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WOE.
I just left THE WORST message on my potential employer's voice mail. It was TERRIBLE. I was calling to tell her I'd spoken to Jo and when I began the message I almost called her Jo and then tried to cover it up by doing something even worse - calling her BEL. YOU DO NOT CALL YOUR FUTURE EMPLOYER A CASUAL NICKNAME. But I work with a Bel and it just slipped out. Then I panicked and went into Dymocks Penrith mode and started rambling like I do when letting a customer know their book has arrived.
*headdesk*
I was flustered!!! And the awful thing is that I cannot think of anything that I can do to rectify it. This is why I hate voicemail. In normal conversation mistakes are expected and can be explained because the conversation is constantly in flux but voicemail is one-sided and is meant to be perfect.
Excuse me while I go die of self-inflicted stupidness.
Just spoke to my sister and she said that it's alright. At least I called her the right name and not Stacey. Feel a bit better now.
But I'm a little concerned my bosses are going to sabotage me. There are five of us potentially leaving in the next few months so when I spoke to Jo she wasn't happy that I'd be leaving but what does she expect? And if I didn't leave for HQ it would be for someone else. It's not my fault that they mainly hire university students who want to move on once they finish their degrees and parents who aren't flexible with their hours. Jo even asked me if I'd work weekends. Um, no! I'd be working fulltime in the city with university in the evenings, I'm not giving up my weekends. We get hundreds of resumes. Some days upwards of five people will come in and that's before we've even put a sign up saying we're looking to hire. Do what everyone else does, go through the resumes and select a few, bring the people in for a chat and go from there.
I just left THE WORST message on my potential employer's voice mail. It was TERRIBLE. I was calling to tell her I'd spoken to Jo and when I began the message I almost called her Jo and then tried to cover it up by doing something even worse - calling her BEL. YOU DO NOT CALL YOUR FUTURE EMPLOYER A CASUAL NICKNAME. But I work with a Bel and it just slipped out. Then I panicked and went into Dymocks Penrith mode and started rambling like I do when letting a customer know their book has arrived.
*headdesk*
I was flustered!!! And the awful thing is that I cannot think of anything that I can do to rectify it. This is why I hate voicemail. In normal conversation mistakes are expected and can be explained because the conversation is constantly in flux but voicemail is one-sided and is meant to be perfect.
Excuse me while I go die of self-inflicted stupidness.
Just spoke to my sister and she said that it's alright. At least I called her the right name and not Stacey. Feel a bit better now.
But I'm a little concerned my bosses are going to sabotage me. There are five of us potentially leaving in the next few months so when I spoke to Jo she wasn't happy that I'd be leaving but what does she expect? And if I didn't leave for HQ it would be for someone else. It's not my fault that they mainly hire university students who want to move on once they finish their degrees and parents who aren't flexible with their hours. Jo even asked me if I'd work weekends. Um, no! I'd be working fulltime in the city with university in the evenings, I'm not giving up my weekends. We get hundreds of resumes. Some days upwards of five people will come in and that's before we've even put a sign up saying we're looking to hire. Do what everyone else does, go through the resumes and select a few, bring the people in for a chat and go from there.