Good news and bad news

Lots going on. The new lead I learned about yesterday, reporting to Jacksonville, is progressing. The recruiter sent me an e-mail to call him. He had learned I was having trouble posting for the position and had actually done the posting for me! (I definitely need this recruiter cloned several times and scattered amongst the various HR areas.) We talked about my background, and I loved his question: "And why are you leaving your current area?". Learning my plight, he said he would work with the manager, and that she might want to "escalate the process". It sounds like the Jacksonville/Charlotte location restriction might not be a problem. I'm crossing my fingers on this one.

On the downside, the Web developer position looks out of the running in the near term. The "timing is wrong" as far as my situation: it will be at least 2-3 weeks before they are ready to justify anything. My California contact was even more negative, thinking it could be longer (she gave the initial presentation in April!). It sounds like one of those "nice to have" projects that's never urgent enough to initiate.

Later I was eating lunch and received a call from a past colleague that's in the data warehouse organization: "This is going to sound like a question out of the blue, but what's your severance date?". Apparently she's seeing if an opening could be found for me. And the goal would be to do something before June 30th to alleviate the administrative hassles (if I don't start in a new area by June 30th, I need to be rehired from scratch, going through Staffing and everything). I have no idea how this came about, but it seems coincidental coming the day after my severance package was pried loose. Had I been simply forgotten?

Hope is still alive, at least, with one week to go.

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