I got screwed

[Benton]

(02-27-2020, 10:02 PM)Truck_1_0_1_ Wrote: Yeah, seems like the manager's friend or someone needed a job and you were punted; happened to my wife, 6 years ago.

Seems like it.

Depending on the size of the company, could also be a "oops, we hired wrong." Whoever does the hiring goes with a candidate they like, but the manager or whoever was looking for something else. So when you get introduced and don't fit their mental image, you get booted. I had that problem with a company I worked for. I did the hiring for my department, but after the first dozen I noticed a trend. Young people just out of college with too much crippling debt for kids or a life were fine; retirees were fine; anyone middle aged (presumably with kids and a life) I was told they weren't meeting numbers or whatever. Nobody told me to fire them because they weren't really new or old, but it became too much of a trend, especially when I looked at other departments.