Posted by Jay_Bravest_Face on July 28, 2008, at 19:53:30
In reply to Re: Didn't get the position... » Toph, posted by TexasChic on July 25, 2008, at 21:50:22
> Dude, I so feel your pain. Different circumstances, but similar in many ways. It sounds like your boss was kind of baiting you by asking a bunch of stuff in a way he knew would make you nervous. What a jerk.
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> As for interviews, I've found its easier just to think of them as a game. You practice the answers that make you sound like a super hero because that's what they want to hear. Of course I'm not saying things are this way for every job interview and that's that. These are just some conclusions I've come to in my admittedly brief time in corporate America.
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> I'm like you, I like to say it like it is, but I think interviews are kind of like playing a part in a play. They don't want to hear any weaknesses, they want to hear that you can do it all. The whole thing can make you sick because its so ridiculous, but it seems to work. I always figure if I can get through the interview and get the job, THEN I will have the chance to prove myself. Either that or you get a boss that's a total PsychoBitch that you can do nothing to please... but that's digressing into my issues.
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> -TThank you T.C. I've read consistently about your difficulties with arsehole employers, bosses, co-workers, etc. It's really sad that in a place where we have to spend at least 40 hours a week, we have to be subject to almost slave-like, abusive conditions sometimes. The really sick part is we are made to feel so REALLY "small". That is a human rights violations, as far as I am concerned. Like you said, the little 'games' people play, the baiting, the mind-f*cks, things that us with especially sensitive mental health conditions DON'T need. It's like we are back on the playground in Grade 3 again. Except the words, the 'code', is different. But, the meaning is till the same. "We don't like you so we are not gonna let you play...nah nah na nah nah..." lol.) Well, what can we do? I still often wish and dream about living way up in Northern Canada and being a Forest Ranger or something like that. Maybe when I grow up? When will THAT happen? Hmmm. I dunno. lol.
Jay :-)
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