I think, until you hear from the coffee shop itself they don't plan to hire you, you should consider yourself perfectly able to fill this job, L.
[this is another reason she does not go out of her way to consider him a patient to be kept strictly within the patient guidelines. He easily runs her two to five sessions a week with phone calls of this nature]
What if they're just messing with me, though? What if they think it would be funny to make me come and interview for a position that I've no hope of actually securing? They could be planning to humiliate me.
You're sure? What if they know they can get away with it, but think that I'll try to sue them for discrimination and mean to make a fool of me on television?
But what would they have to gain from it, ultimately? They're a business, L. It's in their best interest to make money whenever possible and stay out of court where, whether they win or not, money will be lost.
I had been allowing for delays and the time it might take you to write out a list. If you want to fit the trip in before work, you and I would need to leave now.
If you're ready and can be there in ten minutes, I will certainly pick you up.
If you'd like to put it off and prepare, that's also fine.
[Her two remaining sacks of groceries will have to wait until later tonight to be properly put away as she fetches her keys off of the table, drops them in her satchel, and heads for the door.]
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Date: 2013-12-21 12:50 am (UTC)If they hire you, knowing your limitations, then most businesses are required to accommodate them within reason.
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Date: 2013-12-21 01:06 am (UTC)[this is another reason she does not go out of her way to consider him a patient to be kept strictly within the patient guidelines. He easily runs her two to five sessions a week with phone calls of this nature]
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Date: 2013-12-21 01:14 am (UTC)[Action]
Date: 2013-12-21 01:29 am (UTC)I think you would find that there is no self-respecting business that would do that to you. It would cost them too much in public relations.
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Date: 2013-12-21 03:58 am (UTC)[Unless she's in on it.]
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Date: 2013-12-21 04:07 am (UTC)I'll need to be headed to work for the afternoon and will be turning my phone off.
If you'd like to reconsider my offer, you're free to leave me a text about it.
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Date: 2013-12-21 04:51 am (UTC)[Action]
Date: 2013-12-21 07:31 am (UTC)If you're ready and can be there in ten minutes, I will certainly pick you up.
If you'd like to put it off and prepare, that's also fine.
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Date: 2013-12-21 04:57 pm (UTC)[It's not like it takes him long anyway. Just putting on his crummy old shoes. He considers "not barefoot" ready.]
I'm departing right now.
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Date: 2013-12-21 05:07 pm (UTC)[Her two remaining sacks of groceries will have to wait until later tonight to be properly put away as she fetches her keys off of the table, drops them in her satchel, and heads for the door.]