cluelessness and its attendant problems
Jul. 23rd, 2012 09:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
deird1Am currently looking for jobs, since mine will be ending soon.
Just had a coworker helpfully point out that there's an engineering job in the department that hasn't been filled yet, and I should totally apply for it! Being a fairly new guy, he was, sadly, unaware that this job he was enthusing about was exactly the job I used to do. You know - the one that drove me into a total breakdown complete with bursting into floods of tears every time I mentioned work? Yeah...
Calmly explained why this was never, ever, under any circumstances EVER going to happen - and he looked horribly embarrassed and scurried back to his desk. Now I feel kinda bad for him. But honestly...
Just had a coworker helpfully point out that there's an engineering job in the department that hasn't been filled yet, and I should totally apply for it! Being a fairly new guy, he was, sadly, unaware that this job he was enthusing about was exactly the job I used to do. You know - the one that drove me into a total breakdown complete with bursting into floods of tears every time I mentioned work? Yeah...
Calmly explained why this was never, ever, under any circumstances EVER going to happen - and he looked horribly embarrassed and scurried back to his desk. Now I feel kinda bad for him. But honestly...
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Date: 2012-07-23 09:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-23 11:38 am (UTC)I felt really bad for him, but I kind of had to tell him, and I knew he was going to be horribly embarrassed, and at the same time I was getting horribly embarrassed, and...
*sighs*