8/13/05
I am completing an employment application with my previous employer. Having worked here before, I assume that completing the employment application is just a formality.
The woman assisting me is from the HR department. We do not know each other. I am surprised that new people have been hired since I left. This woman is filling out the forms for me and is making many mistakes. Since this is a legal document, she does not erase the mistakes. Instead, she marks each mistake with a different colored highlighter then, she runs a yellow highlighter along the edge of the highlighters cap and using the edge of the cap makes a yellow line under the area she just highlighted. She then marks her initials and date on the yellow line and asks me to do the same.
The application is riddled with highlighted areas, each underscored with a yellow line and our initials and date. It embarrasses me that I will be turning in such an unprofessional document but she is the one filling it out and she is in control.
We complete the form and I walk through the building looking for my old boss who walks out of an office as I turn a corner in the corridor almost causing us to collide with one another.
I am happy to see her but notice that she is crying. I say I am sorry to see that she is upset and she starts sobbing uncontrollably and moves quickly into her office which is secured by a card-key system. Since I do not have access to this area, I wait outside for someone to pass by that can let me in.
I stand listening to her cry and wonder what could be so terrible.
The woman assisting me is from the HR department. We do not know each other. I am surprised that new people have been hired since I left. This woman is filling out the forms for me and is making many mistakes. Since this is a legal document, she does not erase the mistakes. Instead, she marks each mistake with a different colored highlighter then, she runs a yellow highlighter along the edge of the highlighters cap and using the edge of the cap makes a yellow line under the area she just highlighted. She then marks her initials and date on the yellow line and asks me to do the same.
The application is riddled with highlighted areas, each underscored with a yellow line and our initials and date. It embarrasses me that I will be turning in such an unprofessional document but she is the one filling it out and she is in control.
We complete the form and I walk through the building looking for my old boss who walks out of an office as I turn a corner in the corridor almost causing us to collide with one another.
I am happy to see her but notice that she is crying. I say I am sorry to see that she is upset and she starts sobbing uncontrollably and moves quickly into her office which is secured by a card-key system. Since I do not have access to this area, I wait outside for someone to pass by that can let me in.
I stand listening to her cry and wonder what could be so terrible.
posted by GFK at 9:58 AM
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