Ennui

Jan 26, 2004 23:35

So...just overwhelmed with excitement. Really.
I finally heard from my former boss this past weekend. This whole thing started right after Halloween. She called and wanted to know if there was anything she could do to get me back. I thought she was joking. She was not. The replacement she hired was a dork and incapable of functioning in my job and everyone hated her. So, I said I would do it if I got a little more $$$ and my cubicle moved to a quiet area. She said great and was going to work on it. Time passed, I don't hear from her until December. She is supposedly still working on firing my replacement, but until she did, she wanted to pay me even more $$$ to fill in for her for a month or so while she took time off for medical issues and to be with her husband (who had a stroke) for a bit. I said I needed permanent employment but would fill in as I was doing temp. work and not much else here. She agreed and would work out the details and work on writing up this woman to fire her. She did not call until last week, still wanting me back and all apologetic about not calling me sooner, blahblahblah. She wanted to know if I still wanted my old job back. I said yes, even though I have employment now, but would do it because it was more $$. Finally on saturday she calls to say she would be training my replacement to do all these other projects now and had moved her cubicle upstairs and she was still needing time off and am I still available for filling in?!?! Um, like our conversation did not happen last week? Like I did not tell her I was house hunting and needed a perm. job? What did I miss?

So, I am not going back, temp. or otherwise. I just think it's stupid to keep someone who sucks on the job because she is afraid to fire someone and miss having someone come back who can do the job well. I think it had to do with money, because they are cheap bastards, and my old boss is a chicken when it comes to confrontations.
It's really just all screwed up. I do not understand the point of all that time wasted waiting to hear from her if it was going to come to this anyway.

I am tired and going to bed.
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