u/dThomasTrain

Hey, just wanted to vent in a place where is pretty applicable.

I currently work for university IT as part of their help desk full time. I make about $44,000 a year (cost of living around my area isnt that high) and just graduated with a bachelors of Electrical and Computer Engineering. I'm coming up on 2 years working full time while I worked about 4 years part time all throughout uni.

My friend wants to hire me for his company to do IT work. He "picked himself up from his bootstraps" with 2 years of IT experience he got while in the national guard when he was hired on at this company. The other IT guy there had a degree in Cybersecurity and no work experience. They both made around $40,000 starting.

The company itself if very small, I'm talking like 7 people working there right now. My friend tells me the interview should only be one round and consist of himself and the other IT guy they have on staff. Instead, both him and I were surprised to find out the CEO, CFO and a third guy WHO DOES SALES were interviewing me. The third guy couldn't make it due to scheduling conflict, but still. 4/7ths of the company were sitting in on this interview.

Apparently, after doing well in the interview (my friend was trying to be as unbiased as possible and told me people thought well of me) THEY GET COLD FEET AND DONT WANT TO HIRE ME. Keep in mind, I would make LESS than what I make now. I have A DEGREE AND PRIOR WORK EXPERIENCE, WHEREAS THEIR CURRENT I.T. PEOPLE ONLY HAD ONE OF THE EITHER. I DONT UNDERSTAND WHY THEY WOULDNT JUST GO WITH ME.

Im only considering this because of the experience I would get, as they travel out to work with nuclear power plants to help install hardware and make sure it's working great with their setup.

Hey, my wife and I found a cat outside of our apartment complex and decided to take him in. We currently have another cat (foster is male, current is female) who is neutered. We’ve had them for about a month at this point, separated by rooms and they’re eating on opposite sides of the doors. Foster is in our bedroom so we come out of the room smelling like him for our cat Cheddar to get used to while Cheddar has the rest of the apartment.

I decided to bring cheddar into the room while the foster Blue is closed in our closet. Cheddar is used to his scent at this point and doesn’t growl or hiss at smelling him anymore. Blue has never growled or hissed at her smell.

I decided to hold onto Cheddar and open the closet door. I hold them about 3-4 feet away from one another and I’m crouching, cheddar is hissing and growling. Blue is not making any noise and is staring. I stand up thinking it’s not very productive and then Blue immediately airplane ears and growls. I try to back away slowly and he lunges and attacks me, not Cheddar.

After cleanup, cheddar is extra cuddly with me out in the living room. Blue is back to normal (he’s normally very friendly, comes up to me, lets me pet and purrs loudly. He also likely to lay on my neck but I generally don’t let him).

I know that the situation is fucked and I need to start over, but was wondering why Cheddar would be extra cuddly and why Blue would attack me and not care about Cheddar.