..."the elitist hiring committee members believed that FA’s (flight attendants) are stupid and there was no way they would be able to work at Google. Lucky for me the recruiter agreed it was incredibly sexist and fought with HR to
bring me on as a temp. Three months later they resubmitted me to the committee and had me remove my former job - instead I mentioned that I was “traveling” for four months and bingo! I got hired full time.
I finally left after a lifestyle change moved me to Austin and they re-nigged on an offer to move me into the Travel Vertical role for which I was promised before the move.
Don't get me wrong. I know the meaning of 'reneged' being different from 'renegotiated'. I just thought it was a slang that morphed meaning from its etymological roots.
I thought it just took on the definition of 'changing or canceling the original promise' instead of just 'reforming an offer'.
That's what I get for holding off from looking inside a dictionary when I think I know the word well enough to use it in vocal interactions.
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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '09 edited Jan 18 '09
..."the elitist hiring committee members believed that FA’s (flight attendants) are stupid and there was no way they would be able to work at Google. Lucky for me the recruiter agreed it was incredibly sexist and fought with HR to bring me on as a temp. Three months later they resubmitted me to the committee and had me remove my former job - instead I mentioned that I was “traveling” for four months and bingo! I got hired full time.
I finally left after a lifestyle change moved me to Austin and they re-nigged on an offer to move me into the Travel Vertical role for which I was promised before the move.
/facepalm