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moon_custafer ([personal profile] moon_custafer) wrote2004-10-19 12:31 am
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....But Not Hard Enough, Apparently

After a pleasant weekend, I came into work this morning and got fired. I'd half-expected it, as you can see by my earlier posts, but I'd thought I was getting better. I guess I didn't improve soon enough. At least it wasn't a job I had a strong emotional connection to - but I shall miss (a) getting paid, and (b) my parents not being worried about/disappointed in me. Also, it's incredibly depressing to find myself a failure at reading work orders and reformatting text to ASCII characters, which was all they were asking me to do. The BPB (who's been stable and supportive all day, thank goodness) says big companies usually hire more people than they know they're going to need, and then fire the ones who fall just below their standards, so I'm probably not so incompetent as all that - it was just cutthroat competition. It sounded more reassuring the way he said it.

At least I did some sketches on the weekend; they remind me I'm good at something.

[identity profile] theengineer.livejournal.com 2004-10-19 01:20 pm (UTC)(link)
That's too bad, I'm sorry. And I think you're good at lots of things; following up on the BPB's remarks, the company was likely looking for the few people willing to kill themselves getting translations done as fast as possible, and since the job hardly sounds like something you could be very enthusied over, it just wasn't a good fit for you. Which isn't to say there isn't a position out there that is.

Believe me, I know that looking for work is a depressing enough job in itself. Actually, while I like the work I'm doing here, I have to admit that not being able to find a job elsewhere in the months I was looking for one rankles somewhat, it's a little like I fell back in here because they knew me, instead of convincing others that I was the right person for the job. Which means I should be working all the time on planning how I'm going to get the next job after this one (with this company, who knows what's going to happen anytime soon).

[identity profile] benet.livejournal.com 2004-10-20 07:04 am (UTC)(link)
I can't really offer any general observations of the world of work, which I've mostly been avoiding through grad school ("the snooze button on the alarm clock of life"). However, suffice it to say that this sucks for you, which I'm sorry for, and it's shortsighted of them, for which I thumb my nose in their general direction.

Also, the sketch is very good indeed.