Followup from when job interviews go wild....

So after going through the interview from hell.....I was offered the job. REALLY? After all that they asked me to come to work for them.

Finally a job where I was working around semi-intelligent people -

*Note: This is not to say that I think of myself as wildly more intelligent than the people around me just merely that it is wise that I avoid "The blind leading the blind" type situations.

- So I thought. The same woman that tried to bring up my website and had forgot to plug in the internet *giggle giggle* was also the same woman that seemed to let it escape her attention that I live 35 miles away from the job over a mountain that sometimes has really bad weather.

In the interview I said I live 17 miles from Cheyenne. She interrupted that as 17 miles from Laramie. (back to intelligent people) This woman has a doctoral degree in education....Explains a lot about the state of our education system.

I was let go today because when her boss (my big boss the one I haven't even met yet) had my paper work cross her desk she asked, "Why did we hire someone from Cheyenne when I specifically made a policy that no one from Cheyenne would be hired due to the bad attendance experience, because of road closures, we had with the last girl from Cheyenne?".  -insert the sounds of only cricket's in the distance -

So I am back on the trail of trying to find a job. Thank you University of Wyoming for totally screwing my summer. I am getting married in less than 7 weeks so getting a job right now seems a little pointless doesn't it. 

On the bright side, I can now go on a honey moon after I am married. Down side it won't be beyond our driveway because we can't afford it.

My luck has got to turn around soon or I will just apply for disability on the terms that I am obviously the crazy one around here!

When job interviews go wild.....

So as my search for the perfect job continues I finally wrangled a job interview as a liaison for the Education Graduate Program at the University of Wyoming!!!

I am one of those people that you can take to a karaoke bar, a bat mitzvah or even your grandmas funeral and I can make it wildly more fun. My super powers of fun, however, end when it comes to job interviews.

The old, "What are your weakness's?" question can always be answered one way....  My weakness is job interviews! I act like a total putz. I look like a deer in the headlights with the possibility being totally "On something."

In my coveted UW job interview they explain how their main interest in me is the fact that I can develop and maintain websites. I proudly explain that I love that type of work and go on to boast about the website I created for my job search to set myself apart from the competition. 

"Well", says the Assistant Dean of UW, "Let's take a look at this website!"..........................NOTHING! She can't pull it up!

At this point I am digging my heel into the floor to see if it might be soft enough for me to dig a hole and bury myself so the pain of humiliation will finally stop.

As you can imagine the rest of the interview was tense. All I could think about was how nice it would be to bury myself under the covers when I got home in the safety of my bed.

Today I get an email with the slightest essence of jest..

"Hi Christine – just wanted you to know we found your website right after you left. It was user error …. I wasn't connected to the Internet :)"

Funny. 

After profuse profanity (to myself) I came to the realization that Haiti will freeze over before I get a job offer from this place. Great. Finding a date wasn't even this hard.

So onward and upward the job search continues.....