Secret's out!

I was chatting with PK this morning on Google. Jen's window popped out suddenly and I said hi. She told me she received a phone call from the company I interviewed with yesterday. I was so surprised. I continued to talk with her and began to tell PK about it. PK didn't respond right away, and then he told me the lady actually just called him too. Wow. So I guessed they had begun to call my references and seemed like they were serious about hiring me.

A few minutes later my manager came to my office and asked me if I had talked to this company recently. I was shocked! I specified on the application not to call my employer. Since my manager already found out, I had to come clean. I told him that I was job searching and this was one of the companies I talked to. I didn't give him the exact details, and I definitely didn't tell him that I lied yesterday to go to the interview. I felt extremely embarrassed. My manager was very nice though, he offered some suggestions and inquired about their pay range. I decided to tell him most of what I learned. I really felt like I betrayed him, I know it's silly, but I did.

Later today I told Dave that my secret had been exposed. He was not happy that they called my company and talked with my manager. He was right. I felt like they didn't respect me enough. I still don't know how I feel about this. If my manager was a jerk, he could've replaced me within one week! And what if the new job didn't work out in my favor? I would've lost my job now and become unemployed.

Dave said he will call them and tell them just how uncool this was. I am glad Dave didn't answer his phone when they called him today, now he knows what they did, he can let them have it first thing in the morning. Dave sometimes is like a powerful punch packed with fire and justice - I love it when he says it like it is and fights for me :)