Nearly employed now.
Got my job (placement, but never mind) interview tomorrow; the bloke on the phone told me it was an 'informal chat,' which presumably means it isn't a proper interview but a quick look on their part to see just how much of a maladjusted sad freak I am, and I'll be given the job (placement, but who's counting?) if I don't come in naked/give them a display of uncontrolled Tourette's Syndrome (I do tend to shout FUCK!!! occasionally, but that's only when I hear about the latest id card fiasco or dead Iraqis or what-bloody-ever I voted for)/have a swastika tattooed on my forehead. So that would maybe do all right.
I told them rather a lot of half-truths to get onto the programme; there was a list of Potential Problems in the Job [free] Market, and I couldn't really say I was homeless or used illegal substances, and the man asked me eventually (about half-way down) if I felt I 'would be discriminated against on the grounds of [my] gender or sexuality'. I automatically answered yes - I'm a woman living in the patriarchy, of course I'm going to be bloody discriminated against - and he asked how. I made up some gibberish about people not wanting me to work with children because of my sexuality
"Are you gay?"
And I just said "yes," and that was it, it had been said, it wasn't inside my head any more. I said it was a half-truth and of course it is, but it would have been just as bad to say 'I'm bisexual' and I wouldn't have got any points for that.
I told them rather a lot of half-truths to get onto the programme; there was a list of Potential Problems in the Job [free] Market, and I couldn't really say I was homeless or used illegal substances, and the man asked me eventually (about half-way down) if I felt I 'would be discriminated against on the grounds of [my] gender or sexuality'. I automatically answered yes - I'm a woman living in the patriarchy, of course I'm going to be bloody discriminated against - and he asked how. I made up some gibberish about people not wanting me to work with children because of my sexuality
"Are you gay?"
And I just said "yes," and that was it, it had been said, it wasn't inside my head any more. I said it was a half-truth and of course it is, but it would have been just as bad to say 'I'm bisexual' and I wouldn't have got any points for that.

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