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So I was out looking for a seasonal job to make some extra cash.
Was down going to the Mall, lots of places hiring there. Went into the mother fucking Hello Kitty Store cause they had a "Hiring" sign. You know the one. It seems like every mall has one, but they never seem to have any business. Yes, I am aware that it was a Hello Kitty Store; it's cheddar, it don't matter which store I work as a mindless peon at to get the extra cash.
I'm all like "Howdy, ya hiring some sales associates? Could I get an application homie?" And all that jazz, though less sarcastic sounding IRL.
Dude was like "You have any retail experience?"
And I'm all like "Naw, but I used to work as a customer service rep for 3 years at the highest volume Papa Johns in the SouthEast. Ya know, what with the cash register, and the customers, and all that good stuff"
Dude was like "You need retail experience. Sorry."
Seriously dude. I don't know what you think dude, but you are the manager of the Hello Fucking Kitty Store. You aren't exactly the pentacle of retail excellence. Hell, I've been to the mall on Black Friday. Even on goddamn Black Friday, you rarely have even two people in your store at one time. I think I can fucking handle it if I can handle mother fucking super bowl day at the highest goddamn volume Papa Johns in the entire goddamn SouthEast.
You wanna know what that is like? YOU WANNA KNOW WHAT THAT'S LIKE ON MOTHER FUCKING SUPER BOWL DAY?
45 fucking employees, crammed into this tiny store. We have three conveyer belt ovens, stacked on top of each other. Each one produces 2 pizzas every 30 seconds. Or 6 pizzas every 30 seconds. Or 12 Pizzas a minute. You doing the math here? Out of that oven, is coming flying a pizza every 5 seconds. Those Pizzas had to be cut, labeled, and boxed in under 5 seconds, or they'd be falling on the floor, which is 100% unexceptable.
We had 8 Customer Service Reps on the clock. We are sitting there, punching throw phonecalls as fast as we can. Phones ringing off the hook. Customers coming through the front door, huge line. There isn't enough goddamn space in the entire fucking restaurant to handle all the employees and customers we had to take care of.
At the peak of superbowl, we had to stop taking orders, because the goddamn oven didn't have the oven capacity to produce Pizzas as fast as orders were coming in. One Pizza every 5 seconds. We were one of the only Papa John's in the entire goddamn country to have an oven which cooked Pizzas that fast, and we had fucking 3 of them. An Average Papa Johns only does One Pizza every 30 seconds. We're talking 750+ Pizzas an hour being the maximum capacity for our store to cook, when most stores only have a maximum capacity of around 200.
That point where we stopped taking orders? The time for a Pizza was in queue to be baked and go in the oven, was over 3 and a half hours long. At that point, we had over 2500 Pizza's that had been ordered, and were waiting to go into the Oven.
AND YOU THINK I CAN'T HANDLE YOUR LITTLE MOTHER FUCKING HELLO KITTY STORE BECAUSE MY CUSTOMER SERVICE EXPERIENCE HAS BEEN IN A PIZZA RESTAURANT INSTEAD OF A RETAIL STORE?
YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT CUSTOMER SERVICE! YOU CANNOT EVEN BEGIN TO COMPREHEND THE MEANING OF A TRUE RUSH! YOUR BLACK FRIDAY IN A HELLO FUCKING KITTY STORE? I LAUGH AT IT!
I think I beat Mrs Starseed.
Was down going to the Mall, lots of places hiring there. Went into the mother fucking Hello Kitty Store cause they had a "Hiring" sign. You know the one. It seems like every mall has one, but they never seem to have any business. Yes, I am aware that it was a Hello Kitty Store; it's cheddar, it don't matter which store I work as a mindless peon at to get the extra cash.
I'm all like "Howdy, ya hiring some sales associates? Could I get an application homie?" And all that jazz, though less sarcastic sounding IRL.
Dude was like "You have any retail experience?"
And I'm all like "Naw, but I used to work as a customer service rep for 3 years at the highest volume Papa Johns in the SouthEast. Ya know, what with the cash register, and the customers, and all that good stuff"
Dude was like "You need retail experience. Sorry."
Seriously dude. I don't know what you think dude, but you are the manager of the Hello Fucking Kitty Store. You aren't exactly the pentacle of retail excellence. Hell, I've been to the mall on Black Friday. Even on goddamn Black Friday, you rarely have even two people in your store at one time. I think I can fucking handle it if I can handle mother fucking super bowl day at the highest goddamn volume Papa Johns in the entire goddamn SouthEast.
You wanna know what that is like? YOU WANNA KNOW WHAT THAT'S LIKE ON MOTHER FUCKING SUPER BOWL DAY?
45 fucking employees, crammed into this tiny store. We have three conveyer belt ovens, stacked on top of each other. Each one produces 2 pizzas every 30 seconds. Or 6 pizzas every 30 seconds. Or 12 Pizzas a minute. You doing the math here? Out of that oven, is coming flying a pizza every 5 seconds. Those Pizzas had to be cut, labeled, and boxed in under 5 seconds, or they'd be falling on the floor, which is 100% unexceptable.
We had 8 Customer Service Reps on the clock. We are sitting there, punching throw phonecalls as fast as we can. Phones ringing off the hook. Customers coming through the front door, huge line. There isn't enough goddamn space in the entire fucking restaurant to handle all the employees and customers we had to take care of.
At the peak of superbowl, we had to stop taking orders, because the goddamn oven didn't have the oven capacity to produce Pizzas as fast as orders were coming in. One Pizza every 5 seconds. We were one of the only Papa John's in the entire goddamn country to have an oven which cooked Pizzas that fast, and we had fucking 3 of them. An Average Papa Johns only does One Pizza every 30 seconds. We're talking 750+ Pizzas an hour being the maximum capacity for our store to cook, when most stores only have a maximum capacity of around 200.
That point where we stopped taking orders? The time for a Pizza was in queue to be baked and go in the oven, was over 3 and a half hours long. At that point, we had over 2500 Pizza's that had been ordered, and were waiting to go into the Oven.
AND YOU THINK I CAN'T HANDLE YOUR LITTLE MOTHER FUCKING HELLO KITTY STORE BECAUSE MY CUSTOMER SERVICE EXPERIENCE HAS BEEN IN A PIZZA RESTAURANT INSTEAD OF A RETAIL STORE?
YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT CUSTOMER SERVICE! YOU CANNOT EVEN BEGIN TO COMPREHEND THE MEANING OF A TRUE RUSH! YOUR BLACK FRIDAY IN A HELLO FUCKING KITTY STORE? I LAUGH AT IT!
I think I beat Mrs Starseed.
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I'm not soulless. I have plenty of souls. They're just not mine.
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Best Buy wouldn't hire me for the same reason, Karilyn. I now find myself working at a Dollar General for 7.25 an hour and get paid every Friday. There are always better things out there, but hell its hard to search for them.
[Citation Needed] wrote:This just PROVES that it is best to hunt landmines with a hammer.
Well that's where you screw up. You do not answer 'do you have relevant experience' with 'not specifically, but I do have experience in a closely related field'. Rather, you give him a verbal 3-page essay about how even the smallest things you did in that other job makes you more qualified for this job than effing Iron Man!Karilyn wrote:"You have any retail experience?"
"Naw, but I used to work as a customer service rep for 3 years at the highest volume Papa Johns in the SouthEast. Ya know, what with the cash register, and the customers, and all that good stuff"
Well you will if you specialised in something like Arts! But we people with a real degree just have to look someone in the assiciated career field in the eyes and we get a job!Torizo wrote:It seems like you need to have connections to get a job anywhere these days.
I even managed to become an IT guy in the largest software enterprise in all of Europe 4 years before I get my degree! THAT is how easy it is!
See 9 posts back.Plasma wrote:3-page essay about how even the smallest things you did in that other job makes you more qualified for this job than effing Iron Man!
*que Iron Man Metallica song*
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I'm not soulless. I have plenty of souls. They're just not mine.
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*cough*Ame no Akai wrote:I don't think they are who you think they are.Karilyn wrote:*que Iron Man Metallica song*
Black Sabbath.
I know what I meant to say what I thought I was saying when I said it.
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I'm not soulless. I have plenty of souls. They're just not mine.
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Art contests piss me off.
There's practically no way to fairly judge a piece of art. Most big contests do things like skip over people with a lot of experience to be "fair", although it isn't fair to them.
I can appreciate contests to, say, design a new character for a webcomic or something(AS LONG AS THE CHARACTER IS ACTUALLY USED). I might even open one of those, since I do have an empty hole in my plotline where there should be a character.
But, really, I don't think there's really any fair way to judge art,
There's practically no way to fairly judge a piece of art. Most big contests do things like skip over people with a lot of experience to be "fair", although it isn't fair to them.
I can appreciate contests to, say, design a new character for a webcomic or something(AS LONG AS THE CHARACTER IS ACTUALLY USED). I might even open one of those, since I do have an empty hole in my plotline where there should be a character.
But, really, I don't think there's really any fair way to judge art,