Fucking Interview

After Dylan worked at BlackJack Pizza in ‘97 and then quit (I’m guessing maybe because he got chewed out for bringing in a pipe bomb?), he worked for Computer Renaissance. And in between that time period, he had a short stint at Albertsons grocery store as a customer service clerk (you can just picture that, can’t you? 😉 ) The mentioning of the ‘fucking interview’ during late ‘97 in his day planner must have been his application for Computer Renaissance, apparently his ticket out that hell hole grocery store.

I noticed that he mentioned “Fried shit” on December 4th. At first, I thought it read “Friend shit” but then vacillated on what that could mean. This is all just speculation here on my part, but.. I thought perhaps that it wasn’t just sloppy spelling of the word “Friend” but deliberately arranged as “Fried”. Just maaybe Dylan thought his interview and job with Computer Renaissance was a slam dunk, so he pulled a last “revenge” prank on Albertsons, as mentioned in his yearbook note to Nate Dykeman, in reference to putting refried beans (aka “fried shit” in Dyl shorthand) in the store’s toilet to piss off his supervisor, Connie. I could be totally off base but it’s an amusing thought anyway!

Hmm.. I wonder what sort of half arsed-questions Dyl came with up with for that (fucking!) interview on December 10th. :3

UPDATE Per Sue’s book: Dylan began working at Albertson’s “roughly a week after the theft”. The van theft happened on the evening of January 30th. This places his job at Albertson’s grocery store the first week possible second week of February 1998. This roughly dovetails with my initial speculation that he worked at the grocery store within the Jan/Feb timeframe. It has now been confirmed by Sue as Feb ‘98 and it probably lasted only a month – if that. Based on Dyl’s dayplanner entries above in Dec ‘97, it would indicate that he was interviewing for Albertsons and not Computer Rennaisance as he wasn’t able to land his dream computer job until August ’98.
It’s interesting too that Dylan uses Rich Long, the Computer teacher at Columbine High. Rich lost his trust in Dylan after he hacked the locker combos in Oct ’97 and barred Dylan from working the computer lab ever again. Can’t imagine a reference from his soured teacher would’ve been very complimentary.