I got a job by calling a company and saying that i was calling back to set up a time for my interview. When they said they couldn’t find my resume, in said that’s fine, I’ll bring an extra copy with me tomorrow in case you can’t find it. What time would you like me to come in, I’m free at 1pm? I was told the person didn’t work tomorrow and they didn’t know if the other HR person was open, I said that’s fine, I’ll call back after double check my schedule for next week.
The next day, I showed up at 1pm with resume in hand, told them I was there for my 1p appointment and of course was told that the person I talked to wasn’t there. So I just said that’s fine, I don’t mind if the other person in HR interviews me, and if they need, I can wait for a while. I don’t have any other interviews today.
So of course the other person shows up and says they didn’t have a note about an appointment and they can’t even find a copy of my resume and would I like to reschedule? I just handed them a copy of my resume and told them today’s fine, lead the way.
And they did. They read my resume as they walked back to the office to interview me, told me I looked a little overqualified, and said yes, but this is where I want to work. Ground floor on a company about to blow up? Hell yes.
So we got through the interview process and he said that they weren’t actually hiring until next week, but that I was in. So I handed him my id and social security card and said great, let’s fill the paperwork out now, one thing less to worry about later. So he did. Once the papers were signed I pointed to the number of people in the tech support queue and offered to jump in even though I didn’t have any log in creds, and was told they do four hours of shadowing for anyone before they answer calls, so I offered to get that out of the way too, if of course it wasn’t a hassle to get me in the system.
He set me up to shadow a tech, and by the time I left I had four hours on the clock. The next day I literally showed up to work for 8 hours. For the first two weeks I didn’t have a schedule. It wasn’t until they hired the next batch of people they realized I was just coming and going as I pleased.
So, they gave me a schedule, and I showed up to work an hour early and stayed an hour late for a year and a half before they asked me to curb my overtime, and it was only because I had gotten so many raises that the accounting people realized that I was getting a LOT more money than other employees.
(To be fair, I had been promoted twice)
Anyhow, that’s the story of how I got hired at the best job I ever had. Maybe sometime I’ll tell the story of how I gave myself the third promotion.
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