New job, schmew job

So I didn't get the SGI gig. This didn't exactly come as any great surprise. What did come as a great surprise was why. Bearing in mind what I previously mentioned about the requirements, you might ask whether I spoke German well enough; I did - in fact I was told that I had a better command of the language than most of the people they already had. So was my UNIX knowledge not up to snuff? No, that was fine, apparently, not a problem. So I must have been asking for too much money, right? That's gotta be it. No, that was not mentioned.

No. Apparently I was too fucking nervous. They thought I would be flustered when John Q. Knobhead calls up with a giant bug up his ass and wouldn't handle it properly. Well, fuck me with a fishfork. This begs the question of just what the F.U.C.K. I been doing for most of the last four years. You work in tech support for an ISP and you meet every conceivable form of stupidity, ignorance and tantrum. I have dealt with some of the biggest assholes, the most unreasonable, insulting, arrogant, patronising bastards you're ever likely to encounter and I have not once fucked up the call or lost my cool. I once swore at a customer, but that was only repeating back to him what he'd said to demonstrate that he was out of line. I am very good at this job.

So I was almost lost for words at first when the recruiter told me this stuff, not least because I wasn't actually nervous at the interview. He took this back to SGI who repeated their impression. They did say that they would consider me again in a few months when they recruit again. Additionally they voiced the view that I would be well suited for their second level support roles as my UNIX was good enough, which again will be recruited for in a few months. The irony of this is that level 2 is above the level I was interviewed for and attracts significantly higher salaries. Is that ass-backwards, or what?