This New Year, having been head-hunted, I started working at a well established design company. I was full of hope as this company promised to be everything that my last place wasn't. In the interview the Directors came across as the ultimate professionals and everything seemed to be perfect. Forgetting the age old saying 'If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is' I signed on the dotted line and became the newest member of the team.
Within 2 days of being in the company, it dawned on me that perhaps my boss had been putting on a little bit of an act in the interview as we had the following conversation. (Names have been changed to protect the stupid)
Pete: Is Nova Scotia a foreign fucking country?
Me: Pardon?
Pete: Nova Soctia, is it a foreign co....wait, I found it. Oh, ha ha, it's in Halifax. Funny, it sounded foreign to me.
Me: It's an Island province of Canada, off the east coast. The capital is Halifax. It's not in the UK.
Pete: Are you sure? I am pretty fucking sure it's in Halifax
Me: I am sure, I have a globe at home.
Pete: Oh, well, that's probably a little far to drive for a second hand TV then.
I waited to see if he was joking, he wasn't. This was just the tip of the iceberg!
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