A rant
Can I blame the boy for wanting to be lazy and relax on his days off? Of course not. Can I blame the boy for having projects that he wants completed? Not one bit. Can I blame the boy for cleaning up and organizing his stuff? Definitely no.
Can I blame the boy for complaining and complaining about his job and then barely doing anything to get a new one?
You bet your ass I can.
Finch seems to have some sort of mental block about jobs. He'll religiously (sort of) buy a Sunday paper when he wants a new job and go through it with the highliter. He'll complain about the lack of decent jobs in the paper and select a few that look interesting. Then he'll start with any jobs that have an email address, so that they have his resume on their "desk" the next day. And that's usually where his enthusiasm ends.
If the job needs a fax - maybe they'll get a resume. Probably not. If they just have a phone number - hit-or-miss. Heaven forbid it's an "apply in person". Granted, we don't have a fax machine.
But there exist Kinkos in the world, after all.
I have to nag him to follow up on anything. He gets very excited when a job is interested in him... then finds excuses to never follow up. He gets busy, usually. Or he doesn't see the point. Or (my personal favorite), he doesn't think it's worth trying to get a job if he has to put in that little bit of butt-kissing that a hiring manager likes to hear. (ironically, this is also the reason he doesn't like faxing resumes - it's not worth it if there's no email. The same goes for phone calls. Not worth it.)
And he refuses - REFUSES - to use online job searches. His reason: "They're worthless." Never mind that his preferred method of job contact is via email, which is also the preferred way of contacting people when they list a job online...
Which means that, in any given week, he may actually apply for one job. Sometimes two. He may follow up in any seriousness on one job a month.
Consequently, he has no new job. And I still get subjected to the litany of how much he hates his job, and how he can't get a decent job.
I mean, I don't expect him to spend every waking moment that he's not at work hunting for a new job. But putting in more than the least amount of effort possible just *might* work.
>.< Am I nuts? Overreacting? If our positions were reversed, he'd be downright nagging me to do these things. If I nag, though, he'd just get upset.
*sigh* I'm afraid that one of these days he's going to start complaining, and I'm not going to be able to bite my tongue on the sharp comments.
Can I blame the boy for complaining and complaining about his job and then barely doing anything to get a new one?
You bet your ass I can.
Finch seems to have some sort of mental block about jobs. He'll religiously (sort of) buy a Sunday paper when he wants a new job and go through it with the highliter. He'll complain about the lack of decent jobs in the paper and select a few that look interesting. Then he'll start with any jobs that have an email address, so that they have his resume on their "desk" the next day. And that's usually where his enthusiasm ends.
If the job needs a fax - maybe they'll get a resume. Probably not. If they just have a phone number - hit-or-miss. Heaven forbid it's an "apply in person". Granted, we don't have a fax machine.
But there exist Kinkos in the world, after all.
I have to nag him to follow up on anything. He gets very excited when a job is interested in him... then finds excuses to never follow up. He gets busy, usually. Or he doesn't see the point. Or (my personal favorite), he doesn't think it's worth trying to get a job if he has to put in that little bit of butt-kissing that a hiring manager likes to hear. (ironically, this is also the reason he doesn't like faxing resumes - it's not worth it if there's no email. The same goes for phone calls. Not worth it.)
And he refuses - REFUSES - to use online job searches. His reason: "They're worthless." Never mind that his preferred method of job contact is via email, which is also the preferred way of contacting people when they list a job online...
Which means that, in any given week, he may actually apply for one job. Sometimes two. He may follow up in any seriousness on one job a month.
Consequently, he has no new job. And I still get subjected to the litany of how much he hates his job, and how he can't get a decent job.
I mean, I don't expect him to spend every waking moment that he's not at work hunting for a new job. But putting in more than the least amount of effort possible just *might* work.
>.< Am I nuts? Overreacting? If our positions were reversed, he'd be downright nagging me to do these things. If I nag, though, he'd just get upset.
*sigh* I'm afraid that one of these days he's going to start complaining, and I'm not going to be able to bite my tongue on the sharp comments.