Finding a New Job
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[edit] Notes From The Wiki Founder: Finding a New Job... by ConcernedCitizen 16:10, September 18, 2009 (EST)
After the financial collapse of our accounting company I found myself without severance pay and sitting no small amount of regret. Regret that I hadn't tried to leave sooner, and regret that ended up in that career.
Most of my retirement was bound up in shares of the company, which no longer existed. All those years of playing it safe? There was no safe.
The first few jobs I applied for using ads in the paper were bogus. One person wanted to sell me on trying some multi-level-marketing scam. Another needed a door-to-door salesman. I didn't even know those still existed, to be honest. I'd had some seed of an idea about trying to strike out into a different career, but after a while I found myself back in the financial services and accountants sections again.
That is until I spotted an ad asking for people good at observation analysis and pattern analysis. Different enough from accounting I was curious, and yet it played to my strengths. I'm good at noticing patterns: I was the guy who spotted discrepancies in numerous financial reports, and who ended up being pressured to help obscure the implications of those numbers.
At the company's offices I was sat down to take a couple of strange tests. One was a quiz that kept asking questions about, basically, how much of a team player I was. The other? It was a video test, where I had to watch footage of several people arguing, or doing something distracting, and answer questions about whether I'd seen anything odd.
Apparently I was enough of a team player with a sharp eye, because I was hired.
The HR director, on my first day, set me down at a desk had three monitors, with multiple video feeds in each monitor. "You'll be following these cases," she told me. Each folder she handed me had a headshot of a person, but no information.
Thus began my pattern analysis.
But that wasn't the creepiest part of my first day. The creepiest part was realizing that the small camera in the primary screen was on: the tiny green light glowed at me all day.
My first day of work was also the day I found the photos that led to me creating this wiki.
I'd give up the job, but in this economy, that'd be crazy. And while I'm here, I'm going to be putting my pattern analysis skills to the test by figuring out what those pictures that were in my desk, and subsequently disappeared, were of.
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