So…when you’re working for an award winning customer service company, what’s one thing you don’t think you should do? Well, you absolutely should not allow yourself to get frustrated and simply say, “I’m done.” and hang up on a customer.
Knew I blew it when I did it. Copped to it right away. Didn’t matter. I’m now part of the unemployed.
I’m terrified but also relieved. Which tells me a lot about how I really felt about the whole thing. I’m good with people most of the time. But I’m seriously not cut out to be one of those people who can be “nice” 40 hours a week. I tried. Was even getting better at it. Couldn’t keep it up.
For those of you who are the kind of folks who do the, “God doesn’t close one door without opening another.” thing. I’m right there with you. I know things are going to be okay, I’d just like a peek at the God’s plan every now and then.
And I seriously wish my sub-conscious would let my conscious head know when I’m done working someplace. I would have been nice to have a new job lined up BEFORE I messed this one up.
Pay attention to your sub-conscience; it is out to sabotage you. You programmed it with “I gotta get another job” long enough that it popped to the forefront when you least expected it. And now you are getting one.
I have a friend that recently got terminated because of that (only he did it unexpectedly more spectacular with a “ctrl-v” of most inappropriate text. Viewed by many and resulted in a complaint to the company thought police.) I told him roughly the same thing:
“Oops. Maybe this was the “get off the stick and get busy looking moment” that you have needed. Unemployment tends to motivate certain individuals to greater achievements later. Just ask me! HP gave me the boot after languishing in never-never land, which was the incentive *I* needed. Maybe this here is yours.
I’d hate to see you move back to Michigan but you may be needed there sooner than *you* had planned …”
One thing to watch for is the depression that comes with the realization of the act. You might end up in a MS SOLITAIRE marathon and next thing you know the day(s) have been wasted. (Not that I know anything about that. heh.)
Oh, wow, Timmer… at least you know what you had done to get yourself shown the door! When I got let go by the medium-small corporate entity which billed itself as a ‘nice little family-owned corporation’ (which now I know means that such place is a sick and dysfunctional sort of entity with all sorts of gruesome pathologies) I didn’t have anything like that sort of clue. And the last two jobs I got let go from, one of them is upgrading to automated service (the radio station) and letting all of the part-timers go, and at the other – well, my boss actually died.
You weren’t all that happy there, and that was your sub-conscious speaking and telling you to move on.
I’m sorry for your loss.
Loss? Sure – losing a job – even one you loathed – you’ll follow the seven stages of grief, same as if you lost a loved one.
Anyway. I’m confident you’ll fall upwards.
Fixed “conscious.”
Already put the finishing touches on my resume. Already posted to the local citystatejobs.com site and fired an email off the the local Kelly recruiter.
Yeah, I’d been thinking “I keep this up and I’m going to be on these freaking phones forever.” The promise of quick upward mobility of last year had turned into, “We’re pretty stagnant right now.”
And I prefer FullTiltPoker.net to MS Solitaire.
It is unfortunate that the only way to get a “promotion” in most companies is to quit\get fired\downsized\shown the door and find a better job with a different company. Ironically doing a good job usually means you are too valuable in your current position to advance to another.
Keep your eyes and ears open, contact everyone you know and let them know you are looking. Many of the best jobs are never posted to help wanted. You have to know someone.
Good luck, may your “vacation” be a short one.
Congratulations! You’ve just acquired another piece of the “I know what I *don’t* want to do” puzzle.
They should have told you, during the transition briefings, that you’ll go through several jobs before settling into the right one for you. And if you were there a year, that’s great.
I’ve had six jobs in the last 15 years, not counting the part-time contracting work I did while unemployed/going to grad school. Each job helped me clarify what I did and did not want to be doing in the work force, which in turn, helped fine-tune subsequent job searches.
You have skill, ability, a good work ethic, character, integrity, etc. You’ll land on your feet. But you really DO need to talk to your subconscious about his timing.
Oh, and it *is* a loss, so *do* allow yourself to grieve, if you need to.
Thanks gang.
Nice to have the support of the online family in times like these.
I know I’m going to land on my feet. It’s the fall that scares the crap out of me.