There is good, there is bad, and I feel like I've used this subject line before.
Okay, so the private sector job is still open. The HR manager called me on Thursday and stressed that the managers all really, really liked me are very interested...but they're updating their hiring requirements and can't give me a solid "yes" yet. So, on the one hand: I'm clearly not their No. 1 choice. OTOH, I'm better than No. 24 (their initial hiring number).
I did not get a staff assistant job with another agency within the general state education network. BUT, a member of my department who also applied did, and this is extremely happy news because she's three years away from retirement and has been with my agency in her current job for over twenty years, so we were all fairly worried for her in spite of making hopeful noises about her prospects. By the end of the day, she had learned to handle my random huggle attacks with fairly good grace. :)
Oh, and Boss Man went to find Mentor Person after the HR head let them know that they were making an offer to the woman who got the staff assistant job, and he asked her if all of our "appointments" of the past few months have been job interviews. When she said yes, he went sailing to his boss and his boss's boss and urgently told them that they needed to come up with a Plan B and do it now, since three of the four specialists could be out of there by the beginning of March. (The remaining being Ghost Employee, which deserves its own hilarious and frankly mean commentary, so I won't.) And this is where I run into several walls:
1) You didn't have a Plan B when you announced that you were laying us off in October?
2) Not only do you not have a Plan B now, but you are actually just realizing that you need one? Katerina Petrova would have none of any of you.
3) Oh, my Christ, you honestly thought that all three of us, after everything that you've done, would sit and wait to be dismissed like good little children. Mentor Person is trying to give them the benefit of the doubt and call it naivete, but myself and the woman who got the staff assistant job are a little more blunt: it's arrogance, plain and simple. No, Agency, you are not my family, and I do not have to take emotional bullshit from you. You are my paycheck. When you announce that you will no longer have need of me, I am free to seek other bargaining tables, and you do not get to be butthurt about it, what the fuck.
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I did not get a staff assistant job with another agency within the general state education network. BUT, a member of my department who also applied did, and this is extremely happy news because she's three years away from retirement and has been with my agency in her current job for over twenty years, so we were all fairly worried for her in spite of making hopeful noises about her prospects. By the end of the day, she had learned to handle my random huggle attacks with fairly good grace. :)
Oh, and Boss Man went to find Mentor Person after the HR head let them know that they were making an offer to the woman who got the staff assistant job, and he asked her if all of our "appointments" of the past few months have been job interviews. When she said yes, he went sailing to his boss and his boss's boss and urgently told them that they needed to come up with a Plan B and do it now, since three of the four specialists could be out of there by the beginning of March. (The remaining being Ghost Employee, which deserves its own hilarious and frankly mean commentary, so I won't.) And this is where I run into several walls:
1) You didn't have a Plan B when you announced that you were laying us off in October?
2) Not only do you not have a Plan B now, but you are actually just realizing that you need one? Katerina Petrova would have none of any of you.
3) Oh, my Christ, you honestly thought that all three of us, after everything that you've done, would sit and wait to be dismissed like good little children. Mentor Person is trying to give them the benefit of the doubt and call it naivete, but myself and the woman who got the staff assistant job are a little more blunt: it's arrogance, plain and simple. No, Agency, you are not my family, and I do not have to take emotional bullshit from you. You are my paycheck. When you announce that you will no longer have need of me, I am free to seek other bargaining tables, and you do not get to be butthurt about it, what the fuck.
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