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Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...
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Break both legs, then(\__/) 07/07/1937 - Never forget
(='.'=) "Claims demand evidence; extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence." -- Carl Sagan
(")_(") "Starting the fire from within."
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Hehe.
The funny thing is, I have also been offered my previous job back (not the one I have just been dismissed from but the one I left) which is quite funnyAt least I won't be unemployed for too long either way, but I do have a concern why companies are discriminating against me because of my personality. I have recently had feedback from another interview I had and although they thought I was high competent they didn't feel me suitable because of how I would fit into their team. I am a decent bloke...why am I the victim of this bullsh*t?
Speaking of Erith:
"It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda Smith
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Sometimes you can be rather intense and demanding of people's time.
Like me, you seem also to struggle sometimes with understanding people can be different and have failings of their own that they either aren't aware of, can't do anything about, or are happy to accept.www.my-piano.blogspot
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I think its the oxbridge thing. So just how snobby is your accent?We need seperate human-only games for MP/PBEM that dont include the over-simplifications required to have a good AI
If any man be thirsty, let him come unto me and drink. Vampire 7:37
Just one old soldiers opinion. E Tenebris Lux. Pax quaeritur bello.
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Both you and Stew are correct. My accent is such a mish-mash nowadays after how many people I know. I think there is a lot of resentment over my intelligence, call me arrogant if you must.
I acknowledge your point Stew, but I let people be who they are. I don't appreciate it when people are harsh on me. In many ways I just wish people would let me get on with my job if they don't like me, and I won't make their life difficult. But in my past employment (Reckitt Benckiser, Academic Dept. of Medicine), my work relationships have been excellent. I wouldn't have considered myself to have made any enemies in the past few years of work. There are people who I haven't got along with, there are always clashes of personality but I am not going to let that get in the way of my job...other people generally tend to be far more alarmed about these people than I am. Reckitt's may have had some problems in terms of staff treatment, but I can honestly say that those last two days at Novartis make 13 months at Reckitt Benckiser seem like absolute bliss.
This leaves me with concerns over any jobs I get. I would go back to Reckitt's because of the experience and good personal relationships that I have there. On the other hand, the pay was not fantastic and it would seem like a step backwards.
All I want is acknowledgement, and I feel that I have had that with my previous employers wanting to reemploy me. But I am concerned that people are being judgemental against me because of who I am. I am not stupid, I can be intellectual and aloof. But whatever that may imply does not take into account my inner intentions. I am helpful, friendly and kind and did nothing but try and get along with other people and aid them in their jobs. I never sat in judgement of anyone, they sat in judgement of me. And I was the one ousted. This is why I feel the need to pursue this further. I was treated very unfairly. I don't judge other people on first impressions - I don't expect people to do likewise with me. But I don't understand how in 8 weeks they could be so utterly nasty yet at my workplace before that I was well respected and trusted? I never even got a fair chance.Speaking of Erith:
"It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda Smith
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The two companies I have worked at and the others I have visited and worked with all seem to have employees who appear to have their thumbs up their arses but think they are god for having put it their; QA especially
Perhaps you weren't arrogant enough. Sometimes accomplishment needs to be thrown in the faces of others to receive the merit for it.
Anyway, you should have no problem finding a job in your field, and I wouldn't say every company has as much "drama" as Novartis seemed to. Such things are generally dependent on your department and co-workers. I keep my nose down.
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It just seems so mad. I am an enthusiastic kind of person. If I am going to do a job, I want to do it damn well. I want to know it inside out and what other people do to, so I can get the most out. I dot every i and cross every t. There is never a stone left unturned. Sometimes I may not be the most intuitive of people when it comes to people and their silent bad attitudes. I am sick of having to feel like I should apologise for who I am because GUESS WHAT! I AM WHO I AM! LIVE WITH IT! If you want someone who is professional, courteous and perfectionistic, guess what, you've come to the right man. I will not let you down and I will do the job like you will never believe. Just respect me for what I do and who I am. Is this such a big request?Speaking of Erith:
"It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda Smith
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I don't lack confidence in my work either. When I have to tackle a bull by the horns, I'll be damned if I won't. But despite my brilliance, employers seem to find something to pick me up about and reject me (and I am not being arrogant, I am being realistic - Novartis couldn't find a single technical fault, but they still made some vague excuse regarding my personality which to this day they have not explained properly, and booted me)Speaking of Erith:
"It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda Smith
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Well, you describe yourself as 'aloof', and 'arrogant' wrt your intellect. Those put together could cause others to feel that you consider yourself superior to them. Whether or not that's true, you don't want to project that into a group you work with. Perhaps you did your job well, but you caused several others to perform poorly. And that's why they wanted you gone.
Of course that's merely conjecture; and even if so a manager should've pointed out to you how you rubbed others the wrong way. It would've been a simple enough problem to have fixed. After all, there's 216 different types of 'attitude', so the management needs to know how to get different people to work together. That IS their job.I'm consitently stupid- Japher
I think that opinion in the United States is decidedly different from the rest of the world because we have a free press -- by free, I mean a virgorously presented right wing point of view on the air and available to all.- Ned
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