've applied for it twice before and the interviewer who'd been pretty clearly using me as a filler candidate for predetermined hires has since left the position, and I've since developed a stronger skillset, job background, and started an MBA.

Guys.

Guys.

....Can someone please bring me a Xanax and a paper bag or something?

[Auspice]

@Aria

[Aria]

@Auspice said in The Work Thread:

@Aria

It is sadly in a storage box in my office complex somewhere, but I actually have a framed print specifically for work that just says "Make Leslie Knope Proud of You."

I will be super bummed if the people who packed up my desk broke or lost it.

[Ganymede]

@Aria said in The Work Thread:

I will be super bummed if the people who packed up my desk broke or lost it.

I could send you one, if you wanted.

Plebe.

[Aria]

@Ganymede said in The Work Thread:

@Aria said in The Work Thread:

I will be super bummed if the people who packed up my desk broke or lost it.

I could send you one, if you wanted.

Plebe.

?!?!

!!!!

The woman who made mine closed her shop down. Sorry, @insomniac7809, but @Ganymede is my new favorite person. Cat. Lawyerbot. WHATEVER.

[silverfox]

Thank you so much work, for making me give this assessment, just so I can know how badly I'm failing as an online teacher.

[JinShei]

@silverfox said in The Work Thread:

Thank you so much work, for making me give this assessment, just so I can know how badly I'm failing as an online teacher.

Online teaching is HARD. Like, twice as much work as face to face right now.

[silverfox]

All the kids I've tested have fallen a full grade level, if not more.

[JinShei]

@silverfox You don't think that might have something to do with stuff outside your control? I mean global pandemic...

[Snackness]

@silverfox Online teaching is BS and assessments are BS and anyone who thinks shit's just going to run the way it always has in a pandemic can go suck eggs.

[Ganymede]

@silverfox said in The Work Thread:

All the kids I've tested have fallen a full grade level, if not more.