Well, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out the economy, especially in this area, is pretty damned miserable. However, my husband was actually told by an ex-rocket scientist (aka one of the engineers of many Apollo missions) that the economy is in fact pretty damned miserable. I didn't think it would take me this long to actually get another job, not with the training and near spotless employment history I have. But I did and I was bored to tears. Bored enough to try to teach myself Japanese, which is going well, bored enough to try to teach my dog to ballroom dance, which is NOT going so well. Anyway, after going round and round with different places, haunting certain prospective employers to such a degree I was sure someone would take a restraining order out on me, I finally landed a legitimate job interview.
I had spoken to the director briefly in person, several times on the phone, four times through failed seances and even one time through soliloquy... well that last one doesn't count since it was a soliloquy and he didn't hear it. I thought it would be in good taste to show up a little early to only wait a good 30 minutes for him to show up to work.... Seriously what boss drags himself into work a full 4 hours after his employees? As we sit down, I'm running in my head the things you're supposed to do at a job interview. Smile, nod, then came the hardest challenge of all... eye contact. He spits in a cup.
Eye contact is hard to make when you're having to really chase an eye to contact. This poor guy had one of the craziest wandering eyes I've EVER SEEN!!! I'm really trying hard to listen to what he's saying and all I can think of is "OH NOES, which eye do I follow, WHICH EYE DO I FOLLOW??" I had to struggle not to think of a chameleon with those independant telescopic eye things zipping around. I was really beginning to wonder if there was a fly in the room.
He spits in a cup and it's then I realize he's chewing tobacco while he's conducting a job interview. Damn, I AM in the bible belt afterall. He spits again and his eye darts around looking for a place to escape. Suddenly it pops right out of his head, rolls out the door and buys a Dr. Pepper from the drink machine in the lounge... okay, so maybe that last part didn't happen, but it wouldn't have surprised me much.
Well, I did get the job and I'm quite relieved for that. But I know from this day forward, the wandering eye of doom will be watching me.
**Dramatic Music** TBC!!!
I had spoken to the director briefly in person, several times on the phone, four times through failed seances and even one time through soliloquy... well that last one doesn't count since it was a soliloquy and he didn't hear it. I thought it would be in good taste to show up a little early to only wait a good 30 minutes for him to show up to work.... Seriously what boss drags himself into work a full 4 hours after his employees? As we sit down, I'm running in my head the things you're supposed to do at a job interview. Smile, nod, then came the hardest challenge of all... eye contact. He spits in a cup.
Eye contact is hard to make when you're having to really chase an eye to contact. This poor guy had one of the craziest wandering eyes I've EVER SEEN!!! I'm really trying hard to listen to what he's saying and all I can think of is "OH NOES, which eye do I follow, WHICH EYE DO I FOLLOW??" I had to struggle not to think of a chameleon with those independant telescopic eye things zipping around. I was really beginning to wonder if there was a fly in the room.
He spits in a cup and it's then I realize he's chewing tobacco while he's conducting a job interview. Damn, I AM in the bible belt afterall. He spits again and his eye darts around looking for a place to escape. Suddenly it pops right out of his head, rolls out the door and buys a Dr. Pepper from the drink machine in the lounge... okay, so maybe that last part didn't happen, but it wouldn't have surprised me much.
Well, I did get the job and I'm quite relieved for that. But I know from this day forward, the wandering eye of doom will be watching me.
**Dramatic Music** TBC!!!
