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delalluvia:
What is it with some people these days that they are so inconsiderate? >:(
A friend is buying a used car from this family in a nice part of town.
She went and looked at the car, liked it, test drove it, the price was right and she was ready to buy on the spot. The guy though, hemmed and hawed and said, he didn't have the title on him, he'd have to go to his office the next day and get it. So she signed a promissory note, and put some money down.
My friend called me to see if I would drive her up there (about 20 miles away) the next day to get the car. I said sure. So all day, we wait for this guy to call to say he has the title so we can go. As it gets later and later, we decide we're now waiting for the guy to call to tell us why he still doesn't have the title.
My friend finally calls the guy, leaves a message. We wait another few hours and he calls back to say he lost the keys to his office - WTF? >:( - and he'll have to get the title when he's at the office Monday. So my friend tells the guy she can be there after work Monday around 7 pm. He agrees.
So here it is, nearly 6:30 pm. I'm waiting for my friend and she calls me, furious. The guy called and left her a message saying,
"Oh, I'm heading for football practice, call me when you get this message."
Um did he forget they made plans to meet to buy the car and turn over title? In about a half-hour? So she's now called him back and had to leave another message. She was pissed and giving him the benefit of the doubt told him she was on her way to his house and she hoped he left the title with his wife to finalize the sale.
We're waiting on a response. >:( >:(
delalluvia:
When it rains it pours.
Unemployed, no job, living off unemployment and my damn TV breaks.
I checked briefly, but does NO ONE sell just a regular TV anymore??!?! >:(
I see flat screens, HD/plasmas and TV/DVD combos and that's it.
I don't want a combo, I just want a regular digital TV!!!
Meryl:
--- Quote from: delalluvia on September 22, 2009, 11:04:59 pm ---When it rains it pours.
Unemployed, no job, living off unemployment and my damn TV breaks.
I checked briefly, but does NO ONE sell just a regular TV anymore??!?! >:(
I see flat screens, HD/plasmas and TV/DVD combos and that's it.
I don't want a combo, I just want a regular digital TV!!!
--- End quote ---
Poor del! :-\
Try the thrift shops and Salvation Army. I was in there today and saw bunches of them.
delalluvia:
Soooooo unbelievably frustrating.
Is it just me? Am I following instructions too closely?
I am still looking for a job and I see these positions and I look at the list of qualifications and I meet 99% of all of their requirements except for the specialization part.
NONE of the companies/organizations I'm applying for are willing to train!
And the shit that is specialized doesn't appear to me to be brain surgery. I mean, how hard can it be to pick up?
Should I just ignore that part and apply anyway seeing as I'm probably way overqualified for what I'm applying for in the first place or am I just wasting both of our times?
serious crayons:
Del, I have had the exact same experience, and I have been looking for a year. I've applied for many jobs I know I could do well, jobs I feel way overqualified for, and not even gotten calls.
My theory is that there are so many people out of work that companies get picky and hire people who have experience in that exact narrow specialty. Not that those candidates are necessarily the most qualified, but that they at least have some demonstrated ability to do that specific thing, so they seem like a safer bet.
I felt a little better when I interviewed a woman the other day for an article I was working on. She's been out of work for almost a year. She's in product development. Prior to this, she was always in fast-track, six-figure jobs, traveling around the world, soaring up through the ranks, etc. She has had to switch jobs a few times before when she moved or her company went out of business, but never had any trouble finding new ones, even if in somewhat different industries. Recruiters calling, companies flying her around the country.
This time she has sent out, she figures, 250 resumes and had like six or seven interviews. She has even applied at retail shops at the mall for $8 an hour and not gotten called.
I interviewed another woman, an economist, who told me that for every job opening there are currently 6.3 people out of work.
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