your current Branch Chief comes in 2 hours later and says you should be hearing from HR within the week, and shakes your hand in a most positive fashion, that's good, right?

That sounds very promising!

I have consoled myself for my shitty HR position with the knowledge that there are consulting jobs available in the area. I'm not going to end up on the street begging for my dinner.

But maybe it'll all work out. Or maybe I should write a best-selling YA novel--it's feeling about as likely as getting this job, some days.

On the FDA story, I remember reading a book called The Accidental Investment banker, and they had a reference to the Security Exchange Commission. I... Couldn't read more than ten pages after that. Not that everyone knows that's wrong, but that's your primary regulator! If you don't instantly know that's not the name, what kind of care did you take with this book?

He accidentally wrote it.

Fingers crossed, flea, but that sounds very good!

his is the mr. flea job in Cincinnati he didn't initially make the interview pool cu

So, wait, did he already have an interview, or would he have to go have one?

So, if you have a nice phone call with the Branch Chief at the office you've applied for a job at, and she says she'll call your current Branch Chief, and your current Branch Chief comes in 2 hours later and says you should be hearing from HR within the week, and shakes your hand in a most positive fashion, that's good, right?

This is the mr. flea job in Cincinnati he didn't initially make the interview pool cut.

Trying not to count my chickens before they're hatched, but - woot!

!!!!!!

Good luck, Mr. flea!!

Why, restaurants, why?

Why are restaurant websites so horrifically bad?

Okay, he was just offered the job, by phone, no interview.

Yoicks!

That sounds very positive, flea!!!!

mr. flea! Whoo!

Or maybe I should write a best-selling YA novel

Hey, I could hook you up with people, you know. But the whiskey sounds like an excellent interim idea.