Today I spent 4 hours sitting in a room with about 100 other GRPS employees in a similar position as me. We signed in, writing our name and seniority date, then waited. The open jobs were posted on the wall, each job on a different piece of paper. When our name was called, we were to go to a room and present our preferred job to HR. So, seniority dates from 1998 to present started bids at 12:30, one-by-one, people were called to present the job they wanted (or were highly qualified for) to HR. If you didn't qualify for any of the posted jobs, then you were left "unassigned". We thought that people were being called by seniority dates, as the invitation we got in the e-mail stated; however, about 2 hours into bids, they said that they were calling people based on how early they came and signed in. It was all based on the sign in sheet... not seniority. We couldn't believe it. After a long conversation, we, as a whole (well, majority rules), decided to base everything on seniority starting at 1998 seniority dates. The bids were supposed to end at 4pm, but by 5pm they had just gotten to 2010 seniority. 2011 (my seniority date) and 2012 were to come back the following day.
What a restless night sleep...
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