Keep Watching The Sky Cuz You Might Get Lucky Again
*EDIT*If you are short on time or just don't like reading you can just skip to the last two paragraphs to get all you really need to know.*EDIT*
So, as many of you know now I finally got a job! I applied at Urban Outfitters and was called soon after for a group interview. I knew that, being a trendy clothes type place, they were definitely going to be judging me by my clothes so I had a hard time deciding what was both cool looking and interview-y. I showed up at the interview in my finest duds and saw that everyone else just went with the looking cool route and didn't try to play up the interview aspect of their clothes at all. Soooo... I think that was good? Hard to tell.
Anyways the interview was weird because about half the questions were about past work experiences but then the other half were just basically about how awesome you were. They were questions like what are your favourite bands, movies, hobbies etc.
For bands and movies I think I stood out and got some sweet indie-cred because nobody had any idea what the hell I was talking about, haha. The only thing people knew were The Pixies who I said was one of my most long term, most loved bands. Then I said I was going to see The Books which I was really pumped about and no one knew who they were. And I mentioned Hayden and no one knew him either.
For movies I said a recent good movie I saw was Primer which was a really cool, really low-budget movie about a group of engineers who accidentally discover time travel. It's got a twisty plot which you can observe in this XKCD comic (bottom right):
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/movie_narrative_charts.png
They don't dumb down the engineer speak so it's kind of confusing but also cool. No one knew that movie. I also said I really liked Brick, which no one knew. And Willow, which no one knew.
Everyone else said movies like Twilight, Pirates of the Carribean, Transformers 2 etc. which is totally okay if thats true but it really annoys me when people say their favourite movie is just the last movie they saw or like, the best selling movie from the last year.
We were also asked what our dream job would be. A couple people said fashion design which might've been true but seemed contrived. Like if they were asked that question at a restaurant they'd say culinary arts or something. I said my dream job would be stand-up comedian and everyone seemed pretty impressed which was cool.
Okay I'm sounding like I'm just so awesome and everyone else was a big dingus. Well I am awesome. Not everyone else was a dingus though. Actually two of the other people in that interview were also hired and they both seem pretty cool. One guys' band just played with Immaculate Machine at Lucky Bar in Victoria this weekend which is pretty sweet.
At the end of that interview we were told to go home and fill out an online survey and then they'd call us.
The online survey was total BS. It was all about drugs and alcohol stuff and I don't even do drink very much or do drugs at all but the questions sucked ass.
One question was like, "Tony is an excellent worker but outside of work smokes marijuanna. One day Tony comes into work a little high. Even though this does not effect his job performance his boss finds out and fires him. Is this justified?" Since they say right in the question that Tony is an excellent worker and that it doesn't effect his job performance I don't really think it is okay. But obviously the answer they're looking for is "Yes! It's more than justified!"
Another question was "Do you think companies have the right to ask potential employees about their drug use?" Now I don't do any drugs but I also believe that they totally don't have any right. As long as the drugs don't effect the job. I could be a complete crack addict in my own time but as long as I am working suitably and it doesn't show in my work then it's no one else's business.
Anyways there was like 40 retarded questions like that.
I got a call later telling me to come to a second interview. This is like the 4th second interview I've had so in my mind I was like "BAH! Can't you just friggin' HIRE ME?!" But I went down anyways and there were other people there again. I was kind of confused because I wasn't expecting the second interview to also be a group interview. Luckily they separated me though and was pretty much offered the job except that the manager told me to go home and think about it. I was like... Uhh... if you're giving me the job I'm taking it but they were like, yes we are offering you the job but we'd like you to reconsider. Which was fucked up and confusing. I called them the next day though and said I still wanted it and the person was like, "Excellent! I'm very excited to have you!"... wtf, so weird.
Yesterday was my first day of my new job! I started at 7am and worked until 11am. It was pretty cool and seems like a good environment. The managers weren't insane sounding and everyone was friendly. All I had to do was unpack clothes that were delivered, tag clothes, hang clothes and fold clothes. It was pretty mindless but there are people to talk to so it's a step up from my last mindless job. I'm also pumped about the crazy discounts and therefore possibly new wardrobe I will soon be acquiring.
Yesterday was also my first time performing at real comedy club! I emailed Yuk-Yuks about a week ago asking to get a spot. Everyone told me that sometimes it takes months to get on but they got back to me really quickly. I had a five minute set. The co-ordinator came to me before the show though and told me that if I go over the 5 minute mark that they will never have me back again and that my comedy career will be over. It was kind of terrifying so I dropped a joke. I ended up only doing 4 minutes which went by way too fast. I did really well though and was really feeling the audience which was sweetness. All my jokes hit and one even got consistent laughs from premise to punchline which was new and reminded me of surfing, like, trying to stay ahead of the wave just enough to catch it. It was awesome. After the show another guy offered me a spot for monday at his comedy room so that is also pretty wicked. Unfortunately Yuk-Yuks has a franchise rule that disallows cameras so I couldn't tape it. Oh well.
I got a vasectomy. Now I only give my girlfriend fake pearl necklaces. - Johnny Scoop
- Andrew
So, as many of you know now I finally got a job! I applied at Urban Outfitters and was called soon after for a group interview. I knew that, being a trendy clothes type place, they were definitely going to be judging me by my clothes so I had a hard time deciding what was both cool looking and interview-y. I showed up at the interview in my finest duds and saw that everyone else just went with the looking cool route and didn't try to play up the interview aspect of their clothes at all. Soooo... I think that was good? Hard to tell.
Anyways the interview was weird because about half the questions were about past work experiences but then the other half were just basically about how awesome you were. They were questions like what are your favourite bands, movies, hobbies etc.
For bands and movies I think I stood out and got some sweet indie-cred because nobody had any idea what the hell I was talking about, haha. The only thing people knew were The Pixies who I said was one of my most long term, most loved bands. Then I said I was going to see The Books which I was really pumped about and no one knew who they were. And I mentioned Hayden and no one knew him either.
For movies I said a recent good movie I saw was Primer which was a really cool, really low-budget movie about a group of engineers who accidentally discover time travel. It's got a twisty plot which you can observe in this XKCD comic (bottom right):
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/movie_narrative_charts.png
They don't dumb down the engineer speak so it's kind of confusing but also cool. No one knew that movie. I also said I really liked Brick, which no one knew. And Willow, which no one knew.
Everyone else said movies like Twilight, Pirates of the Carribean, Transformers 2 etc. which is totally okay if thats true but it really annoys me when people say their favourite movie is just the last movie they saw or like, the best selling movie from the last year.
We were also asked what our dream job would be. A couple people said fashion design which might've been true but seemed contrived. Like if they were asked that question at a restaurant they'd say culinary arts or something. I said my dream job would be stand-up comedian and everyone seemed pretty impressed which was cool.
Okay I'm sounding like I'm just so awesome and everyone else was a big dingus. Well I am awesome. Not everyone else was a dingus though. Actually two of the other people in that interview were also hired and they both seem pretty cool. One guys' band just played with Immaculate Machine at Lucky Bar in Victoria this weekend which is pretty sweet.
At the end of that interview we were told to go home and fill out an online survey and then they'd call us.
The online survey was total BS. It was all about drugs and alcohol stuff and I don't even do drink very much or do drugs at all but the questions sucked ass.
One question was like, "Tony is an excellent worker but outside of work smokes marijuanna. One day Tony comes into work a little high. Even though this does not effect his job performance his boss finds out and fires him. Is this justified?" Since they say right in the question that Tony is an excellent worker and that it doesn't effect his job performance I don't really think it is okay. But obviously the answer they're looking for is "Yes! It's more than justified!"
Another question was "Do you think companies have the right to ask potential employees about their drug use?" Now I don't do any drugs but I also believe that they totally don't have any right. As long as the drugs don't effect the job. I could be a complete crack addict in my own time but as long as I am working suitably and it doesn't show in my work then it's no one else's business.
Anyways there was like 40 retarded questions like that.
I got a call later telling me to come to a second interview. This is like the 4th second interview I've had so in my mind I was like "BAH! Can't you just friggin' HIRE ME?!" But I went down anyways and there were other people there again. I was kind of confused because I wasn't expecting the second interview to also be a group interview. Luckily they separated me though and was pretty much offered the job except that the manager told me to go home and think about it. I was like... Uhh... if you're giving me the job I'm taking it but they were like, yes we are offering you the job but we'd like you to reconsider. Which was fucked up and confusing. I called them the next day though and said I still wanted it and the person was like, "Excellent! I'm very excited to have you!"... wtf, so weird.
Yesterday was my first day of my new job! I started at 7am and worked until 11am. It was pretty cool and seems like a good environment. The managers weren't insane sounding and everyone was friendly. All I had to do was unpack clothes that were delivered, tag clothes, hang clothes and fold clothes. It was pretty mindless but there are people to talk to so it's a step up from my last mindless job. I'm also pumped about the crazy discounts and therefore possibly new wardrobe I will soon be acquiring.
Yesterday was also my first time performing at real comedy club! I emailed Yuk-Yuks about a week ago asking to get a spot. Everyone told me that sometimes it takes months to get on but they got back to me really quickly. I had a five minute set. The co-ordinator came to me before the show though and told me that if I go over the 5 minute mark that they will never have me back again and that my comedy career will be over. It was kind of terrifying so I dropped a joke. I ended up only doing 4 minutes which went by way too fast. I did really well though and was really feeling the audience which was sweetness. All my jokes hit and one even got consistent laughs from premise to punchline which was new and reminded me of surfing, like, trying to stay ahead of the wave just enough to catch it. It was awesome. After the show another guy offered me a spot for monday at his comedy room so that is also pretty wicked. Unfortunately Yuk-Yuks has a franchise rule that disallows cameras so I couldn't tape it. Oh well.
I got a vasectomy. Now I only give my girlfriend fake pearl necklaces. - Johnny Scoop
- Andrew