That is so rude Teeki, I'd be ropable if someone took the liberty to clean out my workspace before I'd finished up. sheesh.
No wonder he's gotten on the wrong side of most people!!
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That is so rude Teeki, I'd be ropable if someone took the liberty to clean out my workspace before I'd finished up. sheesh.
No wonder he's gotten on the wrong side of most people!!
I've stopped job hunting. My heart is not in it, I want the christmas holidays off and I will start looking when DS returns to school next year (Feb). Have done my sums and discovered that my redundancy pay will last until July 2016. I am in no hurry. This 7 month long drawn out redundancy has sucked the life, work ethic, passion and brain out of me. I need time off, I need to focus on my kids for a few months and I need to find my fire back. Then I can present myself positively to a prospective employer and knock their socks off.
I am relieved. In hindsight I was panic-job-hunting - it was a total waste of time.
So come Nov 28th - I look forward to be an SAHM for the summer!! :)
Nay that is a very positive post, so good to read. Enjoy your time with your kiddies!
I had another crap day today. My PM is back on the "what hours are you working, when, call me when you start" bandwagon. It's just horrible - I've never felt like I've had to answer to someone like this before.
I've asked him if I can switch to doing a full day at home, instead of spreading my hours across a few days. Emailed the request through - he hasn't responded yet which I think means he will probably want to talk to me about it on Thurs. I'm really anxious about it all now :(
Ugh it just sucks. I'm not enjoying it at all :( :(
MN - I think it sounds like an excellent plan.
I might be a SAHM for the summer too - just let work know I won't be renewing my contract - how long they will want me to work who knows but is up on 28th November anyway - and I will pull CJ out of daycare to save money - DS will probably just drop a day till Feb.
I will probably be back on here whinging about having no job in a few months - but there is more to life and this one hardly paid anything anyway so without any enjoyment very little point to it. I will sleep well tonight having made a decision I think.
OP - that sounds a pain, I know I would prefer a full day at home instead of the spread - but I know often managers don't just because they aren't organised enough to not want you at their beck and call at some point on several days. Fingers crossed it works out ok for you.
Yay sounds like there's been lots of good things going on.
Congrats Teeki, you must be very nearly finished now.
Hope the leave is all sorted now TT40!
MN sounds like a great decision. Enjoy!
OP, sounds like a good plan. I hope he took it ok and approved it for you.
wysiwyg, sounds like a good decision. Hope you're not whinging about not having a job too soon :)
Afm: My little boy was born a couple of weeks ago :) Everyone's doing wonderfully. My older boy is loving having his little baby brother around :)
Only negative at the moment is I need to write some job applications and I'd very much rather just be enjoying my new little man, sleeping, playing with my bigger boy or doing housey things. Oh well if you want the job you've got to apply...
And I got the sack. While he tells me it's cause there doesn't look to be enough work to fill the days I know the real reason is cause my kids jeep getting sick and I have to stay home cause DH is working away. Now I don't believe his reason as just last thurs I had my performance review and all was great and adding a 3rd day in the new year.
Just sucks to bad this close to xmas :(
I'm so sorry this has happened to you, BD :cry: :comfort:
Thanks Nutter. He was a jerk
Oh no BD that's awful :hug:
Oh no BD :(
Were you still in the probation period?
=( that bites the big one BD
My year of maternity leave has coming to an end, and as I was made redundant before going on leave it's time to look for a new job. I've applied for a few and already had a couple of nibbles, just a matter of finding the right role.
One sounds like it would be the perfect job - and 3 days a week which is hard to come by, but it's sounds like I may have missed the boat but keeping my fingers crossed!
Definitely need yo find the right company!
Yep by a week:
Some bosses really are complete jerks.
DH returned to work once after a 3 week holiday, to find that the DAY after he went on leave, they put his "your sacked" papers in his pigeon hole - at work. Where they had to give him three weeks notice.
So he got back from leave, to learn that he had no job.
Whereas if they'd been adults about it, he could have used his 3 weeks of leave to look for a frecking job.
Maybe they wanted to be nice and let him enjoy his holiday - or maybe they're asshats.
Sounds like your boss is one too.
:( how horrible for him to lead you on in your performance review then do that to you.:
Big hugs.
BD - that really really sucks!
OP - did your switch get approved?
I have agreed to work for three more weeks at current place, doing something slightly different which should be more useful - that takes me up to Christmas. Have sorted out DD finishing at CC from the 12th of Dec when she goes away with my folks, and dropped DS down to two days from then until last week of January. It feels like the right decision ( I am sure even if job came up they could wait till end of Jan for me - 4 weeks is fairly standard). Will do a holiday swim program with DD in Jan - have always wanted to do one, as have heard good things about them but never worked out before due to me working.
I am off to a conference tomorrow to try and get some more insights into useful areas to try and get into and make some contacts - hope it will be good.
Got my mid-year review tomorrow, ladies.
Wish me luck!
Sounds like a good plan wysiwyg
Good luck peanutter!
BD - that is really crappy :(
wysiwyg - have fun at the conference
PN - hope your review was awesome
I have 2 weeks left of work, I am having a mental health day today, its just mind numbingly boring now. I have nothing to do all day, its worse than being busy, the days just drag. But hey, I get paid for it.
Have applied for a job at one of the universities. Management role, and its 10 mins from home - Fingers crossed. The application was mammoth - had to write up responses to 7 essential criteria (300-500 words each), but its done and submitted. One of my friends at the Uni reviewed it and she's confident I'll get an interview. Fingers Crossed!
What is wrong with people? One week left on probation, six weeks before Christmas? BD, so sorry you're in this position now :( What are you thinking you'll do now?
PN, how did you review go? I think we need lunch, I miss you.
Nyigi, Sahbear, good luck with job applications!
MN, mental health days are gooood. Enjoy. I can't imagine what your work must be like. Ghost town. :hug:
Wysiwyg, enjoy the conference. Glad you've got a plan.
AFM, I'm really struggling. I've been staying away cuz I feel like I just come in here and whinge and at least I have a job? Why am I whinging? But I hate it. Oh, it's fine when I'm here, even if it is pretty boring and sooo technically dry it's doing my head in. And I'm getting paid. I'm keeping our family afloat.
But I hate it. I don't want to be here. I haven't done a kinder run in weeks. I've no idea how DS1 is going at kinder. I've barely made it to school - I only get to do two days and mostly DH does the pick ups if he's coming home. I hate it. I always wanted to be a mum who ran around after their kids. They do my head in on my days off, but I'd rather be there, with them. I can't organise playdates because there's no time.
I can't really do anything different to what I'm already doing so please don't feel like I need advice on how to change things, I'd just love some hugs.
Hugs OP!
BD - how are you going?
MN: good luck for the uni position!! Sorry to hear that things are not great in the grind down at work -- not having productive work to get along with is no fun.
Wysiwyg: happy schmoozing! Glad the 3 extra months is a good fit :)
Nyigi: thanks, hun :)
OP: Lunch, definitely. FB me some dates? I miss you too :hug: My review went ok (round 1 of 2) wish me luck for the next round! I'm sorry your work is sucking at the moment. Big fact squooshy hugs. I get wanting to have more time with the kids, I really do ... I'm glad you aren't after any solutions, because I have NONE. [/QUOTE]
AFM, I've had 1.5 days off work, trying to get better. Still just have pollution on the lungs from overseas, and my lower lungs aren't looking crash hot ... Dr said to rest - so I was at home, a bit of gardening, a bit of reading and rest, etc. Had the kinder market on Friday, so that was good, to take the DSs there and help DS1 get a bit more familiar with it ... It's the kinder AGM next week, and I'm aiming to be there, but it's really tough to get out early enough ... ! I'm hoping for it, though. To buy one of the uniform t-shirts, if nothing else :happydance:
PN - is only three extra weeks - no way I would trust them to sign up for three extra months - three weeks just takes me to xmas - so would have been silly to say no really.
Ah. Must've misread!
Hi guys! Thought I would pop in and maybe join this thread. I used to be on BB all the time but haven't for the last year or so. It sounds like I am in a similar situation to many of you - the main breadwinner, so it will be nice to chat. I have a DS (7) and my husband is the main caregiver at home, and he does some casual work on the side. I work at one of the unis in the UK. Am missing the weather back home!
Welcome back Krysalyss - I remember you posting about applying for the UK jobs. Being from the UK originally I can sympathise about the weather :-).
I have 2 Job interviews this week, I'm nervous! And reality of getting back to work in the next couple of months is kicking in!
Thanks WYSIWYG! It's good to be back. :)
Sahbear - that's so exciting! Good luck! Hope you get the one you want the most. I put in for a new job yesterday as mine finishes in June and I have no idea what to do next. Hoping something awesome comes up!
Welcome krysalyss - what area are you in at the university? I'm in the Netherlands at the moment (was doing my PhD in linguistics and now applying for jobs) so I understand about the weather too. Hope you find an awesome new job!
Good luck sahbear!
I sent one application off on friday and decided to take a little break from writing applications as it was just too much with a new baby and everyone in the family sick. So I'm just taking the time to enjoy my new little boy and think about what I want to work on and emailing people...
That's exciting Nyigi! I would love to work in the Netherlands as I have family there. I did apply for a job there but no luck. I am in animal behaviour which I love. But jobs are few and far between :)
Are you going for postdocs or lectureships, or something else entirely?
Sahbear - good luck with your interviews
OP - hugs - I think one of the hardest things about anything is coming to terms with the fact that the situation you are in doesn't match what you have imagined. Our 'dreams' I think are very strongly embedded in us making it really suck when reality doesn't match them (this is true of many scenarios working being just one of them).
Know how you feel krysalyss jobs are few and far between in linguistics too. I'm applying for postdocs and lectureships, pretty well whatever's going. What about you?
I am 6 months from finishing my first postdoc. I have applied for one lectureship, but am thinking I will probably have to do a second postdoc to be competitive, as I haven't yet published anything from this one yet (still getting data together). But I am also applying for one grant and two fellowships. Fingers crossed something comes up that I will want and enjoy! I would love to stay here, but my position is funded by a grant and it can't be extended. I feel a bit bad dragging my family here, there and everywhere. Would love a job back home but in the current climate that certainly isn't likely! :)
Have you enjoyed living in the Netherlands? :)
Good luck finding something!
I've enjoyed living in the Netherlands. We've been here 7 years now (came for my masters) and the kids were born here. It will be strange to leave but there aren't many jobs going here and we also think it will just get harder to leave if we stay longer. At the moment I'm applying for positions or grants in oz, the US, the UK and germany. We'll just see if any of them come through.
The second part of my review has been pushed back to Monday ... not happy, Jan.
Hopefully it will be worth it!
That's frustrating peanutter. At least Monday isn't very far away. Good luck with it!
Hi ladies, thought I would pop my head back in here. DS2 is all of 1 month now and I am back looking for work. My contract finished up when I left to have him and looks like the company are counting their pennies so no new contract for me. I have to be in new employment by late Feb so can't afford to wait till after new year as so many people have January off.
I had a second interview yesterday and have a third interview with them next week. I have been told to expect up to 5 interviews for the position! Got a few applications to send today too
Thanks nyigi :)
And good luck for the interviews, ladies!!
OP wanted to give u hugs, nothing sucks worse that a crappy work environment and a bad boss. Worthwhile and meaningful work has always been important to me so I'm sorry to hear it's so hard right now
Good luck with your interview MT
PN I hope the rest of your review is great babe
Last week this week. I actually feel scared. I've never been unemployed since I hit the workforce. Entering new territory now
Hey guys sorry I haven't been around. Don't feel like I 'fit' now :(
OP he is a jerk he already has 2 harassment claims in against him and now he has a discrimination case too. Fair work advised that he was in breech of a few of their laws so I put in a case and waiting to hear. I sent it off a week ago so don't expect to hear anything for a while.
My last pay was a measly $190 cause he got nasty and took back what he had paid me in personal leave that I wasn't entitled too after he told me I was.
Really struggling with everything at the moment. Just didn't wanna come in an whinge.
Hope you are all well.
Welcome back krysalyss