Bad News on the Way

I was walking down the street wondering the situation some gloomy people and I were in. I did not think they would interview us like this. It was humiliating.

I went toward the bellhop to ask him where the boss office was. He casted a glance at me and wanted to know why I was going to visit the manager. I answered but he sneered at me and showed the front desk place.

It was about 30 minutes that I had sat down in the armchair when a waiter came and told me to change my place to interviewers’ part. And it was not less than half an hour that a waiter gathered us up to a commodity where the interview was going to be held.

There were two girls next to me on the right and one girl at the back. I did not like to come back and see other interviewers. At the large table I sat down there were three men on the right and in front of me, two of whom were too old for doing this job. Silence was dominant in the saloon. No one talked with anybody. Two people without greeting and looking at us passed by our table and went to the end of the saloon where I could not see them.

After the first interviewer they called my name. They interviewed me and asked some irrelevant questions about my family. They told me my BA certificate was worthless for them and I had to receive as much money as other staff in there. Payment was around 320.000 tomans (about $290) each month that is the norm salary declared by Social Security Organization. In the second part of the interview session they asked me about my obedient from supervisors and bosses and warned me about 8 to 12 working hours while standing on feet. I knew they were looking for patience. So despite of all my rules and pride, I kept on patiently and pretend someone else.

I thought about lots of things, my mother, ever life, marriage, education and God. I don’t like the job, the staff and the bosses but I have to put up with the condition. I have to shrink myself to be fitted in this framework that is not mine of course. After two years when problems solve, I will be disembodied.