My reading of it leans significantly towards candidate B. What am I missing? Why is candidate A still so strongly in the running? Maybe that will help.
My 27/279th deployment just got moved out two weeks. I had to ask a million times to make sure it wasn't an IT issue (because that's my fault, and the developers have been taunting me that we won't make it), but it's not! It's purely a business call, because I would have dragged the entire IT department (QA included, even though they're not my team) kicking and screaming into a end of the month installation.
I hate to be relieved, but it's totally easier this way.
And it seems like the new guy I had to interact with (new to me, not to the company) is giving me props, so even though he's changing everything, it will work. As I said, kicking and screaming if required.
(I love that the PM seemed to be on IT's side, even though he's a general PM, not the IT PM. That's the sort of thing I want to cultivate. Not that there are sides, just the team solidarity. I want to form teams all the time. It's my current work thing.)
Dita! Have you found her yet? Don't lose your shit. You will need it.
My reading of it leans significantly towards candidate B. What am I missing? Why is candidate A still so strongly in the running? Maybe that will help.
Because I am so backed up with work, I need someone to unbury me, and I feel like she will need little direction-- I can just hand her my mess and she will fix it for me. In my experience, only exceptional sophomores can figure out a job within parameters, but without specific instruction.
And is the *definite* short term part of it worth it? I mean, knowing you'll have to redo the process in a few months?
On the other hand, an investment in training time for the sophomore will give you longer term help without having to go through the hiring process again.
polgara, email me your sister's address again, thanks.
Assuming I still have the right number for you, I just texted it. (Was easier with cat on top of me.)
Dita made herself known! We are now hiding in the bathroom. I'm glad I didn't completely lose my shit because she totally did.
I am actually realizing through this conversation that "B" would probably not be in the running if she didn't work for the research department.
Every time I have tried to go logical, it has backfired-- my job isn't really very fun, and I am the only person and they are the only student worker. Whereas in research, the work can be more fun, and even if it is boring work, there are always 5 or 6 people working in a big room and they talk and have fun.
Phew! I'm just catching up now that I can see again. I'm glad you found Dita, Lee. Can you put her in a carrier until everything's settled down?
Lee, the cat's hiding hole that took me weeks to find was inside a swivel rocker. There was a hole in the bottom of the chair.
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Dita made herself known! We are now hiding in the bathroom. I'm glad I didn't completely lose my shit because she totally did.
Oh, good! (That you found her and that you didn't lose your shit...)
