Last night my husband and I stayed up late prepping for a job interview he has today for a promotion. We spent hours polishing shoes, ironing clothes (I'm awful at ironing those pleat things on pants and shirts--I have to be super careful or I put railroad tracks in the whole thing), all so he could make a good impression. The promotion is a little bit of a long shot, as there are others with over 12 years experience, but this was a good opportunity to show interest and demonstrate potential.
Unfortunately, I definitely made his first impression this morning a negative one. Yesterday our power went off. Right before bed my husband asked me to check my watch so he could reset the alarm clock. I looked at the watch and told him "11:oo on the dot." He asked if I was sure--I looked at my watch again and confirmed. The problem, which we didn't notice until morning was that it was actually midnight. We got a call this morning from his supervisor, clarifying the time when he was already 15 minutes late--and he wasn't even dressed yet. I ultimately made him about 45 minutes late to work. Perhaps in most fields, blaming your tardiness on your wife may suffice, but his work is kind of paramilitary--being late is not really tolerated. The worst part is 60% of the promotion depends on evaluations from everyone else--pretty sure this will be the first thing on their mind today when they think of him. What a dumb reason to botch a promotion!
I think I need to go back to 1st grade. :(
3 comments:
ahhh... That is really too bad. Hopefully people will evaluate him based off of his promptness all the other times. Keep us posted!
I hope it turns out ok. Frustrating when things like this happen. (See my blog about "fainting" in the O.R.)
Buy a wind up alarm clock and it wont matter if the power goes out.
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