It is no secret that I have been unhappy with my job among other things. I seem lately to have been paralyzed by my misery. I do not want to make my position worse by making the wrong decisions, so I tend to not make decisions....which is a decision in itself. A decision that leaves me alone spending time by my pool in the sun and giving me too much time with my own thoughts. Where am I going with this, oh yes, so I have not been the most courteous person I should be lately. I guess right now I am making excuses for my behavior in a story I am about to tell...I will just get on with it.
Before I relinquished the Recruiter position, I had been frantically looking for a new job. One of my friends had recently taken a job at BC. She loved it, said all kinds of amazing things about it and really wanted me to apply. I had my hesitations because the position at BC is selling online adspace to businesses. It is inside sales, sitting in front of a computer all day and calling companies all over the country and selling them "pay per click" advertisement. I know myself well enough to know that I would HATE selling over the phone. I very much disliked calling old customers of Ambrosia's Chimney Sweep to set up appointments to clean their chimney. I abhorred making calls at cbey to set up appoints to close deals, I didn't even like calling job seekers to screen them for interviews. I think my past behavior has made it very clear that I do not enjoy cold calling on the phone. But KG, the manager at BC, wanted me to come to lunch with him, and two of their office people to discuss not only my eligibility for the sales job but to also pick my brain about being an inside recruiter. They had approached me earlier about working for them as a recruiter, an offer that I immediately shot down.
Just over a month ago I went to lunch with the three people from BC. We had a really nice time. I liked the atmosphere of the office, I liked the quality of the office, I liked the location , but I was still not sold on the position. After lunch KG told me he would let me make the next move as far as pursuing the position. And here is where I made my mistake. I never sent him a thank you note. Yes, I am paralyzed by my misery. Yes, I am trying to work hard at my new position and it completely drains me. Yes, I liked the company but didn't like the position and didn't know how to tell KG that. But there is still no excuse for not sending a thank you. My mother raised me better than that.
Two days ago I had dinner with my friend that works at BC and she mentioned that KG had commented that he was shocked that he had never heard from me. He said that he really liked me and was surprised that he had not even received a thank you. I was truly embarrassed and the next day sent him an email apologizing for the delay, thanked him for lunch and the opportunity to visit his company and told him that the job wasn't for me.
The next day I got a reply from KG that upset me a bit. He responded that he realized during our lunch that sales isn't my passion and wished me luck. Then he asked me to give him the names and numbers of my company's top three performers so that he could recruit them.
WTF?!? I'm still in shock. Is he testing my character? I am an incredibly loyal person. Even if I am not totally in love with my company I would never do that. He could have asked me for names of people that were very successful but decided to move on, but he asked for our top performers. I now truly have no regrets about declining the job. I just regret that he thought it was ok to ask me for a favor like that.
I have yet to compose an appropriate response.
Musician Jackson Browne has sued U.S. presidential candidate John McCain for copyright infringement, accusing the presumptive Republican nominee of using the singer's 1977 hit "Running on Empty" in a campaign ad without permission.
The suit, filed on Thursday in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, also names the Republican National Committee and the Ohio Republican Party as defendants. It seeks a permanent injunction against further use of Browne's music and at least $75,000 in damages.
The campaign spot mocks McCain's Democratic rival for the White House, Barack Obama, for suggesting the nation conserve gasoline through proper tire inflation, with Browne's most famous song, "Running on Empty," playing in the background.
The suit claims use of the song without Browne's permission is a copyright violation and a breach of the U.S. Lanham Act by falsely implying Browne is associated with and endorses McCain's bid for president.
It also says use of Browne's voice in the ad violates the performer's so-called right of publicity under California law.
Browne's lawyer, Lawrence Iser, said his client is "a well-known, lifelong liberal activist and supporter of Democratic candidates, and use of his song and his voice in a commercial bashing Barack Obama is anathema to Jackson."
A spokesman for McCain's campaign, Brian Rogers, said the Arizona senator was wrongly singled out as a target of the lawsuit because the ad in question was the sole work of the Ohio Republican Party.
"We had nothing to do with the creation or distribution of this ad whatsoever," Rogers told Reuters. "Mr. McCain's name should quite simply be removed from this lawsuit immediately."
But Iser said the Republican Party of Ohio, a key battleground state in the presidential race, "acted as an agent and in concert with Sen. McCain and the Republican National Committee."
"It certainly looks and smells like a McCain campaign piece," he added. "We'll let a jury decide.
There was no immediate comment from the RNC or Ohio Republican Party representatives.
Iser said the ad, which he said he believed was aired on television in Ohio and Pennsylvania, was removed from the Internet last week by the Ohio Republican Party in response to a cease-and-desist demand from Browne.
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