For those that missed the interview, here it is. There was several red flags at the interview and all along this job. I'm an idiot and ignore some glaring red flags that say "Run the other way and don't look back".

After the absolutely weird interview and the fact that one of them stole my soldering iron I should have just moved on. But after another 2 weeks of looking for alternate employment and not having much luck I got a call back from Jeff

Jeff: Hey, is this Pavix?

Me: Yep. What's going on?

Jeff: Well, we liked how quickly you fixed those laptops so we'd like to bring you in for a second interview.

Me: Sounds good. I have Friday off, how does that sound?

Jeff: That works great, see you at 9am.

Me: See you then.

The rest of the week at my existing job was pretty boring and low stress, except for management actively QA'ing 90% of my calls and trying to find an excuse to fire me. By Friday I was willing to ignore the strange occurrences for the chance to get out of my then-current job. I show up in business casual this time, polo shirt and khakis since that was what Jeff wore last time.

When I arrive the secretary in front was gone and replaced by a bell that said "Ring for assistance". At this point they still haven't told me what they did as a company and any direct questions about it was met with "We'll get to that later"

I ring the bell and wait

DING

After 10 minutes I ring it again

DINGDING

After another 5 minute wait Jen comes from the "Restricted access" room and looks at me with surprise

Jen: What are you doing here?

Me: I got a call from Jeff to meet him here for a second interview

Jen: Oh. Sit down out there and I'll be with you

She barely got the last of her sentence out before she disappeared into the interview room. This should be another red flag, but I was so stressed by my existing job that I ignored it. In retrospect I could have probably broken one of these counting all the little red flags that popped up.

After 20 minutes she comes out and walks up to the front and takes me to one of the offices I passed on my first interview. The office was a pretty typical office worker office, pictures of family on the desk, a fake gold torsion pendulum clock on her desk, and ton's of papers all over her desk.

Jen: Liz, this is Pavix our new IT guy. Can you get all his paperwork squared away?

Umm, what? This was supposed to be an interview.

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth

Oh, how many times I should have ignored that quote. But alas I was hungry to move out of my current job so I went with it.

Me: Good morning

Liz: Good morning. Come on in and have a seat, do you have your drivers license and social security card with you?

Me: Yep.

Jen wandered off. So I spent 45 minutes going through tons of paperwork, an NDA and a non-compete which basically said I couldn't start my own company and offer the same services but didn't actually prohibit me from working for a competitor of the company. Either way, I was still screwed because I didn't know WHAT the company actually did. I decided to ask Liz

Me: So, what do you do here?

Liz: Oh, Jeff will get into that with you.

Me: Can you give me an idea?

Liz: So eager, we like that around here

Her voice was so chipper, like most HR drones. Like they could use a chipper tone of voice and politically correct vernacular and they could solve any problem in the world. shudder. Just about the time I was finishing the last bit of paperwork Jen came back into the room

Jen: Pavix, did Jeff tell you to bring your laptop in?

Me: No. You folks haven't given me one yet

Jen: No, your laptop from home.

Me: No, why do I need that?

Jen: That's what you'll be using to work

Me: What about the laptops I fixed last time?

Jen: Those were distributed out to the workers and we don't have any spares on hand

Me: What about that desktop in the interview room?

Jen: That's used for something else. We can work around it today but make sure you bring it on Monday.

So Jen took me to her office and RDP'd into a server and logged in then stood up and asked me to sit down.

Jen: Go ahead and create your AD account. Here's the sheet with the required AD groups you'll need to be a member of

FSKING HELL There must be 60 groups listed there and they had NO intelligable naming convention. Things like AAZRTF6213 and was not in sequential order.

Me: Don't you have this automated? Powershell could reduce the time this takes by 2/3rds.

Jen: We don't have powershell here, it's not a proven technology so we didn't buy it

Me: But it comes with Windows 7 for free.

Jen: You can make your case with Jeff when he gets back. For now, get started here

So I plug away creating my account while Jen went off to the "Restricted" room. After creating my account I check Jen's account to see what AD groups she has in comparison. They mostly matched what was on the sheet, being new I knew I could give myself access to the additional groups but I wasn't willing to risk the chance of getting out of my existing job.

Me: Jen, I'm finished up here

She was signed into $PopularIM and decided that instead of walking next door she would send herself a message which would appear locally for her as well as on the computer I'm on.

Jen: Ok, sounds good. We have SCCM setup, there is a sheet on the desk of hostnames and the software that the computers need. There's a spreadsheet opened on the computer that has corrisponding AD groups. Just open AD, add the groups to the specified computer account and SCCM will deploy the software. I look at the list of computer names and shudder FrontDeskDell JensLaptop RestrictedS014 RestrictedS094....Hmm, What have I gotten myself into?

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