Here’s a good F you story if you’re in the mood.

A few years ago, the new dean of Mason Gross at Rutgers decided the current technician there (who I had become friends with) needed help to maintain the pianos and signed me up for an “interview”. The “interview” involved a short tour of the facility by the current technician and tuning and voicing one of her studio pianos (she was a piano teacher there before becoming dean). I spent 2 hours working on the piano only to be greeted later by her with “I forgot you were here”.

Soon after, I found out that she did not have the ability to create a new position and begin interviews without prior approval which she did not have. Essentially I did free work for Rutgers under the guise of a job interview. I explained this to the tech working there and he was appalled and wanted to make it right. He decided to turn the fake “interview” into a subcontract and allowed me to submit an invoice for my time and work. This was my fuck you to Rutgers and the BS dean (who was fired at the end of the year). I got paid and never looked back.