Hi! My name's Carol. I'm a pisces. I like long walks...
Just came back from a delightfully retarded experience. I'm in the process of interviewing for a job closer to home (about 30 minutes away-as opposed to 90 minutes away) and their hiring system is jacked up.
Keep in mind that this is for a staffing consultant position at a staffing agency. During my first interview, the boss-lady escorts me to a phone and asks me to role-play (uugghh...I cringe when I think about it). She tasks me to dial her extension in the other room and wants me to call her and try to find a way to let her group know about opportunities within X company. I find it odd, but I do it anyway. I figure I've got a decent-paying job-even if it is going to give me a heart attack or bleeding ulcers within 6 months; so, what do I have to lose and what the heck. I do a bang up job and I'm asked to complete a questionnaire on my own time and e-mail it back to her. I'm also advised that they just think I'm the cat's meow and would really like for me to come to their 'hiring simulation' (I'm saying that part really slow in a Dr. Evil sort of way and making quotation marks with my fingers.) next week. I humor her and answer assinine questions, like, "What's the single most significant accomplishment in your life?" Bite me.
Anyway, I go to this simulation crap today and it's ridiculous. They get four of us in a room and make us 'role-play' (Dr. Evil/quotation marks) while 5 of their staff watch and take notes. Oh my GOD! What the hell is that? I had big-time Jerry Maguire fantasies about standing up and telling them it was the biggest waste of my time right in the middle of it.... I just had to make sure I nailed down another person from our group who would stand up right behind me and support my decision whole-heartedly. "You had me at 'hello' "...
I didn't stand up or storm out. I was complete true to thine self and I'm sure they hated it. I did almost exactly the opposite of everything they wanted. Hey, at least I did it with a smile.
So, tomorrow's back to the grindstone. Maybe it's time to redirect my energy/hostility/frustration/anger. Maybe...
Keep in mind that this is for a staffing consultant position at a staffing agency. During my first interview, the boss-lady escorts me to a phone and asks me to role-play (uugghh...I cringe when I think about it). She tasks me to dial her extension in the other room and wants me to call her and try to find a way to let her group know about opportunities within X company. I find it odd, but I do it anyway. I figure I've got a decent-paying job-even if it is going to give me a heart attack or bleeding ulcers within 6 months; so, what do I have to lose and what the heck. I do a bang up job and I'm asked to complete a questionnaire on my own time and e-mail it back to her. I'm also advised that they just think I'm the cat's meow and would really like for me to come to their 'hiring simulation' (I'm saying that part really slow in a Dr. Evil sort of way and making quotation marks with my fingers.) next week. I humor her and answer assinine questions, like, "What's the single most significant accomplishment in your life?" Bite me.
Anyway, I go to this simulation crap today and it's ridiculous. They get four of us in a room and make us 'role-play' (Dr. Evil/quotation marks) while 5 of their staff watch and take notes. Oh my GOD! What the hell is that? I had big-time Jerry Maguire fantasies about standing up and telling them it was the biggest waste of my time right in the middle of it.... I just had to make sure I nailed down another person from our group who would stand up right behind me and support my decision whole-heartedly. "You had me at 'hello' "...
I didn't stand up or storm out. I was complete true to thine self and I'm sure they hated it. I did almost exactly the opposite of everything they wanted. Hey, at least I did it with a smile.
So, tomorrow's back to the grindstone. Maybe it's time to redirect my energy/hostility/frustration/anger. Maybe...
posted by Lee @ 9:53 PM
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