"In the end, it took a few weeks before I could start. And then I stuck around working longer than the two weeks we’d planned and then it took another few week

"In the end, it took a few weeks before I could start. And then I stuck around working longer than the two weeks we’d planned and then it took another few weeks after that for a job offer to be made and another few months to get started." it almost sounds like they were reluctant to hire him.