We just got a call !!

I wonder how I managed to keep posting stuff without a single mentioning of how much I loathe my job! Notice to choice of word: loathe.

So anyways I got to know through a friend that this really good company had an opening in my line. So what do I do? I call this other friend of mine whose friend works in HR for that particular company and ask them to check out my resume. The next day I get an interview call!
I was so thrilled! The interview was scheduled for 11; at 9:30 I get a call saying that we should push it till 12. So am like OK! For the search-for-the-signs-type of person who I am that was not the best sign I could get...but I tried to suck it up and go on with it.. Around 11:30 I get a call that the interview will be postponed till 3. The sign is not getting any better!!!

So I am there at 2:45 and as soon as the elevator door opens, I see this girl from uni who remembers my name but I don’t remember hers! For someone who thinks that she has a SUPER memory that totally sucked! Anyways small talk lets me know that she is working there. And my superficial so-call-superior self goes like: OMG this is the type of people they hire! Snooty me; yeah I know! So I go like ok nice meeting you blah blah and supposedly I march off in this Huh I am so getting hired way when I realize that this -yeah-I-do-work-for-that-company company did not have a proper reception or receptionist ( I would like to believe that it was so because they are moving into a new building) So what do I do? I panic like crazy and run off to look for that nameless girl, and the really nice girl helps me find my way ( I am only adding nice cause people expect that you are supposed to appreciate others who help you)

As if I was not feeling awkward enough with that whole where-is-the-bloody-reception-those-heels-are-killing-me episode the interviewer, a young Emirati man in his early 40s walks into the office where I was waiting and just extends his hand right at me!! I look at him in surprise and mutter something like: me no shake hand! So he takes his eyes off his cell phone and looks up at me and says in the most condescending way: aaah entoo mub men elly ysalmoon!
What the hell was that?! Dude we are both Emirati the norm is that we do not shake hands!! I repeat we do not shake hands!!!

I just don’t get this! Why do I of all people keep on getting this handshake situation???

Handshake Horror Flashbacks:

1) High School Graduation Ceremony:
Yet another Emirati guy shaking hands with all of us and handing us stupid diplomas. All the 20 or 30 girls before me in line went ahead and shook hands with the guy.. I had to make this end so when it was my turn I walked up to the table where the guy was standing I extended my right hand and made this stupid stop sign and pointed it at him and said: Sorry ma asalem! The guy was horrified!! And I was beyond humiliation!! For a moment there I thought the whole auditorium went quiet and the only thing that was there was my stupid stop sign and the weird look on the poor guy's face!! But it seems that it did do the trick and he waited for the girls to extend their hands before!!!

2) Working at a bank:
An Emirati co-worker comes and shakes hand with this other Arab lady co-worker. then he looks at me smiles and just extends his hand right in my face ( I was sitting) This guy was so slimy; I didn’t even bother saying anything to him!! I just gave him a blank stare and kept my hands to myself!!

3) Only a dozen or two of professors and visitors at the uni (But those are foreigners: you can excuse them, mostly)

4) I was at this course once, at the end of the course the British instructor was shaking hands with everyone, when he came to me I was like am sorry but women in here don’t shake hands, he apologized and went all red and apologized again for his ignorance and just walked away. All good; no harm done. Until this really weird 5aleejy guy goes like “hehe don’t shake hands snort snort ". I felt so ticked off!!!!!! But I was in no way going to explain myself to that jerk and so I thought just a scornful look at him would do.

I know some just think that where the hell does this woman live? What era is this? Yeah well it does not really matter to me how unsophisticated it seems it is just that I am no supposed to be shaking hands and well, I am not, why cant you just respect that? And get off my back!!!

And to that jerk who said something like this on a similar note:
"Shaking hands with you or looking at you without your 7ijab does not do me anything"
Well I see you without 7ijab and hell I wish you had one! And A neqab too!!!




I wonder how I manage to do this; start my post saying: oh this one is going to be breezy, and end up discuss such issues!!! Next time, dear blog, I will right something cheery, I promise!