Today was a delightful treat. I got a notification on social media with a new dm. Pop it open.
It was a manager from a job I had 16 years ago. I recognized the name. It was a short paragraph. 'Hey, how's it going? Hope you're well' etc etc. It got to the point pretty quickly.
Imagine my surprise when they asked me if I would be interested in coming back to work for them again since I had been 'so good' in that role when I had first worked there.
Ya'll. 16 years ago. 16 years
It was a fast food restaurant from my hometown that I worked at during high school.
They asked me to come back and work cashier as a fast food worker.
I'm 30+ years old, my guy. I literally run my own crew in my own department. I could demote myself to the base position with my employer and still make more. But sure! Yep! Let me just give all this up for some juicy minimum wage, shitty shifts, overtime because so-and-so no-showed again. No problem.
Yeah. Hard pass.
I'm sure they'll just continue to take this tremendous rejection as further proof that 'no one wants to work'.