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That was... actually a pretty good read. Thanks, spurge, you've raised the bar in a way only you are able to.



I haven't really had a job yet, so... nope.



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After reading all that... It seems that Ryan isn't getting any from his girlfriend... You should talk about that with her before you make a mistake with the babysitter... Or the Printer/scanner/copier girl.. Or the dude from taco bell...



 

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spurgeonryan said:
mysticwolf said:
I haven't really had a job yet, so... nope.

Well that is too bad and perfectly fine. You are just about to start college right? 1.5 weeks left? What do you do to get ready for a test other than study? Go out on the town and kill a few prostitutes? Watch Golden Girls Marathons? Count your European Football cards?

I kind of get the feeling that tests and job interviews are not the same thing.



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There was that McDonald's interview where i answered the "why do you want to work here?" job with "i heard it was easier than KFC."

I could tell the manager immediately stopped caring about the interview from that point forward.

The more fun story is how i quit/got fired from my last job. This inventory gig was completely killing me, because i had to wake up super-early, but only a few days a week, which meant my sleep schedule never normalized (and i would have had to go to sleep between 8 and 9 o'clock to get a full night's sleep anyway). I had a few opportunities on the horizon (all of which have crapped out by now anyway), and planned to quit soon anyway.

What happened with this inventory company was that they had a carpool site where employees could meet and be driven from to save their gas, but the company (RGIS) lied to me about where the carpool site would be. They said it would be at a grocery store barely a mile from my house, when it turns out it was at a grocery store about an hour away, often in the wrong direction from the place i was driving to anyway, so there were scheduled stores that i just refused to go to because it wasn't worth the gas, time, or aggravation (and certainly not at 8.00 an hour), having to cook up excuses, and it got to the point where i decided i wasn't even going to give them two weeks and just tell them i was quitting.

So Fate decided to punish me for that, by having the last day i showed up to be absolutely brutal. I arrived an hour late because i got lost, but even then they had me working 8 and a half hours with no end in sight (while they let other employees go home, no less). I arrived at 7 AM, and soon enough it was after 4 in the afternoon, and it's like "how the hell am i going to actually hit evening rush hour? This is ridiculous." So i tried working faster, and faster, but there was absolutely no end in sight, so eventually i went "fuck it, this is my last day, i'll just clock out and leave whatever they say," so i did, with luck being on my side that no-one was near the time-punch machine, so i just punched out, left my equipment, and was gone.

Next day i called and declared that i quit, and they said "well, we're firing you because you walked off." So now i have a black-mark on my work record...



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To each his own...but I would NEVER drink prior to a job interview. It's probably very different depending on what field you're in, but I need to remain sharp in case I have technical programming questions.

After 8 interviews in the past few months, it tends to become old hat. Jot down information about the company, along with questions, as well as review the standard questions in my field. Ensure I know who I am meeting and mapquest the destination for time.

Put on the power tie and prepare for an interrogation.  =/