Flashback Christmas Eve, 1998; The Day I Lost My Science Career Due to My Credit Score

Never underestimate stupid people in large numbers.

My ability to enjoy Christmas was forever warped in 1998.

Of the many numerous ways my life has been screwed over for the most absurd and irrational reasons, I get a reminder every Christmas how absolutely evil and cruel American society and the American people are.

The event of that day made me into the bitter, distrustful person I am today. Taking a holiday that most people associate with good memories and family to send me into a spiraling angry depression was inhuman and inhumane. The hateful action taken that day left me frustrated, killing my hope.

The fact that I get to remember it every year since just adds an extra level of callousness reminding me that many humans are incapable of love and goodness.

To make me hate every member of the human race for the rest of my life must have been their goal.

The day America murdered my faith in humanity.

I was on a two-week high going into that Christmas. A few months prior I was laid off after six years. Early that December I got a new job. I was to start in the new year. I was hopeful and looking forward to the new beginning, the security, and to the challenge the work would provide me.

I felt free. I felt valued. I felt respected. But only for a moment.

I would be able to put the micromanaging of my last boss who timed my bathroom breaks out of my mind. I would regain my dignity and my self-confidence. I would be able to catch up on my bills again and be a real productive member of society.

It was sometime that afternoon on Christmas Eve 1998 that I received a phone call from the Human Resources department of my new employer. As my phone rang, I felt the black cloud and panic overtake me. My previous life experiences had conditioned me to expect the worst for no reason.

Even though I was still under 30, people had already found a way to torture my psyche. They seemed to get some sick pleasure out of it.

I told myself not to panic as I answered the phone. I had no reason to believe that anything could possibly be wrong. The Human Resources harpy who would have thrived as an assassin or even just a common serial killer informed me that “the company” had to renege my job offer.

The shoddy reason she gave was that my credit score wasn’t high enough for the position. It was not a position handing money. It wasn’t in finance or accounting. It was in science. I just wasn’t born into the right class.

After being laid off because I was human and needed to urinate on occasion, I was unable to keep up on all my bills and had damaged my credit. I would never have thought that an employer would take back a job offer due to recent bad credit. Did they think they would be helping me to improve my credit score by denying me the ability to make a living? Did they think that not having a salary would improve my credit score? It was madness.

What kind of sick, stupid, punitive society takes away someone’s ability to pay their bills because they have been unable to pay their bills due to unemployment? What kind of fucked up twisted mindset does someone have to accept to do this to a decent person?

Scrooged on Christmas and fresh out of vengeful ghosts.

I was devastated. I felt as though I was the victim of a cruel hoax. What kind of psychotic lunatic company was this to make such a decision? They needed someone with my skills and background. I needed a job. Why would they need more than that?

I had already gone through three rounds of interviews. It was already determined that I made a good fit with the team and the company. Now, they had to start the whole interview process all over again when they already had someone they wanted ready to go, sitting there, prepared then tossed aside in the most heinous way imaginable. Why?

Why didn’t they just stab me in the face? That would have hurt less and it’s more direct.

It was shortly after that when I discovered that there was a new trend in staffing in general, including scientific research: credit checks as part of the background check for employment. The new American Nazi’s had found a backdoor to maintain hegemony.

I, of course, imagined Louis Pasteur, Albert Einstein, and Jonas Salk being turned away, especially Albert Einstein.

Does anyone think that this trend helped to advance science and technology in any way? I could easily see someone with a mad-scientist personality working non-stop for days on end forgetting to pay his student loan one month. Maybe this ludicrous, extra-punitive attitude is why we have Covid-19 today or why we haven’t cured cancer yet.

America probably killed the person who was destined to cure cancer.

The decent part of America discovers and reacts too late to what the evil side was doing.

Since then, 11 states have made that practice illegal. And rightfully so. Another 17 states are working on similar legislation.

This practice is purely discriminatory at its heart. It favors personalities types who are conformist. It punishes those who show creativity or who posses the character traits necessary to make scientific breakthroughs. It’s a high-level crackdown on freedom in the most personal way possible, discarding artistic and scientific oriented people for those whose perspective is more traditional with solid in-the-box thinking.

It’s a declaration of war on 25% of humanity. It unnecessarily creates outcasts of nerds, artistic, autistic, bipolar, and creative people in favor of those who refined their calendar watching skill.

I can’t think of a better way to kill freedom in America.

Attack it at its core: people’s personalities. Those who express a creative, innovative, or scientific propensity should be warned: don’t be born in the United States of America. They’ve decided they don’t need you. They don’t need diversity.

Imparting my knowledge to a more worthy youth: our future enemies.

As for me, during the height of that fevered narcissistic, discriminatory, dog-whistled, white supremacist Nazi bandwagon, I changed career fields and shortly after left the country in defeat and disgust.

I had a successful career in China and the Middle East teaching future Communist and Muslim scientists the latest in cutting edge research helping and inspiring the youth of their countries prepare to lead the next generation of scientists.

The sociopathic people of the United States obviously don’t give a damn about anyone or anything and are too damn selfish and arrogant to realize what they’ve done to what was the greatest country on Earth.

Caring is anti-American, so screw you.

Unfortunately, I am back in the States now. I am reminded how 22 years ago they cast me out , discarding me because of problems they created in my life through their hate, discrimination, arrogance, stubbornness and abuse of power. Nothing’s changed.

Still being staunchly anti-intellectual, Coivd-19 is sweeping the country this Christmas while anti-vaxxers in their paranoia are obnoxiously proclaiming that they will continue to spread disease and death refusing to do the adult, responsible thing and protect themselves and their loved ones with an increasing number of approved, scientifically tested safe and effective treatments, one of which I helped bring to market.

Credit for the hard work put in by myself and more so by my teammates was stolen by the orange caricature of an ugly American the inhuman side of America voted for, looking to end the country once and for all.

You’re welcome, assholes.

I can’t help it, look at my story: I sincerely hope that a certain segment of the population gets sick and dies. Merry fuckin’ Christmas.