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Tuesday October 13, 09
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02:23 PM - Big Mouth Strikes Again
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So, I guess I've finally seen the last of Robo....and it ended with a bit of karma, and in a way that we could all see coming.
He is reminiscent of Coach in certain ways that annoys the crap out of me in that he was given a chance at employment in ways that nobody else would.
Why? Is it because I'm female? That society is still working under some belief that they will be "safer" if they hired a guy because they don't have all of those baby issues like we women do? Or are these guys simply getting hired because I actually come off as an intelligent person?
To back up, Coach had landed a job at a TV station that I had tried applying at, but he lost that job within a year because of his attitude. This was not the first time he had lost a job. He had lost a job in Houston because he got into a fight with a coworker. After he lost this new job, he went into another job in medical billing and pretty much lost that job as well. He then ended up at working for a call center, where he has been ever since.
Granted, not amazing jobs, but if I had not gone to law school, I still would have been rotting away at my desk.
So, what happened to Robo?
Well, let's back up until right after the bar, which was at the end of July. For the two and half months following the bar, he put very little effort into me. In spite of the fact that he was unemployed, I saw him maybe a handful of times and would get occasional phone calls, upon which I apparently was asking too much out of him to have any sort of knowledge of what he was doing with his time. Then, his baby mama got sick, his kid was taken to his parents' house, and he decided to step up efforts to get custody of his kid. That's when he apparently thought that he would appear to be more of a boyscout if he completely cut ties with women...because it apparently makes a better impression upon the court to live like a 35 year old bachelor rather than appear to be a guy in a steady relationship with a nice woman.
In the meantime, he also got a job with a state entity. How did he get this job? He used to work for an arm of this same entity back in the day. He used his contacts and then basically got his "old" job back. The big plan was for him to kill time until the bar results come out and they would slide him into an attorney position. This after I had to hear him endlessly bitch about how the "smart" kids like me were having our pick of any job that we wanted and that he had all of these special skills and life experience....nevermind that I was just as unemployed as he was and wasn't getting any interviews. He vowed that one day, he would have his own firm and refuse to hire us law review folk for looking down our noses at him. He had apparently, lost a couple of jobs in the past, most recently he had been canned from working for the county attorney's office because he expressed anger over the fact that they weren't paying him what they said they would...although he once made some off-handed comment once about how they complained that he wasn't working his full 20 hours a week.
As I said, I'm still unemployed. Sure, I'm volunteering for the public defender's office, love it, and unfortunately can't get a job because of budget cuts, they heaped upon me the praise that I am "up there" in the echelon of people who understand how criminal appeals worked in comparison to a lot of people, including other interns and practicing attorneys who were doing pro bono work. Yet, I have not received a single interview.
Yes, so here was this guy who was able to land a job before I was able to. It was annoying!
Especially annoying was when another of my classmates, a nice, but just sort of out-there guy got a job in a firm that I didn't even get an interview with. It wasn't like it was some spectacular law firm. Technically, I should have had something over him since he wasn't that involved in school....alas, nothing.
Anyway, back to my story...
So, Robo sent me a text message yesterday morning.
The jist of it, "I just got fired from my job. I don't know why. I have no money or prospects. Moving back to Dallas to fight for my son. I'll call you in a few months."
Yes, a few months.
So, his unemployed butt needs to spend every single waking second obsessing about his upcoming custody fight?
Yeah, so I didn't reply.
Still, you have to wonder what he did to get canned in two weeks. Maybe they found something in his background.
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chin up, suze.