Today my boss and her boss have been interviewing outside candidates for an open position in our department. What makes this a curious situation is that just yesterday I myself interviewed for this position. So today’s efforts are either just a gesture to pro forma competitiveness, a perfunctory prelude to offering me what is rightly mine, or else these unknowns are fearsome candidates prepared to show me up as the under-qualified impostor that I am.
I have the urge to open to door to the office and just stand next to the candidate and keep shaking my head every time they speak.
You should have stood in their line of sight and make a slitting-throat motion with your hands. That woulda shown ‘em!