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I was the professionally dressed, overqualified woman that showed up to be interviewed by you and your partner. I knew right away you couldn’t afford me when I walked into your little hole in the wall office. After checking in with the tattooed receptionist in spaghetti straps, I tried to give you the benefit of the doubt, but the whole time you folded your arms across your chest and scowled like the shrewd business-man think you are. I know what side you’re on. I see the dollar signs in your eyes. You have no integrity. Yeah, I read your book of regurgitated procedure and I read all about your work you do, and your support of the oppressors of society. I wasn’t any better. I was there for the money. It was just a cash job to me. Despite my abundance of talent and laundry list of qualifications, you decided to be a jerk and focus on the small gap in my resume. You asked about it, over and over. I could have had a baby. I could have been hospitalized. I could have had a death in the family. Maybe I’d been travelling. I said, I don’t recall what I was doing between 2009 and 2010. But you felt the need to ask again and again. How about, none of your fucking business! Does that answer work for you? You boomers make me sick. You’re so entitled – you’ve never had to experience unemployment or under-employment. You’ve had the same cushy job for 30 years that you cling to with a deathgrip. Millennials are just as educated as you and we’re more tech-savvy; we’re just trying to make it in an economy that you boomers messed up! Just let us crawl out of the giant shithole you dug for us and pave our own way. I get it, my skirt wasn’t short enough or I wasn’t dumb enough to let you steamroll me on a daily basis, doing all your work for chicken feed. —Sorry, I don’t work for buttons or for dickheads
This article appears in May 12-18, 2016.
You don’t recall a year of your life? HIGHLY suspicious… I’d sit there and grill you about it too! Of course, I would have already ruled you out having answered thar you don’t recall what happened 6 years ago but I’d want to see you squirm…
Next!
“Oppressors of society”? Something tells me you just aren’t cut out for a career in the Hot Caffeinated Beverage field.
All this over flippin’ burgers and slinging fries?!
“Millennial’s are more entitled than Boomer’s.”
-A not so entitled Millennial
sounds like they did an “over qualified, abundantly talented” person a favour. I doubt your resume had anything about being a narcissist, or mention your level of humility or humbleness…something that goes a long way. From my experience, the ones that are so vocal about how great they are usually end up being full of hot air.
“You boomers make me sick. You’re so entitled – you’ve never had to experience unemployment or under-employment.”
On which planet? The Maritimers and Newfoundlanders who have left their home provinces in droves for decades in search of jobs that just don’t exist at home might have something to say about entitlement. Yup, we’re entitled all right. Entitled to move away from our homes and split from our families and friends to start from scratch, alone, on the other side of the country.
Never had to experience unemployment? Ha! I guess Millennials invented unemployment insurance because there was never any unemployment before their generation arrived. How about the Millennials step up to the plate and create their own employment opportunities just like every generation before them?
Judging by some of your language, I’m guessing liberal arts major? Sorry but all the knowledge about the evil patriarchy you gained from you degree in gender studies really isn’t going to help you in the real world.
There must be a good Dilbert or two about this …
Sounds like those guys really dodged a bullet. I hope they read this and realize how lucky they are to have made the right choice.
I’ve interviewed a fair number of people for professional jobs. Any hint of deception or evasion sets off alarm bells. The OB would have served herself better by preparing for a question about that obvious gap in her resume. The interviewer would have appreciated her honesty. Keep in mind that an employer simply wants a competent person who can do the job adequately and someone who will fit in and not cause any problems within the organization. You need to convince the employer on both counts.
Having a gap is not a problem. No one is obligated to be employed every year of their life. Nor should they have to justify this. Trigyn’s suggestion of a prepared response will smooth things considerably.
Someone who presents themselves, astonishingly, as having no memory of a significant life event of only six years ago is not promoting themselves as very reliable. It looks as though there is something to hide which is why the interviewer decided to dig deeper.
What a bitch.
Anybody can dress professionally. It’s carrying yourself professionally that causes problems for some people. I would like to share an experience I had in 2009. Unfortunately I can’t remember that year of my life. The end.
I have to agree with OP on this one!
If it’s private information that she prefers not to share, that’s her choice.
A person can certainly request a criminal record check if they don’t feel comfortable with that.
We all have rights and she has the right to refuse elaborating on that.
As she said, none of your fucking business what I did between 2009 and 2010.
As she mentioned, she could have been on maternity leave. We have to respect her privacy.
Clearly, not only based on that employer, but most of the responses on here, that sort of respect doesn’t exist in NS.
BTW OP, don’t take it personally. It’s not you. It’s just the general mentality as you can see 😉