- We did it! 🌊🌊🌊 No drinking required to get through last night.
- So, job update, because yesterday after I posted things got a lil wild. (Not majorly so. Just a teensy tiny bit wacky.) So after my DNap, I put on my Big Girl Panties (TM) and called Weltman to ask if they could extend my offer out just a feeeew more days so I could wait to hear from System Seals. As expected, they couldn’t — it was accept, or have the offer rescinded. So I had to snap my Big Girl Panties (TM) to remember that I was indeed wearing them, and tell them that the only thing standing between me and accepting was the school dropoff flexibility thing. So Jon, the guy I’ve been working with through all of this, told me that would most likely not be an issue at all, but talked to my (spoiler alert: future) manager to verify it, and called me right back. It was indeed not an issue at all! So I signed the offer letter and now I’m officially-unofficially employed again!!! Feels good. This is, of course, pending my background check and drug test clearing. Which, there’s no reason they shouldn’t clear, but at the same time, I do worry that something weird is going to happen.
- BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE! Because where’s the craziness in making a very small negotiation? Here’s Part II. I had emailed David, the recruiter working with System Seals, to let him know that I sort of need to know their decision ASAP. Then had the conversation with Jon and accepted the position. Then David called me. System Seals was actually putting a pause on hiring for the position I’d interviewed for, due to the new IT manager coming in (yesterday was his second day on the job) and wanting to evaluate what he had to work with in the people already there before adding anyone new. So. Phew. That decision was one I actually didn’t have to make at all. Creditor’s rights, babyyyy!
- In any case, I didn’t end up making that chicken curry I linked to yesterday, because we got Mr. Hero in to celebrate my accepting the offer. (The plan was already to have it Thursday night, so I’ll just do ye olde swaparoo.) It was…aight. I want to try the cheesesteak. But I did enjoy our Romanburger.
- I can’t remember if I wrote earlier about The Round House. It is so good. Just when I think I’m starting to get a little tired of it, it somehow manages to rally.