Cheating and other atrocities...

Am I a cheater? Am I cheating on my company / boss?

I have an pre-screening interview today with the HR company from my old employer...
and I can't help but compare cheating on one's employer to cheating on one's significant other.

I can't say "partner" - partner makes me want to break out into a square dance a-la highschool gym class. Partner to me means same sex partner, or dance partner...somebody you are forced to hold hands with in elementary school - but their hands are icky and sweaty or you don't like this person......

But I am getting off track.

I am being wooed by another - employer. My previous employer. The employer I "broke up with" after a promotion, transfer and bad experience with a new supervisor at the different location.

But they want me back. Hummmmm..

The thing is - this old employer wants to pay me more $$, give me more vacation time and all the good benefits that go with this employer......

I need to sneak out of here shortly and take their call.... isn't this just like sneaking out on your signicant other to take a call from another?

I really think that you have a relationship with your job. A relationship with your boss / HR department and others you work with. When you choose to leave their employment for another position elsewhere, it is really like ending a relationship.

Now, Layoffs, well that is a completely different animal alltogether. I have been broken up with by an employer, only to have them call me back under contract - isn't that like breaking up with somebody, figuring out that you miss them and can't go on without them, but only wanting them "on the side" with a break up date already set - while you are dating the new somebody you met just before they left?

How about the interview? It is like going out and meeting somebody new and making a decision if you want to date them? I have dated an employer, gone for "lunch" and thougth everything went well...and never got the call back thenext day.

Well, I am off to cheat - and see what the potential new suiter has to offer.


Sincerely,
The cheater.