Government Inaction
July 19, 2010 - 4:35 pm
Irradiated by Stingray
Irradiated by Stingray
Today I received a letter from Los Alamos National Lab’s HR division, informing me that I had not been selected for a job I applied for with them.
A job I applied for a full year ago.
Thanks, guys, but I kinda guessed.
July 19th, 2010 at 6:37 pm
Sorry to hear that Stingray. It sucks when you’re waiting on a job.
July 19th, 2010 at 9:05 pm
Happily, he is stably employed… it’s just that said employment is not particularly joyous.
July 20th, 2010 at 5:33 am
The government replied in only 1 year! It must have been a rush project.
July 20th, 2010 at 6:37 am
I blame Bush.
July 20th, 2010 at 8:00 am
Happens in the private sector too. I once got a lucrative offer *six months* after my interview, with complete silence during that interval on their part, despite my attempts at eliciting a follow-up.
I did not know that “playing hard to get” also occured in the business world. At a technology firm, for an engineering position, no less - even there, it took six months for common sense to triumph.
July 20th, 2010 at 12:18 pm
Reminds me of the letter I got from the Food Stamp guy back in the Seventies. It said something like, “I’m very sorry, but I can’t find your application. I seem to have lost it. Could you please apply again?”
Of course, by that time a coupla months had gone by, I had some income and was buying my own food. I will say that I appreciate his honesty; I think that was because he was not an actual .gov bureaucrat, but a Church guy, his Church being the contractor for food-stamp services there and then.
July 20th, 2010 at 9:20 pm
For Bob: Why not? Everything else is. *G*
(tongue planted firmly in cheek)
July 20th, 2010 at 11:37 pm
hmm, had the reverse happen (not a government interview though).
Applied for a job, got an interview, and when I came home half an hour or so after the interview (it was conveniently close to my home) I found a letter telling me that “based on our recent interview we have decided you’re not a good match for our team”), a letter predating the interview by 3 days.
Called the person I’d talked with, and he told me he’d recommended me for being hired based on the interview, was stunned to hear with HR had done over his back.