I called the supervisor and left her a voicemail today. Apparently, the email I sent must not have been read by either her or the career counselor/case worker as the case worker sent me an email in response to my "Canceled: Meeting today" invitation. He wrote, "thanks for your time today." Like I said, inept?!

I had already canceled our meeting via email by rejecting the email invitation so he could clearly see that... and that was his response?! Thanks for what time? We only met once and that was last week with his supervisor.

I cannot put the trajectory of my job search in this man's control. I hope the supervisor calls me back by tomorrow. Otherwise, I will go to the physical location and see if I can met with someone else.

Also, he'd said in our first meeting he would email me 4 to 6 online interest/career assessments and he never did that. He's the full-time employee. I understand mistakes happen. But if you're going to take a job as a career counselor, you can't screw up like that. That just makes you look untrustworthy because you don't follow through on your word.

He also probably never had to manage more than a few people in his previous work. But if you become a career counselor/case worker for Dislocated Workers programs, you can be expected to manage more than 10 people at a time, easily.

Clearly, he's already demonstrated that he can't follow through with what he said he'd do for me in our first meeting with his supervisor who was also at the meeting. If you can't even take the time to attach 4-6 links of career assessments to one of your dislocated workers, then what the hell are you doing as a career counselor?! You have to be able to manage your time, and all the case notes and activities you've discussed with your dislocated worker.

I could be a better case worker than this guy -- except I have a low tolerance for people in general so I would fail in what is 99% of the job: managing other people's expectations and psychological state.