Edit: The title isn't the best. Let's just say it says: Am i lazy, stupid or did i do the right thing for myself and the guy is not very nice?
Hey,
I don't really know if this is the place for my topic, but i couldn't think of another place for it tbh.
A little background: I'm unemployed. I'm actively seeking a job and might have a decent one lined up and will know the result next week. The job would be as machine/line operator in the plastic sector, where as i have around 15 years of “experience” in the metal shaping industry (shaping aluminium in to stuff) and it's a fucking welcome change for me if i can leave the metal industry, because i hate metal.
I get super easy skin iritations and rashes from oils used for lubrication, strong cleaners and to much dust, so going away from it is the best choice. Also help with my tinitus, since maniuplating metal tends to be… loud and trigering.
Now, i've registered with one of those job providers recently and i swear, i think that man hates me, hates his job and hates himself. It might just be me disliking the way he talks, he wasn't rude or anything, just hitting the wrong spots.
Today he has offered me a job, very close to me and pay is adequate. Issue to me is, it's one of those “you just go and start” jobs, with no prior talks to the employer company or even visit of the workplace. All i know is that it's a metal bending job. Since i have a job “maybe” coming, i told the man so and asked him if he could instead look for a job not involving metal and he went on a bit of a rant for only telling him now and rather abruplty sayd his bye and hung up on me.
I'm someone that tries to explain myself a bit to much when i feel like i wronged someone accidentaly, but here i feel like that gentleman things i'm just another tool for him to rent out to some company. I feel wronged but also a bit… scared in a sense. My unemployment runs out end of march and i feel kind of like an idiot not taking the job as a stopgap measure till i find a better one.
I don't honestly know if i declined the job because of how i feelt about the guy or if i'm just lazy and don't want to work or even just really don't want another job in the metal industry…
I sure af didn't help that when i called back today, i got the “oh, mr. kekeripo, finally calling back?” after i missed 4 calls from him since yesterday morning. In my defence, i did tell him yesterday i was having a cold and headache and he did adequate to me after i reminded him (i sleept al day yesterday and woke up today 11am, still with a pounding headache and tinitus blasting my head.). But damn did it rub me the wrong fucking way.
I'm still unsure if i did the right thing by declining, it leaft this gnaving feeling in my chest like i'm going to get scolded and punished by my parents for some dumb shit i did as a kid. lol
What do you guy think, was i dumb, was my choice justified and if it was you, would you have picked the job as stopgap?
Little thing i thing i have to say:
– I might not have gotten the job anyway, since i'm waiting for a result for the “better” job and the employer for the stopgap doesn't want anyone that will leave after 1 week of training and can't wait till end of february for an answear.
– I did tell them that i'm looking for a job in all industries including metal. So i do feel a bit bad here.