I didn't get the teaching job, but I ain't even mad. The lady that got it is certified and has worked at the school for years patiently waiting for a position to open up. She deserves it.
That being said, I don't have to leave my FB deactivated anymore...at least if I don't get anymore call backs. I may still deactivate it in response to the ignorance it propagates.
Yes, I was told something. By more than one person. Face to face. All saying they shared the same experience. If we're being really honest about it, it bothered me to the point that I left work due to the stress, my poor demeanor, and my inability to shrug it off. My reaction was ridiculously poor and ill-advised, but I didn't take it to a "public" forum. There is an innate part of the human condition known as the "negative bias" - people give more weight to negative rather than positive information. After hours of the idea that something quite "negative" was experienced by a "group" of people, I went from "disbelief" to "belief" and furthermore, convinced myself I had witnessed a similar incarnation.
It's not like, any of my friends have recanted their stories, and I have heard from both sides, at this point - but, I take 100% of the blame for my reaction. I should not have behaved in such a manner. What I didn't do was take it outside of the circle - most certainly not to Facebook. I asked for the people who told me to "keep it in house" and I told one friend after a few too many to drinks (because at the time I couldn't find either of the "directly involved parties' phone numbers - as they have been deleted in order to deter contact, doesn't always work, clearly).
Most of the people in my life had no idea this was going on Friday because I didn't make it a "public" affair - by Saturday the situation was being mocked on FB (due a very vague post meant to elicit a very particular response via an "appeal to emotion" - we're all adults here so I'm assuming we know the difference between a "literary technique" and saying the post was "emotionally charged").
I handled it poorly, but I at least tried to handle it directly with those involved. In other words, like a man - albeit, a drunken idiot of a man who had no business showing up there, but if there were/is any validity to what was said to me, then my anger was justified. There is no justification for the behavior the anger spawned when coupled with alcohol - at least I didn't get shot.
