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Bad News As Told By Coworkers
May. 12th, 2005 07:31 amWell, our troublemaker didn't show up for work yesterday, probably wanting to avoid hearing the bad review that is coming her way. Still, it will happen sooner or later, so she can only run so much. I actually dread giving that review because she's always argumentative and deflective when you are trying to evaluate her. The funny thing is, I was always taught to end a review on a good note, no matter what, and last time I was still asked by her where was what she did right? I told her, I just said it, were you not listening? Of course she had already tuned me out trying to develop her next defensive move. I swear I don't have time for that.
Otherwise, my attempts to take a leap forward seemed to all get knocked down yesterday. I was getting out of a meeting yesterday I was greeted by Brian who told me that another one of my team had gone home crying after she had been told that she didn't get the position in marketing, and proceeded to tell me that one of the people on his team did. That was funny since that was the job I was going for too, and no one had told me that the position had been filled.
Brian was kind of stunned that I had gone for the job as well and was all apologetic that the word that I didn't get it came from him, and not from the interviewer. I was fine with it, really, It was just another in a series of disappointments, but nothing earth-shattering. What I was concerned with was that Jennifer had felt so badly about it that she had run home crying. Especially because this had happened in front of the team. I knew that she had gone for the job (she had to have it approved by me) and that she'd be my competition for it. A previous position actually gave her a good leg up on me in one respect. Still, making a scene in front of my team is usually a ticket for a lot of jokes later, and I didn't want that to happen.
So, here's the thing, I get back and the first thing I hear is, "So are you going to go home and cry?" Great. I wasn't sure if the team knew or not, but news does travel. Of course I responded no, and proceeded to work the rest of the day as nothing ever happened. I guess I thought by not acknowledging anything more was best.
I finally got the call from my interviewer four hours later. She told me that I was good, and had great business knowledge, but they decided to go with someone who had held a job just like the marketing job previously, even thought they only worked at the company for less than a year. It came down to not needing to train them, as usual. Seems to be the way it goes.
Still, except for not hearing back from the HR office at our sister company, most of the options with the company seem exhausted, and I guess I need to concentrate more on jobs outside the company.
Of course sometimes you try to take a chance, and you get nothing. I saw an ad in the Houston Press about needing columnists for the paper, and I decided to send in some submissions two weeks ago. Last night I got back an email, and it stated, "I do not think your work would be a good match for what we need in a columnist." Dang. That's something I would really like to do in my life. Again I'm wondering just what I should be doing.
Keep plugging away.
Otherwise, my attempts to take a leap forward seemed to all get knocked down yesterday. I was getting out of a meeting yesterday I was greeted by Brian who told me that another one of my team had gone home crying after she had been told that she didn't get the position in marketing, and proceeded to tell me that one of the people on his team did. That was funny since that was the job I was going for too, and no one had told me that the position had been filled.
Brian was kind of stunned that I had gone for the job as well and was all apologetic that the word that I didn't get it came from him, and not from the interviewer. I was fine with it, really, It was just another in a series of disappointments, but nothing earth-shattering. What I was concerned with was that Jennifer had felt so badly about it that she had run home crying. Especially because this had happened in front of the team. I knew that she had gone for the job (she had to have it approved by me) and that she'd be my competition for it. A previous position actually gave her a good leg up on me in one respect. Still, making a scene in front of my team is usually a ticket for a lot of jokes later, and I didn't want that to happen.
So, here's the thing, I get back and the first thing I hear is, "So are you going to go home and cry?" Great. I wasn't sure if the team knew or not, but news does travel. Of course I responded no, and proceeded to work the rest of the day as nothing ever happened. I guess I thought by not acknowledging anything more was best.
I finally got the call from my interviewer four hours later. She told me that I was good, and had great business knowledge, but they decided to go with someone who had held a job just like the marketing job previously, even thought they only worked at the company for less than a year. It came down to not needing to train them, as usual. Seems to be the way it goes.
Still, except for not hearing back from the HR office at our sister company, most of the options with the company seem exhausted, and I guess I need to concentrate more on jobs outside the company.
Of course sometimes you try to take a chance, and you get nothing. I saw an ad in the Houston Press about needing columnists for the paper, and I decided to send in some submissions two weeks ago. Last night I got back an email, and it stated, "I do not think your work would be a good match for what we need in a columnist." Dang. That's something I would really like to do in my life. Again I'm wondering just what I should be doing.
Keep plugging away.
