Short story: The Interview

[BankHolidayBlues]

She had prepared for every question except the ones she actually wanted to ask.

The panel thanked her for coming. The room was beige. The fluorescent light blinked once and stopped, as if losing interest.

'Where do you see yourself in five years?' the man in the middle said.

She thought: somewhere with a window. A dog. A reason to stay up past nine.

She said: 'In a senior leadership role, driving impactful outcomes across the business.'

Everyone wrote something down

[CodyRhodes99]

The fluorescent light blinking and stopping as if losing interest is very good. The room itself is bored of the whole thing

[Ann]

That last line is the whole piece. Everyone writes something down and absolutely nothing is communicated by any of it

[GhostRider89]

The gap between what she thought and what she said is painfully relatable. Most people have lived this exact moment

[Mia86]

Beige. That one word is doing enormous work setting up the emotional landscape before anything else happens

[StringTheory83]

Impactful outcomes across the business. I felt that in my soul in the worst possible way