"For the Birds" Category
The job hunt continues...
Over the last few weeks I have been interviewing for a few jobs. All of a sudden, I’m “hot” and everyone wants a piece of me…ok, maybe not everyone…but three different companies have some kind of interest in me. It’s kind of funny – I’ve applied for hundreds of jobs and nothing came of it and within two weeks I have had six interviews with three companies.
The three positions all have various pros and cons….
Job A
Pros: Great remuneration package and close to home.
Cons: Area of work that I have done in the past and not so fond of going back to.
Job B
Pros: New challenge, great benefits and an opportunity to make a difference.
Cons: Not so great salary
Job C
Pros: Best remuneration package and awesome opportunity to grow as a manager.
Cons: Borders the Artic Circle.
That’s where I am at these days – hopefully all three will make an offer and I will get to choose the best option for me. At the moment I am freaking out that the only company that might make an offer will be the one near the Artic…so keep you’re fingers crossed that I will not be forced to move way the hell up north…Hopefully by the end of the week, I will have some good news!
Form letter this...
I hate receiving form letters….I get that they are necessary…but they suck…here’s one that I got recently…followed by a possible response…
Dear Sissy,
Thank you for your interest in the Client Service Manager opportunity. The quality of applications for this position has been particularly high and we regret to inform you that we will not be moving forward with your application.
We appreciate your interest and we will be keeping your application in consideration for other opportunities. Thank you for introducing yourself to us. We wish you the very best in your career search.
XYZ COMPANY Canada
Possible Response…which will never be sent – due to the fact that I would like to work again…
Dear XYZ COMPANY Canada
Thank you for responding so quickly to my application. I would however like to point out a few things…
1. “The quality of applications for this position has been particularly high”…I hope to Christ you meant quantity – because really, I have an amazing resume and know how to sell your product and get people on board and if you had taken the time to actually phone me instead of sending off some bullshit form letter you would get this.
2. I don’t need your shit job.
3. Further, fuck you….I’m applying to your competition…they do bigger and better business than your company.
4. And maybe I don’t have a job – but I am still a person with feelings – so think twice before you send off your shitty form letters.
5. How high could the quality have been??
6. Is XYZ COMPANY Canada a person – if so how do I meet him?
wish me luck...
I have a job interview tomorrow afternoon. I really hope that it goes well…the last two interviews that I went on were awful…one for the “marketing” company (please read “I had a job”) and one where I told the GM of the property that I didn’t stand on a street corner as a child…I know, I know…verbal diarrhea at it’s finest…it was one of those moments where I had stuck my foot in my mouth so far that it actually came out my ass…what a nightmare…so tomorrow I have to be on my game – no more bullshit…wish me luck!
I had a job...
So here’s the thing…I had a job; I had a good job…When I first started that job, it was lots of fun – it was a new challenge and there was a lot to fix and restructure. However, in the end, I hated it – it was no longer fun…being downsized was the best thing that ever happened to me.
I took some time off – January to April…I needed this time off to recharge. When I finally got serious about looking for a job – I realized that it was a nightmare. No one wants to start over, it’s hard….but you have to…government benefits will run out at some point.
So what do you do…you apply for jobs and maybe you get a call for an interview and you put the suit on…for what…to be told that you are way to0 qualified/under qualified to do anything with XYZ company. You keep trying and you end up interviewing for a “marketing” position that in actuality is a “telemarketing” position…the “tele” part might have been the most important word missing from that job advertisement….anyway, there you are wearing a suit, wishing you were in yoga pants, being told that out of the 400 calls you would make in one day, you only need to secure 6 of them to make an extra $100.00 a week…6 out of 400 is only 1.5%…what kind of goals do these assholes have…that’s not good – clearly the company doesn’t believe in their product or staff….so now you want to cry as the interviewer, who is wearing crocs, explains the rest of the position…when it’s over, you thank the interviewer, when her response is “oh no problem – you’re way better than the high school kids who apply” you leave the office and cry in the elevator.
Needless to say, I am still unemployed and looking.
Unemployed and not loving it...
So, as you all know I was laid off at the end of December with a return date in March…well, last Thursday I got downsized…bit of bitch…poor Sammy saw me at my worst when I thought it was a good idea to start drinking at 3 in Niagara and then go out in Toronto…so sorry Sam!
Now I am really unemployed and not loving it….sleeping till 2pm gets old rather quickly…but I guess I have lots of time to do stuff…like get organized, gym, clean and such. However, because I haven’t really done anything each one of those tasks is freaking exhausting…so I say things like “I’m so tired…but I don’t know why”…bottom line, life is tiring and when you have a job you are distracted by how tiring life actually is…I miss having a job!
Today it’s raining snowy-ice…which is lovely especially when you have a two car drive which needs to be shoveled…not only is it cold, it’s raining pellets of ice on you and you have to shovel what feels like a football field all by yourself; because your brother who was smart, packed his shit and moved across the country to an even colder province where he rents a house and someone shovels it for him…bastard…anyway, moving on…on top of not being distracted by life and being tired all the time, I have to bundle up in what I would call the ugliest outfit of all time (long underwear, sweatpants tucked into fake ugg-looking boots, guelph sweatshirt (go gryphs, go), hat, and awful jacket) to remove ice-snow mixture from football field driveway…that being said, once driveway is shoveled, there is always that fear in the pit of your stomach that the goddamn plow will be coming to clear the street and your football field driveway will be blocked in…it’s a nightmare…so you think you should shovel the street in front of the driveway…now you are shoveling the street, looking like an asshole, and everyone stares…
It’s noon, and I’ve shoveled ice-snow, made a pot of coffee (usually I go to Tim’s but I was afraid I would get stuck in the middle of the street wearing an asshole outfit so I made it at home…it’s not so good…) and watched awful TV – seriously no one cares about those View ladies…they’re crazy.
Maybe I should go back to bed and sleep until 2? Thoughts on this?