When you're in a meeting and not even trying to conceal that you're looking at job openings

"Honeybunchesofgoats" (honeybunche0fgoats) 07/11/2017 at 10:45 • Filed to: None

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Ash78, voting early and often > Honeybunchesofgoats 07/11/2017 at 10:53

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I did this recently, semi-accidentally.

Boss: “ How should we word this part of the requirements in our job posting? ”

Me: “ I saw something very creative in another posting recently, it was... ” ( proceed to give exhaustive detail about a position I ’ m qualified for, but is clearly not within our department, but I had to keep talking to keep from sounding like I was suddenly busted)
 

Tripper > Honeybunchesofgoats 07/11/2017 at 11:02

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I’ve been taking so much un-announced time off for interviews. Now I need to go to the dentist but feel weird about asking as I have already used that excuse twice.

TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. > Honeybunchesofgoats 07/11/2017 at 11:07

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I would leave my phone open with indeed on the screen, a couple of months later I was promoted lol.

Textured Soy Protein > Honeybunchesofgoats 07/11/2017 at 11:23

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I was recently recruited into a new job that I start next week, with a HYOOOOJ pay increase.

The dress code at my soon-to-be former job is pretty relaxed, and I knew I needed to dress more formally for the interview at the new place. I tried to dress within what some folks wear to my current job, but it was pretty obvious because my usual warm weather attire is jeans or khakis cut like jeans, an untucked t-shirt material polo, and cool sneakers. That day I wore flat front slacks, a tucked in golf shirt, and dress shoes. Some people here wear that kind of stuff, but not me, usually.

I pre-planned my excuse to be that if someone asked about my clothing, I’d say I was out of more-casual clothes because my wife was out of town the past weekend and she doesn’t let me do the laundry. Those things are in fact true, except I did still have clean clothes that fit my usual style.

Before the interview, I was standing in the entry to a coworker’s cube, and the payroll lady from the next cube over commented that I was dressed fancier than usual, so I used my laundry excuse. Then that afternoon, the coworker whose cube entry way I was standing in commented on me being dressed up and asked why. I was like, “uh, don’t you remember when Renee asked me that earlier today and I was standing in this exact spot?” She had tuned the whole conversation out.

The new job asked me to come in for a follow-up meeting the next week, and I knew I couldn’t dress up again. So I devised a brilliant plan where I would wear my khakis cut like jeans, and my usual untucked t-shirt material polo and sneakers, but keep a golf shirt and dress shoes in my car, and change my shirt and shoes in the bathroom at the fancy gas station down the street. That worked out fine to change before the interview, but on my way back to work after the interview, there was another lady from my department filling up her car at the gas station, and I didn’t want her to see me walk in to the gas station wearing different clothes than she had seem me wearing in a meeting that morning. I quick circled around the block, she didn’t see me, then I went back and changed.

After I told the coworker whose cube I had been standing in about my new job, I fessed up about why I had been dressed up that day.

MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s > Tripper 07/11/2017 at 11:42

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Just keep using different specialists. I have an appointment with my urologist/proctologist/dermatologist/cardiologist/etc...

Then throw in gynocologist just to mess with them and see if they say anything (assuming you are a guy)

The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock > Textured Soy Protein 07/11/2017 at 11:44

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I thought you were opening a restaurant?

Tripper > MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s 07/11/2017 at 11:46

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Haha I used the gyno once, when I used to forge notes to leave early in HS!

I’m pretty sure that they know that I’m looking. I have a hard time hiding my facial expressions these days. Just haven’t found the right opportunity yet. Doing my best not to get discouraged.

FoilyDoily > Honeybunchesofgoats 07/11/2017 at 12:28

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This is basically me right now.

TorqueToYield > Textured Soy Protein 07/11/2017 at 12:37

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The whole sneaking around to job interviews is such BS.

I really hope the whole job culture changes soon. Skill based, project based, independent contractors, remote work as a norm...

Which is basically what’s going on now but with a thin veneer of ‘salary’ BS to hide the exempt from overtime stuff.

AMGtech - now with more recalls! > The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock 07/11/2017 at 12:40

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I thought the same...

Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo > Textured Soy Protein 07/11/2017 at 12:54

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Something like this was one of my better excuses for being late for an interview. Showed up, changed in the parking lot (like ya do) but realized quickly I’d parked outside the door to the breakroom... at break time.

Move car, resumed changing, was late. “Sorry I’m late, just not as good at getting changed in the back seat as I used to be!”

Got the job.

Textured Soy Protein > TorqueToYield 07/11/2017 at 13:14

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Many people like stability and independent contracting doesn’t work for everybody.

Also, health insurance outside of an employer is certainly possible with the ACA but for higher-paid people it’s still more expensive than an employer-based plan and depending on where you live there may not be viable options. And...it could all go away if Republicans manage to fuck it up.

diplodicus > Tripper 07/11/2017 at 16:13

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Just tell them you have soft teeth lol.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > Textured Soy Protein 07/11/2017 at 16:25

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I have to wear a suit and tie for that kind of stuff. You are lucky to get away with a polo and slacks. I do feel so very fancy in the suit tho.

Textured Soy Protein > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 07/11/2017 at 16:32

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Well, they were trying to recruit me away from my current job, they knew I was coming over to meet them on my lunch hour, and it’s summer. So I figured showing up in something that looked like what a typical office worker would be wearing was fine, rather than doing a whole Superman presto change-o suit routine.

MM54 > Honeybunchesofgoats 07/11/2017 at 16:37

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The way things are going, I may be in the same position before too long.

ranwhenparked > Honeybunchesofgoats 07/11/2017 at 20:27

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I had a job like that once. During the three hour Monday morning staff meetings, half the people at the table would be drinking coffee spiked with adult beverage and the other half would be checking job postings on their phones (or company laptops, if the screens could be positioned out of the boss’ line of vision).