The long way home - PART I -

Posted on 2006/06/12 13:36:17 (June 2006).

[12th June 2006]

CLIFFHANGER!

Today I woke up from the usual restless sleep, it is the grand day when I will tell my boss about my will to resign from this company. The plan was to tell him first thing in the morning, but as usually these plans are I didn't manage to put it in practice.

Mostly because I had to collect the registered mail that arrived from the other company with the famous official "letter of intention". This means that I had to be at the post office at 8,30 while usually by that time I am 20kms away in the office.

To add hurdles to a shakey situation, a client from Japan called me. I totally forgot about them, they were about to get on the train to go near my company and of course I had to pick them up... This meant a rush to the office, switch of car (using the company car for these menial tasks) and then off to the station (arrived late anyways) to pick them up.

The usual tour of the offices, the usual meeting and so on took more or less 2 hours so that we were already close to lunchtime, and my boss was busy with a huge client (Louis Vitton if you wanna know) and I managed only to tell him that I wanted to speak to him.
He replied in a joking way "It's not bad news are they?!", to which I couldn't reply but "Well, they are...". By doing so I hope that I am preparing him for the worse, he is already sweating about it (so my colleagues say, he's been asking around what it might be that I want to talk about, and that he's fearing for the "WORSE"), it's not nice but I need to get these stones off my back as soon as possible, tension is mounting too much and I need to direct my endeavors and mental powers to the imminent move and all the related practical and mental problems, not these mind wanks (in a way).

A funny note of the day needs to be mentioned. I was interviewed by the usual "head hunter", the scum and cancer of the work enviroment (normalized prospects is what they need, I met one or two real professional people in this industry all the rest are just paper shufflers), one week ago.
He called me to book the second appointment, this time with the client, i.e. the prospect employer.
I politely told him that he arrived too late, that I already decided to go for something else, at this point he started telling me that "you cannot cancel the appointment, you must go, even to show your face only, we have an agreement...".
I told him, still politely, that there wasn't any point in meeting, I was not interested in the position, so it would have been a waste of time only. He kept insisting telling me that "you have to do it as a personal favour to me, please come to the appointment, I need you to be there, do it for me, for the relationship between us"...
When confronted with the fact that we met only ONE WEEK BEFORE for fortyfive minutes his castles kind of crumbled a bit. Still he kept asking to the point of nausea, and I decided to go (as if seemed that he was dying)... He then called me half and hour later to tell me that the deal was off, to which I told him that maybe it was better that way.

Now.... HOW THE FUCK DO THESE PEOPLE EARN THEIR WAGES FOR GOD'S SAKE!?!?!??!?!?!? To say that I am appalled it's to use an euphemism. In any case better that way, but I cannot say no, even to strangers, I am too kind sometimes.

Anyway, back to waiting, tonight I'll have a burden off my chest, let's see the bright side of things.

I know how you feel - I was in a similar situation when I had to tell my boss I was leaving to go travelling (something I'd been planning for months of course, but keeping a secret until it was all finalized). I made the decision to tell her first thing on the Monday morning, but as it turned out she was off sick all week so I had to leave it until the Friday!!! In the end, she was actually surprisingly understanding about it all and I wondered what I'd been stressing about. I hope you manage to tell your boss today - you'll feel so much better once it's out in the open and you can start counting down the days till you leave!

Posted by Caroline at 2006/06/12 14:56:52.

Yea, employment agencies - scum! They're almost as bad as lawyers. I assume their salary is heavily (maybe entirely) commission based, so they really don't care how much of a mess they make of your career, so long as they get their slice out of it. They're like vermin, honestly.

Anyway, hopefully soon this kind of thing will be a thing of the past. I am waiting for news with bated breath Lox!

Posted by John at 2006/06/12 15:15:46.

I have already the title for my life movie "THE LORENZO CODE" :) Everyone is waiting with bated (a new word that I have learnt today thanks to John and Tim's mum) breath! Oh well, I guess I am sewating about it as well, but it has to be done, plus tonight we have the football (Italy plays) so I cannot have other mess in my mind to deal with, I'll have to concentrate on the swears!

Posted by Lox at 2006/06/12 15:41:47.

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