Employment Rocks
I have a job! Two actually, which is a bit of a problem. I applied for a tutoring job with this company to help some CPS schools meet their No Child Left Learning But Instead Taking Standardized Tests All The Time requirements. (Can I just mention, by the way, that Cheney mentioned last night that they have closed the gap between minority and majority students. That’s only because NCLB has changed the way the scores are measured - the reality is that nothing much has changed at all). Anyway, tutoring kids is good to do - also lucrative.
So, I apply for this job on their website, and I get a message that says I’m disqualified. This is weird because, shockingly, I am actually qualified for this job. So I send an email to the Chgo woman. I don’t hear back, so the next day I call her. I don’t hear back. So I think, “Ah, well time to look for other jobs.” It’s only two days a week so I need something else anyway.
I actually get hired at what seems like a cool Chgo bar. I got the job, in part, by badmouthing my former managers. They were all Mr. Sexual Harassment guys, which I mentioned to my new manager. He actually knew them, and I was “Oh shit.” But, it turns out that it’s not the first time that he’s heard that, so we laugh, and we get along great. It also might have helped that the one manager I did like used to be his roommate and Jack spoke well of me. Specifically he said that I didn’t get on well at the old bar because I’m not “a slutty idiot.” What a sweetie.
God. This is a really boring story. I’ve agreed now, to work this weekend at a streetfair, but today the tutoring place called me from New York to ask me to come to training either Saturday or Sunday. I think this company is just kind of flighty because I’ve apparently just skipped the interview process and gone straight to the training process. Their website says that they will NEVER hire anyone without an interview. So who knows? But now, I have to call my new boss and go back on the first thing I ever said I’d do for him. I don’t think it’ll be that big of a problem, but it still sucks. But I’ve learned Chris Kelly’s lesson about talking shit about companies for which you might work, so I’m going to shut my mouth now.
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