Mr Coffee
Tuesday, August 15, 2006

For Wrick, complete with celebrity endorsement.

In other news, I turned the job down on the grounds that the owner is a nutter and I'm scared of him. I had a job offer and was at the point of signing when I decided I really didn't like the look of the owner of the company. It didn't help when he went off on one about how if I were to leave I could not take another job with a customer or a competitor for at least twelve months and that if I did he had an aggressive team of lawyers and he wasn't afraid to use them to prosecute to the full extent of the law to gain recompense, stabbing the table with his finger for emphasis.

I know you have to be a certain type of aggressive go-getter to start your own company but he really struck me as a bit of a dickhead. I had a very bad feeling about the whole thing so thought it best to decline.

Something will turn up. I just need to keep telling myself that I am that interesting, flawed, sophisticated adult that as a child I hoped I would be, everything is going to plan and that it will all work out fine.

posted by Captain Beefheart @ 9:30:00 AM, 6 Dumbass Comments

6 Dumbass Comments:

At Wednesday, August 16, 2006 1:45:00 AM, Tired and emotional said...: Compnay Directors are complete f&^*!hggzhging wa&*^%*kers.

I also believe there is some sort of employement law in Canandanadada that prevents another party from preventing you using your skills to gain employment. i.e. they can't stop you getting another job.
At Wednesday, August 16, 2006 3:06:00 AM, WhiteBoyBob said...: I concur. Most of them are bullies too.

I totally understand why you slowly backed away, and kudos to you for doing that. I'm the sort of lily-livered knob jockey that would have been too worried about making a fuss and just signed on the dotted line and then spent ages regretting it.
At Wednesday, August 16, 2006 10:19:00 AM, Captain Beefheart said...: I don't think they could have stopped me "ever working in this town again" or anything like that, but it was more the attitude behind the rant that put me off and made me think "I really don't want to share a building with this man".

Running away bravely seemed the best option
At Wednesday, August 16, 2006 10:52:00 AM, Nick said...: I would have done the same thing.
At Thursday, August 17, 2006 2:56:00 PM, Übermilf said...: Have you considered a lucrative career in nipple bleaching?
At Wednesday, September 13, 2006 4:24:00 PM, Ghone said...: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAmljaj5stA