“It’s not a principle if it doesn’t cost you anything”
Also just curious about your deeply held principles in general.
No political grandstanding please.
“It’s not a principle if it doesn’t cost you anything”
Also just curious about your deeply held principles in general.
No political grandstanding please.
I was working part time as a tutor in a community college. I had applied to work for AT&T or maybe Ameritech as a tech. It would’ve been a very good job, but I had to start training full time around late April or May. I had some students that were really relying on me to help them prepare for finals. I asked if they could put me in the next class, but they said now or never, so I told them I had to turn them down.
They gave no shits, of course, but it was a big deal to my students. And the school that was having trouble staffing math and electronics tutors. It changed the course of my life, but things turned out just fine, eventually.
I applied for a tech job with AT&T years ago. It was nuts. They had a big bunch of us meet at an office building for testing. Before we started the tests, this woman spoke to us, talking up the company, telling us how lucky we’d be to get a job there, etc. I think she’d brought a couple other people to tell us how great it was. Then she casually mentioned that they had a ridiculously high turnover rate because they fire people for just about anything, which is why they’re always hiring. If you’re late one day because you have a flat tire, or miss one day because you’re sick, even with a doctor’s note, you’re fired. The test was simple. I finished it quickly and got everything right, but when they emailed me to set up a second meeting, I just deleted it. No way would I want a job like that.