Saturday, 20 September 2008
online and off-handed
I didn’t get the job at the shop. I scored 98% on the ‘aptitude’ test, and Mr Patel sent a glowing recommendation with my application. So what went wrong?
Someone at Head Office put my name into an internet search engine and it took them to this blog. Did they find something offensive? No. Something that made me appear like a psychotic Nazi who would imprison customers in a changing cubicle and force them to eat their own earlobes? No. If I may quote from the e-mail I received this morning – “The psychologist we use as a consultant, on viewing your online journal entries from the past six months, believes your psychological constitution does not match the profile we are seeking for the vacancy.”
Words fail me.
Except they don’t. FASCIST BASTARDS are two I could start with. Some tosser with an Open University degree does Freudian analysis on a jokey blog and I end up losing employment? Can this be right?
I called Mr Patel to plead my case, only for him to tell me “Sorry mate, my hands are tied. The decision was made at Central.” Followed by “you’re welcome to come in and use the shop though.”
Oh, I will. Next week. I’m gonna go in first thing Friday after Curry Night at The Lion and drop a steaming morning-after turd in the middle of the 99p sock drawer.
Let’s see what their psychologist makes of THAT.
RC 20-9-08
0923 BST
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