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I got told that I came 2nd out of the 2 candidates they interviewed for the job today. It was horrible and felt like I'd been kicked in the stomach. The reason they gave me is that 'I did very well, but the other candidate came from supporting a journalist background' to which I find myself mumbling 'but I come from supporting a journalist background. Ours' and then got told I didn't have any server experience even though in my interview I was told that they wanted an engineer who wouldn't be working on a server enviroment. Looking back it feels clear to me they chose the other guy becaue they want to keep me where I am. they didn't need to tell me I didn't have the job because the request to employ him was put into the Account Management mailbox an hour before they told me. They might has well mailed the request to me. Unsurprisingly, I've already started looking for another job. I've put in literally hundreds of hours for this company and it feels like it hasn't gone unnoticed but almost deliberately ignored. It seems I'm only fit to do the job when the business is suffering as a result of being understaffed, after that I can go back to being a reserve in a position I'm fast become overqualified for.
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I hate Valentine's Day. Stupid commercialised crap
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Yay! new jobs all round. Sorry you didn't get the post, Enwodde, but there's better shit out there. It's not a bad recession when the hiring market shows no sign of slowing up.
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Tough luck Mikee - best thing you can do is what you are doing already and that is look for a way out. Anyway your skills are pretty much in demand all around the place so you'll be able to find something soon I am sure.
I'm still without a job - the four good chances have rapidly diminished to 1, and I have heard nothing back from the last one, although I had a good interview there last week. Oh well at least the sun is shining...
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Update: half-hearted CV-sending to agencies paid off with an interview last week. I was just back from holiday, and couldn't really give a stuff. I had it in my head I was going to live in St Ives and run a cheese shop.
Not sure about the job, either: Pros - lots of money, good location, prestige. Cons - boring subject matter (finance, law, etc), pressure, not much scope for creativity. Be a good stepping stone, but maybe it's time to do something I actually want to do, not just a frying pan ----> fire situation?
Naturally, I've now got a second interview. I can see myself just accepting the job out of politeness now.
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quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove: Congratulations! We'll have to go for a drink some time to celebrate. What you up to tomorrow?
Not much. Drinkies with some rather fab people near a Uni or something - all rather casual I believe. Hoping for a chorus or two from the Wildhearts at somepoint during the shenanigans. Yourself?
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Again not much. Drinks near some river or something. Wetting myself a bit then getting drunk and perhaps trying to start a fight.
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I've just been invited to interview next week but I don't know whether to go or not as they sounded a bit surprised when I asked to see a job description and some t&c. Although working somewhere that slack could have its appeal.
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I'm slowly turning into scrawny though. Bad things are happening. Video shoots. Workshops. Speaking Engagements. Trips to New York. What a massive fucking swollen cockend I am.
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quote:Originally posted by Jimmy Big Nuts: Video shoots. Workshops. Speaking Engagements. Trips to New York. What a massive fucking swollen cockend I am.
Good for you, dude. Remember, WINNERS, GRINNERS, yeah?
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the only way I could win is if I was to use one of these platforms to commit a revolting act of public indecency before stabbing myself in the heart with a freshly sharpened company pencil (made from 100% recycled materials). To do anything else would be admit to the world that there is nothing but goosefat and caramel where my brain should be.
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seriously, good luck to everybody on TMO with their jobs. Even the ones that are hated. The ones you don't have, the ones you're trying to leave. The jobs that drive you fucking insane. Good luck with those. Hope it works out. And children, either ones that are already born or ones that might never be conceived. Black children, white children. Fucked up Chernobyl children. Ones that are shit at school as well as the ones that are okay. The kids that go to jail, the kids that win prizes. Good luck with that. And creative projects, even if they never happen. Even if they're never imagined. And also the ones that make money, that bring blow jobs. Good luck with all of that stuff. And everything. Good luck, guys. Good luck. We need a little luck, and we need a little love. Takes a bit of skill, and takes a lot of will. But we'll get there if we keep trying. We've got to remember that it's all in the game, that we do it our way whatever. So good luck doing it your way. It'll turn out awesome however it goes, because it was yours, and that makes it special. So go ahead, go for it. Try hard, count your blessings and give it your best shot. Go on TMO - we're all counting on you.
Because when it comes down to it, what do you want to say you did? Sat around, watching the fields out the window while lady providence drove you down an empty freeway? Or do you want to know that you punched that bitch in the face, kicked out the passenger window and jumped out onto the road, breaking every bone in your body? Watching that dead end bullshit drive into an infinite horizon. And you know then that you did it. Those broken bones are a testament to your own courage, your big fuckin swinging nuts. And when you pick yourself up, you can see that you can go in any direction you want, and every direction is right, and every direction goes to a good place. Because the journey is the place, the and the place is just part of the journey. Let those bruises turn yellow and black, let those bones grow inward and cut your veins so you die of blood loss. But it was your damn choice, all of our choices. So we should be proud of each other, all of TMO. Boldly stepping to, punching bitches in faces, getting in the grill of mediocrity. Fucking hell, we need the luck because we're blindfold pioneers. But that shit is tight and true, so good fucking luck everybody. It's not supposed to be easy. It's a fight to the death.
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I should try to do more as I know I could earn more money, but at the moment I'm able to choose my own hours and it's a 20 minute walk to work.
And loads of the people from my floor have moved to another building in Brighton so now the floor that used to have about 80 people on has just got 8 of us, and only 2 of us are male, which pretty much means that any time I need a shit, I can do it without fear of anyone walking in, which is an amazing benefit of a job.
And we have an ice machine. I have used it twice and that was more for the novelty of "holy fuck - free ice" than because I wanted Ice.
We also have a subsidised costa coffee in the building so I can get a large cup of black coffee for only 75p. However, it's only slightly larger than the one that costs 10p from the vending machine and only slightly nicer so it's always a big decision as to whether I want to pay 750% of the price for about 150% of the coffee and 150% of the niceness. Yeah, I bet you'll be saying "Fucking hell! 10p for coffee from a vending machine, we get that for free!". Well fuck you all. I get free ice.
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