December 1, 2005

• Interview with Northrop Grunman in an hour.  Turns out they do have IT positions available.

  
  

  Wish me luck. 

  
  

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  EDIT

  
  

  The interview went well, but the salary they put out is waaayyyy too low for a starting pay.  Maybe on the next interview I'll have to negotiate the salary, because as we all know, we all gotta act like a bitch to make them consider hiring us.  THEN we'll talk about salary negotiations.

  
  

  The secretary at the HR department asked me what position I was going for while I was in the waiting room, and after I told her she just said "yeah good luck with THAT.  You better be damn good just to get a job with us like that."  Then she was telling me I had to do this and that, and was giving me interview tips and stuff-- shit that I already know.  I tell her that, and she just goes "well I'm an employee at Northrop Grunman, just telling you how we do things here".

  
  

  First of all lady, you're just a fucking secretary, probably a college intern.  Nortrhop Grunman or not, you obviously can't qualify for my position yet, and that's why you're answering phone calls and probably pleasing your boss under the table once in a while, if you know what I mean.  So she just walked into her own deathtrap for me to put her in her place.

  
  

  "Thanks, but you're just a freaking secretary."  That's all it took to piss her off.

  
  

  When I was in Marine boot camp, one of the guys in my platoon of recruits was a former Army staff sergeant, with nine years of service time in the 82nd Airborne as a paratrooper.  Of course, for switching services he was kicked back to the rank of PFC after he graduates.  But during recieving he was getting bitched out by a lance cooley, and at the same time the lance guy was giving him "advice for future reference".  So the former SSgt tries to put him in his place, and the Lcpl just chews him out even more.  "Well this is the MARINE CORPS, not the Army anymore.  Nobody gives a shit."

  
  

  "wtf man, I been doing this shit for nine years and then some 20-year old kid who's probably been in less than a year is trying to give me unsolicited advice," he later tells me.  But of course, that Lcpl was already in this "very reputable company", and the former SSgt. wasn't "in" yet, because he came from a less prestigious company, in a sense.  Army or Marine, it doesn't matter.  This guy's been in for 9 years and plus he was a grunt, and not an admin POG.  He's been around the block a few times already, he didn't need someone with less experience in a lesser hierarchal job to tell him what's up.  I mean, if you're a seasoned combat vet, would you want a paper-pushing jackass who's only combat action was a drunken brawl at the E-club to tell you how the world is like?  I don't know.

  
  

  My point is, I felt just like that former SSgt. today when that secretary thought she could call shots over me.  I may have come from a lesser-known company, but I know for damn sure that I held a higher position in the corporate food chain, and I don't need unwanted advice.  Sure, she's an employee at N.G., but ah.... I don't have to repeat myself again.  In the words of Dwayne The Rock Johnson, "know your role and shut your pie hole".

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