Things That Are Bothering You, Got You All Hibbeldy-Jibbeldy, or just downright pissed, RIGHT NOW!

First day of my internship. Great time to get a bacterial infection in my left eye. Afternoon was spent watching & learning from two colleagues giving a tutorial on an online platform, while just looking at a pc screen gave me a horrible headache and I could barely keep my left eye open.

FACK!!!!!!

So the new job offer that looked so promising fell through at the last second and they offered the job to someone else. The recruiter I was working with was as stunned as I am. I still received tons of positive feedback from the company after they decided to hire someone else. I still can't believe it.

Then today I found out that the job within the company I interviewed for I am is also going to someone else. I worked for 3 days developing a presentation for that damn interview and thought it went pretty well. I asked for feedback afterwards, since I know some of the people involved in the hiring process and confirmed some of my fears. Apparently, my reputation is tarnished because I worked closely with my former boss, who was forced out. I am not surprised, but I was hoping people would recognize the awkward situation I was put in.

Just when I thought things were looking up I am dealt another round of bad luck. DAMN!



topcatny said:

FACK!!!!!!
So the new job offer that looked so promising fell through at the last second and they offered the job to someone else. The recruiter I was working with was as stunned as I am. I still received tons of positive feedback from the company after they decided to hire someone else. I still can't believe it.
Then today I found out that the job within the company I interviewed for I am is also going to someone else. I worked for 3 days developing a presentation for that damn interview and thought it went pretty well. I asked for feedback afterwards, since I know some of the people involved in the hiring process and confirmed some of my fears. Apparently, my reputation is tarnished because I worked closely with my former boss, who was forced out. I am not surprised, but I was hoping people would recognize the awkward situation I was put in.
Just when I thought things were looking up I am dealt another round of bad luck. DAMN!

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****, sorry about this. good luck, I am sure someting good will come up.



Rambo said:

Is this slang for bad acid?

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Topcat - really sorry to hear that I hope something new comes along for you soon

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L'Incandescent said:

Not actually pissing me off, but I was doing some suit shopping today and, as always happens, I overheard conversations that were painful to listen to. One guy was looking for a blazer. Every time he saw one he might like, he asked the SA "Is this navy or black? Because I need a black blazer." To the store's credit, none of the blazers were black. Another woman expressed dismay at the cost of the merchandise. She informed the SA at great length that in Massachusetts, there's no sales tax for clothes. (The store where we were shopping is not in Massachusetts, but rather in St. Louis, MO, where we do have sales tax for clothes.)

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I was pleasantly surprised about this while shopping there a couple or so weeks ago. I hauled in quite a bit as a result.



topcatny said:

FACK!!!!!! ....

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Sorry to hear this. Unfortunately, this often happens even though people know that the person being considered was not party to the misdeeds of others. I've known of this to happen to excellent candidates, unfortunately, more times than I care to remember. I wish you the very best of luck.



in stitches said:

Topcat - really sorry to hear that I hope something new comes along for you soon

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CK. Good luck topcat. Keep at it, the fact that you were in the running at all is a good thing.

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I would like to say that this has been a ****** week - since Saturday, actually.

Sigh... got reamed because I was late to a dial-in meeting with a higher-up today.. in my defense, the calendar invite did NOT have a reminder on it so I was sitting at my desk working on slides and then I got an email from him saying he waited for me for 10 minutes and then he asked me to explain myself. He also conveniently CC'ed my boss/manager.

I immediately thought, oh ****, ****! and dialed into the meeting. He was gone. So I emailed him back and explained what happened. No response all day.

I'm so unhappy.. and feel trapped.

I don't know what to do anymore.. it's exasperating. This job is making me depressed.



GreenFrog said:

Sigh... got reamed because I was late to a dial-in meeting with a higher-up today.. in my defense, the calendar invite did NOT have a reminder on it so I was sitting at my desk working on slides and then I got an email from him saying he waited for me for 10 minutes and then he asked me to explain myself. He also conveniently CC'ed my boss/manager.
I immediately thought, oh ****, ****! and dialed into the meeting. He was gone. So I emailed him back and explained what happened. No response all day.
I'm so unhappy.. and feel trapped.
I don't know what to do anymore.. it's exasperating. This job is making me depressed.

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every one of these higher-ups has been 10 minutes late to a meeting a million times. they might **** with you a bit but ultimately it's no big deal unless you're a fuckup and perpetually late, and then it's just one more straw on the camel's back. don't let it get you down too much.



GreenFrog said:

Sigh... got reamed because I was late to a dial-in meeting with a higher-up today.. in my defense, the calendar invite did NOT have a reminder on it so I was sitting at my desk working on slides and then I got an email from him saying he waited for me for 10 minutes and then he asked me to explain myself. He also conveniently CC'ed my boss/manager.
I immediately thought, oh ****, ****! and dialed into the meeting. He was gone. So I emailed him back and explained what happened. No response all day.
I'm so unhappy.. and feel trapped.
I don't know what to do anymore.. it's exasperating. This job is making me depressed.

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Sounds like you've been on an emotional roller coaster since you took that job. Hope things start evening out for you soon.

This is an old post, but I related so much to this.

Biscotti said:

I no longer drink, at all, and I cannot help but feel that so many people, old friends are so incredibly dull. All the nites are the same damn thing, so many of my friends sleep all day then go out at night. I am tired of phone calls, I am tired of those trying to 'cheer' me up so to speak, those that say I am blue because I am not getting drunk with 'em. I am not blue, sad or anything of the such...I am being real, getting goals done, pondering, meditating. While they are waking up hungover, I will be sailing on the river.
I don't want to have 'just one drink!' - I don't want to go 'grab a beer' - I don't want to do anything like that. I cannot even stand the taste anymore, reminds me of past times, wasted time, drunken whores, failed classes, etc. When I do go out, everyone gives me **** for ordering tonic, bar tenders stare at me funny as I'm not wasting all my money on their expensive cocktails or beers. I don't really give a ****; however, I miss more people in my life...no one wants to go sailing with me (as I will not let them bring alcohol aboard), no one wants to do anything other than drink and get high. Everyone I know is either borderline alcoholic or ned flanders variety weirdo.

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You've got a tough road ahead, but I think you'll find it worthwhile in the long run.

gort said:

You do sound very dull and boring. You should be able to have some self control and have a drink or two and not let it impact your life so adversely. Not everything has to be an extreme.

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I'm sorry, but you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about. Many alcoholics are anything but dull and boring. In fact, they are usually the life of the party. And that's the problem. And just like some people can't digest milk or some get shitfaced off two beers, some people can't always just have "one or two drinks", no matter what their self-control is in other aspects of their life.



HRoi said:

every one of these higher-ups has been 10 minutes late to a meeting a million times. they might **** with you a bit but ultimately it's no big deal unless you're a fuckup and perpetually late, and then it's just one more straw on the camel's back. don't let it get you down too much.

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Yeah.. well that's the thing. To this higher up, he already thinks I lack professionalism in this regard because I've missed a meeting with him once already. I missed it because I was out of pocket due to travel and he's sitting in his ivory tower back home with no empathy over the fact that my work model is fundamentally different than that of the folks back home who don't have to travel. This was wayyy back earlier on in the year when I had just started traveling and wasn't really conscious of all the extra effort and precautions you have to take with travel. His gripe back then was, 'listen, you should have checked your calendar days in advance, known this meeting time would not have worked, and asked me to reschedule.' Okay, sounds reasonable. I've never missed a meeting since.

****, when I was still back at the headquarters, I was NEVER late to meetings. I was always 5 minutes early because you're at your freaking computer all day and your outlook event reminder pops up saying, hey you have __________ in 5 minutes. Well, with all the travel I do, I don't have that luxury of being connected all the freaking time.

So to him, this is like 'ugh, look at him again missing a meeting' and mind you, because he's so senior, he ALWAYS reschedules our meetings, either 5 minutes beforehand if I'm lucky, or after the fact after I've waited 30 minutes, twiddling my thumbs, waiting for him to connect. Yeah, I'm going to say "it's fine, it's okay, no worries, I understand you're busy," when he 'apologizes,' but **** man.. it's annoying for me too.

So just like clockwork, he rescheduled our meeting from last week to today, but his secretary didn't put an event reminder.. so come meeting time, nothing popped up. Sure, 50% of the blame is on me because an ideal employee wouldn't have missed this meeting, lack of event reminder or not.. but jesus.

And sure, this incident is pretty minor.. but it's just one of many things I've been dealing with lately, ranging from my unfavorable project staffing, all the incessant travel, this new city that I don't particularly like, the isolation, the loneliness.. I'm just growing unhappier by the day.. and then I'm forced to pretend like everything's okay and smile when I go to work. It's eating at my insides and I'm.. like I said, starting to get depressed.

I feel so trapped and helpless..not a single positive thing has happened as a result of my moving down here. Absolutely nothing.

Edit: if anyone is going to reply to this, please don't quote it.. I may have to edit and delete the content later because with all the **** luck I've been having lately, it's only a matter of time until someone at my company sees this and I get fired.



FLMountainMan said:

This is an old post, but I related so much to this.
You've got a tough road ahead, but I think you'll find it worthwhile in the long run.
I'm sorry, but you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about. Many alcoholics are anything but dull and boring. In fact, they are usually the life of the party. And that's the problem. And just like some people can't digest milk or some get shitfaced off two beers, some people can't always just have "one or two drinks", no matter what their self-control is in other aspects of their life.

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I guess I didn't assume he was a recovering alcoholic, it just seemed more of him looking down on his friends for drinking while he decided to quit. If he is a recovering alcoholic then my mistake, I wouldn't give anybody a hard time for that.

Now where's that foot in mouth emoticon....