Goodbye Mr Blue Sky

[rhionnach]

How do I say this? I am redundant. The final meeting was this morning, at which they told me they had not come up with a solution and that they would regrettably have to make me redundant. They gave me a letter which detailed what I would be paid. There's no redundancy payment as I hadn't been there for the required two years. I took the news as best I could, then went out, cleared my desk and said my goodbyes.

Tomorrow I start a new job.

I got a phone call on Monday about one of the interviews from last week. They want to start me on a one month trial. If they like me they'll keep me on. If not, well, it's a temp job until something else comes along. However, I plan to make sure they like me.

I didn't say anything about this job during the meeting. In my head I've already moved on so I went into the meeting thinking that the worst case scenario would be that they wanted me to stay! However, if this new job hadn't come up I would not be in a good mood, although not in a state of panic - yet. I hope the new job works out.

For the Heathens reading this, I wonder if there's any significance to the fact I'll be starting on the ninth day of the month on a Wednesday?

Comments

[sigrid-stallard.livejournal.com]

Good old wise Wodan's day. Of course it is a good omen, especially with the nine and the 12 in the date... It all hints towards assertiveness, wisdom and completeness. :)

xxx

[gaspodia.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on the new job!

[loreleyjacob.livejournal.com]

I hope the new job works out fabulously for you.

[highstone.livejournal.com]

Good to hear that a job came through in time - lets hope it lasts more than a month!

[muninnhuginn]

Best of luck with the new job!

[ksimes.livejournal.com]

Hope everything goes well in the new job.

[emmzzi.livejournal.com]

many congratulations on the new job, hope it works out! is it in your regular line of work?

[rhionnach.livejournal.com]

It's in my regular line of work, for a company that does what another company I interviewed for years ago does. I had been waiting to hear the outcome of that interview only to be told when I called that the people interviewing had left. It turns out that this is the company they went to! Hopefully that's a good sign.