The Job Search = Frustration
Originally published at Soft Spoken. Please leave any comments there.
Oh my goodness. Ok, so I’m sort of desperate for a job at the moment. I’ve been out of school since the end of April and I’ve been looking for jobs in Taber. I don’t really want to be in Taber but since I can’t afford to be driving to Lethbridge everyday or to live in Lethbridge, I’m kind of stuck.
Everyone is claiming to be hiring, but when I go into places to drop off resumes they say they’re not hiring, or they just never call me back. So, out of my desperation I re-applied at Wal-Mart. UGH!!! Yeah, I really didn’t want to, but I really need the money fast. Louise called me this morning and she said they could reinstate me. I just dropped off my application yesterday.
So apparently the rumours of Wal-Mart being desperate for employees is true. Lol. I believe it though. No body really wants to work there. And I can understand why. I mean I worked there for 10 and a half months and I really didn’t like it a whole lot. I mean most of the people were pretty good to work with. But there just seemed to be too much crap going on that you didn’t really see until you actually worked there, which is why all the young kids they hired would quit within a month or so.
Also, the pay isn’t that great. I mean I’ll get paid more now because minimum wage is higher, but I was getting more at Michael’s (part-time) in GP when I was 17 than I was at Wal-Mart (I turned 19 while I was working there before). But I really need the job and the income, even though it won’t be a lot since I only applied for part-time.
But it sounds like they might be in need of full-time stuff too. I only need work for the summer though. But everything full-time at Wal-Mart (other than department managers positions) are pretty much all evening shifts and I don’t think I can handle that again. It was stressful and I never did anything else because I would end up staying up late and sleeping in the next day and then get up and go to work again. And they were always cutting my hours so it was really hard. I would prefer consistent shifts but I know I won’t get that at Wal-Mart.
Anyways, I guess we’ll see what happens. Louise said she would call me back and let me know. Even though I don’t really want to be working there I do need something. I’m although planning to give them a full-two weeks notice this time before I leave, even though technically I won’t have to because I’ll be there for less than three months but I will anyway and hope it will help to make up for not giving notice last time. I was apparently supposed to have a “do not rehire” on my file because of that but if they’re desperate enough they’ll hire me again. I also know that I’m leaving at the end of August/beginning of September anyway for school so I know approximately when I’ll have to leave. I just won’t have the dates for a while.
Anyways, I guess that’s all for now.
Edit: So Louise just called me back. She didn’t realize at the time that I hadn’t given notice when I left before and that I have a “do not rehire” on my file. She said she had talked to Sharalee about it, pleading my case. But she said they won’t bring back anyone who did that. Louise said I could talk to Dallas or Sharalee and see if maybe they’ll let me come back.
Right now I’m kind of thinking that I will do it but I’m not entirely sure if I really want to. I mean I really do need a job. But I don’t really want to work at Wal-Mart but no one else is hiring me. I don’t really know what to do. I’m so desperate right now but I don’t know if I can do it. I can pretty much guarantee that I will start crying if I’m talking to Dallas or Sharalee about it. I was starting to cry just talking to Louise when she called me back. And she wants me to come back. She said that she doesn’t like that they won’t give people a second chance.
I remember, not long before I left, this guy who worked in the back, I think his name was Darrel, gave his notice (he was so stressed working there, which was part of why he left) and he left during his lunch break of his last shift and didn’t come back and they said he got a “do not rehire” on his file. On his last freakin’ shift. He had a whole 4 hours left and they still did it. It’s so stupid.
So, I don’t really know what I’m going to do.
Edit 2: I don’t think I can do it. The stress I’m getting from just thinking about it is reminding me of how stressed I was when I was actually working there. I don’t think I could handle working there again, even just for the summer. I wish Taber was bigger or closer to Lethbridge. I think I’ll start applying in Lethbridge and see if anything comes from it. I know gas is going to be bad what else can I do?