We really are taking over!
Posted by Chris on 9 May, 2008
The word came down from on high yesterday that we are still hiring the new guy for one of the curriculum development positions in my department and he starts on Monday. Surprising considering the company just RIFed people yesterday.
This is the guy that S & I interviewed a few weeks back, the guy that I Googled and came across his Flicker Photostream, the guy that had a picture of a penis cake and a picture of him wearing a t-shirt that says “I loved every guy I ever fucked, while I was fucking him.” This is the guy that is joining S and I as the third queer on the team of eight (soon to be seven so we’re almost at 50%) working for the openly anti-gay manager.
The interview with M went well and he clued in to S & I right away. I just feel slightly guilty about the fact that we didn’t disclose to him that our manager is anti-gay when we know he’s queer and we also didn’t disclose the fact that the company is up for sale and we all are probably on the chopping block, so this might be a short term position. S and I discussed what we felt we were “allowed” to say based on HR rules and decided that we shouldn’t say anything unless he asked directly. That’s not to say that we didn’t give him every opportunity… We asked several times if he “had any questions about the direction of the company”, if he “had any questions about the future of the company”, if he “had any questions about the corporate culture in our office” or if he “had any questions about what working for B is like”. Well you can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink!
Regardless, I think he’ll make a good addition to the team, the only detracting factor is that he doesn’t like sushi… Guess we can live with that just so we can freak B out even more. Monday’s going to be interesting!
9 May, 2008 at 1:08 pm
Yay Chris! Gotta love making bigots squirm!
9 May, 2008 at 9:25 pm
My god, the hilarious pranks you could play on the newby with Google exposure like that. Show up wearing almost identically messaged t shirts, mimick some of the more interesting of his Flickr fotos, etc. All in good fun, of course.
And I’m insanely curious about who he is, given that you and I likely are almost neighbors, and I like his type (from how you described him anyway).
Keep us posted Chris!
9 May, 2008 at 11:08 pm
Jen ~ dance bigot dance
NW ~ I plead the 5th on his type… I think if I showed up to work in that type of t-shirt I’d be having a chat with HR, but damn it’s tempting. The interesting thing is I read one of his friend’s blogs (in fact he’s in my blogroll)but I don’t know that the friend reads mine. All of this raises an ethical question. At what point, if ever, do I say “um yeah, by the way M I googled you prior to your interview. S & I were wondering where we could get one of those penis cakes!”
10 May, 2008 at 2:29 am
I’ll have to tell you stories of the guy who used to be head chef in the restaurant I worked in. It became so bad that he was afraid of us. He made the mistake of letting us know that he didn’t approve and we took it from there. I don’t know if he ever changed his mind if not he kept his opinions to himself.