A Slice Of Life
Mar. 12th, 2007 10:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
waitingmanHere endeth my weekend.
On a rainy night in this town, one of the best places to be is in an Indian restaurant with a bunch of entertainingly varied people ~ strangers & friends alike. Especially this particular restaurant... the first Goan/Indian place I've been to since about... never you mind... With SarinG, UnknownB, Dorukai, Roslyn & Somnistra in attendance, the conversation was as varied as their LiveJournal usernames suggest. A little food, a little wine... a little friendly personal abuse... At least, I hope it was friendly.
Hit the employment websites this morning & fired off about a dozen or so applications (apparently I'm not that fussy any more...), most of which will probably be ignored by the recruiters, or will suffer the same fate as written orders for Vogons ~ the due process of which is far too long to quote in full here ~ buy The Hitch-Hikers Guide To The Galaxy & you can thank me when you've stopped laughing.
One job in particular caught my eye & I'm hoping to speak to the relevant recruiter some time tomorrow. As it was, I ended up in North Sydney this afternoon for a hastily arranged pre-interview interview with a strangely-named woman (Beau??) & 2 fresh-faced 20something trainees. The overall impression I came away with was that they were fishing for applicants to pad out their quota... it didn't sound to me like the actual, real, concrete job prospect they'd baited me with actually, really, concretely existed at all.
I hate that.
I especially hate that when it comes on the tail of an e-mail from another recruiter (who f*#ked up my interview time with a company for a job I would have rather liked to get), informing me that the position has been filled... without me ever getting another chance to meet the employer.
I hate that too.
Other than that, the day was spent doing crosswords with breakfast & coffees at the local, then trying to find somewhere &/or someone who won't charge me hundreds of dollars to fix my guitar amp. The search continues...
On a rainy night in this town, one of the best places to be is in an Indian restaurant with a bunch of entertainingly varied people ~ strangers & friends alike. Especially this particular restaurant... the first Goan/Indian place I've been to since about... never you mind... With SarinG, UnknownB, Dorukai, Roslyn & Somnistra in attendance, the conversation was as varied as their LiveJournal usernames suggest. A little food, a little wine... a little friendly personal abuse... At least, I hope it was friendly.
Hit the employment websites this morning & fired off about a dozen or so applications (apparently I'm not that fussy any more...), most of which will probably be ignored by the recruiters, or will suffer the same fate as written orders for Vogons ~ the due process of which is far too long to quote in full here ~ buy The Hitch-Hikers Guide To The Galaxy & you can thank me when you've stopped laughing.
One job in particular caught my eye & I'm hoping to speak to the relevant recruiter some time tomorrow. As it was, I ended up in North Sydney this afternoon for a hastily arranged pre-interview interview with a strangely-named woman (Beau??) & 2 fresh-faced 20something trainees. The overall impression I came away with was that they were fishing for applicants to pad out their quota... it didn't sound to me like the actual, real, concrete job prospect they'd baited me with actually, really, concretely existed at all.
I hate that.
I especially hate that when it comes on the tail of an e-mail from another recruiter (who f*#ked up my interview time with a company for a job I would have rather liked to get), informing me that the position has been filled... without me ever getting another chance to meet the employer.
I hate that too.
Other than that, the day was spent doing crosswords with breakfast & coffees at the local, then trying to find somewhere &/or someone who won't charge me hundreds of dollars to fix my guitar amp. The search continues...
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Date: 2007-03-12 12:34 pm (UTC)Friended you, will let you know about dinner.
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Date: 2007-03-13 01:57 am (UTC)