Breaking Job Interview Rules and Still Getting Hired.

Well, one of the ideas of this blog has been validated.    Getting canned can often result in putting you in a better situation in the long run.   It took less than three weeks from my termination date, but I’ve now got a contract with a new employer that on first appearances seems to be … Read more

The First Week of Being Unemployed.

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So the chronology here is as follows.    About four years of working in “big corpa” as an analyst for a large dinosaur retailer as of April 2018 and my first official day of being unemployed was this week.   There’s a definite adjustment just as the caveman from Plato’s cave had to let his eyes … Read more

Behold: The Performance Improvement Plan!

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Ok so where do we start here?  The narcissist in me wants to me to start with my life story but I’ll hold off for now.  Let’s instead start out with the current situation summed up rather quickly.  As of today, I’m approximately four weeks into what has been described as a 60-day “Performance Improvement … Read more