Mood goes ... thunk.

[resonant]

So I got 100% on a Microsoft Excel test yesterday, and I came home from work and removed a metric shit-ton of junk from my basement today, and I was feeling pretty darned good.

And then the spouse e-mailed me a link to a job in New City, and I thought, "Well, it's more secretarial work, which I don't really want, but on the other hand I have to have a job and it might be good practice to apply for this one."

So I download the application, and like the first question after basic identification is, "Have you ever been fired or asked to leave a job?"

And now my stomach is full of live squirmy things.

Obviously I'm going to have to process my damned feelings about this thing, even though it was eleven years ago and the company no longer exists¹, because I really can't be in the middle of a job interview and suddenly have a belly full of squirm.

Everything in the whole world sucks.

¹(and even though my preference regarding emotions will be familiar to anybody who ever tried to write in the POV of John Sheppard or Benton Fraser)

Comments

[resonant]

It wasn't a good environment, my boss was outright insulting and hostile at times, and my personal response to feeling out of my depth was honestly to waste time. It wasn't a good job for me nad I wasn't a good employee in it.

Wow, so so very much the same as my experience! As I've thought more about this (imaginary conversations with imaginary interviewers while driving my car -- doesn't everyone do this?), I've come to see that the main lesson for me in this is the importance of not taking the hide-in-the-burrow approach to dealing with (1) change in the workplace and (2) conflict in the workplace.

Well, and the other important lesson is not to take the job working for someone you know to be a weasel with rabies, and if you learn that your boss is a weasel with rabies, to start looking for other work immediately -- but I don't think I'll be sharing that with future interviewers.

[out_there]

Well, and the other important lesson is not to take the job working for someone you know to be a weasel with rabies, and if you learn that your boss is a weasel with rabies, to start looking for other work immediately -- but I don't think I'll be sharing that with future interviewers.

Hee! No, probably not a good idea to mention that little tidbit. Even if it is ABSOLUTELY TRUE.