Here's my conundrum. I need a job, badly. I've been looking for three months, no luck, and I'm almost out of money. If I'm very careful, I have enough for one more month.
Today I had an interview at a crappy crap store. It's like the dollar store equivalent of a houseware store… SO MUCH STUFF crammed into the tiniest aisles possible. Perhaps you're familiar with the type. Anyway, the guy offered me a job on the spot.
Now this makes me uncomfortable – I don't like retail, this is a crap store, and it pays minimum wage. And the boss reminds me of a former boss I had a terrible terrible experience with. Same ethnicity, same mannerisms, thinks of himself as a father figure, similarly technologically inept, hell, he even looks the same. Everything about the job makes me uncomfortable. He wants me to start ASAP and during the “interview” was on the phone with the other store trying to figure out where they would fit me in the schedule next week. I told him I'd like a little while to think about it. He wants to know by Friday.
Now I know a job's a job and I need one. However if I were to take this one, I know that in my mind it would just be to pay the bills while I keep looking for other jobs, and I would quit the second I found a better one. Is this unethical of me?
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