Something strange this way a cometh
Something very strange happened shortly after I posted my last blog called "The Bitter Hymn Of The Republic." Shortly after posting it I was suddenly called in to have a meeting with the "big Kahuna" of my the company and I was fired.
Just like that!
Did I offend 'something' with my blog?
I'll explain. About a month ago ago the company that I just started working for (they gave me only 3 days notice) suddenly sent me for a full week of training to Louisville Kentucky (home of the 'Louisville slugger', Muhammad Ali and Tom Cruise) on one of their complicated mechanical systems. I'm Ok mechanically but I'm much better with electronic systems. I'm slower working with strictly mechanical systems since my mechanical aptitude is about average (but I make the best of it). Well, their machines are mostly mechanical and it takes me a little more time to 'get it' (especially as I get older), since I'm no mechanical genius. The only other person at the training class was this Hawaiian guy who was excellent mechanically and he caught on so quick that I could not even wash his socks when it came to competing with him on mechanical repair! So I looked like a Neanderthal compared to this Hawaiian guy (who was a very nice guy) . But he never hesitated to show me up during the training class. Yep, he gave me a real "Hawaiian punch"!
Well, as I said, soon after I posted my last blog I was fired (since I was still on my probationary period). I asked them why they were letting me go since up to that point I was doing an excellent job. They said the trainer felt I was too slow in picking up the intricacies of their mechanical systems compared to the Hawaiian guy and they want someone who picks things up 'just like that.'
That's about it at the moment since I'm quite busy but I'll blog later about how my experience might relate to an unseen 'magician,' an evil demiurgic intelligence, a cryptogeographic being, if you will, that can "pull strings" outside of the framework of time and space and manipulate reality as easily as we can move furniture around in a room.
So was my recent experience a coincidence? Was it an interesting synchronicity? Was it my imagination? Don't know. But it is strange, especially since the name of the company that I worked for was 'Glory USA Inc.' (a strange name indeed for a company).
But I'll talk about this 'evil magician' later...
Just like that!
Did I offend 'something' with my blog?
I'll explain. About a month ago ago the company that I just started working for (they gave me only 3 days notice) suddenly sent me for a full week of training to Louisville Kentucky (home of the 'Louisville slugger', Muhammad Ali and Tom Cruise) on one of their complicated mechanical systems. I'm Ok mechanically but I'm much better with electronic systems. I'm slower working with strictly mechanical systems since my mechanical aptitude is about average (but I make the best of it). Well, their machines are mostly mechanical and it takes me a little more time to 'get it' (especially as I get older), since I'm no mechanical genius. The only other person at the training class was this Hawaiian guy who was excellent mechanically and he caught on so quick that I could not even wash his socks when it came to competing with him on mechanical repair! So I looked like a Neanderthal compared to this Hawaiian guy (who was a very nice guy) . But he never hesitated to show me up during the training class. Yep, he gave me a real "Hawaiian punch"!
Well, as I said, soon after I posted my last blog I was fired (since I was still on my probationary period). I asked them why they were letting me go since up to that point I was doing an excellent job. They said the trainer felt I was too slow in picking up the intricacies of their mechanical systems compared to the Hawaiian guy and they want someone who picks things up 'just like that.'
That's about it at the moment since I'm quite busy but I'll blog later about how my experience might relate to an unseen 'magician,' an evil demiurgic intelligence, a cryptogeographic being, if you will, that can "pull strings" outside of the framework of time and space and manipulate reality as easily as we can move furniture around in a room.
So was my recent experience a coincidence? Was it an interesting synchronicity? Was it my imagination? Don't know. But it is strange, especially since the name of the company that I worked for was 'Glory USA Inc.' (a strange name indeed for a company).
But I'll talk about this 'evil magician' later...
posted by Capricious Mad Hatter @ 3:17 PM
2 Comments:
At 11:14 AM,
Anonymous said…
Hi there!
Sorry to hear about the job. Try recapitulating the day or preceding days to see if there were any more unusual synchronicities. This may give you more of a clue about whether there was an "evil magician" pulling the strings on this occasion.
Keep on bloggin! :)
At 9:51 PM,
Johnno said…
It probably points to the inadequacies of Glory Inc (didn't you see a sign with that name?) their training more than anything.
Training can take a few forms, hands on solo (learning by mistakes as you go), watching someone completing the task, helping someone with the task, reading manuals etc etc.
I thought I was a complete dumbkompf mechanically at one stage too, then I read the mint, unused manual. It is a skill that can be learnt like any other skill with proper training for the individual and practise.
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