Hello, November. Started you off VERY early this morning, eh? Like, 3:45AM early.
Interview was pretty wild. I am too exhausted to write it all out, so I’ll bulletify:
This company has very recently moved to a shiny, brand new, sparkly corporate office!
Unfortunately, Google maps didn’t get their new address.
Guess what I did? I went to their old, shabby warehouses an hour early because I wasn’t sure about traffic. Thought I had it made! Even a stop at the Starbuckles ahead of time!
Walked into a factory completely dressed up and spiffy. Yes, it was the kind of factory that is cranking out product on conveyor belts and night shift workers spilling out into the street. And yes, they were eye-balling the hell out of me.
Ended up a 1/2 LATE FOR MY INTERVIEW!!! I was stress-sweaty too! OMG. Horrible first impression!!!!!
Was shown around sparkly new office (impressive!)
and then GRILLED by the Exec. VP (potential new boss) and then another Director and then the HR person. All of them, questioning, probing, more GRILLING! Not that I expected less, mind you. But the questions were like the ones you dread hearing: tell me about a time where you blew it…tell me how much you have to overcome the hatred people feel for you in the workplace…tell me why you are better than the asshole who had this job before…let me see how big your balls are.
Ugh.
I thought they hated me.
Until….
After more interrogation, something must have seeped into the cracks there, because before I knew it, the Director lady was bringing me GIFTS! I shit you not! Like, things they manufacture, but they were sweet and thoughtful and were a direct response to some things that we’d talked about earlier!
And then VP (potential new boss) came in later with a much lighter touch and we discussed more “personality” type stuff, and… yeah, he told me that he wanted me to come back and meet the CEO (whom I would have met if he weren’t in Asia right now).
And I actually left with a really GREAT feeling! I mean, I know that there are reasons for the tough-tough questions. They want to see if you have what it takes. I never let them see me sweat, and I think that’s why they each came back for round 2 with smiley faces.
Meetings ran long and it was a mad dash to get back to the office.
Headhunter just wrote, telling me that I KILLED it! We are going to talk later. WOW!
I’m back at the office, so I should get off this site and get back to work!
Love, exciting love!!
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