Why don't you phone them? I think I applied on-line, and heard back from them in about 2 weeks. Maybe the first time I heard from them, was a confirmation of my application to apply for, and then wanting a copy of my ROE etc. When did you apply? The ladies in the Belleville office, where out of country claims are processed are awesome. Actually come to think of it, they PHONED me about 2 weeks after my on-line application. If you do call them, you'll get a voice recording, but they're really good about getting back to you!

I had a phone interview today for a job I applied for... I sent my resume to them like 3 weeks ago, but whatever. So we get talking about my experience and all that I've done and she says to me "Wow you have a lot more experience then most other applicants. Your qualifications are too high for this position." WTF! First of all didn't you read my resume before you called me? Secondly I wouldn't have applied if I didn't want the job! Thirdly wouldn't that be a good thing?! I just want to work.

BUGGERS! (for lack of a more appropriate expletive here)


Poor poor Liz.
Hang in there....

How is that shower curtain of yours BTW??

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It's doing well =)

oooo and your tiles are so shiny!!

Obviously an inside joke.

Oh me nerves...

I am just constantly surprised by the incompetence and ignorance of some individuals I deal with professionally.. Talking real life people here not VJ sheesh..

re vj sheesh.

I hear you about the incompetence and ignorance. Strangely enough, I'm constantly surprised by it too. You'd think I'd have learned to expect it by now. Actually, I thought you WERE talking about VJ sheesh, because I've been doing it myself these last few days.

Well the irritating part is THEY are so incompetent they are making ME look incompetent!! I actually followed up on something and i was told "I'm STILL WORKING ON IT".. they TOLD me to follow up with them today on it.. then they come back at me like I'm bugging them and of COURSE they didn't have enough time to complete the task.. Holy flip I'm going to have a breakdown.

Glad you are getting out of there Emancipation! I worked with a sociopath - she was the most annoying person I have ever worked with - and that is saying something. She lied, she manipulated - the list goes on.

In fact the job wasn't too awful because although it was full time, it paid well and I never had to go in to the office. But I had to quit because I couldn't stand working with her one more day.

Ah office life

I've hated jobs, I have hated coworkers, I have hated the salary. Luckily I have never had all 3 at once. I have the patience of a mentally challenged badger on PCP.

Poor Emancipation...hang in there baby!

The worst worst are the passive aggressive types.
I worked with a woman once that made me cry ever day.
She was so manipulative and mean and a control freak and she pretended to be loving and caring...HA!!!
Fooled me for a little while and then I asked myself why I felt so horrible and sick to my stomach every time she was in (2 days a week).
Hmmm...


As for the "inside joke":
it was about the shower curtain selection that our sweet Liz was concerned about a while ago.
Her sweetie ended up just selecting a curtain liner until she was to arrive in their new home.
And yes, the tiles are super shiny!


And now, I MUST vent!!!

I mailed twelve boxes of my stuff.
Three have arrived...one each day.
They look like, hmm...have any of you seen the movie: Ace Ventura Pet Detective?
Remember that opening scene where he has a box with fragile written all over it and what he does to it.
Well I laughed so hard I cried..

But these are MY boxes.
They look like they have been put in a blender!! not to mention the contents: ripped, borken, cracked, in disarray.
Here check out the photos of one of them...the contents have been broken, and this particular box I am certain I have lost coins (not very valuable or anything, but still) and there is candle wax on everything, and everything was ripped and cracked.
I am so pissed off.
This will not go without a major fight between me the US postal service and the customs search that messed with things and did not repack it at all well.







The thing that made me really sad was that little thingie made from branches that a good (eclectic) friend from Galiano Is had made me: a soundless chime! I just loved it...sentimental value.
Obliterated!!!!
snif snif
I had packed everything so meticulously.
I have shipped many things over time: from Maine to BC, from BC to QC...this is the first time that things have arrived in this condition.
WTF!!!

Oh my gosh!! Those boxes look like they've been stepped on by a herd of elephants..

I'm so sorry!! were they insured? HOLY FLIP.. they couldn't have been more negligent if they tried..

My "mailman" leaves all our parcels on the porch.. in full view of our entire street.. he SHOULD leave a card "sorry i tried to deliever but couldn't" but instead he throws them up on the porch..

Friggers

Oh wow! Those boxes are

Sorry you lost some things of sentimental value.

I am not very happy with the post office right now either. I sent on package on Dec 20th and Canada Post has taken 2 weeks to get back to me!!!

Awwww (((((Spirit))))). I'm so sorry. It really really hurts when your stuff gets broken during a move. Honestly, it's easier to deal with if you did it yourself. When it's through someone else's negligence it's just that much harder.

Hope your mail gets delivered, Sapphire!

What a mess!! I'm sorry your stuff got broken Spirit, what a shame, guess whomever was inspecting was in a bad mood that day, what is up with someone sending a package on like that. The shipper should at least take some care and ensure it's all ok and packed back correctly for shipping.

Thanks everyone.

Each one had basic insurance of $100.
I am going to find out how to make some claims.
Ha!
Although...that does not replace the artsy soundless windchime...

I feel better today.
Yesterday when that box arrived, I went ballistic!
Plus it was left on the stoop.
The first one, they rang; the second one, they left a note, and this one, well I was home and no one rang.
I have left a note for the post-person for future deliveries: ring or leave note please!

You know the whole work nutty people thing. Well someone in my Husband's office just walked out. There are 3 women in a particular department - one of them is the instigator. New person joins them a few weeks ago and the other two - one in particular have been nothing but mean to her.

Yesterday the 2 - the bully and her cohort as it were, go and have a meeting with the Manager.

Today the manager calls the 3rd person in for a chat, long story short she just left. She had her resignation letter written up already anyway.

This is the 3rd person who has left because of this bully within a year. So stupid.

Sad. Some managers are too scared to stand up to the bullies and end up letting the bullies call the shots. See it all the time. *shakes head*

That's messed up!

let me know how much you get compensated!!!

Once I can handle, but twice is just silly! I went for a job interview today. I actually had to take the El downtown in the freaking cold and go to an interview for them to tell me that I had too much freaking experience! What the heck is going on here?!!!! I am not a rocket scientist! I'm not even asking for a high paying position. I just want to get my foot in the darn door already! ARRRRRGGGGG! I know that I am over qualified to be a Admin Assistant, but I just want to get in the door and move up from there. Doesn't anyone do that anymore?!! I have applied for positions that are within my field and get no response, so I try to go lower in the totem pole and now I'm over qualified! I tried to explain that I am willing to work upwards towards my goal and that got me "well we're looking for someone long term." Well that's just great. So you want someone with no ambition to get any farther in the company? There is something seriously wrong with Chicago! I'm not sure what I am doing wrong here, but it has to be me, since I've had that response twice now. I just want a job. I'm thinking of going to apply at freaking McDonalds just so I have something to do. Then again they'll probably tell me I'm over qualified.

I am tired of waiting for my NOA-1. That's all.

It's okay, Modano. You don't want a job where they think that. It will only drive you crazy. I would look at these interviews as good practice for the job that's waiting for me. The right job. There's a reason you're not getting these positions. It's because the right job is out there waiting. Another thought to bypass the "overqualified" scenario.... have you made contact with a head hunter or an agency? That might help.

Awww Spirit...big HUGS to you. How awful that your boxes were in such rough shape. I had that happen to one box, not as much damage mind you, but they did take everything out and tossed it. I had something in the box that had batteries, and their mission was to get to it, (of course it was on the bottom of the box!), and take out the batteries. They left a note in the box as to what occurred, and I think there was like inspector numbers or something on a piece of paper in the box. Maybe you have one of those and you can follow it up to contact them about the shape the box was left in.

So i was TRYING to do the right thing and last at this crappy place until my boss can find a replacement and I can find some temp work.. I just had a call from one of hte other employees saying my boss is pissed at me and is taking cheap shots at me behind my back because I "jumped shipped" .. ahhh.. you weren't PAYING me.. SO much for trying to "do the right thing".

to both those people. to the one who is telling you stuff like that (how is that productive?). And to the boss for being so unprofessional. Glad you're getting out of there, E.

Oh Spirit!!! I'm SO SORRY!!!
That is just horrible
I don't understand
Why can't people treat other people's property like it is their own, I certainly would if I worked as a postal service worker or at an airline handling luggage.
Sheesh..this world is messed up.




Hang in there hon
Thinking of you

What the H is going on?
Are the planets all lined up "wrong" or something?
Is there too much Mars energy (the planet of masculine energy and war)?
What is up with all the unrest at all of your offices?

And yes, getting a job to get one's foot in the door is the best way to start in a company.
You get to learn about it from the bottom up.

And a backstabbing boss...well, that is so cowardly!
If I were you Emancipation, I wpould go right up to their face and ask them to tell me to my face anything they wanted to say...here and now!

(Now I just feel like flying over there and punching that guy/girl. Don't worry, I am more bark than bite. )

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Thanks Carlawarla.
There was no paper inside with the fact that it was inspected.

I guess they needed just to get their frustrations out on some passerby's belongings.
It is hard to believe how the items were handled.
The clear plastic container with the coins in it were also inside a tied plastic bag.
Everything was ripped, shredded and thrown about.
Amazing.

I will be following up today.

I just have never seen such a thing.
Like I said I have shipped many boxes using the post offices (U.S. & Can.) over the past few years.

The little "soundless windchime" was made out of twigs!
Couldn't they have taken some care and put it flat at the bottom?
Maybe they had already broken it.
I am still getting candle wax off the belongings that were in there...good thing most of that box was just black iron candle holders.

*Sigh*

I know that feeling. Our estimated NOA2 date is now a full month later than it was the last time I looked.

I just ate a jelly belly that tasted exactly like throw-up. Click to view attachment

Well, look on the bright side, Krikit. You've just eaten something that breaks one of the fundamental laws of nature---the one that says everything tastes better on the way down than it does on the way back up.

Bets the question, though, who thought a puke-flavored candy would be a good idea????

I know! That's exactly what I was thinking!

I wonder how they advertise it? I mean, what euphamism for "vomit" did they use to name the flavor? Recycled gummi bear?

Ew. We call it "Throw-up". I think they call it Coconut. Not too sure because we only taste throw-up.

have you read or watched Harry Potter?? in the books they have something called "Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans"..

that is where Jelly Belly got the idea for the weird tasting beans...




http://www.hp-lexicon.org/wizworld/beans.html

Are you kidding me? Am I SERIOUSLY eating vomit-flavoured jelly bellies? Click to view attachment It's not just my imagination?

I am sure it isn't real vomit but just a simulated flavour...

they don't mix the weird flavoured beans with the normal flavours they come in their own packaging..

http://www.candywarehouse.com/harrypotterbox.html

Phew. *wipes sweat from brow*

although we watched a show just recently that showed how different things were made and one of the places they visited was the Jelly Belly plant...

they talked to one of the inventor guys and he said he actually saved up some of his ear wax and tasted it so he knew what it tasted like .... eeeewwwww....

Okay, now I really DO taste vomit.

OMG, if I have to listen to that barking dog just one more minute I am gonna

LOSE

MY

MIND!!!

Regurgitated raspbery is my favourite. MMMM love that tangy bile and stomach acid taste. Everytime I eat them I have the chyme of my life.

You guys are making coffee come out of my nose!

Yeah, "artificial flavoring" is an ingredient you really truly hope to see on the box of vomit-flavored jelly bellys....

Ain't that the truth.

My husbands grandmother just left, but she stood outside our bedroom bashing me to the cleaning lady not knowing that I was in here.

Just saying that I refuse to work, and that I am using my visa as an excuse to not work.

I am really flipping pissed.