I was planning to do a lot of editing last night, but unfortunately blogger was down so I didn't get the opportunity. Therefore you'll have to hold out at least another day for the page to be prettified, right now I'm just using a template.

This morning I received a phone call from Mellon Financial, a company that I interviewed with back in October. They were supposed to fly me out for a second interview in Pittsburgh back in November, but because of "time constraints" (read: "money troubles") they postponed it until January. At the end of January I received an email that a new person was in charge of recruiting (read: "we're still having financial troubles"), so they wouldn't be able to fly me out until the beginning of February. Then I received the call this morning, where instead of giving me flight information they scheduled a phone interview for the end of this week. I'm puzzled by a number of things:

a) What could they possibly have left to learn about me over the phone? They already talked to me in person for about an hour, doesn't the progression usually go phone interview -> in person interview? Why are they doing it the other way around?

b) Would I really want to work for a company I've never visited in a city I've been to once?

c) Would I really want to work for a company that is obviously in some sort of tight financial spot where they can't even afford to fly me there for one day? Who is to say that they wouldn't decide two months into my employment that they needed to cut back even more and fire me? And it's not like they were even honest about their dire financial straits, they made up stories about not having enough time for goodness sake.

d) Which day did I actually schedule the phone interview for? I was half asleep at the time, so while I believe I scheduled it for Friday at 2, I could just as well have scheduled it for Thursday at 2 (when I will be in class) or some other random time thanks to sleep-induced psychosis.

Speaking of sleep-induced psychosis, according to my Ask Jeeves page-a-day calendar if a human is not allowed to sleep for 10 days they will either die or go into a psychotic state. If I go even one night without sleep I go into said psychotic state, so I can only imagine what it's like after 10 sleepless nights.