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"Can you start Monday?"
Posted Thu, 06/16/2011 - 15:01 by chuck
I heard that last Thursday, a week ago, at the end of an interview, followed by a bunch of stuff about paperwork.
Uh, yeah, I can start Monday. Give me a desk and I'll start right now.
I e-mailed the guy the next morning to thank him for meeting with me, telling him how eager I was about the opportunity.
"We'll be in touch soon," came the response, about two minutes later.
Hours turned into days, turned into a week. The guy's a VP so I figure he's busy. I shoot him an e-mail today.
He's decided to leave the company and the Director under him decided to hire somebody else. OK, great... story of my life. This is the second "offer" that's fallen through for me. It's incredibly frustrating.
So far I've had five interviews. Aside from totally bombing in one of them, they all went well. Still, no job...
Adding insult to injury, some other recruiter called me within minutes of hearing that yet another opportunity had vanished. This guy's whole purpose in calling was seemingly to insult me. I hung up on him. Couldn't take it.
I know I'm good at what I do and getting better at it all the time. When will a hiring manager see that? It's so dang frustrating.
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Sorry to hear that...
I've been there. I had a job offer reneged--I got a verbal offer and was sent paperwork from HR. Then I hear absolutely nothing and the hiring manager leaves me this sheepish voice mail like "Hey sorry. We were about to lay someone off and we had to offer her the position. But thanks for coming in!"
It definitely sucks to have your hopes raised and then crushed like that. But it does indicate some organizational/managerial issues if they can't get their crap together enough to figure out who's hiring whom, etc. Now if only you knew when the next opportunity was coming along...
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Ugh I've had this happen to me too! It's got to be one of the worst, stomach sinking feelings. I've been out of work since last summer and have been surviving on what little unemployment benefits I get plus my credit cards, which are all maxed out. This, in turn, has made my credit score drop dramatically and from what I understand, many employers are now looking at credit scores to determine if you're going to be a reliable employee!! This is ridiculous!! So now, I've been working on some DIY credit repair offered by a few helpful blogs, but of course, there's a catch! To raise your credit score, you must have money to pay off your bills, and to pay off the bills you must have a job, which you cant get until you have a job. This whole economy reminds me of debtors prison in England hundreds of years ago. Everyday I become just a little bit more socialist! —Charlie
Unemployed and let down
RE: Can you start monday
I have been to at least 20 interviews in the last 4 months. Everything from a Nanny, Real Estate Assistant, Server and customer service.
I have been told three times that I got the job only to find out a couple days later that they hired someone else or they decided to not hire anyone (BS!).
I lost my apartment and recently moved back in with my Mom and Grandma, I am happy to have a place to live with people who love me, but my apartment was something I cherished and worked very hard for. I am 26 years old. I watched my roommates all get serving jobs at the same restaurants that I applied to. While they were celebrating there new employment, I was packing up my shit and crying in the corner.
I have always worked very hard and I became a Realtor at the age of 20. I did well in Real Estate until the economy took a big shit and I had to start looking for other employment. That is when I started Nannying. I lost my Nanny job and I cannot get the energy up to start Real Estate again. I do not have a college degree and I have tons of debt.
I was still making it in Real Estate until about 6 months ago. I decided to move to Southern California. I just got my RE license here in CA, but because of my lack of a job and low self esteem from being turned down for even menial jobs that require no education, I have lost faith and the self esteem to get out and sell myself to people. California has been nothing but a struggle for me. I don't know if I should move? I do not want to leave because my family is here but I am so afraid of being a loser with nothing going for myself. I have been looking into going back to school but then that will be more debt that I have to pay back and what if I am still unable to find a job? I am so scared.
I eat bad because I have no energy and all I want to do is sleep, so my meals are mostly from Subway and Taco Bell and that is if I even eat at all. Everyone keeps bugging me to exercise and they tell me it will make me happy, but after losing my apartment and my identy, I just can't even make myself get out of bed to look for my sports bra and running shoes.
I am depressed, any advice would help.
It felt really good just to write about my feelings and my situation. Thank you for making this Blog Chuck:)!!
Glad it helped
If it felt good to write about your feelings, keep doing it.
Not to be harsh, but your fear and self-pity are highly evident. These two factors are accelerating your spiral of defeat, and they are two things over which you have a bit of control. Re-program yourself. You are luckier than so many. Focus on gratitude for what you do have:
1) Youth
2) People who love you and whom you love
3) Drive (a Real Estate license at 20 is nothing to sneeze at -- give yourself some credit)
4) A roof over your head and food in your belly -- believe me, a lot of people do not have those simple needs met these days. I hear from them almost every day.
Plus whatever else you can think of...
I know exactly where you are, though, having been there myself. It's dark and cold and lonely, and it seems like you'll never emerge. But you will. Life is long, and you are young. Things will turn around for you. You can nudge them in that direction by believing in yourself.
Best of luck.
When life hands you sh*t, make fertilizer.