So once again, I have proven that I lack the social and business skills of a two-dollar whore.

The trip out to the job interview proved to be well *over* two hour;. and to require buying an extra fare because it took me outside of the TTC's bailiwick and into that of York Region Transit. But still, I should've played along when I arrived, gone through the motions of an interview and trusted them to not hire me anyway. But for some reason all I could think was to admit to them that I couldn't see myself doing this trip twice a day and apologize for wasting their time. Then I called the temp agency and told them what I'd done. the agent did not sound at all happy ("didn't you look at the map?!" she asked) and I fear I may have ruined my chances of ever getting a job assignment from them again.

What's wrong with me?

I feel like my life has always been like this, but the lately the universe seems especially bent on teaching me that no matter how low I set my career expectations, (a) I cannot afford to slip up, and (b) I will always slip up.

Ugh

Linking with the permission of leahbobet -- please note that the site eventually took this article down, and also please respect Leah's wishes that we not turn this into a 'shitstorm' but:

Leah was asked for an author interview-by-questionnaire for a column called "The Rack." She was told it was "kind of brutal," but the questions seemed normal so she answered. Turns out the "interview" format is to portray the author's answers as information obtained by torture.

Let's just think about that for a bit.

As she puts it in a later comment:

The interviewer explained to me that he wants to counteract the kind of interview which fawns over the author, or is "overly respectful". I can see where that motive comes in; but I think the execution has overstepped into being disrespectful to the person who the author also is.

I repeat that she wants to take the high road here, and anyway I don't want to give the site any more google hits, so no dogpiling. I just wanted to let people know that this has been going on.