Thoughts and Rants on Jobs
Jan. 13th, 2011 10:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
future_guardianWell, since the college application is up in the air right now, I'm thinking I should look for a new job. Where I currently work, the busy season is October and you can be working a good 30 or so hours, even as a part-time employee. Otherwise, they are struggling with money. Now, I do think they cut everyone's hours when that happens, so I'm not alone, but...well, the most I've worked in the past month is 16 hours (two eight hour days). It would be great working somewhere where 16 hours is the least amount of time I work.
Okay, there's this mainstream store I applied at once, and I'm debating applying there again. I filled out my application online as well as took a required potential employee questionnaire, where I had to answer multiple-choice questions about how would I handle tough situations. After finishing the survey, I got an email saying "We're looking for someone with more experience." Ugh, confidence killer. Well, okay, I may have butchered the questionnaire royally, I'll give them that. The thing that bothered me was on multiple occasions after I applied, I bought some clothes at this store. The salespeople sucked like no one else has ever sucked. I swear I wanted to say to them, "Well, I'm sorry I interrupted your conversation about your super fun weekend to buy some clothes at the store you work at." Yeah, they passed me over but hired people like this! I'm not bitter at all! So anyway, on to the next place.
Today I filled out an online application to Target. I like Target (in spite of some of the things their CEO supports). The Target stores I've been in have been relatively clean and laid out very similarly to each other, and I've always been able to find something. There's a Target within thirty minutes of where I live (actually fifteen or less, but if I take the bus it's much longer) so anyway, here's hoping.
I'd really love to work at a bookstore. In the area, there is a Barnes and Noble and a Books a Million. I love Books a Million atmoshpere wise, but I've given up on them as far as applications are concerned; it's an online application and you don't even know if the local manager received yours unless you get a phone call. I have not in the past two years received a phone call, so I'm not sure what my status is. Barnes and Noble is still the one I'm thinking of. It's closer to me and I've been going to that store as a customer longer (because it's closer; I do not discriminate against book stores). So there's that.
Okay, there's this mainstream store I applied at once, and I'm debating applying there again. I filled out my application online as well as took a required potential employee questionnaire, where I had to answer multiple-choice questions about how would I handle tough situations. After finishing the survey, I got an email saying "We're looking for someone with more experience." Ugh, confidence killer. Well, okay, I may have butchered the questionnaire royally, I'll give them that. The thing that bothered me was on multiple occasions after I applied, I bought some clothes at this store. The salespeople sucked like no one else has ever sucked. I swear I wanted to say to them, "Well, I'm sorry I interrupted your conversation about your super fun weekend to buy some clothes at the store you work at." Yeah, they passed me over but hired people like this! I'm not bitter at all! So anyway, on to the next place.
Today I filled out an online application to Target. I like Target (in spite of some of the things their CEO supports). The Target stores I've been in have been relatively clean and laid out very similarly to each other, and I've always been able to find something. There's a Target within thirty minutes of where I live (actually fifteen or less, but if I take the bus it's much longer) so anyway, here's hoping.
I'd really love to work at a bookstore. In the area, there is a Barnes and Noble and a Books a Million. I love Books a Million atmoshpere wise, but I've given up on them as far as applications are concerned; it's an online application and you don't even know if the local manager received yours unless you get a phone call. I have not in the past two years received a phone call, so I'm not sure what my status is. Barnes and Noble is still the one I'm thinking of. It's closer to me and I've been going to that store as a customer longer (because it's closer; I do not discriminate against book stores). So there's that.
