Tired and frustrated
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missdianeBossdude Josh is trying hard to stress that we're a team and keep things positive and productive but I can't help but get discouraged when in reality, I'm a part of their team but I don't see much evidence that anyone's part of mine. When I talk about what *I'm* responsible for - the day to day management of the land-grant research program - he tries to say that oh we're a team. Yeah? Really? So who is helping with my stuff? No one. But I don't say that since I am trying to give him the benefit of the doubt since he's only been at this a couple of months.
But today I'm irritated and glad he's out of town because I'm getting REALLY tired of being ignored. In our last team meeting, there was some haha about my emails that didn't get read. Yeah, woo. Nice. Thanks. Really feeling valued, y'all. I did say then that I have had this happen a lot before. Guess it didn't sink in much.
I've been on the group to interview people for a position for the "team." Let's get real, it's a position for Elaine and I'm not going to get any help. It's a position that they tried hiring for when she was out on leave getting cancer treatment and the person that they made an offer to then (and Elaine fought with HR to get her enough money) decided to stay where she was. She was using it to get a raise at her current location.
We didn't know when we were going to get a new director so I'd mentioned previously about how we were going to try to get me an upgrade and get us a person since we're so understaffed. Well, that all went *~*poof*~* with no mention. They relisted the other job and asked if I'd be on the search committee. Ok,sure I guess. We're trying to speed run it since we're hearing rumors of a hiring freeze. We first identified two people to interview. One that is internal and I was straight up with Elaine that he gives me the ick. That didn't give her much pause until our other team member mentioned that she also had bad interactions with him (which I found out what they were this week and GOOD GRIEF. NO) The second person we interviewed seemed very promising until Elaine called people that she knew where the woman worked and she's not really suited for the job.
So we went back to our very small pool of candidates and there was the surreal Gen Z person I posted about before and then someone that seemed like a great fit. HOWEVER, nope. She'd talked about a "hybrid" arrangement which we mentioned we'd have to look into it. She also put on her application that the salary she was looking for was the minimum of $75K. The interview went great and then when Elaine reached out to talk about the requested hybrid, yeah not so much. Essentially she wants to be remote and work 3 weeks at a time in Minnesota taking care of a family member and even when she's supposed to be back for 3 weeks, since she lives in PA near Philly, wanted to only come in when needed. Lady, if you wanted fully remote, which isn't going to work for us, you should have said so. Then she also tried to say she really wanted closer to the midpoint of $93K which well you should've led with that since HR obviously agreed to what she originally asked for. For our flexwork, even if we allowed fully remote, policy states that your remote location needs to be in NJ or in one of the surrounding states, Minnesota isn't going to fly.
In the meantime, I heard that Emily's small center across campus is crumbling due to the likes of DOGE getting rid of a bunch of their funding. They're trying to scramble for other positions and her business assistant (the gal that Emily and I had dim sum Thanksgiving with her and her husband) is super smart, has a masters and almost a PhD, has grant experience and is awesome. She obviously didn't apply for other jobs since she is happy working for Emily but well, things are bad. I mentioned that this person would fit very well with us to Elaine, I got her resume to forward but they would have to relist the position but guess what?
Ignored again - shocker. They're looking at the crop of applicants we hadn't yet interviewed and no one acknowledged the resume I sent for them. NONE of them are at all qualified but we're going to interview some chick that has just HR experience on Thursday afternoon. I am biting my tongue so hard but if they don't listen to me and they end up hiring this unqualified person out of desperation and it doesn't work out, I will not resist saying "I told you so"
I did decide to be somewhat annoying and said I'm not available before 2pm on Thursday to interview anyone. I wanted to take the full day off because I'm irritated and need a break from this BS but I did cave to after 2pm.
At some point we need to schedule my annual review before the end of next month. I honestly don't know what to say.
But today I'm irritated and glad he's out of town because I'm getting REALLY tired of being ignored. In our last team meeting, there was some haha about my emails that didn't get read. Yeah, woo. Nice. Thanks. Really feeling valued, y'all. I did say then that I have had this happen a lot before. Guess it didn't sink in much.
I've been on the group to interview people for a position for the "team." Let's get real, it's a position for Elaine and I'm not going to get any help. It's a position that they tried hiring for when she was out on leave getting cancer treatment and the person that they made an offer to then (and Elaine fought with HR to get her enough money) decided to stay where she was. She was using it to get a raise at her current location.
We didn't know when we were going to get a new director so I'd mentioned previously about how we were going to try to get me an upgrade and get us a person since we're so understaffed. Well, that all went *~*poof*~* with no mention. They relisted the other job and asked if I'd be on the search committee. Ok,sure I guess. We're trying to speed run it since we're hearing rumors of a hiring freeze. We first identified two people to interview. One that is internal and I was straight up with Elaine that he gives me the ick. That didn't give her much pause until our other team member mentioned that she also had bad interactions with him (which I found out what they were this week and GOOD GRIEF. NO) The second person we interviewed seemed very promising until Elaine called people that she knew where the woman worked and she's not really suited for the job.
So we went back to our very small pool of candidates and there was the surreal Gen Z person I posted about before and then someone that seemed like a great fit. HOWEVER, nope. She'd talked about a "hybrid" arrangement which we mentioned we'd have to look into it. She also put on her application that the salary she was looking for was the minimum of $75K. The interview went great and then when Elaine reached out to talk about the requested hybrid, yeah not so much. Essentially she wants to be remote and work 3 weeks at a time in Minnesota taking care of a family member and even when she's supposed to be back for 3 weeks, since she lives in PA near Philly, wanted to only come in when needed. Lady, if you wanted fully remote, which isn't going to work for us, you should have said so. Then she also tried to say she really wanted closer to the midpoint of $93K which well you should've led with that since HR obviously agreed to what she originally asked for. For our flexwork, even if we allowed fully remote, policy states that your remote location needs to be in NJ or in one of the surrounding states, Minnesota isn't going to fly.
In the meantime, I heard that Emily's small center across campus is crumbling due to the likes of DOGE getting rid of a bunch of their funding. They're trying to scramble for other positions and her business assistant (the gal that Emily and I had dim sum Thanksgiving with her and her husband) is super smart, has a masters and almost a PhD, has grant experience and is awesome. She obviously didn't apply for other jobs since she is happy working for Emily but well, things are bad. I mentioned that this person would fit very well with us to Elaine, I got her resume to forward but they would have to relist the position but guess what?
Ignored again - shocker. They're looking at the crop of applicants we hadn't yet interviewed and no one acknowledged the resume I sent for them. NONE of them are at all qualified but we're going to interview some chick that has just HR experience on Thursday afternoon. I am biting my tongue so hard but if they don't listen to me and they end up hiring this unqualified person out of desperation and it doesn't work out, I will not resist saying "I told you so"
I did decide to be somewhat annoying and said I'm not available before 2pm on Thursday to interview anyone. I wanted to take the full day off because I'm irritated and need a break from this BS but I did cave to after 2pm.
At some point we need to schedule my annual review before the end of next month. I honestly don't know what to say.
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Date: 25 Mar 2025 16:55 (UTC)Oh man, I so hear you on that! I'm expected to pick up EVERYONE's stuff if they are out/busy - but NOBODY picks up my stuff or volunteers to assist if I'm overloaded, LOL
I mean - they claim that nobody else knows how to do what I do, but magically I apparently can just slide in to anyone else's tasks :D (I mean, generally I can, but that's NOT THE POINT, lol)
anyway, I *arrgh* in sympathy with you!
ALSO - they end up hiring this unqualified person out of desperation and it doesn't work out, I will not resist saying "I told you so"
We did that - we hired someone who literally had ZERO qualifications for the job, ended up being awful and not able to do the job, plus was a total asshole - and when I was like "wtf?" I was told "well we didn't get many applicants" - well then we keep looking? We don't just hire shitty people -that is WORSE!
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Date: 25 Mar 2025 16:59 (UTC)And what chaps my ass on the hiring thing is I sent them an EXCELLENT candidate and they don't even have the decency to RESPOND to me.
Well, if I can scrape out things until late 2027, I can start looking to see if there's anything in the private sector. If we're all not sitting on street corners with a tin cup with this administration's plans.
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Date: 25 Mar 2025 17:53 (UTC)sigh. exactly.]
course, given Canada's new status as Enemy of the State, I'm guessing my citizenship might be revoked and I get deported, LOL
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Date: 25 Mar 2025 18:05 (UTC)Emily and I one day want to visit a Canadian Tire since Camping with Steve makes them look so nice lol
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Date: 25 Mar 2025 18:07 (UTC)Canadian Tire is pretty cool, and London Drugs is a standard pharmacy/drug store, but ALSO an electronics and computer store, LOL. We bought all our home computers from them, at least until we started building them ourselves. Also a bunch of cameras.
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