dad and work politics
Good morning starshine!
Well, my dad in true dad fashion has cancelled on me. It's his birthday today and I was shouting him breakfast at a cafe. Five minutes before I was going to walk out the door to pick him up he called to say he was "feeling crook and going straight to bed." I would have more sympathy if he didn't cancel 90% of the time and the fact that his illness is his own doing just makes me crankier. If you didn't drink yourself to death you wouldn't be feeling so shit this morning, eejit.
So now I'm dressed up and hungry. I'm contemplating going ahead with the plan, sans father, except I hate eating in public by myself and I'm actually really poor at the moment. I only got paid for two shifts this week and I've spent all my money on various bills and necesseties like cat food.
I'm seeing Avatar this afternoon with Jen. I know, we must be the only people in the world who still haven't seen it.
I'm starting to get frustrated with Dymocks Head Office. They keep sending me mixed messages. There are two main players in the game: Belinda, the HR Manager and thus the one in charge of hiring me; and Elaine, the head of Booklover and thus my potential new boss. On Monday Belinda told me to speak to my boss Jo to make sure they won't mind HQ stealing an employee before "continuing with the recruitment process." That's all she said. Yesterday, Jo said she'd call HQ to find out when I might be leaving etc. Jo spoke to Elaine who apparently sounded really positive. In fact, it gave Jo (and thus me when Jo told me) the impression I had the job. She said I'd start in a month and that I'd be receiving a call from someone to go over things. Yay! Except two hours later Belinda phoned Jo and told her that actually there's another person they're also considering for the role and they're going to be calling my references, therefore effectively putting me in the dark.
I'm frustrated because the last official, first hand information I got was on the day of my interview two weeks ago. Since then all I've been personally told was that they wanted me to speak to my bosses. And the whole reason it took them so long to call me after the interview was because they were trying to chase down the General Manager to discuss things with her. Now why the hell would you do that if you still hadn't chosen a candidate? Everything else has been told to Jo, not me, and I have absolutely no idea what's going on.
It is now completely out of my hands and I just have to wait but I will be severely disappointed if I don't get this position, especially after they made me okay it with my freaking boss. The only consolation I have is that Elaine sounded really positive. So it looks like my potential new boss is keen, it's just typical HR politics that's affecting everything else.
I am absolutely thoroughly sick of the job hunting process and if I don't get this job I think I'm just going to give up and get a temping role.
That's it, I'm buying myself breakfast.
Well, my dad in true dad fashion has cancelled on me. It's his birthday today and I was shouting him breakfast at a cafe. Five minutes before I was going to walk out the door to pick him up he called to say he was "feeling crook and going straight to bed." I would have more sympathy if he didn't cancel 90% of the time and the fact that his illness is his own doing just makes me crankier. If you didn't drink yourself to death you wouldn't be feeling so shit this morning, eejit.
So now I'm dressed up and hungry. I'm contemplating going ahead with the plan, sans father, except I hate eating in public by myself and I'm actually really poor at the moment. I only got paid for two shifts this week and I've spent all my money on various bills and necesseties like cat food.
I'm seeing Avatar this afternoon with Jen. I know, we must be the only people in the world who still haven't seen it.
I'm starting to get frustrated with Dymocks Head Office. They keep sending me mixed messages. There are two main players in the game: Belinda, the HR Manager and thus the one in charge of hiring me; and Elaine, the head of Booklover and thus my potential new boss. On Monday Belinda told me to speak to my boss Jo to make sure they won't mind HQ stealing an employee before "continuing with the recruitment process." That's all she said. Yesterday, Jo said she'd call HQ to find out when I might be leaving etc. Jo spoke to Elaine who apparently sounded really positive. In fact, it gave Jo (and thus me when Jo told me) the impression I had the job. She said I'd start in a month and that I'd be receiving a call from someone to go over things. Yay! Except two hours later Belinda phoned Jo and told her that actually there's another person they're also considering for the role and they're going to be calling my references, therefore effectively putting me in the dark.
I'm frustrated because the last official, first hand information I got was on the day of my interview two weeks ago. Since then all I've been personally told was that they wanted me to speak to my bosses. And the whole reason it took them so long to call me after the interview was because they were trying to chase down the General Manager to discuss things with her. Now why the hell would you do that if you still hadn't chosen a candidate? Everything else has been told to Jo, not me, and I have absolutely no idea what's going on.
It is now completely out of my hands and I just have to wait but I will be severely disappointed if I don't get this position, especially after they made me okay it with my freaking boss. The only consolation I have is that Elaine sounded really positive. So it looks like my potential new boss is keen, it's just typical HR politics that's affecting everything else.
I am absolutely thoroughly sick of the job hunting process and if I don't get this job I think I'm just going to give up and get a temping role.
That's it, I'm buying myself breakfast.