Well, first, I have been back over the last three posts, and I do hope all the typos are corrected. So embarrassing.

As to the prospective employer, first, there was simple dithering. Then they tried to get me for half a day (that is, half price), and I said, No. Now, they will take me full time rather that lose such a promising prospect as myself. But what on earth am I supposed to think? I’ve spent my working life watching managing attorneys short the staff to fatten the yearly profit sharing. I wish I were the sort of person who could relish taking money they don’t want to pay me, but unhappily I am not. It makes me feel that much less worthy of anything good at all.

And, I’ve been given much too long to ponder some things I was told during the interview. Here is where I put a toe into some deeper water. I don’t think I really want to be one of those “oversharing” sorts of bloggers, and there are legions of folk who would not give this matter any thought at all, let alone write it up. (I envy them.)

An open, airy, lofty, office environment is fine. I can cope. But they then offered the qualification that the bathroom was, of course, enclosed. Hmmm. Just the one? In the office? The office potty should be down the hall, a men’s and a ladies’, and contain more than one stall. I have worked under more primitive conditions, and while it was not at the top of the list of reasons to leave (the office was occupied by three human males), it was certainly on it. Shall I tell you how standards of decorum have lapsed in this great nation of ours? I show up for my first day at the Bay Area Receivership Group (what the hell), and the one and only toilet in the office has been taken up, and there was a large hole in the cement floor where it had been.

I really would have waited until this debacle was resolved before taking on a new employee, and this experience may have sensitized me to any hint of anything like it. Furthermore, by all that is holy in western civilization, when you leave a public bathroom, there should be no physical evidence, at all, that you were ever in it, and an unholy percentage of the public does not seem to understand this.

I doubt there’s a proper kitchen either. And, they don’t want to pay me. The whole thing simply does not bode well.