At The Bottom of the Pyramid

Photo by Drew Graham from Unsplash

This post is a long one (what else is new?), so bear with me, I have a point. About two months ago, I landed on a site that posted temporary jobs and wound up applying to a Special Events and Marketing position. The required skills were ones I already had and it sounded vaguely promising. Maybe it won't lead to anything, I thought, but it could be something else to pad my resume. I sent off my application and forgot about it.

The next day, I received an email from an HR assistant, requesting me to come in for an interview. The 'o' in the logo had a tie and a banner along the bottom featured airplanes flying over land, with the text in the email enclosed in subdued purple and yellow. My immediate thought was that there was something fishy about this. Getting a reply the day after I applied for the job was just too good to be true. Or was I being too cynical? I asked Sam, my boyfriend, and then for extra security, I forwarded the information to a woman that I dog sit for, who had recently been mentoring me in my job search. Both Sam and her agreed that it was suspicious, but thought it couldn't hurt to meet them.

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