It has been a while. Sorry. I have been looking at the new tech coming out for the Holidays. This is gonna be a fun year. Marriage of convenience for Blu Ray, Cheap ass Lap tops for Clearance prices and more angry warranty calls for already tired technicians. I'm gonna be breaking out the Egg nog early, because after tonight I am gonna drink up and rest.
Yes that's right. Rest.
I will need to after all my research.
So this brings me to tonight. This is a different Rant. Traditionally this is when folks change their jobs and look elsewhere. New Job New Year mentality. It will work for some and sometimes it doesn't. My case in point:
I have a friend who took a job from a 2nd rate recruiting organization. It was for a good sum of money. I was impressed, but he had it coming I thought. He was a techie like me and did a lot of things. He had become a "jack of all trades". I was not only proud, but jealous. He was finally getting his break. I hadn't yet but I am not unhappy. (really I'm not) But as fate had it he lost that job. He cited shifty high strung characters and a national manager that didn't seem to want to be able to know anything except good news. No good news, you're history. Learning curve? Get lost. Read you book, but do as I say. You know the traditional bullshit that bad companies and bad bosses seem to breed in. He found one and I was so sorry for him. He and I got together and had a drink. I lit a Smoke for us both and asked him what was learned from this and how he was gonna get a better life from it.
First,.. ask questions. If you think there are none ask about stupid shit like,.. uh I don't know maybe the weather out there, is there a spots pool and what teams do they watch. Its in small talk that you find all kinds things and in small talk that you are jarred to ask questions. The obvious was why ther was never a face to face interview and it was all over the phone. He thought it was okay,.. I didn't but never mind that.
So I asked him,.. did you ask why this was so difficult to fill? He didn't see it as I had,. The obvious question that was hitting him in the face like that dude on the side of the freeway. (He disappeared by the way.) Perhaps maybe when is there a face to face interview? If there is not an interview face to face,... there might be a problem.
But,.. Its water under the bridge. He has for the most part given into the fact that it was a bad mistake. His skills are not to blame. I think from what he has said that the company in quesiton has its proverbial head up its ass and can't realize that bad bosses should be executed along with the likes of Timothy Mcveigh.
No Really I am not saying to find a violent peril for your superior if you think he is bad,.. I mean the ones who find pleasure in gratifying themselves in the termination of an employee who may not function completely at 100 percent because you told them once or twice in a paper pushing session.
Most of the time I am happy to know folks are given the time to be taught and learn tings. It's pretty neat that some companies have a learning center. These guys didn't perhaps this is a sign. ASK QUESTIONS!!!
Well,.. I am no get hired expert. I am a techie and my trade has trained me to ask questions. I hope this lesson can be conveyed upon all others to be taught.
Well,... Good night all......
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