Moving on...

Yikes, I haven't posted in a long time. This semester's classes are, by far, the hardest, and I have had no time to post. Also, I've been knitting very little. The spouse is on a trip and he didn't even take the time to try his socks on, so I've no idea where to start the cuff of his socks, so all I am doing is knitting one or two rows of the pink thing every once in a while. By the way, the spouse took the camera with him, so I cannot show any progress pictures.

As for the job issue, I hesitate to blog about it. If I ever get hired, it would be inappropriate to talk about work here. Of course, I might not get hired at all, which means I can complain as much as I want on my blog. If I end up being hired, I might come back and erase this.

I got a call from HR. Since opening the permanent position is taking such a long time, they are hiring someone temporarily, and they suggested I applied for that. Well, I happen to know the person who already took the temporary position. She is one of my classmates and we actually work as a team in one of my classes, performing the experiments together. The HR person denied that anyone had been hired already. I told her that in any case I wanted to apply to the permanent position, not the temporary one. She said then that whoever got the temporary position would probably get the permanent one. So I sent in an application for the temporary position, even though I knew that my classmate was already working anyway.

Well, this HR person told the head of the department (who had already told me that I was getting the permanent job) that I wasn't really interested. One of my former professors corrected that notion, but I am still very annoyed at HR.

I hate it when people are lazy or just don't want to bother with anything they haven't done before. Like I said, changing my visa is not hard. They don't need to do anything except write a stupid letter, and then I would have travel back home and tramit my new visa, not them. But it seems to me that HR is trying very hard not to hire me.

I am now competing with my classmate for the permanent position. She is good, but I have more experience and there are certain tasks I am better at than she is. Of course, if she works as a temp long enough, she'll be much better than me in certain things: instruments and machines may operate all on the same principles, but each model has its own quirks, and she'll be more acquainted with the equimpent they have here than I am. Also, because she is now an internal candidate, she'll be able to apply for this position before I do, and she will get preference over me.

Life is unfair.