Posting sneakily from work

[rallamajoop]

The bad news
After waiting a full month for any real reply on that job I was interviewed for (despite being originally assured I'd get a reply within a week) I finally phone up again to be told they've decided... not to hire anyone. Some kind of story about how they've already taken on a couple of new staff lately for other positions and decided they had as many new people to break in as they could deal with right now. It's easy to look at it now and say I'm probably better off not working for a company who'll go through that much work to find new staff only to change their minds a month later about whether they wanted them in the first place, but it doesn't exactly negate the disappointment. -_- Man do I wish these places wouldn't keep leaving me hanging so long before finally giving me bad news at the end. It's been almost the exact same pattern with everywhere I've tried since I started looking for work, and the result is that the whole process is dragging out to the point of stupidity.

The good news
The move went well - so incredibly well we've been loudly congratulating ourselves on it ever since. We owe a lot of thanks for that to various family members and friends (namely alyssea, k_chan009 and especially Ken and Mel) for volunteering their help, moving-related advice, vehicle space, large muscles and/or Ikea furniture-assembling skills - the process would not have gone anywhere near as smoothly without them. Furniture is mostly sorted - between us, we were allowed to leave our family homes with three beds, two desks, a fridge, a table and chairs, a TV and other assorted bedroom furniture from home; and Ikea has filled in most of the remaining gaps (we had people assembling furniture in four different rooms at once at one point on Saturday XD). We got the new couches delivered on the same day too and have unanimously voted them the most wonderfully squishy and comfortable couches ever - people keep finding themselves gravitating back towards them at every opportunity. We've already got a giant bookcase worrying everyone slightly over its probable stability under the huge load of manga and novels we've stuffed it with and a glass kitchen cabinet almost entirely filled with Squeenix action figures. The fact I've actually moved out of the house I have lived my whole life in has barely sunk in yet, but we've already gone a long way to making the new place feel like home.

There are still a few odds and ends left to be filled in (I could use a bedside table and bookshelf, and some things pinneagig is buying off a work colleague have yet to make it over) and a mass of boxes to unpack, and it's taken two epic shopping trips to get hold of all the random odds and ends we need to fit out the kitchen and bathroom and all the rest. It's been very tiring (no coincidence that I spent Sunday morning in bed with a cold I'd been fighting off all week) and it's still not over yet, but the worst is done now. Giving ourselves the extra week between signing the lease and moving in really made all the difference as far as preparations went.

Still no Internet connection from the new house yet, nor even a good ETA to we'll be getting it. Hopefully this will be remedied before the withdrawl symptoms set in wholesale. I think we can all guess what this is likely to do to my resolve to waste less time on the web from work in the next week or so too. >.>

Comments

[cheloya.livejournal.com]

:3 Glad to hear the move went well! Ikea furniture is the greatest, isn't it? XD I love pretty much everything available in Ikea. (Either that or I am simply inordinately fond of the idea of the flat pack, and wish to experience it at every opportunity.)

Hopefully the lack of internet will give you more time to write? :D? I hope you get your internet back soon. :B

[rallamajoop.livejournal.com]

We've come to the conclusion that Ikea is not so much a store as a kind of furniture theme park. And we may well be back there again soon at this rate. (Our youngest sister (ie, the one who's not moving in with us) is so fond of Ikea furniture she came over and practically pounced on the TV table and refused all offers of help assembling it. She's hardly ever that enthusiastic about anything! XD)

I was actually thinking that up until I realised that my no-Internet time is more likely to get used unpacking the giant pile of boxes still sitting in my room. We'll see whether there is any left over at the end. It is the single biggest thing that is missing from our house right now. Especially for net junkies like the three of us.

[aphelion-orion.livejournal.com]

I'm glad to hear your move went so well - moving an entire household is so tough. I remember the last time we "moved" (even though we just had to remove everything from the kitchen because it was being refurbished), and we are still missing odd bits and pieces of tools and cutlery. *sweatdrop*

And I'm sorry to hear it didn't work out for you. *hugs* I think it's rude that they never even informed you of their decision... most companies I know will at least go some trouble to send you a polite letter of rejection or something. Not that that makes it any easier, but to leave somebody hanging for a month is unacceptable, imho. So yeah. *hugs*

[rallamajoop.livejournal.com]

Yeah, in some ways we're probably lucky all our kitchen supplies are new - at least that meant they were all packed sensibly and with no pieces missing. XD Whereas there are these other things I know I packed in one of my boxes somewhere, only...

They're only a small company and I sort of gathered they'd wound up biting off more than they could chew by taking on too many new people at once, but it's still unimpressive that they'd take so long - and even then somehow not get around to sending out the email to let people know what was going on. Sad thing is, getting left hanging for a month is something I'm starting to take as being the norm based on recent experiences. -_-

[lunargeography.livejournal.com]

If you are like me, you will never be able to have enough bookshelves. Books will spontaneously generate themselves to fill all available shelf space. It's a mystery...

D'oh. I forgot to pass onto you my company's website. Will do so.

And congratulations on having mostly moved in. (Wow...the first time you've lived someplace other than your family home? I started my series of apartments the summer after my sophmore year in college... and bought the house about 2 years ago. I had no need to run to Ikea.)

[cielrose.livejournal.com]

Should you need us for anything..we're just a phonecall away!! xDD

Boo to the job place, they sound lame! Hope you get a position you like eventually! =^.^=

[rallamajoop.livejournal.com]

For better or worse I don't tend to hoard a lot of books - I'm more likely to borrow, read once and never reread these days. We actually weren't expecting to fit all our books into the one shelf, but it's probably mostly because a lot of the manga is stacked two shelves deep. Or more likely because jaseroque hasn't finished all her unpacking yet...

You did pass the website on to me - it'll still be there in the chat log from when you first brought it up. Gmail is handy like that. ^_^

In Australia there's no major incentive to move out of home when you start university (unless you'd otherwise have a long way to travel, but not a lot of people bother picking universities outside their state so there aren't so many in that category either) so a lot of people go on living with their parents through some or all of their uni years. And since we get on pretty well with our parents and figured uni itself was enough stress without moving and having to fend for ourselves, we did not complain. The other two living here have both spent a year on exchange in Japan though, so it's not like none of us have ever lived away from home. Actually, if they hadn't been stretching out their education with all those overseas trips, we may well have gotten around to moving out at least a year sooner. XD

[chisathechi.livejournal.com]

Boo at the lame job people, yay for moving out! I'm going to have to get around to that someday...

So when's the housewarming party eh?

[rallamajoop.livejournal.com]

Lord knows we stuck around at home long enough ourselves. ^^; It sure is nice to have it sorted out now though.

We're probably putting the housewarming off by an extra week until the 18th or so, to allow a bit more time to get everything organised. Hoping to get some form of invitations out to people within a day or two.

[rallamajoop.livejournal.com]

Thanks, we may yet need to take you up on that (still so much fabric and sewing supplies to move from home - made a trip with our own car last night and barely dented what was left. ^^;)

BTW, if you haven't seen Iron Man yet we were planning to go see it on Friday night, like to join us?