I totally forgot about this until I went to my local mall the other day.
This takes place around the same time I had done the interview for big box toy store, give or take a couple of weeks. As I mentioned in my previous post in this thread, I was putting applications left, right, up, and down to get a second job (and after the fiasco with BBTS, I made damn sure I was more blunt about it) and put in an application at more then a few of the stores in the mall. I get a call from one of them, Expensive Clothing Store to come in for an interview so I get dolled up and head on over there.
I should've walked right out after the employees at the front said that the manager had just gone to lunch and would be about another half hour or so, but because I still needed a second job I was, at the time, desperate so I walked around the mall for a bit before coming back about a half hour later. Manager STILL wasn't back, would be another five minutes, so I decided to stay in the store this time and look around to see what kind of stuff they're selling.
About ten minutes later two women come out from the back, one leaves after a goodbye and the other stays -- this is probably the manager or whoever so I go up to the desk and introduce myself. The woman looks at me like I had just sprouted an extra head and tells me I'm nearly an hour late, I tell her that, no, I was told that SHE was on lunch and to come back in a half hour. The manager seems to think I'm lying but the two employees that were standing at the front backed me up, as they were instructed to tell anyone looking for a manager that by, you know, her.
But I still got the interview, one of the things I was asked is if I was willing to quit Random Craft Store right then and there to work for Expensive Clothing Store. Manager said she wouldn't be able to give me a lot of hours, twenty at the most, and I reminded her the whole reason as to why I was looking for a second job was because I was getting so few hours. Needless to say I didn't get the job and am damn glad I didn't, as the store was closed two years later.
Funny thing is, the day BEFORE my orientation at the Warehouse, one of the other stores in the same mall gave me a call and said that they'd like to give me an interview. Sorry, too late about that.
This takes place around the same time I had done the interview for big box toy store, give or take a couple of weeks. As I mentioned in my previous post in this thread, I was putting applications left, right, up, and down to get a second job (and after the fiasco with BBTS, I made damn sure I was more blunt about it) and put in an application at more then a few of the stores in the mall. I get a call from one of them, Expensive Clothing Store to come in for an interview so I get dolled up and head on over there.
I should've walked right out after the employees at the front said that the manager had just gone to lunch and would be about another half hour or so, but because I still needed a second job I was, at the time, desperate so I walked around the mall for a bit before coming back about a half hour later. Manager STILL wasn't back, would be another five minutes, so I decided to stay in the store this time and look around to see what kind of stuff they're selling.
About ten minutes later two women come out from the back, one leaves after a goodbye and the other stays -- this is probably the manager or whoever so I go up to the desk and introduce myself. The woman looks at me like I had just sprouted an extra head and tells me I'm nearly an hour late, I tell her that, no, I was told that SHE was on lunch and to come back in a half hour. The manager seems to think I'm lying but the two employees that were standing at the front backed me up, as they were instructed to tell anyone looking for a manager that by, you know, her.
But I still got the interview, one of the things I was asked is if I was willing to quit Random Craft Store right then and there to work for Expensive Clothing Store. Manager said she wouldn't be able to give me a lot of hours, twenty at the most, and I reminded her the whole reason as to why I was looking for a second job was because I was getting so few hours. Needless to say I didn't get the job and am damn glad I didn't, as the store was closed two years later.
Funny thing is, the day BEFORE my orientation at the Warehouse, one of the other stores in the same mall gave me a call and said that they'd like to give me an interview. Sorry, too late about that.
Comment