9/28/20 Boy Got Himself Another Job?

     Man, talk about bad timing.  First off, Boy got furloughed at the start of the year from a company he spent almost three years developing and growing with.  He started as an intern and they liked him, promoted him and just as they made him a full time employee with benefits and a $70k plus salary at the end of last year, they lost their funding and he lost his job.  He managed to get one or two checks at that salary before being kicked to the curb.  It probably would not have been that bad, if not for Covid-19 which pretty much shut down the country come March, but it took until last week, almost the end of September, for my older boy to find another company and a job that fits him.

    Since he was laid off, he started applying everywhere in the area, some weeks he said he put out as many as twenty five applications but still, he sat there waiting.  He did get taken for that weird ride by the lab affiliated with Toshiba that interviewed him, the interviewer offered him a job then HR called back and took the offer off the table.  It almost felt like we should get someone involved as they mentioned his dyslexia as the reason for not wanting to hire him, but we told him "do you really want to start your young career suing potential employees?"  That is not our way, if they don't want you, you shouldn't want them, it is their loss.  After a few more months of waiting, it seems like companies are starting to go back to normal again.  He has gotten a few cold calls from companies, including Samsung, and Intel, among others for interviews.  The only thing that sucks about the interview process is that it has gotten to be so much more.  Samsung, I believe has a seven round process before they will hire you, he found out from two friends who got 3 and 5 rounds in before the company decided not to hire either of them.

    Applied Materials, who is a big producer of semiconductor tools here in the area, had several positions which he had applied for months ago, and suddenly they called him just on a random weekday.  They told him he would be interviewed once and if they liked him, he would be offered a job.  He said his thirty minute interview went almost an hour so he was pretty positive about the encounter, but he said he was the first one interviewed, although there would be several kids hired at the same time.  He was supposed to be called by the end of the week, and he wasn't, but when he called to find out what he could have done better or what not, he found out they were still deliberating, and after another few days, he was called this past Thursday and told he got the job.  He said it felt like a mountain of stress had been removed off his back and he seemed genuinely excited.

    He is supposed to be called by the HR people this coming week, I asked him if it was possible the same thing happen again as with the last company, and he says no, it shouldn't.  He went on a vacation trip which I wasn't even aware of with Sweetie's family to the coast, and hopefully, he gets to work here in the next couple of weeks.