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  • Interview went well IMHO!

    Soooo... I may have a new job!
    As you all may or may not know, I've been applying like CRAZY everywhere near my home. I'm trying to get a job that has little customer interaction as possible (gee, wonder why) and the only jobs like that are general labor aka back breaking physical labor. Which is fine, I don't mind get my hands dirty. I do have limits, though; I'm not going to be a septic tank cleaner (gross) or anything to do with feces. Bleagh. A little garbage is ok, but not poop.
    So I answered an ad online for a restaurant. There's thousands of restaurants where I live, most of them old and in bad shape. But whatever. So I filled out the application online, and took it as a good sign that they didn't ask for my SS number, birth date, or made me sign up for a membership, or asked for references right off. Many do. I got an email asking for an interview. The email listed the address right off, and the time. All very good signs. I said I'd be there.
    However, when it came time to go, I almost didn't because the interview was at 3pm, which is 3am for me since I work the graveyard shift. I was dead tired. And when I'm tired I don't do well on interviews, I mumble and zone out. But I decided to just go, and have a look at the place, which was I've never heard of. If it turned out to be some worn down place with drunk skulking about, I'd turn around and go home.
    So I arrive and to my surprise, it's in a very upscale neighborhood and the restaurant itself is also very upscale. They don't have self parking, just valet. I was dazzled by it, or maybe it was the sun. So I enter and tell the hostess that I have an appointment with Ms. Blahblah (not her real name, obviously) for an interview.
    She seems a bit taken aback but says she'll get a different manager. I say fine. SHe gives me an application to fill out, even though I've already filled it out online, but whatever. SHe seems very nice and that's a very good sign. I don't want to work with coworkers that are miserable and mean.
    So I fill it out and wait for like 15 min (admiring the tasteful decor of the place; I wish I had the $ to do my place exactly like that) until the manager finally shows up. She's eons different from the other manager I had interviewed with, let's call him Mr. Grump. Mr. Grump never smiled at me, never bothered to look happy. This woman seems perky but not annoyingly so, I got a let's get the job done kind of vibe from her. She didn't ask me usual BS questions that interviewers usually ask me, like: Name one instance where you had to take a leadership position. Hello? I'm not applying for a manager or a supervisor, why would you need to know that. Or: Why do you want to work for this company? IDK, it's close by I guess? She didn't ask me any of that. SHe asked about what hours I could work. I said it. She asked how many hours a week. I said it. She asked what my mininum wage would be. I said it. She asked what I was applying for. I said busser. And that was all. Nice and direct questions.
    Soooo now I'm feeling pretty good about how the interview went, I didn't feel like I usually do, like I've wasted my time. She stated that she didn't see anything wrong with me, and that she'd give me a call after speaking with the chef there. Maybe she'll forget about me and not call, I don't know. But I hope not.... WIsh me Luck!
    Can't reason with the unreasonable.
    The only thing worse than not getting hired is getting hired.

  • #2
    Best of luck!
    "Bring me knitting!" (The Doctor - not the one you were expecting)

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    • #3
      Thanks! And guess what I got it! I got the job! Now all I have to do is give me two weeks notice and it's goodbye to hotels! After months and Years of trying Finally... FINALLY.
      I'm so happy.
      ^____^
      Can't reason with the unreasonable.
      The only thing worse than not getting hired is getting hired.

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      • #4
        I don't know if it pays better or worse than the hotel job, but there's bound to be a lot less stress, and that alone is worth it.
        I don't have an attitude problem. You have a perception problem.
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        • #5
          Congratulations. May it be everything you hope for in a job.
          Question authority, but raise your hand first. -Alan M. Bershowitz

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          • #6
            Congrats on the new job!
            Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

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            • #7
              Quoth HotelMinion View Post
              I'm not going to be a septic tank cleaner (gross)
              I've heard that one has a fairly high turnover. In the words of one person who quit without notice, "The job stinks and the truck sucks shit".
              Any fool can piss on the floor. It takes a talented SC to shit on the ceiling.

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              • #8
                Congrats!

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