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I think I said in an earlier entry that Best Buy was supposed to call me within a day or two of my interview (which was one week ago from today) to let me know - either way - what they'd decided to offer me, if anything. I was interviewing for a management position, & it really would've been great to get that kind of a job. But, they never called. So today, I called them. This is the answer I got;
I talked to the head manager &...basically I think we're gonna keep looking around. But I appreciate you calling back.
Nice, huh? Whatever. I thought that interview went really well. I mean, when I walked in, he said, "My interviews never go for longer than 15 minutes, so don't worry, this will be quick." It ended up I was in there for over 45 minutes because we got along pretty well & had a lot of things in common media wise. So what the fuck went wrong? How do you go from the head manager really liking you & thinking you're management material, & the floor manager really getting along well with you & chatting you up, suddenly to "we're going to keep looking for someone else"??
To be honest, I think it was my last employer. I think Best Buy called Coventry to verify my employment & Coventry said something not-so-nice about me. Now, I've been told over & over that that's virtually impossible. That there's so many laws now protecting people that employers basically can't give a past employee a bad rep. But, I'm convinced that's what happened. So now what? If that IS what happened... I'm fucked, because any job I try to get is going to call them & then not hire me because Coventry are assholes.
& really, I can't not put Coventry on my applications/resumes because I worked there for the last 3 years. If I try to apply for a job & leave the last 3 years off my resume they won't even consider me. Ugh.
I guess I should've asked the guy at Best Buy why they didn't want to hire me...but I was so shocked & upset I just kind of went, "Oh, okay thanks, Nick. Bye."
Anyway, I have to call Sewickley Hospital tomorrow. Hopefully something good will come out of that. But I'm not very optimistic now. I see flipping burgers at some shitty fast food joint in my immediate future.
Brian's mum lent us the money to pay the gas bill yesterday, so at least that won't get shut off & we won't have to pay over $400 to get it turned back on.
Our cell phone's will probably get shut off pretty soon though. Which is really bad because how am I supposed to get call back's on applications if I don't have a phone? Not to mention the 50+ applications I've already put in places... if they get an opening & try to call, I'm shit out of luck. I thought about giving out my mum's phone number, just until we can get our phone situation sorted, but all those applications I've already submitted have pretty much gone to waste if I do that. Basically, employers hang on to your applications for 60 - 90 days, if you try to submit another application (in other words, if I tried to submit a corrected application with a different phone number) they just throw it away. They only look at your first submitted application, until it's been 60 - 90 days since you've submitted. Then you can submit again. Unfortunately I can't wait 60 - 90 days. So yeah, fucked again.
The shitty thing is, we have a 2 year contract with Verizon. & we just started that contract in November of 2007, so we haven't even been with them a year yet. Verizon is so expensive it's ridiculous. We pay anywhere from $150 - $200 a month for two phone lines. This month's payment was $207 & was due on the 8th. Can't afford that, so they'll probably shut them off within the next week or so. At that point we have two options... pay the $207 plus $35 PER PHONE to get them turned back on. Or, pay the $207 plus $175 PER PHONE to terminate the contract early. Honestly, even though it's absolutely fucking ridiculous that you have to pay that much to terminate the contract early, I think we'd be better off in the long run to do it that way. I was looking at Cricket's web site... we can get two phone lines for a total of $65 a month with unlimited calling anytime & unlimited pic/text messaging. Then only downfall is we wouldn't be able to use the phones we have now, we'd have to buy new ones from Cricket. The cheapest phone they have is $50. So that's $165 (plus I think there's a $15 activation fee per phone) we'd have to come up with before we could do that. The good news is you can use your old phone number...so I wouldn't have to worry about changing the number on my applications/resumes. But I have to wonder if Verizon would allow that if we still owe them money when we try to switch over to Cricket. I don't know if they can put a hold on your number or not.
But... regardless... it would still be saving us money to pay the early terminations fees & switch to Cricket. I mean, we'd be saving around $135 a month.
Man, thing's are really shitty right now. The End.
I talked to the head manager &...basically I think we're gonna keep looking around. But I appreciate you calling back.
Nice, huh? Whatever. I thought that interview went really well. I mean, when I walked in, he said, "My interviews never go for longer than 15 minutes, so don't worry, this will be quick." It ended up I was in there for over 45 minutes because we got along pretty well & had a lot of things in common media wise. So what the fuck went wrong? How do you go from the head manager really liking you & thinking you're management material, & the floor manager really getting along well with you & chatting you up, suddenly to "we're going to keep looking for someone else"??
To be honest, I think it was my last employer. I think Best Buy called Coventry to verify my employment & Coventry said something not-so-nice about me. Now, I've been told over & over that that's virtually impossible. That there's so many laws now protecting people that employers basically can't give a past employee a bad rep. But, I'm convinced that's what happened. So now what? If that IS what happened... I'm fucked, because any job I try to get is going to call them & then not hire me because Coventry are assholes.
& really, I can't not put Coventry on my applications/resumes because I worked there for the last 3 years. If I try to apply for a job & leave the last 3 years off my resume they won't even consider me. Ugh.
I guess I should've asked the guy at Best Buy why they didn't want to hire me...but I was so shocked & upset I just kind of went, "Oh, okay thanks, Nick. Bye."
Anyway, I have to call Sewickley Hospital tomorrow. Hopefully something good will come out of that. But I'm not very optimistic now. I see flipping burgers at some shitty fast food joint in my immediate future.
Brian's mum lent us the money to pay the gas bill yesterday, so at least that won't get shut off & we won't have to pay over $400 to get it turned back on.
Our cell phone's will probably get shut off pretty soon though. Which is really bad because how am I supposed to get call back's on applications if I don't have a phone? Not to mention the 50+ applications I've already put in places... if they get an opening & try to call, I'm shit out of luck. I thought about giving out my mum's phone number, just until we can get our phone situation sorted, but all those applications I've already submitted have pretty much gone to waste if I do that. Basically, employers hang on to your applications for 60 - 90 days, if you try to submit another application (in other words, if I tried to submit a corrected application with a different phone number) they just throw it away. They only look at your first submitted application, until it's been 60 - 90 days since you've submitted. Then you can submit again. Unfortunately I can't wait 60 - 90 days. So yeah, fucked again.
The shitty thing is, we have a 2 year contract with Verizon. & we just started that contract in November of 2007, so we haven't even been with them a year yet. Verizon is so expensive it's ridiculous. We pay anywhere from $150 - $200 a month for two phone lines. This month's payment was $207 & was due on the 8th. Can't afford that, so they'll probably shut them off within the next week or so. At that point we have two options... pay the $207 plus $35 PER PHONE to get them turned back on. Or, pay the $207 plus $175 PER PHONE to terminate the contract early. Honestly, even though it's absolutely fucking ridiculous that you have to pay that much to terminate the contract early, I think we'd be better off in the long run to do it that way. I was looking at Cricket's web site... we can get two phone lines for a total of $65 a month with unlimited calling anytime & unlimited pic/text messaging. Then only downfall is we wouldn't be able to use the phones we have now, we'd have to buy new ones from Cricket. The cheapest phone they have is $50. So that's $165 (plus I think there's a $15 activation fee per phone) we'd have to come up with before we could do that. The good news is you can use your old phone number...so I wouldn't have to worry about changing the number on my applications/resumes. But I have to wonder if Verizon would allow that if we still owe them money when we try to switch over to Cricket. I don't know if they can put a hold on your number or not.
But... regardless... it would still be saving us money to pay the early terminations fees & switch to Cricket. I mean, we'd be saving around $135 a month.
Man, thing's are really shitty right now. The End.