Feeling like Miss Popular
In the two weeks since we've been told that our jobs are potentially all at risk, my anxiety has been seriously flared up. I'm having to take propanolol just to get out the door to work and I've lost track of how many antacids I've gone through.
Boss' boss has assured us all that regardless of what the outcome is, nothing's going to happen until 'at least September'. That helps in a way but I was already thinking it was time to start finding a new - permanent - job. I don't want to leave but I need to do what's right for me. As my boss says, if I leave, they're going to have to replace me for the foreseeable future.
That hasn't stopped me from being busy with job applications. And there's nothing quite like applying for jobs that makes me feel awesome. I put my CV live on sites like indeed, cv-library etc and made some of the agencies I'm registered with aware that I'm looking for permanent work. I've applied for a couple of jobs every night and I've already had two interviews - one last Wednesday and one last Thursday. Friday, my phone didn't stop ringing, I declined a couple of positions agencies wanted to put me through for and I've another interview tomorrow.
The interview on Thursday is, so far, the one I really want. It's a purchase ledger role for a local power tool manufacturer. It's permanent, it's got a nice benefits package, it's only 4 miles from home and it's like £1500 more than I'm on. It was a fucking gruelling interview mind - I was in at 4:30 and left just before 6! There was an interview with the finance manager, there was a data entry test (and LMFAO they gave me 25 minutes to process 20 invoices... I was thumb twiddling for over 15 minutes - did they miss the bit where my data entry is 74wpm?), there was an excel test (hah, that was totally basic) then a second interview with HR. They've said they're hoping to make a decision the beginning of the coming week, so fingers crossed and nails biting.
Tomorrow, as well as having an interview, we've got the manager of the Global Shared Service Centre coming to our office. She's going to be fully assessing the jobs that we all do to see what the team in India could be trained up to do. None of us are really looking forward to it - but I also do feel bad for the poor woman who's coming in to learn what we do so we can all get fired... wish us luck?
Boss' boss has assured us all that regardless of what the outcome is, nothing's going to happen until 'at least September'. That helps in a way but I was already thinking it was time to start finding a new - permanent - job. I don't want to leave but I need to do what's right for me. As my boss says, if I leave, they're going to have to replace me for the foreseeable future.
That hasn't stopped me from being busy with job applications. And there's nothing quite like applying for jobs that makes me feel awesome. I put my CV live on sites like indeed, cv-library etc and made some of the agencies I'm registered with aware that I'm looking for permanent work. I've applied for a couple of jobs every night and I've already had two interviews - one last Wednesday and one last Thursday. Friday, my phone didn't stop ringing, I declined a couple of positions agencies wanted to put me through for and I've another interview tomorrow.
The interview on Thursday is, so far, the one I really want. It's a purchase ledger role for a local power tool manufacturer. It's permanent, it's got a nice benefits package, it's only 4 miles from home and it's like £1500 more than I'm on. It was a fucking gruelling interview mind - I was in at 4:30 and left just before 6! There was an interview with the finance manager, there was a data entry test (and LMFAO they gave me 25 minutes to process 20 invoices... I was thumb twiddling for over 15 minutes - did they miss the bit where my data entry is 74wpm?), there was an excel test (hah, that was totally basic) then a second interview with HR. They've said they're hoping to make a decision the beginning of the coming week, so fingers crossed and nails biting.
Tomorrow, as well as having an interview, we've got the manager of the Global Shared Service Centre coming to our office. She's going to be fully assessing the jobs that we all do to see what the team in India could be trained up to do. None of us are really looking forward to it - but I also do feel bad for the poor woman who's coming in to learn what we do so we can all get fired... wish us luck?