OMG !! Y'all I think I found the perfect job!
So everyone knows that I am slightly hair
challenged, right? After taking out my
braids that I wore from the time I gave birth to my son until 2011; learning to
do my hair and look good for 8 consecutive hours is just a bit much! Especially
in this Hotlanta humidity!
I know I know some of you are saying what does that have to do
with the "perfect job"? EVERYTHING! Last week I went on a job
interview at McBride Research in Decatur, Georgia. now when the recruiter first
told me about the job I was like, Mc Bride Research what kind of gadgets do
they make? But to my surprise they didn’t make gadgets! They make Hair
Care products!! And for African American women at that! I was like this could
get interesting so I do what I always do when I have hair issues I reached out
to the “Server set” aka 20 of my 30 first cousins on my mother’s side
of the family. I love how things have progressed over the years no more sending
a group message over AT&T’s voicemail system I pulled out my phone and sent
a text that went to our family’s facebook page and everyone’s cell phones! Yep I
turned to my cousins or sister cousins as we like to say because we’re close
like sisters. Well y’all know that about 8 of them do hair professionally and
well the other 12 have great looking hair just because. I must have gotten my
hair handling skill sets from the Rogers side….sigh.. anyhoo I sent out the
call for help to find out about McBride Research and their signature product
Design Essentials. Well the first few responses were very sarcastic! Three of the
“cousins” were like really KK…seriously? And then my cousin Misti posted to the
page, “look dumb dumb!” Those are the products that I used in your
hair back in January when I took your weave down! Remember you said,”OMG my
hair smells like peppermint pops”. Yes y’all I really said that! Side eye roll
to Misti for remembering and busting me out on the family FB page.
So then I posted, Why are they not more popular with the “hair
challenged” sista’s like me? Every last
one of the cousins started posting these crazy emoticons! Not really sure what
that was about…I tell ya family can be rough on you. I mean do I give them the
side eye roll when they ask me crazy questions about tech stuff?! _______________ 0__O Ok so yeah
sometimes I do but anyhoo. It’s not about me! Well yeah it is…so ok they tell
me that this stuff is better than anything the other major African American
Hair Care companies are offering! As a matter of fact 16 out of 20 cousins say
the only thing they buy from the other companies is the HOT SIX Oil! O yeah 4 of my cousins that live in the
Southeast part of the country, agreed to do my hair for free if I got them a
sample of this stuff!
Fast forward to the day of the interview. I’m nervous but I’m
armed with all my social media and tech info plus the Haute Hair Care gossip
from the “Server set”.
When I get there the office is nice but let me
tell you it smells Divine in there. Just like peppermint pops! I give the
receptionist my name and YES her hair was FABULOUS! She took my name and asked me to be
seated while she contacted the ladies who would be interviewing me.In just a
few minutes out walks Shana one of the interviewers and immediately I was
envious! Why you ask? Because she is rocking braids! O how I so desperately want
to be in Corporate America with my braids back! Not sure why the rule is to not
be that ethnic until after you’ve been there six weeks! I mean really if they
hate my hair that much they’ll just find an excuse to fire me anyway right?? But
yes she was rockin’ braids. We chatted for a while then comes in Polly the other
interviewer and she has a great natural do as well. I feel like a fish out of
water with this weave! When it was all said and done I dazzled them (or at
least I think I did) with all of my Social Media and Social Tech knowledge. I
tell them that the “Server set” loves their products and an hour ½ later the
interview is over! But on my way out I got gifts! That’s right I said gifts!
I got a gorgeous designer gift bag full
of goodies and as luck would have it one of my cousins made a surprise visit
and HOOKED UP MY HAIR!!
I hope you enjoy the picture of my peppermint pop smelling
hair! And let’s all pray I get the job! Because it will be my personal mission
to make sure this stuff is not a “Stylists Secret” but that even the hair
challenged such as myself get to have hair that smells like the yummy peppermint
pops, all the time! I know you're probably saying wait wait you haven't told us why this is the perfect job! Well here it is that at 40+, I may just finally learn to take care of my hair and use the right products to keep it looking good! Without alienating the “Server set”
*Note the interviewers names have been changed to protect their
privacy.
