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That was a surprise
Jul. 14th, 2009 05:30 pmYou may or may not know that the American Cancer Society's big annual event, Relay For Life, is happening this weekend. (Please consider squeaking out a donation? Just a little one.) It's a marathon fundraiser event, 24 hours of walking or running, with amusing theme laps (Crazy Hat lap), live entertainment, etc. etc. etc. It happens in Second Life as well - we have a track, we stay on it, there's a measured rate of human-scaled speed, laps are counted much the same way. It's still an effort, just not outside.
One of the themed laps will be done in silence, as the luminaria are lit along the track, which items have been dedicated to various people in honour or memorial to their struggle with cancer. Now, we're talking a track that takes at least 30 minutes to travel, so it's the equivalent of several miles long. That's a lot of luminaria. (Yes, I really do have a point here, I'm getting to it.) I was helping place luminaria, being all OCD about it, when one of the groups mentioned Amazon.com had a job fair.
Amazon.
Job fair.
Job fair.
'I'llberightback!'
It was pretty chaotic - the Caledonians who had alerted me to this were right, the place was filled with people wearing brand new avatars (default appearance, hadn't even changed clothes). It struck me as a little unfair that somebody like me who's been in almost two years would have to take second place to someone who's been in for five minutes just because he or she heard about the opportunities. I mean, they were coaching people how to drop their resumes into the mailbox for them.
However, I got my resume to the person sitting at the receptionist desk (she gave me her e-mail address), and spoke to another one, one of the recruiters, and gave her my resume on notecard (she seemed to have a great sense of humour, that one). One of the questions was if I lived in or would move to Seattle. Gulp.
But wow, after all this time, and this actually sounded like someone was offering me something substantial through this portal, this realm. Manpower certainly let me down, and I bought a suit for them.
Cross your fingers - oh, and think of me this weekend. I'll be hitting the caffeine and the run button.
One of the themed laps will be done in silence, as the luminaria are lit along the track, which items have been dedicated to various people in honour or memorial to their struggle with cancer. Now, we're talking a track that takes at least 30 minutes to travel, so it's the equivalent of several miles long. That's a lot of luminaria. (Yes, I really do have a point here, I'm getting to it.) I was helping place luminaria, being all OCD about it, when one of the groups mentioned Amazon.com had a job fair.
Amazon.
Job fair.
Job fair.
'I'llberightback!'
It was pretty chaotic - the Caledonians who had alerted me to this were right, the place was filled with people wearing brand new avatars (default appearance, hadn't even changed clothes). It struck me as a little unfair that somebody like me who's been in almost two years would have to take second place to someone who's been in for five minutes just because he or she heard about the opportunities. I mean, they were coaching people how to drop their resumes into the mailbox for them.
However, I got my resume to the person sitting at the receptionist desk (she gave me her e-mail address), and spoke to another one, one of the recruiters, and gave her my resume on notecard (she seemed to have a great sense of humour, that one). One of the questions was if I lived in or would move to Seattle. Gulp.
But wow, after all this time, and this actually sounded like someone was offering me something substantial through this portal, this realm. Manpower certainly let me down, and I bought a suit for them.
Cross your fingers - oh, and think of me this weekend. I'll be hitting the caffeine and the run button.
