Six years ago, before the negligence lawsuits began. While you're working we'd like you to train people to eventually replace you for much less money. We can't get anyone for the North Dakota branch office. We've got a lot of idiots here. You will be assimilated.
Resistance is futile.
This went on for two months. I had a couple of recruiters actually reintroduce themselves with the same schlocky sales pitch each time they found a new position I might be suited for. It was then that I realized that what had just happened qualified as my shortest interview ever. Oddly enough, by what I've decided was the very grace of God, I got a call later that day from a friend in San Francisco who knew a friend in Raleigh who was looking for someone with my skills. I called him, we went to a bar, we chatted for three hours over beers and buffalo wings, and he offered me a job.