Another interview
I applied for a job on Monday. I didn’t actually get the job description until Monday morning, because the manager was on holiday last week, and for some reason it wasn’t on the intranet (it was, however, on Monster……). It turns out the job is in the finance department, but is very similar to the job I applied for (and was offered as a sideways move), only for more departments, not just the one.
It also turns out it is manager of my friend C, who is in the process of applying for a job on my current team. I joked with him that he should stay in his current job, and if I got the job he could do all the work for me! He wasn’t impressed.
Anyway, today the hiring manager invited me for an informal chat about the job.
Now I want the job even more - it sounds absolutely ideal for. It is basically quite a nerdy job - taking the current, slow and cumbersome processes in place, and whizzing them up a bit, documenting it all, making it run like clockwork. Making the data we have more easily accessible to the people who use it, finding out exactly what they want and making it all better.
I have an interview Tuesday afternoon.
There is one other external applicant, who needs to be pre-screened by the agency, and judging by the look on the manager’s face, she’s not too keen on them anyway.
I stand a good chance of getting it. But I am trying not to get my hopes up too much - I got the last job, only they offered it to me at a lower grade than I wanted.
It will also get me away from Z, which would be a wonderful thing.
What do companies do with annoying managers, who piss off their staff, who have no clue, who make unreasonable demands to be completed in unreasonable timescales?
Yes. He recently got promoted.