Expecting, and the Unexpected

My Area Manager turned up today, totally unannounced. I hate it when they do that. Especially when I only have one window open on my computer and it’s researching electronic drum kits. I thought he might have come to check up on the air conditioning. This company is packed to the rafters with levels of management that justify their over-the-top salaries by nit-picking over the tiniest expense, so I had no doubt that our need to call in an engineer would be questioned.

However, he was here on ‘a higher purpose’ – namely to discuss the job-that-wasn’t-a-job that was accepted-then-not-accepted last week.

It was a long, boring conversation in a hot, stuffy office, but the long and short of it is that I have kind-of been offered the position. I say ‘kind-of’ because nothing firm was said or shaken on, it was one of those horrible nudge-nudge-wink-wink ‘IF you were offered it, WOULD you accept?’ hypothetical bullshit encounters that these higher managers seem addicted to. My suspicion is that he is driving around this week having the same chat with everyone in the area, so they can gauge who might be still interested in the position, so they don’t have to go through the embarrassment again of announcing who The New Guy is, only to have him drop them like a hot pebble three days later.

So I’m not allowing myself to feel wanted or to let my ego expand. I’m still not sure where I stand, or what will happen next.

But at least I got approval for the air-conditioning to be fixed.

RC 26-6-18