Yesterday's job interview had a whole new wrinkle, that being the HR person telling me to go to the wrong place. Well, actually I went to the right place but it had the wrong Suite # on it and so was sent from the actual place I was supposed to go to the corporate office across the courtyard so I could ping the HR person and ask where the fuck I was supposed to go. I was, of course, officially late when I went up to buzz the HR person and asking a HR person for directions because you're lost never looks good. Yay me.

As I said, I did go to the right place but one of the things that looked screwy was that the entire company was sitting around a conference table having a team meeting. A team meeting that was going on when I was supposed to have an interview. Not a really good time to have to go walking into a place. I eventually said "screw it" and knocked on the door to get somebody's attention but here's the other thing about my instructions from the HR person-- she didn't actually say who I was supposed to meet with so when the person came to get me, all I could say was that I'm here to meet with somebody about an interview but that was about it. Oh, and as I also had the wrong suite #, I was quickly shooed out of there.

Luckily, this all got sorted out fairly quickly and I was brought back into the correct office and placed in a meeting room far, far away from everybody else. Unfortunately, nobody came to meet with me. As I was going on minute 10 I began to debate when I would call the HR person to see what was going on but somebody came in. Then they left and another person came in. Then that was over and when they asked me if I was supposed to meet with anybody else, I told them I had no idea. Since he didn't either, he told me to wait here while he figures out what to do next and if there's nobody else to see, he'll escort me out. Ten minutes later, nobody came. Once again I began to debate whether to call HR or to just wander out.

Luckily somebody else came in, a big tall guy who looked like David Wallace from the Office. He asked me a few basic questions and then moved onto the "so what do you like to do in your free time" type questions, you know, the questions that people ask when they've run out of questions and want to be polite. So wanting to be polite back, I asked the guy what he did at the company. Turns out he was the guy who ran the place. And here he was, hearing me go on about how much I like to watch TV.

The interview ended and he asked me if there was anybody else I was supposed to meet. When I told him I didn't know, he said he'd go find out and then get back to me. And, like everybody else, he wandered off and wandered off and didn't return. One minute...five minutes...almost ten minutes in and he finally returned back so that nope, that was it and I was done and then the guy who ran the company, the guy who founded it and built it escorted me out of the office as if he had nothing else to do with his time.