I snapped before a job interview I had a little while ago. It was in the afternoon and I’d had a terrible morning at the existing job and got stuck with a customer who made me hella late getting out. So when I got to the interview, having not dared to take the time to change into the suit I had in the car because it would have made me late, I basically went in KNOWING I wasn’t going to get the job. If I hadn’t been resigned to that going in, I would have probably have ended up crying in the car park once I came out.
I broke all the rules - I smoked in the car on the way there. I complained about management. I wasn’t even dressed right and I think I had grey ears from the emergency hair dye.
I was willing myself to shut up as I talked about how much I hated the current management, how short-sighted I thought they were for scrimping on support staff, how exhausted we all were, how bug-ridden and under-tested the software was, and how it just wasn’t a company I could feel proud of being part of any more.
I tried to backpedal a bit and downplay how awful working there had become when they asked questions, but I just couldn’t stop the words coming out, even though the MD couldn’t keep the horrified expression off her face.
When they asked why I’d had so many short-term jobs in the previous few years, I couldn’t think of any way to spin it, so just admitted that short-term contracts had been all I could get.
Afterwards when the agency called I apologized for screwing it up, but that I’d reached breaking point that morning and having heard the owner talking about their way of working had just made it all worse, because if it was even half way true, it was exactly the sort of company I really did want to work for.
"Uhm… right…. I see," he said. "So… it’s a month’s notice you said… can you get your notice handed in today? Because they’d like you to start on the 1st…"
"Yeah, they said you came across as exactly the sort of person they wanted - someone who really considers themselves part of the company and is dedicated to helping the customers. They said they’d been impressed by how many different technologies you’d worked with but were a bit twitchy about how many different places you’d worked, because they’re looking for someone who’s in it for the long haul, but they said you’d set their minds to rest on that one…"
Turns out the MD’s horrified expression was at what moronic arseholes my current company were being. So… sometimes breaking the rules is right - it depends on what sort of person you’re dealing with, and if you try to follow them to the extent that you’re pretending to be something you’re not, you’re likely to miss out on the opportunities that would really suit you.
kianamaiart
prguitarman
baratheonpilled
discoholicmusic
gummygunk
titsay
