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CorinTrueheart
Since: Feb, 2017
13th Feb, 2017 08:22:56 PM
It sounds like a scene from "House of Cards" where Zoe Barnes has a job interview with a new news place.
I can partially picture a scene but can't remember which show it's from and it's driving me nuts! The protagonist is a woman, old enough to be established in her career I believe, but maybe has been laid off recently or for some reason that's "not her fault" not working. She is a writer and considers herself to be a serious writer. She's been courted by a blog (I think, or a vlog) startup that is run by someone who I think she knows from a past life, who is much younger and she finally gives up and is desperate and calls them back and schedules an interview. When she gets there she expects to just be handed the job and the owner sits down with her and asks whether she's prepared samples and tells her to "sell me on you working here." The protagonist is taken aback because she sort of felt like she was deigning to interview in the first place. Ultimately she has nothing prepared and the owner walks her to the elevators and I think she gets a call on the way out the door saying they went in a different direction.