I have an interview!

[Chan790]

It's not great but it's good...~$30K to be a store-based Customer Service Rep for a cellular phone company, benefits, 40-hour weeks, vacation(They're sending me to Somerset, NJ and Baltimore for a week-and-change of 16-hour training days...it'll be the closest thing to a vacation I'll have had in years) and I get to wear a tie! (I'm strange, okay. I went to private and prep schools all my youth; I feel naked without a collared shirt, a tie, slacks, jacket and spit-shined shoes.)

I haven't really been able to wear the dress finery to work for several years...restaurant work (I've done it all...cook, barista, bartender, server, host, sommellier, management...technically, I can't claim chef because I don't have the degree or apprenticeship but I've done that job too.) and commissioned paint sales are two job fields great for ruining clothes.

Now, I realize it's hyperbole but I do feel like I'm about to be set free from prison or purgatory. It'll be my first "real" job since the Literacy Council back in 2005, that job ended badly. Everything has been mediocre since then: work life, love life, social life, diet, sleep, fitness...mediocre.

I just wanted to share...please no well-wishes or prayers or thoughts, I already feel an embarrassment of riches to even have job offers and interviews when I already have a job and so many don't in this economy. I'll let you know how it went later; I was promised a decision on-the-spot by the recruiter.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. My dear Chan790!

I am so pleased you got the interview!

Do keep us informed!

:hi:

[Chan790]

2. It was a waste of time...

it was some sort of round-table cattle-call where they asked like 5 total questions and made us fill out personality surveys. I think it was some sort of set-up, a focus group where they dangled the carrot of a job to misdirect us from realizing that we're being focus grouped.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. I'm so sorry to hear that!

The dirty bastards. Getting your hopes up that way.

It truly makes me wonder how great they would have been to work for...

:hug:

[Chan790]

4. Thanks Peggy...

I really needed that. It's scummy to act that way...it's strange when you're on-fire, I mean acing the interview, and they tell you that they're passing on making you an offer.

They brought us in in two groups...my group was the first group and had all the people I thought were going to get offers, they declined to make offers to any of us...they asked us not to speak to the people in the second larger group as we left. That's what makes me think it was focus-grouping...they probably told the people in the second group that we were the ones they hired. Bastards.

[GalleryGod]

5. Sorry,Pal

That truly stinks to high heavens. Is that what passes for Human Resources recruiting in America these days? Again...sorry your hopes were dashed.