I thought when I got super-ghosted I felt bad. Well that’s nothing compared to when a company ghosts you. Especially when you don’t have a job, and you did an interview with their talent acquisition person, and you’ve emailed said person very politely to find out what the status is.

I applied for a job at an engineering firm that paid a little less than what I wanted but had amazing benefits and a commute of about 15 minutes each way — close enough for me to come home during lunch and let the dog out, if I needed to. I had a pretty good call with talent acquisition. I didn’t do so well on their assessment tests, I’m sure, since I’m not a programmer and don’t know a ton of programming languages (though Google Gemini helped out quite a bit in that regard), but I was never told I wasn’t under consideration anymore.

I’m just being ignored.

And as someone who really wants to work, that’s almost as demoralizing as the inbox full of rejections I get every day (I apply for a lot of jobs). Especially on top of the job I was a finalist for recently — they said no, and after three interviews still said “we cannot provide any information as to why this decision was made”. (I know why, and I understand it, but I don’t have to like it.) Things were going in the right direction — I was getting a few nibbles, I’d done a few interviews, and it looked like I might be able to get a job before my severance runs out.

It runs out today, and I still have no job. I have about a month left in savings and then I get to cash out my 401k and lose more than 50 percent of it to taxes and penalties. Yay.

I realize this isn’t a kinky post, but I haven’t been feeling all that kinky lately. Not having a job will do that to a person.