[ARCHIVED THREAD] - FML (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 8/23/2011 8:05:42 PM EDT
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been a part time employee for almost 4 years now been trying to go full time for 3 years. got offered a full time position today only to have it taken from me due to my own stupid ignorance. FML seriously |
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Quoted: been a part time employee for almost 4 years now been trying to go full time for 3 years. got offered a full time position today only to have it taken from me due to my own stupid ignorance. FML seriously Are you the guy in charge of pretending to brush Kaylee's hair in the morning? 
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been a part time employee for almost 4 years now been trying to go full time for 3 years. got offered a full time position today only to have it taken from me due to my own stupid ignorance. FML seriously You been watching too many crackheads on the street haven't you? Offering to suck off people willing to help you doesn't work. |
Keep your chin up. 
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Quoted: I will take that job if I can mess it up at night too Quoted: been a part time employee for almost 4 years now been trying to go full time for 3 years. got offered a full time position today only to have it taken from me due to my own stupid ignorance. FML seriously Are you the guy in charge of pretending to brush Kaylee's hair in the morning? http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc10/kimmie_rocks/Jewel_Staite_002.jpg  |
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been a part time employee for almost 4 years now been trying to go full time for 3 years. got offered a full time position today only to have it taken from me due to my own stupid ignorance. FML seriously Ouch, that's a real bummer. Any way to use your experience elsewhere or get your part time gig back? |
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Quoted: Ignorance or stupidity? both. As for detail. The job I applied for was an internal thing, all I had to do was submit a bid and wait. It was open for a week and after a week I was the number 2 bid behind a guy with way more qualifications(by that I mean he was already full time in another group) than I had. Bidding for the job closed on friday so I assumed (yes i am aware what assuming leads to) the postition had been filled by the number 1 bid and that it was only a matter of time and paper work before I saw this guy who had outbid me in my work group with the job I wanted. So being pro active, and persistant I decided to bid on another job. Here comes the FML part. You are only allowed to have 2 active bids on jobs within the company at a time. And those bids are not cleared/erased even if someone else gets the job, so you have to go in and withdraw your bid manually(i've been burned by this before). So seeing I had been outbid on the 2 current jobs I had bid on and having NOT been offered either job I withdrew my bids to apply for 2 other full time jobs. Not 5 minutes later I get a call from my manager to go up to her office to see her. I couldn't figure out why, I didn't recall doing anything wrong or extraordinary worthy of attention from my manager. Low and BEHOLD! she offered me a full time job because the number 1 bid declined the offer. So overwhelmed by relief and excitement was I, that withdrawing from the bid had completely escaped my mind. So I sign an offer letter saying I accept the job and I would officially be a full time employee starting on the 1st of September. I get called up to her office about 15 minutes later after receiving many congratulations from fellow employees. for her to tell me that because I had withdrawn my bid 5 minutes earlier that I would not get the job, and that there was nothing she could do about it. TLDR: shot myself in the ass because the company was draggin their feet. |
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Ignorance or stupidity? both. As for detail. The job I applied for was an internal thing, all I had to do was submit a bid and wait. It was open for a week and after a week I was the number 2 bid behind a guy with way more qualifications(by that I mean he was already full time in another group) than I had. Bidding for the job closed on friday so I assumed (yes i am aware what assuming leads to) the postition had been filled by the number 1 bid and that it was only a matter of time and paper work before I saw this guy who had outbid me in my work group with the job I wanted. So being pro active, and persistant I decided to bid on another job. Here comes the FML part. You are only allowed to have 2 active bids on jobs within the company at a time. And those bids are not cleared/erased even if someone else gets the job, so you have to go in and withdraw your bid manually(i've been burned by this before). So seeing I had been outbid on the 2 current jobs I had bid on and having NOT been offered either job I withdrew my bids to apply for 2 other full time jobs. Not 5 minutes later I get a call from my manager to go up to her office to see her. I couldn't figure out why, I didn't recall doing anything wrong or extraordinary worthy of attention from my manager. Low and BEHOLD! she offered me a full time job because the number 1 bid declined the offer. So overwhelmed by relief and excitement was I, that withdrawing from the bid had completely escaped my mind. So I sign an offer letter saying I accept the job and I would officially be a full time employee starting on the 1st of September. I get called up to her office about 15 minutes later after receiving many congratulations from fellow employees. for her to tell me that because I had withdrawn my bid 5 minutes earlier that I would not get the job, and that there was nothing she could do about it. TLDR: shot myself in the ass because the company was draggin their feet. thats really gay |
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I get called up to her office about 15 minutes later after receiving many congratulations from fellow employees. for her to tell me that because I had withdrawn my bid 5 minutes earlier that I would not get the job, and that there was nothing she could do about it. TLDR: shot myself in the ass because the company was draggin their feet. Union shop? |
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Ignorance or stupidity? both. As for detail. The job I applied for was an internal thing, all I had to do was submit a bid and wait. It was open for a week and after a week I was the number 2 bid behind a guy with way more qualifications(by that I mean he was already full time in another group) than I had. Bidding for the job closed on friday so I assumed (yes i am aware what assuming leads to) the postition had been filled by the number 1 bid and that it was only a matter of time and paper work before I saw this guy who had outbid me in my work group with the job I wanted. So being pro active, and persistant I decided to bid on another job. Here comes the FML part. You are only allowed to have 2 active bids on jobs within the company at a time. And those bids are not cleared/erased even if someone else gets the job, so you have to go in and withdraw your bid manually(i've been burned by this before). So seeing I had been outbid on the 2 current jobs I had bid on and having NOT been offered either job I withdrew my bids to apply for 2 other full time jobs. Not 5 minutes later I get a call from my manager to go up to her office to see her. I couldn't figure out why, I didn't recall doing anything wrong or extraordinary worthy of attention from my manager. Low and BEHOLD! she offered me a full time job because the number 1 bid declined the offer. So overwhelmed by relief and excitement was I, that withdrawing from the bid had completely escaped my mind. So I sign an offer letter saying I accept the job and I would officially be a full time employee starting on the 1st of September. I get called up to her office about 15 minutes later after receiving many congratulations from fellow employees. for her to tell me that because I had withdrawn my bid 5 minutes earlier that I would not get the job, and that there was nothing she could do about it. TLDR: shot myself in the ass because the company was draggin their feet. So the moral of the story is patience is a virtue? I mean, you seriously couldn't wait a couple more days? |
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been a part time employee for almost 4 years now been trying to go full time for 3 years. got offered a full time position today only to have it taken from me due to my own stupid ignorance. FML seriously Are you the guy in charge of pretending to brush Kaylee's hair in the morning? http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc10/kimmie_rocks/Jewel_Staite_002.jpg Mmmm.... Kaylee...
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Ignorance or stupidity? both. As for detail. The job I applied for was an internal thing, all I had to do was submit a bid and wait. It was open for a week and after a week I was the number 2 bid behind a guy with way more qualifications(by that I mean he was already full time in another group) than I had. Bidding for the job closed on friday so I assumed (yes i am aware what assuming leads to) the postition had been filled by the number 1 bid and that it was only a matter of time and paper work before I saw this guy who had outbid me in my work group with the job I wanted. So being pro active, and persistant I decided to bid on another job. Here comes the FML part. You are only allowed to have 2 active bids on jobs within the company at a time. And those bids are not cleared/erased even if someone else gets the job, so you have to go in and withdraw your bid manually(i've been burned by this before). So seeing I had been outbid on the 2 current jobs I had bid on and having NOT been offered either job I withdrew my bids to apply for 2 other full time jobs. Not 5 minutes later I get a call from my manager to go up to her office to see her. I couldn't figure out why, I didn't recall doing anything wrong or extraordinary worthy of attention from my manager. Low and BEHOLD! she offered me a full time job because the number 1 bid declined the offer. So overwhelmed by relief and excitement was I, that withdrawing from the bid had completely escaped my mind. So I sign an offer letter saying I accept the job and I would officially be a full time employee starting on the 1st of September. I get called up to her office about 15 minutes later after receiving many congratulations from fellow employees. for her to tell me that because I had withdrawn my bid 5 minutes earlier that I would not get the job, and that there was nothing she could do about it. TLDR: shot myself in the ass because the company was draggin their feet. So the moral of the story is patience is a virtue? I mean, you seriously couldn't wait a couple more days? Job closed on Friday... today is Tuesday... I thought the job would be filled on Friday because it closed on Friday... yea I can see where my logic is flawed. |
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Ignorance or stupidity? both. As for detail. The job I applied for was an internal thing, all I had to do was submit a bid and wait. It was open for a week and after a week I was the number 2 bid behind a guy with way more qualifications(by that I mean he was already full time in another group) than I had. Bidding for the job closed on friday so I assumed (yes i am aware what assuming leads to) the postition had been filled by the number 1 bid and that it was only a matter of time and paper work before I saw this guy who had outbid me in my work group with the job I wanted. So being pro active, and persistant I decided to bid on another job. Here comes the FML part. You are only allowed to have 2 active bids on jobs within the company at a time. And those bids are not cleared/erased even if someone else gets the job, so you have to go in and withdraw your bid manually(i've been burned by this before). So seeing I had been outbid on the 2 current jobs I had bid on and having NOT been offered either job I withdrew my bids to apply for 2 other full time jobs. Not 5 minutes later I get a call from my manager to go up to her office to see her. I couldn't figure out why, I didn't recall doing anything wrong or extraordinary worthy of attention from my manager. Low and BEHOLD! she offered me a full time job because the number 1 bid declined the offer. So overwhelmed by relief and excitement was I, that withdrawing from the bid had completely escaped my mind. So I sign an offer letter saying I accept the job and I would officially be a full time employee starting on the 1st of September. I get called up to her office about 15 minutes later after receiving many congratulations from fellow employees. for her to tell me that because I had withdrawn my bid 5 minutes earlier that I would not get the job, and that there was nothing she could do about it. TLDR: shot myself in the ass because the company was draggin their feet. So the moral of the story is patience is a virtue? I mean, you seriously couldn't wait a couple more days? Job closed on Friday... today is Tuesday... I thought the job would be filled on Friday because it closed on Friday... yea I can see where my logic is flawed. 
Just because a posting closes doesn't mean a decision has been made. It just means it's not open for new applications. 
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