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TsundeRay HOORAY! from Santa Clara, California Since: May, 2009
HOORAY!
#1: Jun 5th 2011 at 5:15:06 PM

Time for the hardest game of all: The game of finding employment!

Currently applying for retail crap online right now. Nothing makes me happier than a job listing that doesn't say experience is required...and then requires listing job experience partway through the application process to continue.

So far, the cheating whores at Macy's are guilty of this.

edited 5th Jun '11 5:19:10 PM by TsundeRay

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feotakahari Fuzzy Orange Doomsayer from Looking out at the city Since: Sep, 2009
Fuzzy Orange Doomsayer
#2: Jun 5th 2011 at 5:33:43 PM

I have no idea how to complete the multiple-choice questionaires some stores give to prospective employees. They ask the same questions phrased slightly differently to check whether I'm lying, but sometimes the phrasing is sufficiently different that the honest answer is different as well, so I don't know whether to be honest both times, or just be honest once and then match the second answer to the first. For that matter, I don't know whether I should actually be honest ("JC Penny's is the store for me." Strongly disagree.) or be a suck-up ("JC Penny's is the store me." Agree.)

That's Feo . . . He's a disgusting, mysoginistic, paedophilic asshat who moonlights as a shitty writer—Something Awful
TsundeRay HOORAY! from Santa Clara, California Since: May, 2009
HOORAY!
#3: Jun 5th 2011 at 5:39:44 PM

I've decided to cross the Moral Event Horizon for a little bit and ask my parents for hookups. My mom works at a clinic, so she might be able to get me something involving office work at some other clinic or hospital.

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Madrugada Since: Jan, 2001
#4: Jun 5th 2011 at 5:46:16 PM

^ That's not crossing the Moral Event Horizon, for pity's sake. What makes you think it is?

MajorTom Since: Dec, 2009
#5: Jun 5th 2011 at 5:49:32 PM

I'm just about to get a job period with Pueblo City School District 60 as custodial work for the summer. (Just need to finish the last of the paperwork tomorrow and I should begin on Tuesday.)

No I don't think custodial work is beneath me despite having a college degree and military service.

Galeros Slay foes with bow and arrow Since: Jan, 2001
Slay foes with bow and arrow
#6: Jun 5th 2011 at 6:18:50 PM

[up][up]Nepotism?

TsundeRay HOORAY! from Santa Clara, California Since: May, 2009
HOORAY!
#7: Jun 5th 2011 at 10:39:35 PM

So my friend just referred me to an opening. I'll see how things work out over the next few days.

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MajorTom Since: Dec, 2009
#8: Jun 7th 2011 at 7:25:06 AM

And I've got the job! I begin tomorrow. Sadly owing to their pay scheduling, I won't get paid for almost 2 months. (But I should be paid in full for all time prior to that when it comes.)

HersheleOstropoler You gotta get yourself some marble columns from BK.NY.US Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Less than three
You gotta get yourself some marble columns
#9: Jun 7th 2011 at 7:41:46 PM

Ain't nothing wrong with nepotism. I got a job I was qualified for through nepotism.

Then I was laid off. But I had an interview Monday! I waited for the guy for ten minutes, and five minutes later he gave me stuff to do for him to evaluate and sent me on my way. So we'll see.

The child is father to the man —Oedipus
blamspam Since: Oct, 2010
#10: Jun 7th 2011 at 7:50:07 PM

To get my job... the process sucked.

I applied and then a month and a half later they called me to say my interview was in two days. About two hours before the interview, they told me the girl that quit had called begging for her job back so they gave it to her. She quit again about three weeks later and it was a lot of phone tag to set up the interview. I sat in the interview room for an hour and twenty minutes after they told me to show up until finally the interview started. I got the job and now I absolutely love it.

So there's my wacky misadventure. Be persistent and willing to tolerate bullshit in the process if you really want the job.

HersheleOstropoler You gotta get yourself some marble columns from BK.NY.US Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Less than three
You gotta get yourself some marble columns
#11: Jun 8th 2011 at 1:49:43 PM

[up][up]And I got it. A month trial period, at a little shy of 2/3 the salary I'd asked, but fine.

The child is father to the man —Oedipus
HersheleOstropoler You gotta get yourself some marble columns from BK.NY.US Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Less than three
You gotta get yourself some marble columns
#12: Feb 10th 2012 at 11:35:20 AM

[up]And was laid off again, after nine glorious weeks.

I told my girlfriend that I liked the paycheck, and I liked having someplace to go every day, but I didn't actually like anything about the job. She said "I've never seen anyone so happy to be laid off."

The child is father to the man —Oedipus
stevebat Since: Nov, 2009
#13: Feb 10th 2012 at 2:00:05 PM

So tis the season for seasonal job hiring. Now is the time to apply at Ice cream stands, Sonic, Amusement parks and outdoor based Restauraunts.

In other news I have an interview with an amusement park monday.

edited 10th Feb '12 2:00:23 PM by stevebat

Apocalypse: Dirge Of Swans.
ekuseruekuseru 名無しさん from Australia Since: Oct, 2009
名無しさん
#14: Feb 10th 2012 at 9:36:59 PM

I don't understand why nobody will hire me. My resume is not bad, I've even been writing up cover letters, and there shouldn't be any serious competition for the sort of casual work that I'm after, but for some reason I've not got a single reply to any of the ten or so applications that I've sent out in the last couple of weeks. Guess I've got to keep at it. Well, even if nobody will here me, I can get tutoring work through my old school, and maybe other schools, too. That pays really well, but lacks hours.

edited 10th Feb '12 9:37:48 PM by ekuseruekuseru

HersheleOstropoler You gotta get yourself some marble columns from BK.NY.US Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Less than three
You gotta get yourself some marble columns
#15: Mar 15th 2012 at 9:36:49 PM

I applied on my birthday, six months ago, for a position at $NFP. They got back to me in December saying "there's bee a shake-up here, so we suspended that search." last week $NFP posted the job again, so I reapplied. I'm not wholly sure I qualify.

Going through outgoing e-mail, I discovered I'd applied for a job using my boilerplate cover letter — without filling in the blanks for the job title and where I saw the ad. Oops.

The child is father to the man —Oedipus
GigglesMcYummy wobbledewopple wob woppl from Ohio Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: Reincarnated romance
wobbledewopple wob woppl
#16: Mar 15th 2012 at 9:43:07 PM

I've been playing this game for about seven months. That may not sound like very long, but without school in the picture right now it defintely feels way longer.

I hope I can find a job as a server most preferably, because getting paid by tips everytime you work sounds awesome, even if it makes the actual paycheck smaller.

My PM box is always open to anyone who wants to talk/vent.
Journeyman Overlording the Underworld from On a throne in a vault overlooking the Wasteland Since: Nov, 2010
Overlording the Underworld
#17: Mar 15th 2012 at 9:51:47 PM

I played that game for four months. Shot down by everyone from a land development company to Mac Donald's. -Lets that sink in- Yes, Mac Donald's said no. evil grin Course, most of that hunt was during the summer.

Then I got called in for an interview to cashier at a warehouse store. I got the job that very day, sent to do my drugtest. Started the next month.

I love that job. I've been at it for five months now and never gotten tired of it yet.

GigglesMcYummy wobbledewopple wob woppl from Ohio Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: Reincarnated romance
wobbledewopple wob woppl
#18: Mar 15th 2012 at 10:01:28 PM

I've only been officially rejected by Chipotle and Speedway, since those are the only ones that I made to interview status. Oh, I was rejected by Bob Evans too because when I called to ask if they were still interviewing they said they've filled all the spots, even though the "Now Hiring" sign remained out there for a little while.

edited 15th Mar '12 10:01:54 PM by GigglesMcYummy

My PM box is always open to anyone who wants to talk/vent.
Journeyman Overlording the Underworld from On a throne in a vault overlooking the Wasteland Since: Nov, 2010
Overlording the Underworld
#19: Mar 15th 2012 at 10:05:06 PM

-Grins- Try this one on for size: Infocision, a telemarketing company, sent me a letter claiming they had a wealth of applicants and had to reject me based on that. Cue later that week me seeing another classified ad for them back in the paper, recruiting more people.

Malph (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#20: Mar 15th 2012 at 10:21:27 PM

Nothing makes me happier than a job listing that doesn't say experience is required

Those seem to be way too rare for me. I'm beginning to wonder how anyone even gets experience when it seems no one will hire you without it.

And one of the few that explicitly said they didn't need experience didn't have any contact information whatsoever. There's no name or phone number and the location says "Northwest Suburbs" (of Chicago. Which means it can be several towns away or it may be the pizza place down the street).

TParadox Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: The captain of her heart
#21: Mar 15th 2012 at 10:39:25 PM

The adventure I'm thinking of is technically after I got hired.

I was certain I'd bombed my interview, but I was hired on the spot (after half a dozen rare interviews that were practically over after I had to tell them my transportation was my mom's borrowed van).

They needed a drug test, and advised I go that day, so I decided to celebrate in the area while the clinic was closed for lunch, then go. I drank a couple extra glasses at lunch in order to ensure I'd have enough for a sample, drastically overestimating how long it would take to get through my system.

I peed twice at the bookstore while I waited until it was time to leave. I stopped at Arby's on my way for a bathroom and small soda. I arrived ready to go again. And had to wait for them to be ready. For an hour.

That was about five minutes too long for me, and their sample ended up on the carpet...

I had a cup their water cooler and spent their 30-minute "try again" wait out in the car, away from everybody else.

Target will never know what I went through to get my job.

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0dd1 Just awesome like that from Nowhere Land Since: Sep, 2009
Just awesome like that
#22: Mar 15th 2012 at 11:01:11 PM

Long story short: Applied to many places over the past four years. Not a single one has decided to hire me. A few gave me interviews, yeah, but no one actually decided I'm the guy for the job.

Insert witty and clever quip here. My page, as the database hates my handle.
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