Within the Realms of Possibility

Thursday, 16 May 2013
Amazing! Located a great opportunity on no other but  - Craigslist!
I know for a fact that this ad is legitimate and that the company is congenial, because I know them personally. So I sent off my resume.

Two reasons why they might end up picking someone else over me, even though I make such a fresh, chipper, flexible and talented employee:

▪ I have only about 80% of the skills they are looking for. So I have to rely a bit on a "will train the right individual" attitude of the hiring manager.

▪ Uhm. This is a big one. My reputation. When I was working in that building, my company ended up in a huge kerfuffle with the government. People split up in camps and I found myself caught in the middle.  I ended up sympathizing with the fiery rebellious side and gossip travels fast in that vicinity so even the very biggest cheese of the entire community suddenly knew my face and my name. I caught him checking me out with deep distrust once: who is this unassuming nobody I've never noticed really?

I know I did the right thing by standing up for my beliefs. It was a matter of moral courage. Some of the staff of the company I just applied to congratulated the fiery rebellious ones, so there definitely was consensus. It's just that the big cheese wasn't having it and I might thus be flagged as "must never rehire".
The government doesn't declare an organization an "enemy of state" for nothing!


I'll give it another week exactly before calling that Temp Agency. 

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