Jordandchan

I have never been accused of being ‘too ethical’ before and I guess you could take it as an insult but I was pleased that I portrayed the qualities of a Christian enough to be seen to be ethical if not anything else.

Let me explain… after spending (wasting) a month of my life in the process of trying to get a job with the Council over here I was left wondering how on earth people managed to get jobs. Anyhow – after much sadness after not getting the job I applied for a few and from that was able to spend 3 weeks temping at an awesome job before being offered the full time job I start tomorrow (Tuesday). You can imagine my surprise when I found a message on my phone from the agency looking after the council recruiting as I was promised a call from her the week after they rejected me (a month ago). I called back to see what they wanted and was told someone had resigned from the call centre and I was next on their list and was I interested. I explained that after not hearing anything from her I had moved on and started temping work and had accepted a full time position. She was very apologetic not to have been in touch but was excited about being able to offer me a position – and then came the words “Oh – but you are too ethical to do anything like that” (that being to take their offer over the one I had already accepted) at which point i agreed and then ended the conversation.

I was gob-smacked at what to say after hanging up the phone and was torn between whether to be horrified that they would even think I would go back on my word – and being excited that in by only meeting me twice – she knew I had enough integrity to stand by my decision.

Which got me thinking -