They called just like Dh predicted!

No, not a job, I wish, but his old company called this morning. They called under the guise of wanting "permission" to pass on his phone number to other companies where they might see an opening. Why they wanted permission do this I'm not sure.

But of course that's not all they wanted. One of the things they did while Dh was there was was to change the type of system they used to work on. I don't understand it all since I'm not in the business but there was a lot of resistance to the new change over. Not one employee wanted to go for the training so Dh went and was quite excited with the new system. It was faster and once you got it configured right it was pretty user friendly. The only drawback is it required a bit of system maintenance with archiving and keeping the "servers empty"(yeah, I have no clue what it means either). In fact the last weekend Dh was employed there he put in a good 6 hours maintaining the system and getting it ready for an upgrade.

One of the things he said was that the person taking his place(an old employee had quit, got fired from her new job, and they hired her back. That's the reason they were "over staffed" and let Dh go) did go for the same training as Dh but Dh felt when she got back and from the kind of questions she was asking that she didn't get as much out of it as she should of . Dh has made jokes here and there along the way that he can feel the "servers filling up". Sure enough if he wasn't right. After the 30 second part of the conversation with the company about his job search and getting his permission to give out his number the owner then had a bunch of questions about the system. I know Dh wanted to just hang up on him but you can't do that. Printing is a small industry and you can't afford to burn any bridges.

And yes, he is going to pass Dh's name and number to two more companies that both have openings at the moment. Dh also is trying to follow up on a job that he sent his resume to last week. I just have to keep thinking good thoughts. A good friends husband was laid off in May. He just got hired last week so there are jobs out there. I know it will just take some time but Dh has good skills, good contacts and we just have trust that he will find the perfect job soon.