Dec. 20th, 2006

Bad news

Dec. 20th, 2006 10:50 am
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So I didn't get the AP position. My manager will be talking with me and give me feedback later today. Which means when I get back from vacation I'll be brushing up the resume, getting a head-hunter and working on getting something better. I am soooo sick of phones. I just can't do this any longer. I won't actually quit until I've got something better as we really could use the money. But it looks like Dell is a job, not a career for me, yet again.

Still, nice that I've had the opportunity to pay off the entire student loan, so it's not like no good has come of this.
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I still don't technically know why I didn't get the job, but now, knowing who did get the job, I have a pretty good idea. Some other guy in the tech support department had been "shadowing" there (in other words, getting unofficially trained for the position) for some time now. I, on the other hand, have been offered no opportunities to "shadow" anywhere. Despite assurances by Teena two months ago that she would consider it.

Kinda makes me wonder why they even had interviews? I mean if you've got a guy you've been training for a few weeks - duh, no, you're not going to want to take someone else, unless he is woefully incompetent. So why have the waste of time of going through the motions of pretending it's a fair competition? If it's already a done deal, why interview others and even put out the hope of getting out of the Dell Hell that is the phones?

For a week or so, while I was up for the job, yeah, I was pretty positive. But now, having been passed over for a position that I think I am totally over-qualified for, I feel pretty crashingly depressed about working here. I feel as though I am stuck right here. Is that really good for morale? Why interview someone you already know, through no merit or flaw of their own, you are not going to hire? This leaves me with the idea that there's no real point in staying here. I mean, if I couldn't get the job I actually have some qualifications for, what hope do I have for advancement in the areas where I don't have any skills or experience? I'll stay here a while, just to pull a paycheque, but I'll be spending my days off job hunting and will likely take the first offer that comes my way. If I honestly felt I had a fair shot at that job they may have won some loyalty. But now, I feel like maybe I only got the interview as a feeble attempt to make me feel like I might have a real career. Like they were patronizing and humouring me. Heck, I wonder if my manager didn't tell them to interview me just to stop me from whining about having no opportunities.

We'll see what my manager has to say, but right now I'd really like to just go home and not have to think about this place. Uugh, 4 more hours of this hell today.

Even worse

Dec. 20th, 2006 05:37 pm
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Sigh - I got the feedback. It's something I REALLY have no affect over. And, to make matters worse... 3 people interviewed for 1 position and in the end they decided to hire 2, and STILL didn't pick me. The reason the others got an offer and I didn't - more time at Dell. So much for the whole "meritocracy" thing they keep going on about. When it comes down to otherwise equal merit, the deciding factor goes back to the old seniority thing.

They did say that if a position opens in the next 3 months that I will be in line and will not have to interview again. I'm not holding my breath.

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