A Kosher Dating Odyssey: One Former Texas Baptist's Quest for a Naughty & Nice Jewish Girl by van Wallach

Author:van Wallach [Wallach, van]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Relationships, Humor, Topic, Religion, Personal Memoirs, Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781603811323
Google: fFPYuQAACAAJ
Amazon: 160381132X
Publisher: Coffeetown Press
Published: 2012-04-15T07:00:00+00:00

Lark’s Lament: Instead of dinner with the Lark, I packed up my former office, including the Russian and Yiddish posters seen on the wall.

We sat there, stupefied. All of us had been laid off. Almost our entire department, nationwide, was wiped out in a listen-only conference call that lasted only four minutes.

As you can imagine, chaos ensued. We had to tell the client-facing team in the Boston office we had just been laid off and couldn’t work on the project. Our cellphones hummed as we frantically called family members and rearranged our travel plans. I called the Lark and told her that our plans were star-crossed and that dinner would have to wait. She was as disappointed as I was, but understood completely. I called other obscure objects of thwarted affection and left voice mails about the Beantown slaughter so they would feel sorry for me and want to talk to me (and they did, as I turned lemons into lemonade).

I returned to New York and found myself in demand for job interviews, given my skill set. I had a first call from one firm on September 11, of all days, and began working there in October on my birthday, of all days. The spell of unemployment passed quickly. Another year would pass before the Lark and I would finally meet in Mystic, Connecticut, but we connected and have met several times since then. We are both good listeners.

Meanwhile, the Listen-Only Massacre became a dark legend in New York professional-services circles. Marketers and headhunters talk about it with horrified fascination to this day.

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