About 2 months after I lost my job , I got a new job as a janitor at the local middle school, I say "the" because it is THE only one in my town. That only lasted a month though as I was the new guy and didn't have the right connections to keep my job. So, I got laid off. This post is not about that job though. 2 weeks later I signed up with a couple of temp agencies. One of them found me a job right away working as a grounds keeper for the rest of the summer. Being a grounds keeper for those 6 weeks was probably the single GREATEST job I ever had.....but, alas, this thread is not about it either.
I could talk about the other job I had after being a grounds keeper, where I worked at a printing company boxing up winter cards for Hallmark. Seeing the same stupid polar bear and his bowling pin shaped penguin, sledding down the hill, almost crashing but he doesn't because thats where the hologram on the card ends. You'd wish, YOU'D WISH, though, that just once, a tree branch was in the right place at the right time, and when that stupid polar bear jumped once more, his head would land 10 feet back from his body. I digest though, and alas, this post is also not about that job. Although on many occasions I have wanted to stab my chest multiple times while working there. Again, I digest.
This is about the job I got recently, last Wednesday 10/31 in fact. The place that hired me...was the same place that fired me not but 7 months, 12 days, 6 hours, and some odd minutes earlier. You ask yourself though, "How the hell did this happen?!?" Well....if you even read my post up to this point, you might be asking yourself this question.....or not. How the hell do I know what you are thinking?!?!
In the 7 months I was away from that place, the company name was changed to something different. My dad made the suggestion, "Out of curiosity to see what would happen.", that I apply there and I did so via online. I just left out the part where I got fired from there or even worked there for that matter. A few days later while looking in the paper for a job, I saw that they were having a career fair at a nearby workforce center. I went in, filled out a application, did a typing test, then waited for a interview, and waited, and waited, till they finally called my name.
The interview went reasonably well, I pretty much bs'd my way through the whole thing. Gave out fake stories, fake situations, fake everything. Then she asked me if I have ever worked for them in the past or any affiliate of them, then she listed off all of the other companies associated with them. One of them was the company that I got fired from. However, I look her straight in the eye and without skipping a beat, breaking into a cold sweat, or batting an eyelash, I said, "No." She explained what they did there, then what I would be doing. After all of that, she just flat out offered me a job, and I went ahead and took it. I went ahead and filled out all the forms, signed the necessary documents, and walked out with a grin ear to ear.
Now given the past nature with me and this company, I'd figure that they would find out who the hell I was, and that lied right to their face. So I just waited for the phone call saying just that and that I couldn't work for them.
The rest of Wednesday passes: No phone call.
Thursday passes: No phone call.
Friday passes: No phone call.
The Weekend: Get stupidly wasted for the fact that I will have to start working again on Monday, and still no phone call.
That brings me to today.
They know that I have worked for them in the past, they just don't care. I know this because I got my old badge back, the one I had to turn in when I got fired, so I can enter the building. On top of that, I am right near where I used to work in the building, so I got to see a lot of my old co-workers and supervisors. I even saw the supervisor that got me fired and she saw me. In that moment, I had a sense of....victory. When she became my supervisor, she did everything in her power to get me fired, and she succeeded. Here I was though looking at her straight in the eyes, and knowing that she can't do a thing to me now, I get a sorta sick satisfaction out of it.
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