'Serenity'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
I've been sleeping better (since my doctor told me to take melatonin every night and supplement it with a sleep aid when necessary), but I couldn't get to sleep last night. So I was awake at 4AM when the email came in from the UK-based recruiter that the company in Florida...had made an offer to another candidate and would be in touch with Husband if that fell through.
So it sounds like the exact same situation as two weeks ago, except they dragged it out for another two weeks.
I think things are pretty open in my town now.
OMG, Dana! This is ridiculous. You guys have got to be going crazy. I can't believe they're putting you through this.
Dana, if your DH gets a solid job offer elsewhere I recommend he take it, then keep applying for jobs at this company as a hobby to see how long their hiring process can stretch.
At this point, there are enough red flags that unless they had a really good and convincing explanation, Husband wouldn't take the job. I advocated a little bit for taking the relocation money and toughing it out in the theoretical job for a year, but honestly, the whole thing has just been ridiculous.
The UK recruiter feels bad about how the whole thing is going through resources and compiling some companies that might have jobs for him.
Dana, how frustrating. The only silver lining I see is that: if this is how they treat someone they're recruiting, imagine how they'd behave once y'all had signed on and moved. This is not a company you want to work for.
Dana, your husband (and you!) deserve immense praise for putting up with all that drawn-out bullshit for so long. What assholes.
A very good restaurant in Maryland - The Inn at Little Washington - will be opening at 50% capacity. They've acquired mannequins, dressed them in 1940s style clothing and have them at alternate tables. The wait staff have been instructed to treat them as customers, to the extent of pouring wine for them.
Sounds like eating in a Doctor Who episode.
Sorry you two are being dragged through this, Dana.
Thanks, guys.
I guess the possible good news is that my contract job is again making noises about a conversion to full-time. The local guy I work with has been very complimentary and is agitating for it, trying to convince the higher-ups. So that's a possible route back to having benefits we don't pay out the nose for.