OMG, Dana! This is ridiculous. You guys have got to be going crazy. I can't believe they're putting you through this.
You never know if a girl's gonna say 'yes', or if she's gonna laugh in your face and pull out your still-beating heart and crush it into the ground with her heel.
Xander ,'Help'
Natter 76: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Foaminess
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.
EpicTangent - May 14, 2020 7:16:58 am PDT #21222 of 30019
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
Matt the Bruins fan - May 14, 2020 7:23:34 am PDT #21223 of 30019
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
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.
Dana - May 14, 2020 7:25:33 am PDT #21224 of 30019
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
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.
bennett - May 14, 2020 7:26:06 am PDT #21225 of 30019
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.
Amy - May 14, 2020 7:31:36 am PDT #21226 of 30019
Because books.
Dana, your husband (and you!) deserve immense praise for putting up with all that drawn-out bullshit for so long. What assholes.
Gudanov - May 14, 2020 7:36:29 am PDT #21227 of 30019
Coding and Sleeping
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.
Gudanov - May 14, 2020 7:36:48 am PDT #21228 of 30019
Coding and Sleeping
Sorry you two are being dragged through this, Dana.
Dana - May 14, 2020 8:03:27 am PDT #21229 of 30019
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
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.
-t - May 14, 2020 8:11:32 am PDT #21230 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Uuuuggghhhh Dana. Good luck with the benefits getting!
Zenkitty - May 14, 2020 8:48:10 am PDT #21231 of 30019
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Best of luck with obtaining employment, Dana and DH of Dana. What a lot of stress for nothing! That company doesn't deserve either of you.
I dislike the person I have become, and the illness I wish upon the idiots. But I can't help it. They deserve what they get, but the rest of the citizens they will come in contact with don't.
Laura, I am right there with you. I'm afraid for the workers who are forced to be in harm's way, but I no longer give a crap what happens to the idiots who want to behave as if everything is normal and fine. I just don't have the emotional bandwidth left to care about people who won't care about anyone else.