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Cross-stitch gal

Cross-stitch gal

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I applied for a position in a different department and a different location this week at work. If I get the job, it'll be a bit of a change after over 14 years along with more pay. :dance: As you can tell, I'm already really excited! Will keep you updated with more info!!!!!!! :)
 
Good luck, Cross-stitch!! I know you've been wanting a new job for awhile now so I really hope this works out well for you. Please update us soon and let us know if you get the job!
 
Yay, I have heard you mention you work place is not a good environment, hopefully you will soon be free.
 
Still no word. I'm starting to wonder how long it'll be and I'm feeling like a little kid waiting for Christmas or Birthday. I know that patience is a virtue. But, boy oh boy is it hard waiting for that phone to ring. :ybatty:
 
Never heard anything from that store I applied to. But, a new position opened in Home Electronics in another store around here about the same distance I go now. I'd be developing pictures, selling tv's, phones and other electronic stuff. I applied for the position 4/22.

Some coworkers (one of them the assistant manager) who both work in the Home department here at my store and I were talking today during lunch. I mentioned about being interested in the home dept if this current position doesn't pan out. The assistant I talked to is pretty excited. Just would have to talk to the main manager. So, no matter what it sounds like I may get my change I'm hoping for...
 
Thanks!!! :) I hope so too. It's getting increasingly more uncomfortable and stressful for me. So, a change is really needed. At least it helps to know that I have a way out no matter what. It's just figuring out which way and where I'll be going.
 
Good luck with whatever ends up happening! I hope you end up in a good department with a boss that values you a lot more than your current boss does.
 
The Real MC said:
I wish you luck, but I would be quiet about the opening to your co-workers. You don't want competition.
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I'm afraid that I'll have competition no matter what. However, the other department in my store (it's sad to say) that this other manager is more supportive and caring than my own manager is!!!

Last night (sunday) I brought a homemade magnet I was hoping to use to help organize my locker at work. It didn't work. But, I mentioned what I was trying to do to this manager and even showed him my invention and he told me not to give up and to keep trying! There's no way my manager would have even cared...

Since I'm finally on my weekend, I plan on seeing if the HR at the store I applied to is working and see if I can talk with her about the position. Hopefully this will give me some more info about my decisions as to what to do...
 
If it's any consolation, I'm in a similar boat with my husband's job situation. He's currently very under-employed (working 1-2 days a week in a shop for minimal pay) and he's been looking for full-time work for awhile. He recently had a very promising interview, they told him they had 100 applicants and he made the top 3. But since his 2nd interview, it's now been over 2 weeks and they haven't called him, so I'm guessing he didn't get it which is depressing. He has a different interview tomorrow so hopefully that one pans out.

So anyway, I know how frustrating the waiting game is! It's a weird job market right now. Good luck and try not to get discouraged - advice I have to remind myself of as well (I work full-time but it's difficult at times being the sick one and the only one really working, while the healthy one in the relationship frustratingly spends most of his time not working).
 
Any word yet, Cross-stitch? Still got my fingers crossed for you! Hopefully something has or will come along soon. My husband hasn't had much luck himself. I think he's getting desperate - he applied for an internship (he's 37 and is not exactly fresh out of college like the ideal candidate would be). The weird part is, it sounds like he's got a good shot at getting it (he knows a guy at the company where the internship would be) and it's even a paid internship. So who knows, maybe he'll be an intern 15 years after finishing school. :p I'm amused by this. Anyway, I hope things are going okay job-wise for you! Don't give up!
 
When in '78 was he born Cat? Sounds like your husband's only a few months older than me! No word yet. However, on 5/11 I met with the manager in the home dept in my store to see about a transfer. All seemed to go well even though he didn't have a place for me at the time (was even pleased that I was honest with him about having a medical challenge and mentioned keeping me in the store so people could keep a watch on me rather than sending me to the fuel center to work).

But, the home employees seem to be rallying for me to transfer over to their department (especially a person in charge who seems to be my mouth who talks to the manager even when I'm wanting to wait for the manager to come back to me). So, we'll see what happens. Tomorrow is my monday, so we'll see if I hear anything. If it's any consolation, my manager went on a week vacation and her first day back was this last monday 5/18. She didn't look terribly happy when she saw me, so I'm wondering if he's already talked to her...

I sure hope something turns up for your husband still. Tell him my fingers are crossed for him also!!!
 
My hubby was actually born in June of '77 so he'll be turning 38 very soon. And I was born in Nov '79 so we're all late 70's babies I guess! :)

Good luck tomorrow! I really hope you get some good news!
 
Went in to talk with my store director today and husband went in with me too. I'm still working with my same manager. But, it sounded like he was going to make sure to change a few things for me (scheduling included). He said that one complaint was my availability. So, he had a paper for me to fill out while I was there.

It was a bigger deal since I came in on my day off. But, it looks like he'll be talking with the home manager about my transfer and I believe it may not be terribly long till I'm in a different department. We'll see what happens. The good thing is that my manager can't hide now that he knows what she's done. But, will keep you updated on what happens.
 
Lots of things have happened since that talk with my store director. Conveniently, after that talk my manager called in sick for two or three days when I came back from my days off. Then, after those sick days somehow she ended up on vacation for a couple of weeks.

While she was off I got the hours I needed plus some. Last Wednesday I guess the assistant manager from another store called and talked to my assistant about me. Since then, I've been asked questions from coworkers and a manager about my moving stores. Strangely, I haven't gotten any phone calls or even an interview at this other store like I normally would have or heard anything about that transfer (as to if I'm interested in the move) directly from anyone.

My manager came back to work yesterday and the big wigs are coming tomorrow to check the store out. So the store is all up in arms trying to get it all pretty and the way corporate wants it before the big visit. My manager was pretty grumpy when she saw me yesterday. Husband and I are wondering if that transfer hit her desk yesterday. I think she's a bit overwhelmed by all the stuff that happened while she was gone and all the preparations expected of her in two days (starting yesterday), plus was hoping I would have quit rather than showing up for work happy.

If the transfer did hit her desk yesterday and she's just going to sit on the transfer and my store director knows it though, she's going to hear about it (I'm sure).
 
Hmm, well that's an unhappy development. Hopefully the transfer makes it through and she is just overwhelmed at the big wig visit (though she sounds like the kind of person where it wouldn't matter if it was the most relaxed time ever, she would still make it her mission for the transfer not to go through).
 
That sucks. They should have to process your transfer in a certain amount of time. I would keep asking about it. Take your career into your own hands,
 

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