I went on job interview Numero Tres yesterday morning, this time meeting with an HR specialist. Of course, no matter how well I did, beating out the internal candidate that also applied for this position is going to be tough.

Aside from the steep challenge of getting a job over an insider, I think this experience has given me the ability to hone my interviewing skills and I’ve quickly learned the most difficult part of the interview is NOT talking a boatload of shit about my current employers. That’s hard. Especially when the conversations always gravitate toward how badly I am being treated by my current employers.

Even when I am trying to remain positive and not say anything bad and a professional human resources specialist STILL tells me that she thinks my employer should be fined, it makes me rethink returning to work at all, even without a new job offer.

I do talk about my job here on this website but I try to keep the most gritty details off the internet, instead funneling them into the ears of anyone willing to listen.

This particular gripe involves the 1099s I was given for years, not knowing how illegal they were. I was being paid as an independent contractor when I was anything but. And I still owe the IRS thousands of dollars in taxes that my EMPLOYER should have been paying. So, in retaliation for my new revelation, I’ve decided to go into work late today (by choice!). I think I may do this until I have fully paid the IRS, or until I find a new job, whichever comes first.

Sometimes it just takes seeing a situation with fresh eyes to give you a new perspective on things.