Chismosa

My friend and I were both called by ABS-CBN for an interview. Mine was scheduled for a Thursday while hers was scheduled for a Tuesday, the next week. She wished me luck and made me promise to tell her the questions and everything after. My interview didn’t go well. There were two questions that I think lost me the job, “What is the biggest project you’ve handled?” and “What kind of work do I NOT want to do?” Well, I couldn’t think of anything too impressive at the moment so I said something lame for the biggest project question (but it wasn’t SO bad). I KNOW my answer to the latter question was WRONG. I said clerical work, which is basically the kind of work given to interns anyway. I said I wanted to learn and be exposed. I honestly don’t know what I was thinking when I answered that. Oh wait, yes I do. My other friend just told me that day that he didn’t apply for ABS because he heard that’s the kind of work they gave. It stuck to me, I guess (stupid, I know). I was told to wait for their call until Friday the next week. According to my interviewer, they were going to deliberate Wednesday next week since they had SO MANY applicants. If I don’t receive a call, that means I’m rejected and I can apply next year (right… sure, I will). If there’s one thing that I’ve learned from IO class, its that “we’ll call you” means they most likely won’t… and they didn’t. It was fine, I completely understand why they didn’t accept me. I was still sad for a couple of days but I got over it soon enough.

I still told my friend the questions so she could prepare. Her interview came and she was accepted on the spot. Good for her! Now, I would have been happier for her if she got the job because she actually did well (better than I did) on the interview, but I couldn’t say that. Apparently, they didn’t ask her any of the questions they asked me. It was the first thing she texted me. She even prepared for those questions but they only asked her stuff from her resume, nothing that required much thinking. The interviewer even made small talk with her (my interviewer was completely serious). She was told that she could start next week. She had her medical exam right there. I told my dad all about it on our way home. He then gave a long speech about not getting discouraged because it was just one job, it was only for practicum, and I will definitely be able to get an even better job than that. Sometimes, it’s just about luck. He said I shouldn’t be jealous. I started to cry because I know he’s been trying to get a job since last year and nothing has been working out. Since I didn’t wanna show him I was crying, I couldn’t explain to him that I WASN’T jealous. I wasn’t even sad anymore. In fact, I’m glad I didn’t get the stupid job pala. My friend said she’ll be doing psych reports, conducting interviews, and scoring tests (can I just say, Psych Testing class was traumatic). They don’t even give allowances. I was just really pissed because it was so unfair!! It was like they never even gave my friend a chance to fail, when I was given all of it. So that’s how it works with companies.

To end this post, I just want to say… thank you ABS-CBN for reminding me why I’ve always hated you.