mtas appologised for the inconvenience f shutting down their stupid, incopetent, disaster zone of a website but promised that it would be up and running again for 30th april.

today is the 30th april. is the website back up? no. they have merely changed the notification on the web page so that it no longer promises being back in business by today, but instead states that they hope to resume normal service "as soon as possible."

what does that mean.

no surprises this time though. this time we knew to distrust the information and the disappoinment is therefore minimal. that is not to say that i am not drowning in frustration though. a lot of the interviews for round 1b were supposed to take place this week but obviously that is all now delayed.

and who knows how long for? most of the deaneries seem to be claiming that they haven't even had our details through to assess each individual for eligibility, so that process needs to be completed, as well as uploading interview offers, as well as organising interview slots. and all this can only happen once the titanic has been resurected.

and presumably a lot of the consultants that were due to be interviewing this week have cancelled clinics, surgeries, operations, teaching, annual leave, and now there are no interviews. so further clinics and operations etc will have to be cancelled for the new-new interviews...if this process isn't affecting patient care then i don't know what is. i'm terrified as to what has to happen before anyone takes serious note of the disasterous effect this is having.

and who knows what effect this delay is going to have on the ever-changing date given for our job offers? a week delay in the delayed interview process probably translates to a month delay in job offers, giving us all about 3 weeks to upsticks and move across the country - if we even have a job to go to...