Not so unemployed

Hello beauties.  I start a new job tomorrow.

Which is great.  Really.  I was only out of work for like a week.  Fantastic.

However, there's a catch.  Because there always is.

I start another temp to perm gig.  Oh, sweet jesus, it's like I'm asking for more pain and disappointment.  For another stint at another company and another temp thing that goes nowhere ever so quickly.  But with any luck that won't be the case.

I will say I'm much more wary about this position.  And the supposed permanent employment that dangles at the end of the 3-month stick.

I have an interview Wednesday, with another company, that I scheduled last week before this offer.  And yet another company that I will hear back to see if I get a second interview.  These are both for regular joe, permanent jobs.  So I figure, I'll keep as many balls in the air in case this new gig turns sideways.

I'll keep you apprised of my job status as it unfolds.  Good luck to you who are still looking.  And may your searches bear less troublesome fruit than mine has.

Very Tired.

No, not very tired, I'm exhausted.  To continue the quote from Dead Poets Society, not very sad, morose.  

Not very upset, absolutely livid, pissed off, aghast, disappointed, distressed, and disconcerted.

My lovelies, it has been two years.  Well, nearly.  Two years since our commencement and journey into the real world.  It’s had its ups, it’s downs, and now it’s déjà vu. 

I completed my workday on Friday like any other.  I filled out my temp timecard, submitted it, and logged out of the computer programs. 

I got a phone call some minutes after I arrived home.  After my 45 minute drive, which I drove uncomplainingly five days a week for six months.  It was the temp agency. 

“They don’t want you to come in on Monday.”

It’s unbelievable right?  I had been told by everyone who hired me this was a temp to perm position.  They have so much work, they need somebody full-time.  We’re always so busy.  How can we ever get all of this stuff done?

But, no.  Somebody lied.  Not sure who along the way.  My boss’s boss who got sacked a month ago?  My manager?  The HR manager that talked to the temp agency?  The temp agency themselves?  Or maybe it was the CEO.  Who talks a big game, of bringing back bonuses at the company-wide meeting, of creating quarterly incentives for efficiency, of a yearly bonus at 3-5% of your annual salary.  Yeah, that’d be great.  If I got a salary. 

I’m back in the same boat I was two years ago.  Well, maybe not exactly, I have solid design skills, 2 years experience, and cynicism to melt rocks. 

Right, I’ve always had that last one. 

I did nothing wrong.  They said, I did everything wonderfully.  They loved having me, my work was superb, blah, blah, blah.  They just didn’t have it in the budget.  Right.  The guy who sits in the cube next to me, who was hired in January, three months after me; however, there was room for.  He was hired on with a salary, full-benefits, and all that crap.  Yeah, but you, not so much. 

It could be a good thing.  I always knew that company was not a long-term place for me.  I knew there was little growth in the position I had.  I knew I didn’t want to  do what I did there forever. 

Looking back, there wasn’t anything I didn’t do to try to keep my job.  I went above and beyond there to help my saleslady to up her sales numbers.  But now, I guess they might be thinking about giving her the heave-ho too. 

It seems the only thing I should have been doing was look for another job.  

Temp Job

Hey lovelies,

I got a temp job that has the possibility of going permanent.  I start a week from Monday.

It's at a logistics company that coordinates freight for big companies.  I will be in the implementation dept. doing some excel, clerical and data stuff.  However, it could lead to writing procedures for the freight projects they work on.  I will also coordinate with the internal sales and marketing staff.

So it sounds like a good opportunity at a good company!  I'll let you know how it goes.