Jobs are like buses
After months of post-degree job application sloth, I finally manage to rouse myself enough to get a piss-paid job at a large chain of supermarkets.

Then, a job which I actually WANT at a university manages to resurface after months of hovering in the limbo 'twixt in-tray and bin. It's one of those rare beauties that involves a subject you're interested but won't melt your mind or force you to do research in the middle of the North Sea.

However, the first training day of the former and the interview for the latter manage to conspire against me and fall on EXACTLY the same minute. I have to choose between pissing off my current employer for the *prospect* of some job satisfaction, or miss out and actually (finally) earn some money. I NEED to call one of them and postpone/rearrange or I'll end up pissing them both off.

So what do I do? I 'mull it over' by playing Dice Wars, Red Alert and Reversi for hours, consider buying extortionate imported Anime robots, and make various blends of tea.

Length? Depends if I've remembered my rolling pin.
(zeppelin boy, Thu 20 Nov 2008, 10:53, 10 replies)

Go to the interview

( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Thu 20 Nov 2008, 11:01, closed)

I second this

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 20 Nov 2008, 11:04, closed)

Thirded

(Son of Sam-i-am We're all as mad as hatters here, Thu 20 Nov 2008, 11:09, closed)

Fourthded

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Thu 20 Nov 2008, 11:11, closed)

Fifthed
(If there is such a word)
(Prawn, Thu 20 Nov 2008, 11:33, closed)

Fifthed.. *sixthed*
Unless I'm late

*Edit* - Arse
(Fuckarma was masturbating into your handbag, Thu 20 Nov 2008, 11:47, closed)

Blimey
I see '1 reply' on the board and it turns out to be a national consensus. Ta! I shalls goens tos thes internviewns...
(zeppelin boy, Thu 20 Nov 2008, 12:17, closed)

commencing seventhification
My 2 cents:

The supermarket job will slowly kill you. Every day you'll die a little inside. Go to the interview.

Supermarket training hardly requires the use of expensive and scarce resources like LHC time, they're turning over staff constantly because it's so shite.

University interviews require the assembly of a panel of academics, and you know what they're like for scheduling availability - a parade of tutorials, meetings, research, and whatnot. And if forced to be excluded from a rescheduled interview, that person will carry it as a personal slight to their graves if you don't let them screen you before hiring.
(The Incredible Sulk Finally remembered his password on, Thu 20 Nov 2008, 14:13, closed)

Phone the university and ask if it'd be possible to reschedule
It's a perfectly normal thing to do: people understand that not every jobseeker is sitting at home twiddling their thumbs with nothing else to do.

They won't be offended at all if you simply say "I have a prior booking at that time - would it be possible to have another day/timeslot?"

Simple.
(EuroSong I love horse meat: best of all the animals, Thu 20 Nov 2008, 13:45, closed)

Aha
Why not simply tell them about BOAT? I am sure that they will understand.
(powervator and NONE SHALL PASS, Thu 20 Nov 2008, 14:10, closed)