GIFT WITH NO RIBBON (My Inappropriate Job Interview Attire
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
No one would bother reading this as this would be just another piece of junk about to find its way, amongst the other litters, to my cute pink-flowered trash bin. But anyhow, this would be just a reminiscent of what happened over a year ago on that office, or shall I say, the lion’s den. Please allow me to tell the story.
It was Thursday; I arrived 7 minutes before the expected time of 9am for this follow up interview- one of the few moments of that year when I came early for anything. I was wearing a collared shirt, my darkest pair of jeans and a girly-girl shoe. Checking myself out in the mirror, I thought I looked presentable, smart and ready to go get an employment contract.
I had easily passed a “chicken” piece of exams yesterday about medication computation (hello? I can dig harder math quiz, hahahah), a few situational questions, and they shouldn’t have called that Part III Essay because it was so damn Easy as the choices were a given answers (lol). I confidently went through a casual interview with 4 other applicants and I had to boast an anger-provoking statement with the chief, too much to make a dramatic first impression (evil laugh).
Well, too much for that easy part, I checked myself out again and what a relief was it to find that out that the 2 fellow interviewees arrived in smart casual vibe. We were to have a group interview with the chief and the manager – too many bosses for this small building huh? Well, we entered the lion’s den together, only to be checked from head to toe, “You’ll never get hired with those clothes. You’ll shame me with the manager”, commented the chief. Ouch! She asked us to change to more decent clothes, have we forgotten about the business attire in interviews, and did we have a different orientation about job applications. I felt so small that time; I could easily fit in her phone pouch and back out. It would be impossible for me to don business attire with roughly 45 minutes to spare. Ugh! This would be epic fail. Headlines would have it, “Applicant in Jeans Losses Job Opportunity”. Time passed and the interview with the manager went on. It was just like talking with the guidance counselor, only she was being like a fashion police. The interview went almost entirely like a lecture about my inappropriate get-up! Oh man, I was so pissed, an opportunity might just slip because of how I looked like and my future bosses were prejudice. The lesson, no matter how much we fill our brains with knowledge and learning to have the right attitude, without us even speaking or proving anything, people would always have something to say against us. Bosses love to comment, they can hate us but they can never break us.
Did I get the job? (evil laugh here) Of course! It was just like taking the nursing licensure exam – an easy homerun! (No violent reactions allowed).
P.S. I should have backed out from that interview
(Hari ng Sablay – Sugarfree)
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