Last Friday, I got an email from my old boss who said that the BlueLine IT Group was looking for a software engineer with my qualifications and asked whether I was interested. "Sure," I replied. Next time I checked email, there were two messages from him. One said that BlueLine was very anxious to talk to me so I called them immediately. I talked to a gentleman that wanted my resume and I sent it to him. The job was not to be with BlueLine IT itself, but rather with a company who has an officer that he grew up with. If I am hired, the company was to pay BlueLine a commission based on my salary. We made a couple email exchanges where he edited it to make it look better for the particular job and after several more email exchanges, he set up an interview with him for Monday at 1:30PM at the BlueLine office. He said that if everything went well, I would go from his office to the actual company for an interview.

I arrived at BlueLine's office at about 1PM, a half-hour early. There wasn't anyone in the office. The lights were off and the door was locked. Okay, I'm early so I'll wait. At about 1:45PM the BlueLine Group arrived; both of them. Perhaps the "BlueLine Duo" would be a more appropriate name for this 'group'?

Anyhow, I met and talked to Gene, whom I had previously exchanged emails. He quickly apologized for being late for the appointment that he set up at his office. The interview seemed to go pretty well and he primarily described the personalities of the people I was to interview at the actual company and how I should act. Just before I was about to leave BlueLine to go the 'real' interview, he told me I was pretty low-key and should step things up a little. I didn't think much of that. I'm not going to put on an act to get the job. That dishonesty will end up biting you in the ass after I'm hired and they get to know me. And, from what Gene described, I'm more than qualified for the job.
So, I went to the 'real' interview. The job was not what I thought, but it did sound interesting. It was with a telecom company and I expected the job to entail writing telecom software. Actually, the job entailed writing internal software for their interesting marketing strategy, which is somewhat comparable to Amway. The interview seemed to go well, but it seemed to end rather abruptly. My qualifications were well above what they were desperately looking for. I don't know what went wrong or actually if anything went wrong.

I got home, checked email, and there was a message from Gene asking how things went. I replied that it was difficult to tell. I didn't get a feeling one way or the other. He replied that he would contact them first thing in the morning (Tuesday) and contact me. Tuesday morning passed, and at 3PM I finally emailed him to ask if there was any news. He NEVER replied.

To this day, he still has never replied and I have no idea what went wrong. All I've learned from this is to avoid the incompetent BlueLine Duo at all costs.