The hubby is out fixing someone's computer, the monster is napping and I...I'm refreshing Reddit and Babycenter looking for new posts. Not because I want to. I just can't think of anything I do want to do. There all sorts of things I should be doing or could be doing, but none of them are the least bit interesting at the moment. I even have a Starcraft mission open and alt-tabbed, but it all feels so meh.
I did hear back from that job again with a more definite start date - October 18, at the latest, "hopefully sooner." The whole situation has kind of soured the idea of working there, to be honest. If they can delay my start date by a month and a half because they "had a bad month," what will happen if they have a bad month after I start? Not schedule any hours for a month and a half and say they're "sensitive" to my situation? The woman hiring me has also been really hard to get in touch with to discuss anything. If she ever answers my last email, I am going to tell her that I understand sometimes things happen that are outside of our control and the needs of the business come first, but I was not planning on being out of work for this long. Please let me know when you have a definite start date, but I may have to start looking for something else in the mean time.
Or maybe I shouldn't say anything at all. Though I am planning on applying for a few other jobs as a safety net, the odds of anything starting sooner than the 18th are still slim, since it will take time to review resumes, schedule interviews, make offers, etc. At this point I don't owe anyone anything, so what's the harm in backing out on an offer if necessary? I may feel like a jerk, but it happens, and at least when I was in HR there were rarely any hard feelings.
Somebody just sighed over the baby monitor...back to the grind...
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