Nine Minutes!
Today I turned in the OPEC topic synopsis I'd been working on. At about five pages, its the longest synopsis I've ever written.
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It took them NINE MINUTES from the time I sent them the synopsis to fire me.
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Nine minutes! Thats damn fast. But yeah, they called nine minutes later, the topic synopsis apparently wasn't long enough.
Technically they didn't fire me though. It was more like "it needs to be longer" "well I'm definitely not making it longer" "well, we really need it to be longer" "well then you need to hire someone else." So technically I think I quit while politely telling them to shove it. It felt quite rewarding actually.
Incidentally, I complained about how silly I think nine page topic synopsii about two weeks ago. The purpose of the papers is so give a brief overview of the topic, not do the delegates research for them. In this case, I could come up with five pages of overview, but if I wrote any more I'd cross the line into doing delegates research for them, and I'm just not going to drink that punch.
Anyway, here is the offending synopsis, for you to judge yourself. Its still a next-to-final draft -- if they hadn't fired me I'd have inserted more citations (which I don't usually do until the end) and wrapped up the very end of it better, but neither of those things apparently contributed to their displeasure.
Who needs AMWEST anyway?