I'm not a mind-reader (and, more to the point, I don't care)

Once upon a time, I had a client scheduled to start at one of my school districts. She was scheduled to start Day 1, called to say she was being evicted and needed a week to get her housing in order. I re-scheduled her for a week later to start Day 8 but found out she had to suddenly go out of town for a family emergency. Scheduled to start Day 11 and worked for, like, a solid 3.5 days before she got really sick and had to go home. Tried her one final time on Day 16, but something happened and she never went to work, so I fired her. Permanently.

She called the other day looking for work.

Yeah. Not happening.

Me: What can I do for you?

Looking for Work (LfW): I'm looking for a job.

Me: We are not interested in working with you after the school assignment for XX district didn't work out.

LfW: Well, I'm not looking to work at that district. I moved to ZZ city. You should know that.

Me: Why would I know that you moved to ZZ city?

LfW: Because you should.

Me: Why? I'm not a mind reader, so how would I know that you moved if you didn't inform us that you moved?

LfW: I don't know!

Me: Well, don't assume that I know, then, or that I care because, like I said earlier, we are not interested in working with you after the last failed assignment.

LfW: That was for a different district, though.

Me: Yeah, well, we're still the same company. And, as a representative of this company, I'm informing you that our company is not interested in placing you to work at any of the assignments we may have available at any of our clients in any of the cities where our clients are located. Please look elsewhere.

They say nothing is certain except for death and taxes. Except for, perhaps, that select un-self-aware characters remain eternally convinced they take up a great deal more space in the heads of others than actually happens.

I'd like to point out a couple of things for those people who think they're important enough to warrant ANY kind of extra thought on my (our) part:

1. I'm not a mind-reader.

2. If I was a mind-reader, I would not be using that particular skill on you. I'd be doing something far more worthwhile that would ultimately end up with me becoming disgustingly wealthy and never needing to work again.

3. I don't care about you. At. All. You warrant exactly zero extra thought on my part outside of work unless you actually suck enough to make it into this blog. Which, one could argue is an accomplishment, but trust me when I say it is not something of which you should be proud.