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You would think a hiring manager (within the company) would understand the very obvious reason for not putting your company email address on a resume and still send anything about the position to your company email, the same as all the other correspondence from HR about jobs. Especially when you have my company email and I'm in the same freaking department! Nope. Sent an availability request for an interview to my personal email address, which I've not been checking as frequently because I'm expecting that kind of thing in my company email address. To make matters worse, ever since buying the domain name and SmugMug subscription that email has gotten steady borderline spam mail with simple subject lines and personal name headers (i.e. Smith, John: SEO Improvement), so of course the email listing in my inbox is a regular name and simple subject line, which means I glossed over it until tonight when I was going through it to clean things out. Also, no call to set up an interview? Really?

I'm beyond pissed, both at myself and the manager that sent the email.

Oh, and while I'm thinking about it and ranting; why the hell are companies still using the Unknown Name/# thing when calling? It should be really damn trivial to set a generic return # with an appropriate name to appear on caller ID these days. Heck, just have the company name pop up with an unknown #, I just want to know that I'm not answering a spam call.
 
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Love discovering a double dose of bad news on a Saturday morning! On the schedule that just got posted this morning my hours are cut back (and there's been no open shifts to pick up to make up for it), and then I figure out that the job I applied and interviewed for (thought I nailed it and had it pretty well in the bag), didn't get it. And the cherry on top of it all; the wife applied and interviewed for a new job at a different company, a spot she really wants...and she got it, but it would be a $2/hr cut. Her current workplace is pretty much the Titanic on the bottom of the ocean at the moment (toxic environment, upper level managers in a few areas bailing for better places, and she hates her job and most of her coworkers and managers), so how can she not take the new job.

2 years of applications and interviews, and not a damn thing to show for it. Dead ends, dead ends all around.
 
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So, I have been busily negotiating a deal with a client, my most major account, that has gone from ~`$900K to ~1.5 Mil in the last week. I sent them the final pricing yesterday right after lunch.

One of our staff has been working on-site with the client in a staff augmentation role for about 2 years. About 6 months ago we cut his time down at the clients to allow him to do other things with other clients. Monday of this week he announced he was leaving for another position. This probably has to do with a new manager we hired in over top of him for a role he wanted.

Yesterday around 4:30, I get a call from the manager that he and the guy leaving had a call with the client to let them know he was leaving. Mind you, they did not converse with me on this prior to, or include me as the Account Mgr. on the call. The client contact is fairly involved with the project that we are trying to negotiate right now, as are those above her who are involved in the decision making process.

Hey one of our main contacts is leaving and oh by the way give us 1.5 mil for this new project, right.......YOU ARE FUCKING KILLING ME......
 
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