I was offered a job on Friday, but yesterday I declined. I would have been working from home with a monthly stipend. The work would have been fairly easy, and I would have received additional training, though I am the most trained in the area. The catch was that it would have been for my previous employer.
I left them in February for many reasons, more than I want to go into here. I still feel kindly toward most of the people there and miss working with them. But, in the last several months, the office has gotten worse. Certain members have been treating others very poorly, not just other workers in the office, but those we ... they ... should be serving. I saw a striking example on Monday.
The office manager had arranged for a trainer to come, from Canada, to do training on the job I refused. I am sure he thought I would come back and therefore take the training. I had been asking for it for the two years I was there. This trainer showed up Monday morning. The office manager was not in the office. He had not told the staff the trainer was coming. He left no information for the trainer. When he did arrive after 1 p.m., he didn't let the trainer know he was in the office. I was shocked. I was there for another reason. I took time to greet the trainer (whom I had worked with via email), and offered to give him the password he needed to set up his training and also showed him where the computer was located.
That someone outside the office (though recently assocaited with it) had to do these basic tasks of consideration just blew my mind. What if I hadn't needed to be there on Monday? After seeing how well the office now treats its "guests" and hearing that others are being debased with obscene monikers, regardless that I need the money, I passed.
I would rather make little or nothing and keep my integrity, than stoop to such a lowness just for money.
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