It's Always Something

With all that’s going on with the referendum there must be something I am missing.

I just remembered; I need a job.

The truth is I have never been busier on the job front. I made the point at a Lee Hecht Harrison team meeting that the less I work at getting a job the more successful I seem to be. I theorized that if I give up the pursuit entirely I will be a CEO somewhere. Probably AIG.

Lee Hecht Harrison, by the way is an outplacement firm. A team meeting is a support group for the LHH clients. I think of it as a 12 step program for the economically dispossessed.

Here are a couple of highlights for the week:
· After dressing for an interview I noticed that there was a stain on my shirt so I took off my tie and changed. Having re-shirted I returned to the bathroom to straighten my tie in the mirror and noticed that this shirt had a similar stain in almost the same location. Then I noticed that this was a faint water stain on the mirror, not the shirt.
· I showed up a few minutes late to LHH in my suit. Folks eagerly waited for it to be my turn to say how my week went. The group leader asked me for my highlights and I replied that I had none so he asked why I was in a suit. I said that “I went to the Doctor yesterday and he said I was impotent. I figure that if I am gonna be impotent I am gonna look impotent”. It’s a bad, old joke but it really worked.
· I had more interviews today – two hour long ones starting at 8:00AM. This beat the back to back interviews the scheduler tried to set starting at 4PM on a Friday.
· The 8AM interview was a no show. He received the invite that morning at home and called an employee to squire me around. This was fine. We were very copasetic.
· When he did show up our hour was almost done so he asked me if it was OK to reschedule (Monday) and then offered to take me to the next interview. When we were almost at the next office the fire alarm went off.

Hey, last time I interviewed (25 years ago) the very pregnant wife of the interviewer burst into the interview and started yelling at the interviewer for making her wait in an unsafe part of town. I got that job.