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March 29th, 2007

Here I go again, mining my emails for IXH posts:

I received an email from my Aunt Molly in mid-March asking (in part) about the status of my temp job with the venture capitalists. There was much speculation — on my part as well as that of several people in the office — as to whether or not I’d receive an offer of full-time employment. Here’s my guestimation on how that would work out.

—– Original Message —-
From: Aunt Molly
To: Flo
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2007 4:34:39 PM
Subject: Are you OK????

…How have you been? Is the job still going OK?Just want you to know I miss you and think of you often. Let me know.

Love,
Aunt Molly

—– Original Message —-
From: Flo
To: Aunt Molly
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 10:13:40 PM
Subject: Re: Are you OK????

Hi Aunt Molly,

My temp job ends at the end of March unless the venture capitalists ask me to stay on a permanent basis. I’m certain that won’t happen because I totally blew the interview. Ten weeks of good work, camaraderie and compliments went right out the window because the CEO freaked me out.

He started the interview by saying he thought I’m intimidated by him (he’s right) and he doesn’t think he’s an intimidating person. Then, he said the previous assistant was very personable and gave the company a rep as a warm, friendly, caring group. The inference was that I’m not warm, caring or friendly so what do I plan to do about that? It just went downhill from there. Within minutes I was squirming and almost at a loss for words when the CEO said he didn’t know me and wanted to get a sense of the kind of person I am as he’s not just interviewing to fill a job, but also to find someone who would fit in as a member of the ‘family’. The entire office of fourteen people regularly socialize together so it’s important to know if I’d fit in, too. The questions that followed, such as, ‘What do you do on a typical Saturday night?’ and, ‘Who would you say is the one person who had a huge impact on your life, was your own personal hero?’ totally freaked me out…Hell no, I’m not getting that job. After that interview, I don’t want it…Seems I’ll have to start over again.

When I mentioned this interview from hell to a friend, he said that in his business everyone knows that some people don’t interview well, while others are terrible at conducting interviews and should just never do it. What he tries to do is see past all of that and find out if the person being interviewed can do the job. In this case, I think the CEO is a bad interviewer and I’m just as bad an interviewee! Sheesh.

I was mostly right as here’s what happened a week later, as noted in yet another email:

—– Original Message —-
From: Flo
To: No one you know
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 8:32:36 PM
Subject: None of your beez-wax

Venture capitalists are a fickle bunch. A week ago, they asked me to stay on until the end of the month. Seems they changed their minds a day later and discussed it with the temp agency. Neither the VCs nor the temp reps mentioned it to ME until last Friday. I was only told because the Controller invited me out for a goodbye scoop of ice cream at the nearby Baskin-Robbins. She was a little embarrassed that that was how I found out — and she should have been, too! That’s not cool!

As upset as I was (though not in front of her or the others), it was probably the best way for it to happen as I’ve felt so stressed out this last month over the prospect of being out of work again (and all of the unpleasantness [read: poverty] that goes along with that). Waiting another two weeks for it to happen
would ratchet up my tension to a full-fledged freak-out! It was better to be surprised as the shock wore off in a day.

Though I’m still a little anxious, I am 100% happier than I’ve been in awhile. That stress made it hard for me to think straight and it was even more difficult for me to enjoy myself for any length of time.

Starting over is never fun. I’ll let you know how it goes.

No work and all stress, make me a dull girl,
Flo

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