mortgage brain

Finally I’ve got a job. Well, sort of. I received the news from the recruitment agency yesterday and she promised to call me this morning about when and where to sign the contract. Postponing my errands, I waited for her call today. 11:00 - no call from her; 14:00 - tried to call her mobile and direct number to no avail; 15:00 - repeated previous actions, still no one answered; 16:00 - she picked up. Surprisingly she sounded nervous and stuttered on the phone, unlike the last time I spoke to her when she coached me what (not) to say during the interview and later when giving me the good news. She sounded confident back then. This is not a good sign. The explanation that she gave was that the company’s HR girl was on half-day leave today and most of the managers were gone for holiday. So she couldn’t get the offer letter from them until tuesday when the HR is back in office. Well, at least she could’ve called me, no? What does she think I’m supposed to do on the 9th? Just pop-by in the office and start working without having employment agreement? Free labour for a day? I don’t know who messed up here but in the end we settled on me coming to her office on the 9th first thing in the morning to sign the contract, then off to my new company.

So, have I really got a job?