This is pretty fucked up, even by jobFAIL standards.
There’s a candidate that constantly contacts me who’s been looking for a new job for at least six months, and he’s pretty employable. Nice guy, decent tenure, dresses sharp, even breathes through his nose. The catch is that he won’t look at any position that doesn’t have same sex benefits available and he has a very inflated sense of what he is worth. What further dumbfounds me is that his domestic partner “Trevor” hasn’t worked in years – he ”works in the home”. It’s not like “Ross” makes enough money for his boyfriend to plan Junior League events and polish candlesticks all day either – this is a 45K base retail general manager.
So Ross rolls into my office and starts telling me about the new Land Rover he bought at the end of the year, and how he needs to make an extra $400 a month now, and wanted to know what was available. I asked Ross why Trevor doesn’t go work part time to make that income as a waiter or a sales rep somewhere, and was told “she has high blood pressure and gets stressed too easily”. Yes, SHE was not a misspell. I am slightly intrigued by this particular development and asked Ross if Trevor dressed like a girl or wore makeup or something, and he immediately commandeered my laptop and went to Trevor’s Myspace page.
I see why Tre’Vonne can’t find employment outside the home. He/she has bright red hair almost down to his/her waist (“she got new extensions!!!”), bright red nails about 2 inches long, eyebrows from a Sharpie or something, and dresses in gowns. Not just gowns, Elizabethan era rock-me-Amadeus contraptions of lace and corsets. I think he looks like a redheaded Elvira without the tits, but Ross is a pretty good sport and handles my LOLs well. I ask the first politically incorrect thing that popped into my head.
me: “If you’re into all of that hair and crossdressing stuff, why not be straight?”
his reply: “Once you get me that 100K job I deserve, Trevor WILL transition.”
Dude, you just bought more car than you can afford. What the fuck?