Further excitement

[featherynscale]

I just got a note from a company I've applied to that essentially says they think I'm lying on my resume. The way this comes about is that the company I used to work for before this year laid me off in January, in the middle of a massive sell-off of assets, saying that the company was dissolving, and that by this Summer, they would be no more. I therefore, report this on my job applications - left the position due to the fact that the company was going to close.

This woman, however, says that the company did not, in fact, close, but only restructured, and is currently still in operation. This means to me that one of three things has occurred:
1) The company has found it more difficult to find buyers than they had originally imagined, and is still working on the sell-off.
2) The company has re-orged without my previous boss, who I have every reason to believe would have hired me back if possible.
3) The company has disbanded, and this woman is confused. This seems highly possible, due to the fact that there is another company with a nearly identical business and a similar name which operates less than five blocks from where my company used to be.

As little as I want to lie to people, I want even less to be perceived as a liar, and not hired because of that perception. So I send this lady a note back saying that I knew that the company was moving with all possible speed towards disbanding, and that as far as I knew this was the only plan in consideration, but that I really hadn't talked to them since early this year, so if a miracle had occurred in the intervening time and the company was saved, I wasn't aware of it.

None of this is helping my general mood. Really.

Comments

[greektoomey.livejournal.com]

:(

*hugs*

That sucks.

Do you want some unsolicited advice?

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

If I say yes, then its solicited advice. So no, but tell me anyway, and you can stick to the original plan.

[greektoomey.livejournal.com]

Heh. Fair enough.

I therefore, report this on my job applications - left the position due to the fact that the company was going to close.

My suggestion is that you merely say "laid off" - which is a perfectly valid reason for leaving a position, and there's really no reason for you to be volunteering extraneous details beyond that.

If anyone questions the circumstances of the lay-off, you can tell them "the company told me they were going to close" and nobody can insinuate you're being untruthful.

[kcwitch.livejournal.com]

::hugs:: sorry you are having a shitty time with this company. you have to ask yourself, because of the way the interviewer looked disapprovingly at your breast and now this, would you really want to work for it? i think not.

[chainwoman.livejournal.com]

Gotta love stupid people. They're always looking for those ways to prove that they are smarter than you. And just when they think they do they end up showing their stupid sign. I say that there should be a ruling that says that once labeled stupid you're always stupid. No sign needed, just a permanent tatoo. ;-) Sorry to hear you've been putting up with morons to get a job. You probably don't want to work there anyways. But I thow some happy vibes your way.

[teross50.livejournal.com]

I would agree this HR person sounds a bit stupidly anal You left the job because you thought the company was closing That is all she needed I do wonder why she wrote to prove you wrong She got issues

hugs
T

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Nah, this is a different company. I (as predicted) never got a callback from titsboy.

[kcwitch.livejournal.com]

hrm...sounds like maybe something is in the air when it comes to you and jobs right now. is mercury retrograde again?

[jaiwitchy.livejournal.com]

Totally butting in here, so this is totally unsolicitated, and probably spelled badly.

I never put why i left on a resume, and if I have to fill out and application i always put downsized. If they want more explination, they can get it in the interview. Downsized is always a valid answer as you leaving makes a company one employee shorter. But then again, when Time Warner laid us off they had a guy come in and teach us how to get jobs, and this was his advise, and it's always served me well.