A weighted table
If you are employed by a firm that has proper hiring practices, be thankful. Not everyone has that as part of their life. I was fortunate in that most of my working career was spent in a world where there were rules. But, it was not always that straightforward. I remember going for a job interview early on a teaching job. I knew my material they needed my skill set and I really believed that I was going to get the job especially when the interviewer told me that I was going to get the job. Until a couple of days later when I received a call from a secretary that they had decided to go with another candidate. Again part of life. Except that I learned that this successful candidate was married to the person doing the interview and had lost their job and this was seen as a way of levelling up the family budget. I was an outsider and I had no recourse. I might now but those were different times and so I carried on looking for work and with that I took the realization into my heart that sometimes the table is not in your favour. Do not go and spend that pay-check before you actually receive it. No I did not but the temptation would have been strong. A good interview and being told the job was yours. Those are all seen as positive signs. Add no part of the interview was I told that there will be another candidate who would be chosen because of being married to the interviewer. No sense in naming names because it was a very long time ago but I hope they know that they were wrong. When you interview someone be straightforward and let them know if the table is weighted against them. Just humanity. And after that I carried on and my career took a turn for the better and I managed to put in several decades with that same employer. Got my pension and if I had taken the original job that was never an offer. I know this is rationalization but I think I won in this case.
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