Mini meltdown and light bulb moment

misstara wrote: »

Yay fab news on the interview, best of luck, will have everything crossed for you Hope you find something to wear. I usually find that nulook are pretty good. I have one ancient smart dark grey dress for interviews which unfortunately doubles as a funeral dress :( should really get a new one for interviews.

Thanks MissT, I can't get into my funeral dress, otherwise I'd have worn that :rotfl:) I managed to get a top from TK mxx in the end, and wore my skirt which I squeezed into :eek: If I get this job I MUST go shopping!!

emmaglet wrote: »

Hi AleMrsT - it has taken me a few lunch breaks but I've finally read through your diary and I love what I'm reading! If you ever feel down then please go through your diary and see how far you've come. I remember you mentioning that you "only" paid £x amount, but your whole mindset has changed since you started this diary. You have also moved home, sorted out the Mr's credit report and you've had this interview!

How did your interview go?

Thank you Emma, this was lovely to read, thank you for sticking with me and sorry its taken so long to get through my rambling


The interview was the strangest interview I've ever had! We spent most of it catching up on how my mum is getting on, what my boss and his family are up to these days, and they were telling me all about the recent changes within the company.
I sat down and the interviewer said 'we are very impressed with your CV and we like what we have seen with it, so you are setting the bar for the rest of the candidates really'. Then asked if I found the office ok. As she seemed so informal, I bit the bullet and said that I knew where it was as my mum worked at the company previously. Then the department head came in, ("sorry I'm a bit late, I got confused with the settings on the photocopy, this is what we need a new person for to teach me how to work the thing" :rotfl:). The lady threntold him I was the daughter of a previous member of staff and he then broke into a smile and seemed to relax a little, and reminded me that I bought a car off him when mum was working there.
It was more an informal chat, they hardly asked me any questions, didnt seem at all concerned about my hospital appointment schedule (I know I didnt need to mention this but if he remembers my mum I thought he may remember the reason she left, which was at the time because I was at the hospital every other week so she got a job where she didnt have to work Wednesdays). I then asked how the company has changed, and they spent a while going through the departments etc and then the half an hour was over.
I don't really know what to make of it, they'll let me know next week as they have a few more to see, but they seemed very at ease and almost as if they'd already made up their minds to employ me and the interview was more a 'getting to know you' interview.
Its encouraging to know that the girl doing the job at the moment is going to be training to become a solicitor, which is why she's stepping away from that role, she's still going to be at the company, but will be training! Exactly the kind of place I want to be.

Back at work today, I discovered that the girl I work alongside is going to be taking over from the lettings manager when she goes on maternity leave, I am both relieved and annoyed. Relieved that someone new isnt going to be coming in and taking over, relieved that they haven't asked me so it makes the decision to leave a little easier, and strangely, this is also the reason that I'm annoyed! OK, she's been there for a year or so longer than me (although I was there for two years way back when and have returned), she currently only works 3 days a week, will be getting a pay rise etc, and I haven't even been approached/asked/considered.
If I don't get the new job, it will be easier at my current place with M in place as manager, and it wont be as hard work as it could have been, but I'm still gutted that the job wasnt split between us with us both obtaining more responsibility and a pay rise!

Ah well, fingers crossed it won't be my problem for much longer. :rotfl:

misstara wrote: »

Hi AleMrsT, so sorry to hear you didn't get the job can't see where you've gone wrong with the figures but yay to having extra money left over.

Thanks MissT, I was really well behaved today, I did a lunch run for my colleagues and didnt get anything from 8oots, I had some vouchers in my handbag for McD's, so I got in the queue, couldnt decide what to get, so went back to work and ate my salad instead :T:j better for my waistline and my purse!

twiggy86 wrote: »

Sorry to hear about the job, annoying that you may not have had a proper chance to sell yourself as it was so informal.

Thanks twiggy, my friend (who is a HR manager) told me that I would have grounds to appeal or something if I didnt get the job based on how the interview (or lack of) was conducted, but I'm not interested in that, if they don't want to employ me, fine, I'm not going to fight them about it, something better will come along no doubt.

Incidentally, I've seen another job at a housing charity, so still under the 'property' umbrella, but it is administrator for the company, so a mixture of what I do on the charity committee, combined with what I do at work all day, so I'm going to apply for that, its a decent pay increase instead rather than the slight pay cut I would have taken if I'd got in at the solicitors.