Bastards! (Job Hunt)

[neotoma]

A recruiter just called to offer me an interview. As I was trying to figure out if I could get down to the site, he gave me a little overview of the job:

• Research -- whereas I would rather be working production or process transfer and have stated so on my resume.


• Quality Lab -- I have no experience in quality control, and find it an even less satisfying prospect then research.


• Biodetection -- I have some experience on this.


• Making test strips -- that triggered alarm bells. I worked for year as a 'temp-to-perm' at a company that did exactly that.

"Is this Tetracore?"

Yes, it is. He sounded surprised that I knew them.

"I worked there. They were horrible to me the last three months. I will never work for them again."

Oh, sorry.

Those are the people who were too cowardly to tell me when they fired me/terminated my contract. I left work one Friday with good wishes and 'see you on Monday', and walked in the next week to learn I had been fired -- the temp agency manager had just gotten things screwed up and not told me.

They're also the people who strung me along for an entire year with promises that they'd convert me to a permenant employee just as soon as they could afford to.

I don't even hate them any more. I just don't want to have anything to do with them.

I've got to get in gear and submit my resume places again. I've been coasting for far too long...

Comments

[imadra-blue.livejournal.com]

Ick. I remember a vaguely similar situation with one of my previous jobs. That is fucking atrocious. *pets*

Good luck on the job hunt. Those are hell, and I have to it myself...

[neotoma.livejournal.com]

What is really annoying is that I was left to dangle on my own WAY too much when I worked there. I like structure, I like feedback, and I like keeping busy.

Do you have any idea how hard it is to stretch work that is really over by 2pm into an eight-hour day? I was pestering the lab managers for things to do.

And got in trouble when I would read a book when 1) waiting for my 2 hour experiment to finish running (on an automated PCR machine, so it's not like I could do anything with it until it spat out the results) or after running out of busywork, buffer production, and cleaning to do in my lab AND the other lab.

[ellid.livejournal.com]

I had a similar experience; I left work on Friday afternoon and received a call from the temp agency at 6:30 on Monday morning telling me that they'd been told my assignment was over after hours on Friday. No explanation, no thing, and I left a jar of peanut butter and an apple (and nearly my dress shoes) in the office when I left on Friday.

Why are employers such buttheads? I've never quite figured that out.

[imadra-blue.livejournal.com]

I didn't have the exact sort of job, but the same sort of situation. I would finish my work early, and every time I tried to read or play on the internet when there was nothing to do, they flipped out. Drove me notes. So I took to drawing all over everything. XD

Good idea never to go back there.

[neotoma.livejournal.com]

Oh, the silly twerp from the temp agency called my home at 9:00am -- for a job that started at 8:30. I was generally out the door at 7:30am to catch the bus.

And I'd left *several* books there, which would have been lost if I hadn't come in that day.

One of the other temps who I kept in contact for a while said that afterwards they did hire some of the temps -- only to lay them off a few months later.

[venivincere]

VERY good thing you recognized who they were before you had to go and interview. :-S

[dphearson.livejournal.com]

Oh, yuck. Yuck!

Get in gear. And avoid them like the plague!