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    Another great way to impress at a job application

    People never seem to understand that when you apply for a job you're being accessed from the moment you ask for an application form. We're currently looking for pharmacy staff and today I got a phone call.

    Me - Hell ___ pharmacy can I help?
    Lady: Yes I'd like some infomation about the job you have advertised.
    Me - Ok the hours are 9am till 3pm Monday to Friday in the dispensary so you will need dispensary qualifications and to have passed your NVQ level 2
    Lady: Ok when should I come in for an interview?
    Me - You need to fill in an application form first. At this stage we're collecting forms and from there we will contact people for interviews.
    Lady: Can you post one to me at - starts to reel off an address -
    Me - hold on one moment I need to check if we can do that.
    Lady: You'll have to as it's very hard for me to get into your store
    Me - Hold on a moment please

    I turned to the Pharmacist/Manager and said that the lady wanted us to post her a form, he said why and I said about her having trouble getting into the store. He said to ask her why she'd have trouble seeing as that would most likely affect her doing the job.

    Me - Can I ask why you'd have trouble coming into the store?
    Lady: I just can't today it's impossible I'm too busy
    Me - It doesn't have to be today. We are collection together application forms for another week before sending out interview requests.
    Lady: Well it's just impossible so why can't you send a form? it's simple just send it
    Me: I hope you don't mind me saying but saying that it's impossible for you to come into the store doesn't really sound very good when you're applying to work here.
    Lady: It's impossible TODAY
    Me: Ok come tomorrow then you have until the end of next week to come in for the form.

    At this point the manager took over and told her she wasn't suitable but did she really think she was making a good impression?
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    Wow, I was wondering "why would you want to work here if you have a problem getting here?" Where I work we got something similar, the person could only work 2 days. The 2 days that we didn't need anyone. And to top it all off, the person was waving gang signs at my manager calling her "baby" and shit like that. Needless to say the guy's application was torn up.
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    • #3
      Quoth dizzy_starshine View Post
      At this point the manager took over and told her she wasn't suitable but did she really think she was making a good impression?
      I wonder what the potential applicant said to THAT.
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      • #4
        Quoth dizzy_starshine View Post
        Me - Hell ___ pharmacy can I help?
        Hell Pharmacy?

        I don't think I want your job.

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        • #5
          Is this pharmacy 24 hours by anychance? If so, she gets super extra special points for not being able to make it in. It takes what 20 seconds to pick up and application?
          The only words you said that I understood were "His", "Phone" and "Ya'll". The other 2 paragraphs worth was about as intelligible as a drunken Teletubby barkin' come on's at a Hooter's waitress.

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          • #6
            If she's this demanding before she even fills out the application, I'd hate to see what she'd be like if she actually got the job...
            I pray for the strength to change what I can, the inability to change what I can't, and the incapacity to tell the difference -Calvin, Calvin & Hobbes

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            • #7
              Somehow I don't think that'd be a possibility.
              You're focusing on the problem. If you focus on the problem, you can't see the solution. Never focus on the problem! --From Patch Adams

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              • #8
                Quoth Nutjob R/T View Post
                Hell Pharmacy?

                I don't think I want your job.
                Why not? Mephistopheles needs his anti-depressants, just like the rest of us.
                "I can tell her you're all tied up in the projection room." Sunset Boulevard.

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                • #9
                  Quoth cinema guy View Post
                  Why not? Mephistopheles needs his anti-depressants, just like the rest of us.
                  And just think of the trade in enemas and colonics!
                  The Rich keep getting richer because they keep doing what it was that made them rich. Ditto the Poor.
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                  • #10
                    Quoth Aldous View Post
                    And to top it all off, the person was waving gang signs at my manager calling her "baby" and shit like that. Needless to say the guy's application was torn up.
                    At my last factory job, I just happened to be waiting across from the HR. When I saw something like that. People, if you want to get hired by any place, then do not act like a retard.
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                    • #11
                      We had a lady apply once and then would come back every few days and bug us to see if we had her application on file because we legally have to hold them for like 30 days....this is NOT someone you want working with you (friggin lawyer wannabes)....amazingly she still got hired, had a nervous breakdown a few weeks later and started giving out managements' phone numbers to customers who complained. She didn't last TOO long, thank god.
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                      • #12
                        I love it when applicants:

                        ~ Ask me if their felony convictions will keep them from getting a job?
                        Or even better, "How many felony convictions will keep me from gettin' a job here?"

                        ~ Tell me stories that begin with, "I didn't REALLY abuse my wife... I was just trying to get the phone away from her so she couldn't call the cops on me..."

                        ~ Hit on my employees while filling out the application.

                        ~ Whine about how long it takes to finish the application.

                        ~ Don't read the instructions on the HUGE board at the computer station and spend 15 minutes attempting to call the "Application People" on the little phonelike handset.

                        ~ Apply in their pajamas.

                        ~ Bring 5 family members with them to help them complete the application.

                        ~ Complete the application and when the computer says "Sending" wander around the store trying to figure out where it's sending to.

                        The above are all true and have happened in the last 2 weeks.
                        "I don't want any part of your crazy cult! I'm already a member of the public library and that's good enough for me, thanks!"

                        ~TechSmith 314
                        HellGate: London

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                        • #13
                          Why would someone need five family members to help them fill out a job application?

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                          • #14
                            Quoth KellyHabersham View Post
                            Why would someone need five family members to help them fill out a job application?
                            I dunno, because they're a F*cking Moron maybe?
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                            • #15
                              Quoth JustADude View Post
                              I dunno, because they're a F*cking Moron maybe?


                              That's what I figured.

                              It's funny to see that many people huddled around the tiny little 'computer' (application station- whatever) whispering and pointing at the screen.
                              "I don't want any part of your crazy cult! I'm already a member of the public library and that's good enough for me, thanks!"

                              ~TechSmith 314
                              HellGate: London

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