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<blockquote data-quote="Lil" data-source="post: 633656" data-attributes="member: 17309"><p>I know my son's job hunt - or lack thereof - is becoming a bit of a chronicle...but it's nice to vent. So here's the latest:</p><p> </p><p>He calls today because he can't find the phone number to the factory. I go on line, find a couple, give them to him. He calls back and both are no good. I try the actual paper phone book. Give him three numbers (one of which he'd already tried).</p><p> </p><p>He calls back about 15 minutes later, in his usual huffy, <em>OMG PEOPLE ARE SO STUPID HOW DO I DEAL WITH LIFE</em> manner. After two bad numbers he finally gets a human at the 3rd, and has to go through the guy who answered and then two different HR people, but he has an interview next Wednesday at 11. You'd think he'd had to climb a mountain and swim a swollen river with a baby grand piano on his back - calling three numbers and talking to three people was THAT much work! <img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/2012/sochildish.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":sochildish:" title="sochildish :sochildish:" data-shortname=":sochildish:" /></p><p> </p><p>He mentioned that he'd found out they were doing on-the-spot interviews at the job fair, and stated if he'd known about that, he'd have gone there and been interviewed and maybe have a job now. They told him that actually, if he'd gone there, been interviewed and was chosen, he would STILL have had to go to the factory and interview again and fill out a second application and do the drug test...so all in all, he short-cut half the process by skipping the job fair and applying to the factory.</p><p> </p><p>I pointed out that he also gets a second chance to make a good impression...by going clean and neatly dressed to the interview and letting them know that, if they don't need him for warehouse, he has office skills and would be happy to take an office job. (In fact he'd prefer it, but let's face it...the boy doesn't have people skills.)</p><p> </p><p>So...I don't expect to see him lift a finger to look for anything else until after next Wednesday, [<em>Why don't we have an eye-roll smilie? It would be so very appropriate a lot of the time.</em>] but at least he has the interview. <img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/2012/fingerscrossed.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":fingerscrossed:" title="fingerscrossed :fingerscrossed:" data-shortname=":fingerscrossed:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lil, post: 633656, member: 17309"] I know my son's job hunt - or lack thereof - is becoming a bit of a chronicle...but it's nice to vent. So here's the latest: He calls today because he can't find the phone number to the factory. I go on line, find a couple, give them to him. He calls back and both are no good. I try the actual paper phone book. Give him three numbers (one of which he'd already tried). He calls back about 15 minutes later, in his usual huffy, [I]OMG PEOPLE ARE SO STUPID HOW DO I DEAL WITH LIFE[/I] manner. After two bad numbers he finally gets a human at the 3rd, and has to go through the guy who answered and then two different HR people, but he has an interview next Wednesday at 11. You'd think he'd had to climb a mountain and swim a swollen river with a baby grand piano on his back - calling three numbers and talking to three people was THAT much work! :sochildish: He mentioned that he'd found out they were doing on-the-spot interviews at the job fair, and stated if he'd known about that, he'd have gone there and been interviewed and maybe have a job now. They told him that actually, if he'd gone there, been interviewed and was chosen, he would STILL have had to go to the factory and interview again and fill out a second application and do the drug test...so all in all, he short-cut half the process by skipping the job fair and applying to the factory. I pointed out that he also gets a second chance to make a good impression...by going clean and neatly dressed to the interview and letting them know that, if they don't need him for warehouse, he has office skills and would be happy to take an office job. (In fact he'd prefer it, but let's face it...the boy doesn't have people skills.) So...I don't expect to see him lift a finger to look for anything else until after next Wednesday, [[I]Why don't we have an eye-roll smilie? It would be so very appropriate a lot of the time.[/I]] but at least he has the interview. :fingerscrossed: [/QUOTE]
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