#callbacks would get sent out Monday the latest they said

[immunetoneurotoxin]

Small Incendiary Update:

T-minus 24 hours until Chapter 10 of Incendiary drops!

I've made some dialogue edits and added additional scenes in Chapter 10 that makes this chapter bump up to 9.4k words from it's previous 8.4k, oops sorry not sorry. :) But that definitely makes this chapter tie almost neck to neck with the longest chapter in Incendiary so far, that title taken by Chapter 3 at a whopping 9.5k words!

Let this make up for the fact that I may not be releasing Chapter 11 for some time, since it's still very much in the rough draft phase of writing and I'm still writing the beginning part of it. By some time, that I'm not really sure of. It entirely depends on how soon I manage to get a new job, or not. It may be a month, it may be a few weeks. But as of right now, I'm actively writing Chapter 11 during my downtime every day!

If I have a feeling that it might take a while to release, I may drop a teaser here on tumblr for you guys to read as an early sneak peak so you aren't left completely high and dry, cause I know how that feels being a reader too. And I love all of y'all. <3 Thanks for reading this update!

#I'm already losing track of the days y'all oh my god like I nearly forgot tomorrow was next chapter release day already LOL #everything has been putting my brain in a blender with job hunting and planning to move across the state when I DO get a job #going from a decent paying technical support wfh job to suddenly applying for grocery stores again in the same month is !!! very much sad #I had an interview with Trader Joe's having worked there before but still have yet to get a callback for the second interview #callbacks would get sent out Monday the latest they said #no replies yet but my application online still says in process so hoooooplease fingers crossed for me :') #ty guys so much for supporting me during these trying times ILY ALL <333 #even when my life is in shambles I still have Incendiary

[prorevenge]

CEO offered and then retracted a job offer, ended up costing him several million dollars in deals.

Several months ago I found myself looking for a job. I brushed up my resume and began sending out like crazy, to companies as well as recruiters. By the end of the first week I had already scored my first interview, with Financial Startup.

The first interview with Financial Startup went well, and I got a callback asking to schedule a meeting with the CEO for the end of the week. At the end of the second interview the CEO made me an offer. Being entirely honest with him, I told him that while I was really interested in the position, a) the offer was less than I was expecting, as I had been told by headhunters that I could be making more, and b) I had been to and had scheduled several other interviews and would like to at least play all my cards out before deciding. I was entirely upfront with him, didn’t string him along, and it’s important that you remember this fact.

At about 8:30 that night, the CEO called me and said they really wanted me, and that if I signed with them, I’d receive a raise as soon as they finished a funding round, nearly doubling my old salary. I agreed to this offer and asked him to send me the contract.

The contract was sent over on Monday, at which point the CEO told me he’d be flying overseas for some meetings and would be unavailable, we’d discuss any questions I had and sign when he got back. I had one or two questions about the contract, but nothing serious, and as soon as he got back to the country, he sent me the latest version of the contract and I signed it. The next day I went to an office store to get it scanned and emailed to him, as my printer/scanner had died not long before.

Not 30 minutes later, I got a call from the CEO, he told me that even though I had already sent him in the signed contract, he was choosing not to sign it, and he didn’t want to hire me. He had a “bad feeling” about me, he thought I wasn’t being serious about the position, and that was that. I’m not ashamed to say that I almost begged him to reconsider. I spent 15 minutes or so trying to convince him that he was wrong, and that I was most definitely interested in the position, but he ended up sticking to his decision. What really pissed me off was that he and I were already discussing contracts, so I had stopped looking elsewhere, as I was sure I had something lined up.

I spent the next 3-4 days just bummed out on the couch, I was seriously depressed. Eventually I got back into the groove, and ended up signing at my current position, which was not only an improvement over my old place and Financial Startup, the salary blew them both out of the water. Just being able to bounce back and find something decent after the way he treated me could be considered “feel good revenge”, but things inadvertently got so much better.

The company I work for now is a cross-industry provider. Basically, if you use computers or servers at your company, you can use our product. Because of this, we have contacts at most of Fortune 500 companies.

Two weeks ago, I bought my sales and the customer success teams lunch, something I do every other week, because I want to keep my boys happy. I told them my story and said that I’d love to stick it to the CEO somehow, but I didn’t really have any way to. They saw me as a big step up from the previous manager (who was a dick), so when they asked me for Financial Startup’s name, I gave it to them.

What I just found out at lunch today blew me out of the water. They approached every single financial customer we had and mentioned that we’d had a “bad experience” with Financial Startup and were extremely unsatisfied with their behavior. Since we’ve had some of these customers for years, the relations were strong, and they took the sales/customer success guys at their word.

In the past two weeks, Financial Startup lost three major multi-year deals with large Fortune 500 companies, each in the seven-figure range. Next time, I’m taking them out to dinner instead of lunch, and dinner is going to include an open bar tab. I may not have planned this revenge, but they carried it out for me, and I owe them.

tl;dr – Applied for a position, CEO decided not to sign the contract he offered me. Told my teams at my new job, they screwed up several multi-million dollar deals for CEO (so far).

(source) (story by beerbellybegone)

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