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The writing seems to be on the wall that my entire team and I should probably find new jobs. Since I’d rather find a new job inside Big Company, I’ve been setting up lunch get-togethers with all of my non-marketing department contacts. Only one of them has called my bluff so far and told me that his lunchtimes are booked in the near future but I should set up an appointment with him “to catch up.” I always find it interesting how some people are able to pick up on the fact that there’s an ulterior motive for a social invitation. Of course there was also the time that I was truly just inviting a co-worker for coffee and he kept waiting for the “real” reason behind the invitation.
But that was sort of a tangent.
You know how a lot of people have a checklist of things they want in a significant other? And how sometimes those checklists are completely unrealistic? (I want someone with a good job and perfect teeth who likes soccer, baseball, skydiving, and hula dancing, who doesn’t smoke cigarettes but does smoke cigars, who’s taller than me but not too tall, with brown hair and hazel eyes, and muscular but not too muscular and is set to retire by the time he’s 45.)
Well I’ve never had a checklist. I mean I guess I kind of do (non-chauvinistic and reliable come to mind) but nothing that I actually look at and deem people acceptable or unacceptable by.
At least that’s what I thought until today.
Today I realized that I do have a checklist. And it’s a long one. And possibly a little unrealistic. But it’s not for potential dates. It’s for supervisors.
As I went through all of the people I could think of that I might be able to work for, I found that I was ruling many of them out for reasons such as:
Unfortunately I think I might need to lower my standards. Or look for another company.
But that was sort of a tangent.
You know how a lot of people have a checklist of things they want in a significant other? And how sometimes those checklists are completely unrealistic? (I want someone with a good job and perfect teeth who likes soccer, baseball, skydiving, and hula dancing, who doesn’t smoke cigarettes but does smoke cigars, who’s taller than me but not too tall, with brown hair and hazel eyes, and muscular but not too muscular and is set to retire by the time he’s 45.)
Well I’ve never had a checklist. I mean I guess I kind of do (non-chauvinistic and reliable come to mind) but nothing that I actually look at and deem people acceptable or unacceptable by.
At least that’s what I thought until today.
Today I realized that I do have a checklist. And it’s a long one. And possibly a little unrealistic. But it’s not for potential dates. It’s for supervisors.
As I went through all of the people I could think of that I might be able to work for, I found that I was ruling many of them out for reasons such as:
- Works in the marketing department under a lady who previously offered me a job, was insulted when I didn’t accept it, and spent the next year ignoring me in the lunchroom
- Works in the marketing department under the antichrist
- Is consistently late to meetings, like really late, 30 minutes late sometimes (that bugs me)
- Although I like this person, I’ve heard complaints about her by one of her staff. I don’t know if the complaints are valid but either I’d be working for someone that people complain about or I’d be working alongside a complainer. Neither sounds that great.
- A person that I like in the encounters we’ve had but some members of his staff are extremely difficult to work with to the point of aggressively negative, which like it or not, reflects on their boss
- A person I like ok but who I’ve heard needs a lot of managing up (high maintenance boss)
Unfortunately I think I might need to lower my standards. Or look for another company.