Friday, July 14, 2006
The gauntlet
So thank you for coming back to speak with us. We have reviewed your resume and it seems quite diverse…
This is the standard beginning I get for every frigging second interview I have been on. I know how to bullshit my way through all this fine. It’s always later when it hits:
“Soooooo... I see you live in Ouuuuuuuttttttskkkkkkiiiirrrrrtttts.”
Crap, here we go.
“Yes I do.”
“Yeah…. How do you see your commute to Metropolis? It’s quite far.”
“Yes it is quite far-“
“Over the River”
“Yes I am aware of that.”
And I could answer them in one of two ways:
Way A: “yes, it is far but my hubby and I are trying to move into metropolis or somewhere closer to metropolis.”
Way B: “I don’t see how where I live comes into relation to the job functions that I would be performing for you.”
What they are really looking to see is that if I am willing to wake up at 6 am, be out of my house by 630, get through traffic which includes the hellish River Bridge which is only two lanes and a bridge toll of five bucks one way and gas being almost three dollars at the pump, weave and bob through taxis, buses, bikes, bike messengers, pedestrians, skateboards and roller bladders, hunt down parking that is either 2.75 per half hour or meter parking at 12 minutes per quarter, only one hour at a time to work a nine hour shift for 40 grand a year plus benefits and then do the reverse commute home over same said annoying bridge getting trapped in the same traffic of all the disgruntled workers in Metropolis who also had to get up at 6 am to be at work at nine, and arrive home a little bit after 7pm and never see your son who really is growing so fast that if you blink it you will miss it.
Sadly enough, I have to say yes.
Oh yeah, I was offered the job.
posted by Nut's mom at 1:27 PM
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3 Comments:
Ooh, congratuations on getting offered the job! Sounds like a hellish commute though. Are you going to accept the offer?
Congrats on the job. Are you going to take the offer?
nope. they lost their contract with mental health and so it does not repay the stipend. sucks, doesn't it?
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