I'm having a career/work place dilemma. Once again, noises are bing made about converting me into a real employee. I find this highly annoying. If they want to hire me, they need to just make me an offer and get it over with. I do not have time to get strung along like this. The last place I was contracting at this went on for 3 years. Three years of 3 to 6 months contracts. Supposedly you only get a year here, but still, I have to decide which law school I'm going to in the next couple of months. They don't get a year to make their minds up about this.
My manager keeps asking me what it is I want to do. How can I really answer that if I have no options? I haven't been accepted to any schools yet (turns out one of my letters of recommendation is not in my LDAS file for some reason but I'm getting that figured out), and I have no job offers. All I have is a contract that expires on my birthday and a bunch of questions. Would I take a job here if it were offered? I don't honestly know. I do know I have no desire to go through the interview process again only to be told "no thanks." If they follow the usual process around here, I won't get any kind of decision until long after I have to decide which school I want to go to anyway, so I fail to see the point in any of this. I have an expiration date. My manager knows what it is. If they can work within that and give me something to consider, I'll consider it, but what's the point in any of it if nothing is going to get done until it's too late anyway?
In the mean time, I'm pissed off and kind of stressed out and I just want to go home, or anyplace away from here. I do like my job, I like my co-workers and I like the work environment, I just don't like getting strung along by some asinine set of procedures that make it next to impossible to do my job or live my life. They are hardly paying me enough to make the 4 hours a day I spend commuting worth it, I don't particularly want to deal with this crap too.
To top things off, D. The Gormless Yotz has decided that he doesn't want to go to the Rubicon dinner after all because he wants to do to some crap community musical theater audition instead. WTF?! We've been planning this for 2 months. He knew when those auditions were, he shouldn't have said he would go, and certainly shouldn't have waited until now, when it's too late to find another person to go with who can afford a ticket and I've already sunk time and money into the whole project. The bastard. I'm seriously pissed. He's getting fed to the cat tonight.
At least I know where I rate in his world though, that does make thing easier.
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Guilty as charged. On the other hand given the large collection of suitors that you've apparently collected I'd think that there should be at least one that could plan this given three weeks of notice. And since the time and money you've spent is for a dress that you could certainly use for other occasions, it's hardly a total loss should you not attend.
D. Gormless Yotz, found smoking crack in the locker room between events, has been found guilty of heavy drug abuse, and will henceforth be removed from The Boyfriend Olympics.
When his office was contacted, D.G.Y's trainer indicated he could not be reached for comments at this time. D.G.Y's trainer indicated that his place in The Boyfriend Olympics could easily be filled by any of a "large collection of suitors" who seem to be competing for the attention of the ever fair Ms. H. Grace.
Ms. H. Grace's publicity office refuses to comment on the actual number of suitors available, citing client privacy issues, but did mention that "Chocolate" was one of them.
All this time and I never realized that not being exclusive with someone gives me the right to flake on a whim and generally act like an asstard. That knowledge would've made life so much easier...
It is always interesting the way people pass judgement when they only know a single side of the story. Bravo for loyalty, however.
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