Hello all - forgive my absence but they done cut my internet off. Oh the fun of destitution.....
However things are on the up - I got offered a long term contract with a large bank yesterday - go me! But the thing is, the job itself looks really, well, dull - yeah the money is great but it is for one of my previous employers - large bank, benign office environment, dreadful politics and to be honest I can't see it helping me along my career ladder. The thing is I had another interview last week where they wanted to bring me back for a second but they are stalling - that one looks a lot more fun - far more diverse, travel to the far east and something I can just walk straight into and do.
My question is - how would you best pen an email to their HR department hurrying them along? I want to be polite but also issue them some sort of urgency as I can't mess about and I have to start work ASAP, but I don't want to regret missing the chance of working at this other place as I know I will enjoy it a lot more.
Any help much appreciated.
Posted by MKandy (Member # 790) on :
If you wanted to seem less formal, but keen at the same time, why not give them a call instead. If you state that whilst other jobs are in the pipeline you are really holding out for them for all the reasons you described.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Although I was going through an agency, that was basically what I did. Either ring or email saying something to the effect that you've been offered another position but you're really keen to take things to the second interview stage with them and maybe mention if you're going to be on one week's notice for the first few months of the other job or something, so they don't feel like you're pressuring them too much. It's not an unreasonable thing to say, and you can always couch it in terms like "I just wanted to keep you in the loop regarding my situation", because if they think you'd be a good candidate then they would doubtless prefer to know that you had been offered something else, to give them a chance to respond.
I'm glad there's a couple of things on the table, anyway - hope it works out for you!
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Or just ring up the HR dept and say "Did you get my CV?" and when she starts to answer bellow "SEE THESE NUTZ!!!!!" and screech like an animal in pain.
Posted by Samuelnorton (Member # 48) on :
quote:pen an email
Ah, the old and the new come together in three words. I'd just give them a call m8.
[ 17.06.2008, 09:28: Message edited by: Samuelnorton ]
Posted by Waynster (Member # 56) on :
I couldn't wait, so before I saw these replies I did give HR a call and told them what was the state of play. Glad I did as 9.30 tomorrow I have an interview with the head of IT!
If I fail, at least I have something else, but I am still in the running!
Posted by froopyscot (Member # 178) on :
Excellent! Good luck and all that.
Posted by MKandy (Member # 790) on :
Good luck dude. Talk about infrastructures and stuff, he'll love it. What's the job by the way? I'm an IT bastard myself.
Posted by Waynster (Member # 56) on :
Thanks for the love people....
MK - Its an IT consultant supporting various banking systems running on iSeries (on which I rock), AIX, windows and so on - they run swift and want to implement a proper dial in system (I'm thinking RSA), a decent helpdesk logging system (Remedy? Clarify?) and also throws in lots of travel to Singapore and Hong Kong - which is nice?
What's your line dude?
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
I'm a big fan of Remedy. Except you'll need someone whose willing to make the changes. The guy here who headed up the installation of it doesn't want to change anything in it. So for example, we ask for something like 'hey dude, there's no section to log a call for a change or problem with the outlook exchange, so for every problem we have with mail, it's listed as a problem with the Outlook software. Can you add in another CI?'
'nah'
In other recent The Shit I Face At Work news, an editor has written to my boss to complain that he wants to be able to talk to 3rd Line directly whenever he has a problem when they sent off their PDFs to the printer and they stick in the system. A reasonable request. However, the email was forwarded to him and he then forwarded onto the Team Leader with: What's all this? I thought you keep saying that Mikee is very good at his job!!!!! Which would probably be a valid point except...that I had absolutely nothing to do with this Editors problem, nothing to do with his recent request and the only part I've played in our pre-press process is that I was involved in arranging the handover from 3rd to 1st line when the new system went live. So basically, because I organised the paperwork, booked the rooms, set up the projector and bothered to read the documents, whenever our business have a critical problem on press day, I'm having to take responsibility for taking care of problems on the backend of our servers whilst walking the building fulfilling 2nd line duties. While still my job title is '1st Line Analyst' Titty fucking christ.
Posted by Jimmy Big Nuts (Member # 895) on :
quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: Or just ring up the HR dept and say "Did you get my CV?" and when she starts to answer bellow "SEE THESE NUTZ!!!!!" and screech like an animal in pain.
I would also urge this course of action.
Posted by MKandy (Member # 790) on :
Wow this forum is full of IT people like me, finally i can be accepted as someone who's job could easily be replaced by a Japanese robot.
I'm a Service Management Consultant, and like all other IT job titles it means absolutely shit all to anyone else who doesn't understand IT. Basically the company I work for is an outsourcer, and where I come in is consulting with the client to understand how our company will link into theirs in terms of Incidents, Problems, Changes etc, and mapping process to suit. I also play a lot of Playstation and watch lots of porn.
Remedy is also pretty good, unfortunately because I've worked with it in depth in the past, and everyone else who is supposed to configure it is shit, i'm doing exactly what NWoD was just on about, and configuring some CIs for a new customer, tedious in the extreme.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
My job currently entails roughly three hours per day of trawling stock photo libraries for pictures of pretty American girls, pretty Japanese girls, pretty Chinese girls and pretty Korean girls. They have to be "smartly dressed" and "professional looking" which is a bit of a pain, but I do what I can...
So far, the Japanese girls have proven to be the most attractive.
Posted by Louche (Member # 450) on :
My job currently involves reading transcripts from Hansards from 1997. Most days I am weeping blood by 11am.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
My current job is a racing driver playboy astronaut US marine. At weekends I jet around the world competing in Italian supercar races, and then spend the evenings banging the hottest chicks in the plushest hotels, and taking the best drugs. In the week though I travel round the solar system in a beefed up US Marines nuclear spaceship, boarding enemy craft and having sweet fist fights with islamic aliens.
[ 18.06.2008, 05:24: Message edited by: Kanye West ]
Posted by Louche (Member # 450) on :
Kayne wins.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
There's something about his post that makes me think he's not telling the truth... some little detail... like something he put there to test us... can't put my finger on it...
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
That's it! He claims to be a racing driver but he can't even drive! I knew I'd pick it apart somehow.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
The Marines don't have spaceships. That's the USAF.
Posted by Louche (Member # 450) on :
Does beating up Islamic aliens make him a racist?
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
I spent most of last week organizing and tagging my MP3 collection with a rather excellent program called MediaMonkey.
Currently listening to a 1995 album by *Free Kitten, which is a bit like getting alternately punched in the perineum and orally pleasured by Kim Gordon. Hypnotic.
I'm hoping to get hold of their new album Inherit which I've just found out was released last month.
Wearing jeans and a black/grey top that makes me look about fourteen.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
quote:Originally posted by Louche: Does beating up Islamic aliens make him a racist?
Depends if they were terrorists. If so, it's totally okay.
Posted by MKandy (Member # 790) on :
quote:Originally posted by MiscellaneousFiles:
quote:Originally posted by Louche: Does beating up Islamic aliens make him a racist?
Depends if they were terrorists. If so, it's totally okay.
All islamics are terrorists though aren't they? That's what the BBC said?
Posted by Louche (Member # 450) on :
Who is MKandy?
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Bloke from Milton Keynes called Andy, I reckon.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
I think he might be named Andy and live in Milton Keynes, so I assume he belongs to Ringo.
Posted by MKandy (Member # 790) on :
Correct, I am a product of Ringo so blame him.
Posted by Louche (Member # 450) on :
I just assumed he couldn't be new.
I am not very bright at the best of times, but these days my brain is fogged by alcohol and pain and most days it's all I can manage to contemplate lunch options.
Tomato soup or tuna and chickpeas are todays options, if anyone cares.
Posted by Louche (Member # 450) on :
Oh, where are my manners? Hell MKandy, thanks for, er, being.
[ 18.06.2008, 06:32: Message edited by: Louche ]
Posted by MKandy (Member # 790) on :
I'm not exactly new, I only recently remembered you delightful people existed. My day is better for it now.
Tomato soup.
Posted by Louche (Member # 450) on :
That was your 69th post! How exciting for you.
Posted by froopyscot (Member # 178) on :
Welcome Back, Kovacs?
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Andy's a real person unfortunately. He likes cars and works in IT, which basically makes him an older, much less attractive version of me.
Posted by ralph (Member # 773) on :
Does he live with his parents?
Posted by McDirts (Member # 6680) on :
I work out ways of selling HFSS products to kids in ways other than on television.
Posted by MKandy (Member # 790) on :
quote:Originally posted by Ringo: Andy's a real person unfortunately. He likes cars and works in IT, which basically makes him an older, much less attractive version of me.
If 'attractive' if is a rotund man who lounges about in urine stained Y fronts, then you win Ringo.
Posted by Waynster (Member # 56) on :
For those who might be interested some news. I was due to give ING an answer today by lunchtime - I contacted the other bank and told them of the offer but how I would much rather work there, so they saw me yesterday - the IT Head had a lot of doubts about my commitment and so forth, and also working for an organisation with certain "religious considerations" but I put them all to rest. Then met with the HR guy who had done a lot to push things along. Turns out the position was a bit junior for me and I was overqualified, but it seems they could do a bit of re-shuffling to get me in at a certain level. It was looking good.
This morning I was having a rather odd but vivid dream involving me and a purchased bride (????) when the phone goes and its the agency about the ING job and started bullying me into not waiting on the result from the other position. I instructed him to ask the others to wait, he said they wouldn't and then I told him well that was their choice - and subsequently blew them out. Possibly a very stupid thing to do.
However, I just got a call from the other place and it seems all three people who I met are all firmly on my side, and are now going to the board to get the formal approval for my offer - it should be just a formality as they had offered someone before but they accepted a job elsewhere without even reporting this back - so even if he comes crawling back now because of my undying show of commitment, they should be able to make a favourable decision in my direction.
Almost there - Monday or Tuesday I should get the final nod - wish me luck!
[ 19.06.2008, 06:04: Message edited by: Waynster ]
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Sounds like it's all coming together for you. Well done / good luck!
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Fingers crossed fella.
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
Hold on, 'religious considerations'?
Posted by Waynster (Member # 56) on :
quote:Originally posted by Black Mask: Hold on, 'religious considerations'?
Yep it's an Indonesian Bank so there are a lot of Muslims, some of whom might have to go pray mid conversation - you just have to let them go do it without question.
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
LOL
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
The perfect time for a cigarette/sudoku break I suppose.
Or TMO, assuming...
[ 19.06.2008, 06:37: Message edited by: MiscellaneousFiles ]
Posted by froopyscot (Member # 178) on :
quote:Originally posted by Waynster:
quote:Originally posted by Black Mask: Hold on, 'religious considerations'?
Yep it's an Indonesian Bank so there are a lot of Muslims, some of whom might have to go pray mid conversation - you just have to let them go do it without question.
I'm not religious, but I could be convinced to adopt a religion that would allow me arbitrarily to walk away from boring meetings at will. This sounds, as some might say, gr9.
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