Friday, March 5th, 2004

Time	Event
11:12a	Send in the clowns.... (part II) After the motivating and uplifting events in my job over the last couple of days one might have thought they'd exhausted their playbook of incompetence and moved onto a higher plane or grudging competence. So imagine my delight when I receive the employee information pack dated 3rd March (yet strangely postmarked 4th March) 2 days after the conference call. Finally, I thought, here are my options laid out in precise detail including any potential financial settlement. These fine and thorough individuals would at last be able to share the secrets of their restructuring plan with me. BzzzZZZZZZZZT wrong. Not only is it just a cheap rehash of the conference call on snazzy company headed paper but in the process of calculating what I'm worth they seem to have had insufficient time to look up either my salary details or holiday entitlement. The upside of all of this is I got to use erroneous in my bitchy email back to them. Now sitting waiting for a phone call (hopefully) telling me I have the job I went for so I can begin to treat this process and instigators with something approaching the contempt that they deserve. Current Mood: nervous (Comment on this)
1:59p	Send in the clowns.... (part III) Ok, enough was enough. I decide to volunteer for redundancy. Only the HR woman has taken today off the and senior manager doesn't answer his phone. Way to go guys. Looks like email is the only option for contacting them. Hoping I won't have to sweeten the deal by telling them what is likely to happen to their IT infrastructure if they really piss me off ;-) Current Mood: cranky (Comment on this)
6:30p	Something's very strange here.... So... to continue the saga. I got the job offer (only with loads of my salary tied up in bonuses). Which is good but all the contract seems to do is protect the company and leave me exposed. In the meantime I left a voicemail volunteering for redundancy with the senior manager in my current company. Since then I've had two directors ringing me up to tell me that I'm definitely not on the list for people leaving and the chances are they won't accept my offer. Confused? I certainly am. I'm starting to think the universe is particularly random and twisted today. Net result: I feel totally drained and not really mentally prepared to dance my ass off at my friend's birthday tonight. And to add another spicy element to the mix, my potential boss/partner from the company with the job offer is heading down to Brighton tonight. What're the odds of running into him when I'm caned tonight? (Comment on this)

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