Sweet Chaos
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Just to start, I'm not posting this because I'm looking for pity or anything, I just need to vent my frustration and because I've come to realize that this is, like, the coolest forum on the internet with the most awesome people, I thought this would be an appropriate place for it. Mods, feel free to close or move if necessary.
So I was working as a hostess at a restaurant for a while and was having a really hard time there. On top of it not paying the bills, I didn't get along with some of my co-workers and they made my days really hard. So a friend of my mom's came to me asking if I wanted a job with him. He worked for a company selling Verizon Wireless 3rd party. I said sure and we filled out all the paperwork and off I went. This was in the end of October.
I had a week long training in which we learned that the program was a trial. We were competing with another company out west to see who could do better selling in the Staples stores and whoever did better in the trial would be taking over Staples. The other company was multi-carrier. They assured us that the trial was just starting and would be going on for a while yet.
Flash foward to 2 weeks ago. My boss (the one that we are family friends with) came into my store and told us that the company I work for will be moving out of the Staples locations at the end of the month. I didn't get an exact date. A few days later we got the January 31st date and I was given the number of the district manager of the stores that AREN'T in Staples stores so I could get moved to somewhere nearby. He told me that it would be easier for him if I talked to one of his store managers, so I set up an appointment with him.
When I went to see the store manager, I found out that I wasn't getting relocated into a store, that I was INTERVIEWING for the position. He told me that he was really impressed with me and that he had 2 more interviews to do that day and he would call me either way. A few days later I still hadn't heard from him so I called to see what he had to say. He said that interviews got pushed back because one of his guys was sick and that I'd hear from him by the end of that week. That was a week and a half ago. I asked my manager 3 days ago if I should call him and he said no. He said we'd be getting letters from the company saying that they had to give me a position somewhere or offer me a week of severance pay, and that the store manager where I was trying to go would be getting the same letter.
So today I tried calling the store manager again and no one answered at the store. I was planning on calling him back a little later. Then my manager came into my store and handed me my letter from the company. It said that they didn't have any room for me and that, because I wasn't in the company long enough, I wasn't getting any severance pay.
So, I am at work now, and in about 10 minutes I'll be out of a job. I have a couple opportunities lined up, but I will not be able to meet with the people I need to talk to until some time next week.
On one hand, I feel really mad that the manager of the store I was supposed to be going to never called me back. If he had called and said that they didn't have space for me (like he said he would do) I would have had at least a couple days to look around before I was out of a job. On the other hand, I feel so stupid. I should have been looking ANYWAY. I was just so sure I was going to get the job because of how he was acting at my interview that I really wasn't worried.
So now I get to go home and file for unemployment until I can get in somewhere else.
Sorry for the vent, I just needed to get it out.
So I was working as a hostess at a restaurant for a while and was having a really hard time there. On top of it not paying the bills, I didn't get along with some of my co-workers and they made my days really hard. So a friend of my mom's came to me asking if I wanted a job with him. He worked for a company selling Verizon Wireless 3rd party. I said sure and we filled out all the paperwork and off I went. This was in the end of October.
I had a week long training in which we learned that the program was a trial. We were competing with another company out west to see who could do better selling in the Staples stores and whoever did better in the trial would be taking over Staples. The other company was multi-carrier. They assured us that the trial was just starting and would be going on for a while yet.
Flash foward to 2 weeks ago. My boss (the one that we are family friends with) came into my store and told us that the company I work for will be moving out of the Staples locations at the end of the month. I didn't get an exact date. A few days later we got the January 31st date and I was given the number of the district manager of the stores that AREN'T in Staples stores so I could get moved to somewhere nearby. He told me that it would be easier for him if I talked to one of his store managers, so I set up an appointment with him.
When I went to see the store manager, I found out that I wasn't getting relocated into a store, that I was INTERVIEWING for the position. He told me that he was really impressed with me and that he had 2 more interviews to do that day and he would call me either way. A few days later I still hadn't heard from him so I called to see what he had to say. He said that interviews got pushed back because one of his guys was sick and that I'd hear from him by the end of that week. That was a week and a half ago. I asked my manager 3 days ago if I should call him and he said no. He said we'd be getting letters from the company saying that they had to give me a position somewhere or offer me a week of severance pay, and that the store manager where I was trying to go would be getting the same letter.
So today I tried calling the store manager again and no one answered at the store. I was planning on calling him back a little later. Then my manager came into my store and handed me my letter from the company. It said that they didn't have any room for me and that, because I wasn't in the company long enough, I wasn't getting any severance pay.
So, I am at work now, and in about 10 minutes I'll be out of a job. I have a couple opportunities lined up, but I will not be able to meet with the people I need to talk to until some time next week.
On one hand, I feel really mad that the manager of the store I was supposed to be going to never called me back. If he had called and said that they didn't have space for me (like he said he would do) I would have had at least a couple days to look around before I was out of a job. On the other hand, I feel so stupid. I should have been looking ANYWAY. I was just so sure I was going to get the job because of how he was acting at my interview that I really wasn't worried.
So now I get to go home and file for unemployment until I can get in somewhere else.
Sorry for the vent, I just needed to get it out.
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