As I've mentioned a couple of times over the last week or so, I had a job interview with a tech company that wants to poach me from my current company, a translation place.
The first interview with my (would-be) direct supervisor went fairly well, so I'm probably going to get a second interview, which will be with the company higher-ups and HR. I don't even know if I want to go to that company yet, there were certainly a few things I learned about how they operate that would require some personal adjustment on my end, and their physical location sucks. But it's an intriguing opportunity, not least because they can likely pay me more.
The whine here, though, is that now that my head has been turned, I've found that my work quality has suffered. I am less patient with the new guy in my department when he screws up, I am letting more errors through in my own editing and thus getting angry customer feedback, I've allowed certain less-essential tasks to pile up, etc. It's like part of my brain has checked out already, as if it's thinking, "I'm not going to be here anymore in a few weeks so who cares?"
This is bad because firstly it's simply unprofessional to be behaving like this, secondly because I haven't even gotten the job at that other company yet, and thirdly because I'm just making my own life harder for the time I have left here, because I still need to guide the underperforming colleague, mollify the angry clients, deal with that pile of unfinished tasks, etc.
Anyway, just whining that I really need to find some way to crack on and get this shit done, no matter what happens.
