August 16, 2010
This Is the Sound of the Fat Lady Not Singing
Have I lost you, yet, darling readers? Have my flying monkeys taken off for greener... monkey... places? Where the hell do monkeys live? Oh, right, jungles. Where was I?
Ah, yes. I was where the career drama continues, and I am just so fucking sick of it. At first I was anxious, then I was complacent, and now I'm just disdainfully perturbed. I mean, do they need someone to update the website, and make Steel's travel plans, and balance the unit budget, and plan huge events for V.I.P.s -- OR NOT?!?!
Of COURSE, they do! JEEBUS! It's not ancient Hebrew translation, people! A department with three executives needs a support person!
Head Boss is convinced that the new job is mine. Completely convinced. Done deal. So much so, that he hasn't even bothered to see if HR will extend my current contract beyond August 31 if I don't get the new job.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HOLY CRAP!
This cynic, however, remains unconvinced. I mean, if the job was mine, then they would have already made it official. The job isn't mine until I'm signing on the dotted line. In blood. And swearing on the Bible. "I do, and I ask God to help and guide me."
I'm taking a couple vacation days next week. So I literally have, as far as I know, NINE working days of gainful employment left. In my life. Absolutely no one has told me otherwise. Isn't that weird? I think that's more than a little weird. I feel like, if someone finally decides that they want me to work for them, I should make them beg. Just on principle.
Oh, and there's more! PhD Boss was in the office on Friday, and before he left abruptly, lured into the elevator by Meg's siren song, he told me that he's having Head Boss talk with WM about having me continue with ONE OF MY CURRENT DUTIES, should I get the new job.
Is that not completely fucked up???
PhD! Dude! I am applying for other jobs to ESCAPE YOU and your immature, arrogant, soul-sucking clutches!!! You can't just go ADDING responsibilities to my new job, in a completely different department! If you want me to stay on my current job, PAY ME WHAT I'M WORTH!
And have a personality transplant.
But seriously, I was so pissed when I heard that. And even more stupifying is that no one who is actually HAVING the conversation -- i.e. PhD Boss, Head Boss, and WM -- knows exactly how much time this particular quarterly project takes. And no one who actually UNDERSTANDS the magnitude of what PhD is asking -- i.e. ME -- is being involved in the discussion! Do you believe this shit?!
Amazing.
My first instinct was to go to WM and say, "Bro. Listen. Before you agree to adding anything to my job description, you should know exactly what it entails." And then tell him. Step by step.
But then I thought, screw it. No one has offered me anything. I'm not putting the cart before the horse. As far as I know, Head Boss is only humoring PhD Boss and hasn't asked WM a goddamn thing. So I'm not saying anything to anyone until HRT2 has to suck it up and put the paperwork in front of me.
And then I'm asking, "Considering all of the resturcturing going on, has any part of this job description changed since I interviewed?"
Comments
That's some messed up shit.
Posted by: Hope at August 17, 2010 10:53 AM
Do you really want to work here permanently? Really?
Posted by: Stac at August 18, 2010 06:46 PM