and this:

http://www.hulu.com/watch/20337/saturday-night-live-snl-digital-short-the-japanese-office#s-p1-st-i3

The Latest Job Interview

So, for the past couple of weeks I have been on a somewhat unfruitful search for an evening job. You know, just to get a few extra hours a week. This is one of places I applied to, for a customer service job. So I sent my resume to the guy and got an email back a couple of days later about when I could come in. And he was, like, really short about it! No punctuation or anything. But still, no big. Anyway, my "interview" took place yesterday at 4:30 until 4:34. This is how it went down:

I was driving around trying to find it until amongst some giant factory-like buildings I saw a sad little sign. So I started to go into what I thought would be the office and then realized it was a bathroom. I spotted such a sad trailer, with a sign that read "Office". I was pretty much ready to just leave at this point.

I went up the stairs and knocked on the door until I realized that this was an alleged office and not someone's home. So I opened the door the same time this tiny woman did and walked into a tiny space fitting four people. I stayed at the door and told her who I was looking for.

"Can I tell him who's here?"

"Uh, yeah. Bergendi. Hatch. Job. Interview."

"Hey! Bergendi Hatch here, for her job interview."

Mind you, I could see the person I now realized was my interviewer. Not only could I see him, I could easily throw something at him. Probably the tiny woman. I wanted to say, "he just heard me tell you who I am. I'm closer to him than you are." But I played along. 

So the interview began as they usually do. "What is your job experience, blah blah blah", and I told him, and when he found out about my designer background he started to get really excited and into the interview. 

"Can you do stuff like this?" [pointing]

"Yes."

"Wow! That's really really great."

He went on to tell me about how their company will be launching new sites in the next year and they'd love to have a blah blah balh bakdfadoafudlifjasd. I'm boring myself, now.

Anyway, it ended abruptly when we started talking about pay. Like, I got the impression he wanted me to do this for the same pay as the customer service job. I don't want to sound whatever, but designing is hard. And intensive. And exhausting. It's not like I asked for a ton, I didn't even say a number. I just said it would need to be more than the customer service job. He'd said he'd talk to "Dennis." I emailed him after to say thanks for the interview, I'll send you some samples, and when will you be deciding? (And will I be working in the *&%$ trailer?! I didn't ask that one.) He wrote back immediately saying, "I'd love to see some samples!" He didn't answer my question. Okay then.

So, we'll see.

{we  had a pseudo-The Office Premier Launch Party, I'll post pictures from it asap.}