We've all experienced it. That sweet, sweet satisfaction you feel at another's misfortune.

Today, I found out that a company I interviewed with last summer - and got totally stroked by - is in the market for my kind of talent again. Apparently, the person they hired (because they didn't want to spend the kale to get me) didn't pan out. When I heard that, I laughed and laughed. With what they've spent trying to fill the position - twice - they could have more than paid me.

But then, I'd be working for a bunch of dicks.

Share your schadenfreude!

dammit im starving ova here!!! lol

i love that storytho...

Genesia said:

We've all experienced it. That sweet, sweet satisfaction you feel at another's misfortune.

Today, I found out that a company I interviewed with last summer - and got totally stroked by - is in the market for my kind of talent again. Apparently, the person they hired (because they didn't want to spend the kale to get me) didn't pan out. When I heard that, I laughed and laughed. With what they've spent trying to fill the position - twice - they could have more than paid me.

But then, I'd be working for a bunch of dicks.

Share your schadenfreude!

Quit orging in foreign languages! It's rude

(And what if the company calls you and wants to interview you again? Would you?)

CallMeCarrie said:

Genesia said:

We've all experienced it. That sweet, sweet satisfaction you feel at another's misfortune.

Today, I found out that a company I interviewed with last summer - and got totally stroked by - is in the market for my kind of talent again. Apparently, the person they hired (because they didn't want to spend the kale to get me) didn't pan out. When I heard that, I laughed and laughed. With what they've spent trying to fill the position - twice - they could have more than paid me.

But then, I'd be working for a bunch of dicks.

Share your schadenfreude!

Quit orging in foreign languages! It's rude

(And what if the company calls you and wants to interview you again? Would you?)

First of all,

The thing that was ssssoooooooo maddening about that whole situation is that the person who brought me in for an interview is someone I used to work with (at the company I'm at now). He knew how much I made - and what it would take to hire me away - and he wasn't honest about the prospects.

When I interviewed, one of the people I interviewed with was someone who interviewed me for my current job. This guy is amazing - someone whose work I've admired for years (and still do). I could tell by the way he acted during the interview that there wasn't a chance in hell of them hiring me - but he couldn't say it.

They won't call me. But if they did, it would take an outright offer (no interview) of a boatload of money for me to even think about it. And then, I'd probably turn it down. Who wants to work with a weasel like that first guy? (And he is a weasel. Tried to date every single woman in the creative department - yes, including me. Even succeeded with a couple - no, not me - to their later chagrin.)

meh. maybe they had their reasons. you could be an insufferably condescending shrew...

who knows?

well they say opposites attract..

I took pleasure in you not getting that job.

Does that count?

Thank you for boosting my response rate.

Ok Genesia, I finally broke down and googled schadenfreude!

Damn u for making me learns something today when all I

want to do is giggle at brainless org threads, like the one discussing cows.

(No brain activity mandatory for that one.)

So finding joy in someone else's misery...

My only example that I can think of is how good I felt

when the loser who cheated on me when we dated, got

cheated on and dumped by the girl he cheated on me with.

Other than that, I can say in general that it makes me feel

good when I see karma (the good and the bad) come back

around on someone!

Genesia said:

Thank you for boosting my response rate.

Well let me help too then.

I was just telling Carrie that I had two juicy schadenfreude stories for you, and i even typed one up that wound up being about four flipping paragraphs long!

But after reading it I decided they were both a little too close to the bone work wise for me to put them out on the internets. (And yes I said internets darn it all)!!!!!!

[Edited 5/3/11 13:11pm]

Fenwick said:

Genesia said:

Thank you for boosting my response rate.

Well let me help too then.

I was just telling Carrie that I had two juicy schadenfreude stories for you, and i even typed one up that wound up being about four flipping paragraphs long!

But after reading it I decided they were both a little too close to the bone work wise for me to put them out on the internets. (And yes I said internets darn it all)!!!!!!

Yeah, I know how that goes. (Trying not to give away too much on the internets.) I've deleted many a post, having "thought better of it."

I dunno, Genesia, you were revelling in a sort of cosmic justice, whereas I think of true schadenfreude more as unjustified player hating ...and in a context where you know yourself to be an utter scoundrel: Like when a high school classmate lands a star-making role in a Hollywood blockbuster... but gets all of his scenes cut from the final print.

But I recall one story loosely akin to this tit-for-tat stuff: Earlier in my editorial career, I rebounded after getting laid off by taking a job at a particular national trade publication. My father had just died, I was having difficulty after coming out of the closet to my family, my performance in grad school had tanked, and I was undergoing treatment for a deep depression. This all panned out in a missed initial deadline here and there. I confided the issues with my senior editor, some fresh-out-of-college boy wonder about 6 or 7 years my junior, and he led me to believe there were no worries. Well, one day dude canned me with no notice for missing those deadlines.

Just a few weeks later, I saw an ex-coworker at a café, and we started catching up. Turns out not only was my editor let go shortly after he let me go, but the publishers had been watching him and found out he'd been feeding proprietary editorial content to his fiancee, who worked in the marketing department of one of the companies we covered. Heads rolled and boy wonder was apparently facing some u.g.l.y. lawsuits. Turns out, too, a lot of the people in the company were glad to see him go down in flames, as they always thought he was sickeningly arrogant, but apparently kept it to themselves.

I can't say I didn't feel a wee bit of glee over all that.

[Edited 5/3/11 13:42pm]

Lammastide said:

I dunno, Genesia, you were revelling in a sort of cosmic justice, whereas I think of true schadenfreude more as unjustified player hating ...and in a context where you know yourself to be an utter scoundrel: Like when a high school classmate lands a star-making role in a Hollywood blockbuster... but gets all of his scenes cut from the final print.

But I recall one story loosely akin to this tit-for-tat stuff: Earlier in my editorial career, I rebounded after getting laid off by taking a job at a particular national trade publication. My father had just died, I was having difficulty after coming out of the closet to my family, my performance in grad school had tanked, and I was undergoing treatment for a deep depression. This all panned out in a missed initial deadline here and there. I confided the issues with my senior editor, some fresh-out-of-college boy wonder about 6 or 7 years my junior, and he led me to believe there were no worries. Well, one day, dude canned me with no notice for missing those deadlines.

Just a few weeks later, I saw an ex-coworker at a café, and we started catching up. Turns out not only was my editor let go shortly after I left, but the publishers had been watching him and found out he'd been feeding proprietary editorial content to his fiancee, who worked in the marketing department of one of the companies we covered. Heads rolled and boy wonder was apparently facing some ugly lawsuits. Turns out, too, a lot of the people in the company were glad to see him go down in flames, as they always thought he was sickeningly arrogant, but apparently kept it to themselves.

I can't say I didn't feel a wee bit of glee over all that.

"Cosmic justice" - I am so stealing that.

I just wish I knew who they ended up hiring. With any luck, they paid some big relocation and severance costs, too.

Your weasel probably never got another job in that field. Gotta love that!

Yes, I too found out that 'what goes around, comes around'.

I'm inside giggling because two persons who tricked me badly, are not very popular anymore. Not because I said anything, just because after a few years, people found out they actually are evil people. On the other hand, they have better and very powerfull positions than I have.

I'm glad, that I have more true love in my life

And I hope the judge will deliver me some Schadenfreude soon...

mcmeekle said:

I took pleasure in you not getting that job.

Does that count?