# Auughhh!! The Waiting Is Killing Me!!!! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 17, 2005, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/auughhh-the-waiting-is-killing-me/308743 "2005-06-17T19:38:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![inkleberry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f17d59/32.png) [@inkleberry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/inkleberry)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2005, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/auughhh-the-waiting-is-killing-me/308743/21 "2005-06-20T18:52:14Z")
I’ll call them on Wednesday if I don’t hear. Meanwhile, DrLoveGun, that rat bastard, got a call from a recruiter on Thursday, when to the open-call interview a 1/2hr late today, and got an offer for a job making $7k more than the one he has now does. Where is my job? _grump_ ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2005, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/auughhh-the-waiting-is-killing-me/308743/22 "2005-06-20T20:15:09Z")
Sending more good luck thoughts your way! ---
**Author:** ![Large\_Marge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/50afbb/32.png) [@Large\_Marge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Large_Marge)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2005, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/auughhh-the-waiting-is-killing-me/308743/23 "2005-06-20T21:49:45Z")
> [@inkleberry](#): > > I’ll call them on Wednesday if I don’t hear. > > Meanwhile, DrLoveGun, that rat bastard, got a call from a recruiter on Thursday, when to the open-call interview a 1/2hr late today, and got an offer for a job making $7k more than the one he has now does. > > Where is my job? _grump_ Hey, that’s great!! Is it in police work? Or something entirely different? [sub]Sending positive thoughts that they call today[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2005, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/auughhh-the-waiting-is-killing-me/308743/24 "2005-06-20T22:13:09Z")
> [@inkleberry](#): > > We’ll see if the phone rings on Monday. You may not what them to call you. Within the past couple years I’ve had not one, but two interviewers who had the bright idea that calling you with a message to call them back - so they could tell you that you **didn’t** get the job - was ever so much more personal than a rejection letter. :rolleyes: I don’t know about you, but I likes my rejections, cold, impersonal and typed-like. ---
**Author:** ![inkleberry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f17d59/32.png) [@inkleberry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/inkleberry)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2005, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/auughhh-the-waiting-is-killing-me/308743/25 "2005-06-20T23:25:23Z")
> [@Large Marge](#): > > Hey, that’s great!! Is it in police work? Or something entirely different? > > [sub]Sending positive thoughts that they call today[/sub] Another restaurant management gig- but it pays a bunch more, has more potential, and if he does well, they will transfer us on their dime anywhere in the country. That last bit is important for our glorious Eventual Move to Wisconsin plan. It’s a restaurant you have undoubtedly heard of. Phone just rang! …wrong number. ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2005, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/auughhh-the-waiting-is-killing-me/308743/26 "2005-06-22T18:57:56Z")
> [@inkleberry](#): > > I’ll call them on Wednesday if I don’t hear. Have you heard anything yet? Inquiring minds want to know… ---
**Author:** ![Athena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2005, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/auughhh-the-waiting-is-killing-me/308743/27 "2005-06-22T19:46:50Z")
You’re not allowed to ask any questions of the interviewers? How on earth do you know if you want the job or not? :dubious: I just can’t imagine that. Hell, at the last place I interviewed I think I asked more questions than the interviewers. I guess I’m just particular about where I work. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2005, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/auughhh-the-waiting-is-killing-me/308743/28 "2005-06-22T22:24:55Z")
I filled out on online employement thingie for Borders. Cause I luffs Borders. It had a personality multiple Choice Test which was geared to weed out the Punkass kids who are likely to be nasty to befuddled clients or the Punks who don’t have a car or regular transportation. I have patience. I love books. I have a motor vehicle in my name ( three, actually) Gimme the jobbie! The problem was was it repeated many or most of the questions several times with absolutely no wiggle room for independant thought. I miss hand written applications where I could lie about my wonderfullness with semi-legible handwriting. ---
**Author:** ![inkleberry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f17d59/32.png) [@inkleberry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/inkleberry)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2005, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/auughhh-the-waiting-is-killing-me/308743/29 "2005-06-23T05:16:41Z")
> [@Anne Neville](#): > > Have you heard anything yet? Inquiring minds want to know… I did not get the job. The letter I was sent mentioned not having enough “supplementary points,” which are points gained for being a veteran, a minority, etc etc. Basically they did everything on a point scale (x number of points per year of relevant work, x number for interview, x number for writing portion, etc) and then picked the person with the highest number of points. I was not them. _sigh_ Back to the drawing board. ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2005, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/auughhh-the-waiting-is-killing-me/308743/30 "2005-06-23T16:16:34Z")
{{{ **inkleberry** }}} I’m so sorry to hear you didn’t get it ☹ But congrats to the rat bastard 😉 on getting a job. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2005, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/auughhh-the-waiting-is-killing-me/308743/31 "2005-06-23T17:22:37Z")
> [@inkleberry](#): > > Basically they did everything on a point scale (x number of points per year of relevant work, x number for interview, x number for writing portion, etc) and then picked the person with the highest number of points. I was not them. Just stand outside the building and shout, “I am not a number! I am a free man!” (Well, “woman,” in your case.) Sorry to hear that it didn’t work out. Good luck to you on your next possibility. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2005, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/auughhh-the-waiting-is-killing-me/308743/32 "2005-06-23T17:28:17Z")
What stupids, for not hiring a perfectly good **inkleberry**. ☹ _hugs_ ---
**Author:** ![Fionn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Fionn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fionn)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2005, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/auughhh-the-waiting-is-killing-me/308743/33 "2005-06-23T17:41:58Z")
> [@inkleberry](#): > > I did not get the job. The letter I was sent mentioned not having enough “supplementary points,” which are points gained for being a veteran, a minority, etc etc. Basically they did everything on a point scale (x number of points per year of relevant work, x number for interview, x number for writing portion, etc) and then picked the person with the highest number of points. I was not them. > > _sigh_ > > Back to the drawing board. I’m sorry you didn’t get the job. I’m on pins and needles waiting to hear back about a job I applied for, and the only feeling worse than that is learning you didn’t get the job. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/auughhh-the-waiting-is-killing-me/308743.md?page=1)