Very Bad News

posted on: 2007-03-09 at 9:27:00 AM

So.. I have horrible news. I lost my job (sort of).

Here's the back-story. I was happily employed at my last job (the video game store) for well over four years. I hadn't been actively looking for employment, but I wasn't turning away suggestions or impulses to bigger, better things. As I've described in previous blogs, I ran into my old boss from the job I held previous to the video game store at a new computer "Super Store" while I was shopping for an HDTV. He expressed that he would like to hire me, and within a few months, I was offered a position that was very tempting.

Here's where it gets bad. I accepted the job, and quit my previous job. The separation was fine, I helped train my replacement and everything was peachy (or so I thought). I started working at the new place as an assistant store manager (woo hoo! dress shirts and black slacks)... Four days into my new job, and the company announces they are closing over half of their stores across the country.

That's right -- I haven't even worked a week, and I was being told that my store was closing.

Not only that, but the store manager that was running that store (and was most of the reason why I accepted the job in the first place) was transfered to another store that wasn't closing.

What's more, but my previous boss at the video game store seems to think I was "bitter" because I wrote an email upon my exiting the company giving suggestions on how I think they could improve business (and I think the letter was very tasteful and positive .. as did many others, including my dad, a veteran Project Manager of over thirty years). I asked my old boss if I was "rehireable" when I left, and he very stoutly claimed "ABSOLUTELY."

Maybe he'll find a position for me -- but I don't know. I'm confused as to how corporations work. I thought I'd have figured it all out by now.

So here I am, basically, half-running a closing store. I am not doing anything that I consider to be "fun," because there is no more sales atmosphere or coherent structure. Basically, we're just "SELLING EVERYTHING TO THE BARE WALLS." My job went to fun and exciting assistant sales manager to junk-pedaler and loss-prevention crony. It's very, very, very depressing.

WHO MOVED MY CHEESE?

The stress from all this has mounted into something that I've never experienced. I'm developing a rash on my neck as well as having severe fatigue. I intend to do everything I can to get over this hump, and I will find good employment. I am not going to let this get the best of me, and I am doing EVERYTHING I can to stay positive.

posted by Carl

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 Anonymous said...

we are hiring two to three people at the SSC for "the video game company". you should look it to that.
Posted: March 12, 2007 9:16 PM

 

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