I'm sorry, I know we have a sticky for "how not to get hired" but this particular applicant seriously deserves his own thread. You'll know why in a minute.
He applied a few months ago and since that time has called at least once or twice A WEEK to check on his application. We've already given him a time frame for when we may be hiring but that hasn't stopped the calls.
Every time he calls, he insists we hunt down his resume and mark off that he called. I don't do this, I'm not sure if anyone else does but I doubt it because if we did, his resume would be covered with notations and look extremely unprofessional.
Inevitably, he always gets irritated when he calls and I tell him at our potential hiring window has been delayed or that we don't know for sure when it will be. He's long crossed the line from being persistent to being annoying.
I wish I could toss his application in the circular file but I don't get to make that call.
Now I know it's not so bad so far, but what he did last week takes the cake.
He shows up at the store on FRIDAY night, at close (literally, we already had the gates pulled) to...you guessed it...check on his application!
I honestly have no words. I have NEVER seen an applicant do something so dumb.
The good news about this is our store manager (i.e. the one who does the hiring) WAS working last night and she was extremely pissed that this guy had the nerve to show up when he did and ask about a job (we'd have a very long and busy day and were more than ready to go home). Hopefully he's just sealed his fate but somehow I doubt we've heard the last of him.
He applied a few months ago and since that time has called at least once or twice A WEEK to check on his application. We've already given him a time frame for when we may be hiring but that hasn't stopped the calls.
Every time he calls, he insists we hunt down his resume and mark off that he called. I don't do this, I'm not sure if anyone else does but I doubt it because if we did, his resume would be covered with notations and look extremely unprofessional.
Inevitably, he always gets irritated when he calls and I tell him at our potential hiring window has been delayed or that we don't know for sure when it will be. He's long crossed the line from being persistent to being annoying.
I wish I could toss his application in the circular file but I don't get to make that call.
Now I know it's not so bad so far, but what he did last week takes the cake.
He shows up at the store on FRIDAY night, at close (literally, we already had the gates pulled) to...you guessed it...check on his application!
I honestly have no words. I have NEVER seen an applicant do something so dumb.
The good news about this is our store manager (i.e. the one who does the hiring) WAS working last night and she was extremely pissed that this guy had the nerve to show up when he did and ask about a job (we'd have a very long and busy day and were more than ready to go home). Hopefully he's just sealed his fate but somehow I doubt we've heard the last of him.
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