Where was I?
Lots to talk about. Or so you'd think.
When last we met I've had my interview and tomorrow I find out if I've been successful or not. Is nerve racking to say the least.
So yeah, eventually Dawn gave me an interview and I spent the rest of the week talking to various people about it. Got some good coaching from a few folk. Some nice encouragement from others.
I got into work on the Monday (interviewday) on time and saw some little midget woman coming out of the staff room looking smug. That'll be interviewee number 1. She seemed a little confident so that threw me (thinking too much about stuff again). Second candidate came and asked me about where she should go. I was this close to saying "Actually the interviews aren't until next week." but I figured I'd get scuppered. She was fit too. Shame. She rushed off after the interview so don't know how it went. Next person was the guy. Worried about him because he had previous Stones experience. However, he looked like a muppet. Long shaggy hair, dodgy beard, baggy black jeans and balck tee shirt. Not typical interview wear. In fact I was smarter than him and I was in work clothes. Steve won't have been impressed. Last woman I didn't see go up and I went up for my interview at 3.30 and she was still in hers so that was a little embarrassing. Steve Asked me to wait a bit which was cool. Then they rang for me to go up but I was with a customer. Hire me! I'm still working hard!!
Got into the interview and Steve was very jovial. Shaking hands as though we hadn't met and such frivolity. It helped settle me down loads. Then he said that the questions would be the same to make it fair but they'd be changed slightly as I already worked with the company. Questions were on customer service (my strong point), team work, Stones in general and the job itself. I think I did really well. They were impressed with my answers and noted a lot of what I said. Steve cut in on one thing about communicating with staff as well as customers and I accepted that was something I wasn't always great at that. I also was pretty quick to say that I thought the job was more than extra hours and money but actually a career and I said how I wasn't in any way someone who knew everything about the job but rather I knew what I had been taught so far and was eager to learn more.
At the end of the interview Steve started to discuss how the hours would work out with me having 30 hours a week rather than a Saturday and whether I could keep my Saturday. The fact he bothered told me the interview went well and I was at least being considered. Since then I've been given more and more responsibility. I think he rode me quite hard today for a couple of things but then he was impressed that I stayed late to finish a job he'd ask me to do. I'm quite optomistic that I'll get the hours. I don't think I've done anything but show how good I would be for the post and fuck the others. I'm better than them! Case in point. Today I did returns. Basically looking for books on the shelf that haven't sold for a while that we can return and get money back on. It's a piece of piss usually as you just get the list in author order and take them off the shelf. However, today I had to do the Revision guides. They're a bastard because they're all clumped together, have no author and no discernable difference in title. Yet I got SOOO many of them in a really quick time. Steve was flabbergasted! Now Children's is the section the extra hours has assigned to it and there's no way that someone would be able to do that on day one unless they'd had tons of experience with the section. HIRE ME!!!
So yeah, tomorrow I'll know. Tomorrow is also Harry Potter night. Should be fun. I'll have stories aplenty to tell I hope.
In other news there's plenty Day Camp stuff that I've got to sort out. Is a nightmare! I've got to actually plan stuff. I might have also dropped Dan Curtis into the shit by crayoning the ground outside Hill Cliffe. Oops. It's a pisser because he's still the only Curtis worth respect. It'll be annoying if I've really got him in trouble because he doesn't need the hassle and it clearly is my fault. Ah well.
Nothing else to report really. Had some good spiritual growth, a couple of freakish customers and no alcohol for a loooong time.
That needs to change quickly.
When last we met I've had my interview and tomorrow I find out if I've been successful or not. Is nerve racking to say the least.
So yeah, eventually Dawn gave me an interview and I spent the rest of the week talking to various people about it. Got some good coaching from a few folk. Some nice encouragement from others.
I got into work on the Monday (interviewday) on time and saw some little midget woman coming out of the staff room looking smug. That'll be interviewee number 1. She seemed a little confident so that threw me (thinking too much about stuff again). Second candidate came and asked me about where she should go. I was this close to saying "Actually the interviews aren't until next week." but I figured I'd get scuppered. She was fit too. Shame. She rushed off after the interview so don't know how it went. Next person was the guy. Worried about him because he had previous Stones experience. However, he looked like a muppet. Long shaggy hair, dodgy beard, baggy black jeans and balck tee shirt. Not typical interview wear. In fact I was smarter than him and I was in work clothes. Steve won't have been impressed. Last woman I didn't see go up and I went up for my interview at 3.30 and she was still in hers so that was a little embarrassing. Steve Asked me to wait a bit which was cool. Then they rang for me to go up but I was with a customer. Hire me! I'm still working hard!!
Got into the interview and Steve was very jovial. Shaking hands as though we hadn't met and such frivolity. It helped settle me down loads. Then he said that the questions would be the same to make it fair but they'd be changed slightly as I already worked with the company. Questions were on customer service (my strong point), team work, Stones in general and the job itself. I think I did really well. They were impressed with my answers and noted a lot of what I said. Steve cut in on one thing about communicating with staff as well as customers and I accepted that was something I wasn't always great at that. I also was pretty quick to say that I thought the job was more than extra hours and money but actually a career and I said how I wasn't in any way someone who knew everything about the job but rather I knew what I had been taught so far and was eager to learn more.
At the end of the interview Steve started to discuss how the hours would work out with me having 30 hours a week rather than a Saturday and whether I could keep my Saturday. The fact he bothered told me the interview went well and I was at least being considered. Since then I've been given more and more responsibility. I think he rode me quite hard today for a couple of things but then he was impressed that I stayed late to finish a job he'd ask me to do. I'm quite optomistic that I'll get the hours. I don't think I've done anything but show how good I would be for the post and fuck the others. I'm better than them! Case in point. Today I did returns. Basically looking for books on the shelf that haven't sold for a while that we can return and get money back on. It's a piece of piss usually as you just get the list in author order and take them off the shelf. However, today I had to do the Revision guides. They're a bastard because they're all clumped together, have no author and no discernable difference in title. Yet I got SOOO many of them in a really quick time. Steve was flabbergasted! Now Children's is the section the extra hours has assigned to it and there's no way that someone would be able to do that on day one unless they'd had tons of experience with the section. HIRE ME!!!
So yeah, tomorrow I'll know. Tomorrow is also Harry Potter night. Should be fun. I'll have stories aplenty to tell I hope.
In other news there's plenty Day Camp stuff that I've got to sort out. Is a nightmare! I've got to actually plan stuff. I might have also dropped Dan Curtis into the shit by crayoning the ground outside Hill Cliffe. Oops. It's a pisser because he's still the only Curtis worth respect. It'll be annoying if I've really got him in trouble because he doesn't need the hassle and it clearly is my fault. Ah well.
Nothing else to report really. Had some good spiritual growth, a couple of freakish customers and no alcohol for a loooong time.
That needs to change quickly.