I will be so glad when Tuesday is done and gone. It’s impossible to get away from all the political ads, and my mind needs a break from all the nastiness and confusion.
But I have a secret. It’s not a big, humongous secret. It is a little, annoying secret, one that I’ve already shared with my family and close friends.
You see, there is a candidate for Congress that I know one tiny little thing about. A tiny thing that shows what her character is made of, and that she doesn’t know the meaning of ethics.
You see, several years ago I was laid off from my job, and my family was struggling to make ends meet. Times were tough, and I was frantically trying to get myself re-employed so that my family’s financial stability could be restored.
I was estatic to have the opportunity to interview at Microsoft, and I was fully confident that I was a good fit for the job.
I met with the hiring manager, and the interview began. She seemed to be a nice woman, she described to me exactly what the job entailed, and I explained how I could accomplish each task, and how I could add value.
She explained that in order for her to make a decision, she needed to know my working methods and ability. Therefore, she wanted me to tell her my ideas about how she could restructure her site to make the information flow more easily.
After I had completed the task, she suddenly jumped up and said she had to go check on something.
About 5-10 minutes later, a young woman came into the office, and said she had been sent to escort me out of the building. I asked if it would be possible to thank the hiring manager for her time, and the young woman said that the manager was unavailable. She said I shouldn’t worry about the abrupt departure, that the manager was “just like that.”
A couple weeks later I was chatting with a friend of mine about her job search, and was surprised to discover that we had both interviewed for the same position at Microsoft. (It was easy to remember the name of this hiring manager, because really, how many women at Microsoft have the first name Darcy?)
My friend had left her interview with the task of creating a mock-up of a redesign of the site, to make it more esthetically pleasing. She had done the requested work.
A month later, both of us consoled with each other that neither of us had heard back from the hiring manager, which must mean neither of us were going to get the job.
Out of curiosity, we visited the site I had been asked to restructure, and my friend to redesign.
Shock! Total shock! There, replacing the old site, was a combination of our work. She had interviewed each of us, requested work from us, and combined our work without any recompense, without a “thank you”, and even without a polite “sorry, but you are not hired.”
And this woman is running for Congress? She claims to be ethical, looking out for the interest for others?
Hardly!
