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Alien
11-11-07, - 11:51 AM
Well....not quite.

I had to share this experience with you people, about my previous "work experience" here in jolly ol'e Engerland.

Was working with a Financial PR firm, on a two week programme that ended up being extended for two more weeks after they saw how good I was....or so I thought.

In any event, there was a young lady who was on her last week with the firm, and she was sitting right opposite me. So, after she left, the human resources asked if I could stay on for another two weeks; I thought they were testing me out.

Well, the job was pure torture..easy to do...but the people sucked dog ballz literally. Let's put it like this, I never knew people had the capacity to talk about you, behind your back right in front of your face. I mean, it was that bad and during the last week of my "experience", the HR manager who interviewed me asked me if whether or not the folks I was working with was "mean to me"...LOL....I guess they are notorius for being just that.

I was really going through a rough patch as well...I was forced to move out of dorms, wanted to stay in the UK and work for a while, and wanted to find a place to live with no money; don't know how they overheard my phone conversations, but, they sure as hell knew what my position was. And it was not as if the money was worth it anyways....don't even get me started on credit card debt as my last month doing my dissertation, was absoultely dreadful. I was literally on a shoe string and had no money comming in....just so happened that that work experience, kicked in when I needed the money. Luck?

Well, just throughout the half way mark of my work experience, and when the lady who was my direct supervisor, who is the HR manager, was on a two week vacation, the position that was left open by the young lady who was working their opposite me "she said the company was a sucky company anyways, but I did not believe her thinking that it was sour grapes", they, the Director, openly brought in a stranger, foreign girl from Australia, to fill the position and something which I was equally qualified for; and the fact that they knew me, longer than they did her. It was like...well..ok...they did not promise me full time employment anyways, so it was ok; even though I had to endure torture, from pricks a year or two younger than me and from dead-beats, who were at the end of their line career wise.

But, the kicker was that I FELT that it was just to stick it to me. Not quite sure what I did to them, but, who cares now huh?

Anyways, it just so happened that the young girls birthday, was two days after the day she started work. They normally gather around the kitchen table, to sing happy birth-day. But, not this time, as they all gathered around her desk, which was right opposite mine, to sing happy birthday...all led by one of the office hound dog's, while the rest of her gaggle snickered and jeered while I had to sing happy birthday like a ghad dang jack-azz.
:realmad:

The office hound-dog was a co-director, who was extreemly cruel and disgusting. I kept my cool, but, she deserved a good cussin...which was not very far if the mouth murders and cowrds, gave me something to openly cuss em for.

But, the good part about it was that I found a job the next week after that work experience. I mean, I took a half day off just to go to the interview, and they hired me right on the spot. Just when my ticket to come home was due.....again...as I extended it by a month, after I had found out I had work to do in London.

Can't keep a good man down...aye...lol....well. Happy Birthday!
:tdown:

Alien
11-11-07, - 12:10 PM
Yea.....these things happened kind of weird. The weirdest thing of all is that the last two days I was supposed to work at that firm, I had to miss because I had to move house. Just so happened that the HR manager had scheduled a meeting for me to see the overall director for a permanent position....not so sure if me missing it was a bad thing, or a good thing as he was in charge of a separate area, which was allot milder than the people I worked with.

I still thank the HR manager at least because that job, came in when I was about to leave to come back home after my dissertation was due to be handed in. I really wanted UK work experience on my CV.....and, what is even the total kicker, was that the job I am on now, took me the week after that work experience ended so, I did not miss a beat at all.

Go figure.....it has been a broke two months, but, I think we are getting allot better....

Glad to see that people all over, like you in Nassau Rory, are getting the treatment that they don't deserve.

watsayu
11-11-07, - 02:22 PM
... I feel your pain.. I am going through the same.. but it is common place .. we tend not to treat each other well...

But my question is do you sometimes do the same to others ?

Alien
11-11-07, - 02:50 PM
... I feel your pain.. I am going through the same.. but it is common place .. we tend not to treat each other well...
But my question is do you sometimes do the same to others ?


I gat ay.....I een dat idle to sit there and dream up stuff like that....I can actually be makin some money.
:)

watsayu
11-11-07, - 02:58 PM
I gat ay.....I een dat idle to sit there and dream up stuff like that....I can actually be makin some money.
Do not get me wrong ALIEN, I truly believe you .. and I understand.. I go through the same.. espically the back stubbing and gossip... but I was simply answering how do we stop it.. or are you guilty of doing the same to others ?

That is my only question....

Alien
11-11-07, - 03:05 PM
Do not get me wrong ALIEN, I truly believe you .. and I understand.. I go through the same.. espically the back stubbing and gossip... but I was simply answering how do we stop it.. or are you guilty of doing the same to others ?
That is my only question....


Have not had a time to think about it. Don't know if you can stop it...you just have to live with it.

watsayu
11-11-07, - 04:00 PM
Have not had a time to think about it. Don't know if you can stop it...you just have to live with it.
.. I guess that you are dodging my question.. but I get your point.. .. my view is that no one has to live with bs... no one...

Alien
11-11-07, - 04:18 PM
.. I guess that you are dodging my question.. but I get your point.. .. my view is that no one has to live with bs... no one...


LOL...

I told you, as for me, I do not have the time to indulge in that.....it's too idle.

watsayu
11-11-07, - 05:03 PM
LOL...
I told you, as for me, I do not have the time to indulge in that.....it's too idle.
.. I am so glad that you laugh at that cause .. what you are talking about you do it all the time each and almost every post here on BI..

But that is your right......

Alien
11-14-07, - 05:51 AM
.. I am so glad that you laugh at that cause .. what you are talking about you do it all the time each and almost every post here on BI..
But that is your right......

Talk about people behind their back?
:dgi: