I can guarantee that she's checking to see if your arm is mutating into a giant Indian god arm, silently praying that that the hair grows back like an Italians.
You're not the first to mention hair growing back. Prior to surgery they did not shave anything on my body. So there.
So I flew up to Minnesota a couple weeks ago for an interview. I thought it went decent, but they sent me their standard rejection letter and encouraged me to apply with their subsidiaries, one in particular. The way the rejection letter was written I figured it was standard corporate shit and they weren't interested, but what the hell, can't hurt to give it a shot. So I send an application and phone the subsidiary telling them I am interested in a particular position. They tell me to call so and so, but he never answers and I leave a voice mail and call a couple more times trying to get in touch. I then get a call back from someone else in the company telling me not to call so and so person again. Then they offer me an interview and are flying me back up to Minnesota/paying for all the other travel shit again. Is this standard corporate stuff where they just mess with you endlessly to see how bad you want the job, or just because they can? I'm meeting the president of the subsidiary and then a bunch of the top level guys for the interview. It will nearly double my salary if I get the job. I'm 27 and my last two jobs haven't been very corporate so this is a whole new ball game for me. Yeah, I dealt with it when I first got out of college, but my degree (marketing) was worth shit at the time due to the recession (which department would you cut?), I had little experience in the way of real candidacy skills, and the interviews were much more straight forward. In any case, thank god it's Friday. I need to drink.
Based on my experience in the corporate world, they probably aren't intentionally fucking with you. They're just incompetent. This is pretty much par for the course in any decently-sized company. HR isn't exactly stocked with the best and brightest, and a lot of the managers got promoted just for putting in enough time, so they don't really know what they're doing. Have fun.
You're probably right, which is unfortunate because if they were actually messing with me on purpose it shows more interest. I've already known a few people who got promoted because they were pretty or knew someone's brother. Oh well, worst case scenario I get two free trips up to Minnesota over this.
Re: Hello Cleveland! Hahahaha! He has his face on his shirts (might even be from that picture) and my trainer said it's hysterical when he wears it. And you can bet your ass if Steve told me to DO IT! I'd do it. I'd probably throw in a couple extra based on intimidation alone. His, not mine. He's a scary dude. No, it was at my Y. Different dude altogether. We need excuses now for that? Contributing my part: Spoiler What? You weren't expecting a female were you? Why would I do that?
Re: Hello Cleveland! Congrats, you just got added to my list of TiB users whose tagged posts I no longer click on.
Re: Hello Cleveland! Come on, ROM, you know you don't mean that. I just wanted equal time for us women here. I gotta look at women's pubes, it only seems fair to balance the field a little. That's all I'm saying. Here, I promise this contains ZERO pubic hair, and I'll even go so far as to say it's no male nudity. You know you wanna click it: Spoiler Oh yeah, almost killed my damn dog tonight. Literally. With my car. Little shit. Escaped the fence (okay this is an exaggeration. The kids take her collar off her "because it looks too tight" but she's stupid enough to think she is still wearing it and never ventured outside the yard--until tonight). I'm coming home pitch black and I thought I saw something out of the corner of my eye. It's her. She's black, I just happened to catch her collar off a light. She has no fear of cars so comes running up to mine. I slammed on the brakes and got out and thought she was going to play the "catch me if you can sucker" game, but since she's obsessively in love with me she just wanted me to pet and love her so came right over. Collar went back on, not to be removed. I guess I should be calling my kids stupid here as well. Maybe little shits also.
Does anyone else find those Hardee's commercials with the hot chicks eating cheeseburgers to be mildly irritating?