Follow up on Tuesday's interview

[december_solstice]

It was fan-fucking-tastic. I am not even exaggerating. I was actually there for nearly an hour! I had a very good feeling about the company, the position(s), and everyone I spoke to. The environment, the people, the "culture", and the job itself. It's all very positive. You can tell the people are happy there, which is a big deal. I was given a lot of details - which is such a thoughtful thing to do for your candidates. I spoke to several people and got a really good understanding of the job(s) available and what the expectations and day-to-day would be like. It's perfect. I genuinely enjoy what I would be doing and it sounds exciting and something I would enjoy doing. One of the positions is a pretty classic admin position - answering phones, sitting in front of a computer all day at the front desk. Anything that would be done on a computer would pretty much be my job - including building travel itineraries and ordering groceries! The other job is more of a production assistant which may include some admin work but a lot of it will be assisting the production staff (this is a production agency BTW), as well as running errands, and setting up for events. When it comes down to it, I can do both jobs and have experience doing this type of work. I like both, and would do either happily. The staff were impressed with me (personality) as well as how I look on paper (my resume). I think I vibed really well with them and we really hit it off. I will probably follow up with them before end of day Friday. I think they are interviewing a few different people and I don't want to follow up immediately, but I do want to at least extend a thank you before they leave for the weekend.

Obviously that same night we learned that Donald Trump won the presidency. Red took the whole place - house and senate too. In short, the worst thing that could possibly happen... fucking happened. Tbh, I'm still processing this whole thing. It's one not-so-easy-to-swallow event after another. Can I process this before something else equally ground-shaking comes along? Impossible! It hit me like a ton of bricks. I was legitimately saddened by it. Depressed! For hours. I was both physically and emotionally tired that I napped for 5 hours before sleeping another 12. How can you not think or wonder...how the fuck...did we let this happen? It really hits home, on a personal level, because life is already so incredibly hard and I can't see things becoming any better in the near future (socially, politically or economically). I mean politics aside, (although we should really start familiarizing ourselves with his first 100-day plan), all this has done, and is doing, is celebrating ignorance and bigotry. We're excusing and justifying racism, sexism, and hate. The world (our international allies and investors) are shaking in their boots. Our enemies? Probably grinning from ear-to-ear. And, like I said, politics aside, it is the white nationalism, it's the violence and hate-crimes influenced by his campaign that is terrifying. My husband is a black man, with naturally, not the most friendly face. I mean - he's a big dude! And, he is a target. He dresses and behaves in the most non-menacing way possible, but I am so scared for him. My best friend is a black woman in a very heavily red state, and I am scared for her. Can I safely have kids in such a society? This is the next 4+ years of my life. Can I safety bring a POC child into this world? I am terrified to. But, I'm getting old. My husband is turning 30 next year. We're not getting any younger.

Comments

[ringlat.livejournal.com]

I hope you get the job!

Well, I've known ("thought") since long ago that it's all rigged. Bush & Obama were clearly puppets for example, and everyone knows that every election machines mysteriously broke, votes went missing, who won changed after 5 recounts, etc. They just find new ways to make the final say each time. The whole thing is a public distraction — otherwise candidates wouldn't be allowed to campaign for so long & with so much money etc.

In the first place only having 2 political parties is unheard of in every "other" 1st-world country. And of course in the "free country america" the average Joe actually can't run for president, because he doesn't have wheelbarrows full of cash or 4 years he can take off his current job in order to campaign.

The higher up you go the more corrupt things get, and who stands at the top? /How do you gain the approval of a huge group of corrupt politicians and businessmen?/

Problem is, what exactly their goal is we don't know and/or even if we know it, can't stop it. America has or WILL have enough money and power to REALLY take over the world. Ignoring money, they have a ton of nuclear weapons & other shit, they could bomb or invade or yes enslave everyone else to hell. A country like Sweden doesn't have 500 remote-control bomber aircrafts and things, there'd be no fighting back.

But for all we know they actually want the US to fall apart after a big civil war or something. Or they have no grand plan and no attachments, they just go with their whims... What is clear however is they by no means want freedom of speech/education, or peace. Sigh.

[outerspace-bae.livejournal.com]

I really hope I get the job too. I sent out a thank you email that I hope highlighted enough about the interview but did not appear overdone. I tried to keep it short and sweet.

Yes - I think it's a pretty well-known and accepted fact that U.S. elections are "rigged". And, really all that means is broken and far from what a democracy really *should* be. There are problems with money in politics. Big corporations investing in the campaign process which reinforces the 2 party system. There's the lobbyists. The electoral college. And, like you mentioned, voter suppression. Hilary Clintin even won the popular vote. She got more votes! And, that's with a incredibly low voter turn out - she still got more votes - but it doesn't matter because the indivial vote isn't actually counted...

And, like you said, there are other things going on, of course, that none of us are aware of, because all of our attention is focused at this *show* that is being put on for us.

SOME have suggested that Trump campagined in such a way to appeal to the majority (and more specifically, the white middle class vote) - which are emotional, angry, worried, and unfortunately, racist, sexist, and bigoted Americans. I mean, at the end of the day, it doesn't really matter. If you're poor, brown, or a lady, or all 3 at once, you're fucked. You're fucked (because Trump lit a fire in the ass of all these racist and sexist bigots... and now they're ballsy as fuck - they're dangerous and you're in more danger than you were a week ago), or you're EXTRA fucked because you have Trump as your president. So basically, we're fucked. LOL.

[outerspace-bae.livejournal.com]

Typos galore LOL