I didn’t have room to get into the details of what Shorkey Auto has done to the area where the neighborhood I grew up at. He bought land around half of the neighborhood, removed all the trees and flattened the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Maybe I’m reading too much into this, but I felt because he conducted this phone interview while driving his car that he didn’t take it seriously. Sure, I’m sure he was just multitasking, but you know, when you’ve been out[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
If you’ve been reading these comics. you probably remember how, for some reason, I can’t get any cell coverage when I’m downstairs in my Family Room/Studio, so in order to talk to anyone I’ve got to run upstairs. Also, if[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
If you’ll recall I did interview (via Zoom) for a position with Siemens last year. After dumping over 100 Graphic Designers throughout North America in February of 2021, Siemens slowly began putting together Senior Graphic Designers and Graphic Designer Supervisors[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Throughout my professional career I’ve gotten nearly every job on my own. With the exception of a Headhunter getting me an interview with Hallmark in 1989 (and I got that job after the interview) and Boss Staffing getting me an[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Like the title says, this isn’t what I wanted to hear. Now he didn’t say that I was out of the running, that they were going to pass on me, but by saying that they wanted to talk to some[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
If it sounds odd or if you think I’m overreacting, to hearing positive news from my interviews, it’s only because I rarely, if ever, get any news or responses to my interviews. A job seeker replies to all these job[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It was a frustrating day. I’ve been drawing a comic everyday since I was laid off from Siemens on 9/4/2021 and if you’ve read any of my comics back in 2015, I drew comics that described the difficulty of finding[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I won’t go into a litany of my experiences of dealing with job recruiters and my opinions of them. I’ve drawn plenty of comics discussing that. I’ll just say I was pleasantly surprised that this recruiter called me back like[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Not only was I surprised to hear back from the same recruiter to call me back, I mean it’s been my experience that recruiters almost always disappear, but to hear back from her the very next day. Add to that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…