Damage Averted:

I praise God for the fact that He has given me insightful parents, concerned friends, and a built-in CRAP detector. To give you a little help, I'll give you some background. I had this job interview that happened last Friday.... causing me to miss most of my friend Dan's graduation (which has me very miffed) ... but it looked very favorable. As I told you all before, this blog is not open to slander, so I won't give the name of the people or the organization. What I will tell you is that the job was as a sale rep. for a popular knife and kitchenware company. The interview was great. The company sounded really good and it sounded like the company really took care of its employees. So here I am thinking "this is great, these people really value their guys"... this was my thought on Friday.

As you can see from reading above, it is now Monday... and my thought process has changed. I had time to think about it and to consider everything. The more I prayed and thought about it.... the more I talked to people... the more I looked into it and the more I listened to my parents... this whole thing had to be too good to be true. The guy that was the boss there seemed like he was a closet screamer: real nice when you're on the outside, but once you cross that line, you're done. My theory was proven true. What I thought to be a clean-cut, reputable institution turned sour the moment I pulled into the parking lot.

I see three college age kids standing in the lot smoking... first assurance that what I was doing was right. I go inside and the guy that was originally "very excited about having me come on bored" couldn't even remember my name and didn't even look me in the eyes when I walked into the build. He made no eye contact until I said his name. As I told him my decision, his immediate response was "Who talked you out of it" I proceeded to tell him that no one talked me out of it, but that I had decided that it wasn't for me. At that he made comment to the effect of "You don't know until you try it." My immediate thought was, what kind of peer pressure does he think I'll give into? That is a classic line of anyone who is trying to get one to try drugs or something like that. Honestly, how naive do I look? Then... here is the kicker. This had me upset for a little while, but he cuts me off mid-sentence and shakes my hand and comments: "Well, best of luck to you, I hear McDonald's is hiring... you'll never make as much money there..."

Wow. I really had to check my attitude because I REALLY wanted to give him a piece of my mind, but I knew that it was not the godly or professional thing to do. Though his comment lacked a great deal of tact, I didn't need to honor that with my attitude. I said to myself when I got into the van "I'm not just any dumb kid looking for a job nor am I naive". I got to thinking about their tactics in the interview and thought "dude, they really had me think that they had something good here..."

Praise God that He has other things in mind for me and that He took the shutters off my eyes. I see it for what it is now and I hold no grudge... I just never want to have to work for them. Who knows, looks like I could be working at a group home and I could send them some "quality" employees.