Month: October 2009

“…we’ve decided to fill the position with a lemur…”

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Ok, so… I went on the interview a while back and haven’t heard a peep since. I’m thinking that means I should write that off and move onto the next thing. I sent a very nice thank-you letter (as you are supposed to) and have heard nothing. Is it really so difficult to send off a form e-mail “Thank you for applying, we’ve hired someone else/you’re not what we’re looking for/we’ve decided to fill the position with a lemur, please destroy our number and never again darken our doorstep”.

Flash forward to the fiasco of the day. I got a call from a recruiting agency. I returned the call as instructed. About a minute into our conversation he VERY abruptly says “Yeah, listen, I’m gonna have to call you back, I have another call” **CLICK** So, here I am at my desk, holding my breath for the call back. Given that I was told he’d call back 40 minutes ago, I’m thinkin’ that maybe, just maybe, homeboy isn’t going to follow through with that. Just sayin’.

Yesterday, I got a call from a recruiter (seeing a pattern here?) and actually GOT the follow up email she said she’d send “right away” about 2 hours later. I filled out the attached form, scanned it, emailed it back, got acknowledgement that it was received and… that’s right… not a peep since.

I was browsing ads yesterday and came across a really good job. Read the description and it was a perfect fit. Then I read the last line of the ad “Must have a SPOTLESS credit record, no exceptions”. Now… my credit isn’t bad. But I surely cannot call it SPOTLESS. Sigh. My theory is that their last Admin (and this was for a job which has NO financial responsiblities) embezzled an assload o’ money or something. I dunno, I think that one’s credit report is a really poor indicator of what sort of employee someone would be. But, this may be why I am not in management.

So… at the moment. No job for me. No good prospects. Guess I need to think of a good “plan B”.

Interview Enigma

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So, I ventured out on an interview today. I hate them. I hate the waiting AFTER an interview even more.

Did you ever have an interview where you got absolutely NO clue about whether it went well or not? Thus was my interview today with “Gus”. I call him that not because it’s his name, but it seems to fit.

Gus is an older gentleman. I think he would have done well selling used cars because he says the same thing over and over but pretties it up and obfuscates it well. Rather than give a name to any of their projects they were discussed as “the current project” and “the future project” and, well, there are many appealing things about the job, not the least of which is the mostly home office aspect of it and honestly, I think it’s a cakewalk sort of job but… I got no real feel for how Gus was feeling and he had a weak, limp handshake, which I hate.

I do think it’s sortve telling that ol’ Gus didn’t really ask alot about me. And called me by the wrong name twice. So, I am not holding my breath and will move on as if I still need to look. We shall see how things go.