After the interview
Here is the usual after interview me trying to remember everything that was said for later reference...
So I walk in he looks over my resume with me asked if i was currently working and says so you were a biology teacher, what school did you go to ...st. francis... Says this is a little different from teaching why would you want a job here besides getting paid. (mutual smile and laugh)
I said I would like a job with less stress than teaching.
He asked me if i knew what Boombah was about. I said you sell softball uniforms.
He asked if i knew anyone that worked there. I said my husband, Oh who's your husband...er Andy Clark. Oh Andy...I thought you looked familiar, (i could see him turning a little red, i can't believe he didn't know that I was Andy's wife. and later he asked if we were married.....hmmm,) he asked if i had met him at bowling....could have don't remember.
So then he explained what I would be doing there. I would be entering inventory, they need someone reliable to enter the inventory coming in and I mentioned to him that, that is similar to entering grades and that was actually the part of teaching that I enjoyed. He asked if it was the kids i didn't like, i told him it was the classroom management, he asked what grade I taught, Freshman, he understood how that would be difficult.
He also said i may be moved around doing different tasks when it is slow which is fine with me. He didn't want someone that would then complain "this isn't what i was hired for and etc".
He also said that there are a lot of people that work there that have family members working there also and if you have a problem with something, I am to go to him. He is my boss. I am not to go to my significate other in a different department and complain to them and then they complain to a different department and then he is the last to hear about it. He said he talked a lot about that because it has happened frequently.
But besides that they are a very teamwork oriented business and he wants someone that would say what ever is best for the company and not complain. He said they want to get as big as Nike or Underarmer. He also asked if i would want to go back to teaching I said not for a while.
I asked him about benefits. After 4 months they will pay half and then after a year they pay all. He said he liked the data entry on my resume.
He asked my age, which i was a little taken back about but told him. He said so your wild years are over (wild years? I don't think i had wild years) and you're like me settling down and focusing on your goals. That's when he asked if i was married and saw my ring and said he should have known, I told him that Andy doesn't wear his ring so that might be why he didn't know he was married. He said that he wasn't a ring guy either.
He said that he knows people in interviews don't like to ask about price. But he said that the price will not stay the same. Depending on the season, and how good a job I do it can change. He told me it was $10. Is that what i was expecting. I said yes i knew that was how much but that the other jobs that i've been looking at have been $9, $10 and they were farther away, not in Morris, and then he was like oh you live in Morris, oh i see here...(looks at resume, see's street name) So this job would be close to home for you.
He said that he was interested in me and that he will interview a few more to get a sample size and he will let me know in a week or so.
So there it is. I can't believe that he did not know that I was Andy's wife...similar last names? I'm not sure how he still has my resume if i sent it in May and he put an ad in the paper recently and had a small pile of them. He also mentioned that some of the resumes he was looking at were people saying that had like 25 years warehouse experience and that they are going to be expecting a certain wage, that they are not going to be able to give them, he said he doesn't put the wage on the ads in the newspaper because of that.
Also when i mentioned that Andy was my husband he said well you won't be working with him, which is good, and that his wife works in another department in Boombah. And that it didn't mean we couldn't go out to lunch or drive in together.
When i was leaving he said that maybe he should do more research on the people he's interviewing. I think he was a little embarrassed about not remembering I was Andy's wife.
I guess Andy saw me leaving Tony's office, i felt like a bobble head in there, just nodding to everything he said, which there was nothing else i could do. And there were windows so i felt like people were watching me. I'm sure I did fine. I hope I get a call soon! I should have asked about dress attire but i think i can get that info from Tim....oh and what are the hours.
So I walk in he looks over my resume with me asked if i was currently working and says so you were a biology teacher, what school did you go to ...st. francis... Says this is a little different from teaching why would you want a job here besides getting paid. (mutual smile and laugh)
I said I would like a job with less stress than teaching.
He asked me if i knew what Boombah was about. I said you sell softball uniforms.
He asked if i knew anyone that worked there. I said my husband, Oh who's your husband...er Andy Clark. Oh Andy...I thought you looked familiar, (i could see him turning a little red, i can't believe he didn't know that I was Andy's wife. and later he asked if we were married.....hmmm,) he asked if i had met him at bowling....could have don't remember.
So then he explained what I would be doing there. I would be entering inventory, they need someone reliable to enter the inventory coming in and I mentioned to him that, that is similar to entering grades and that was actually the part of teaching that I enjoyed. He asked if it was the kids i didn't like, i told him it was the classroom management, he asked what grade I taught, Freshman, he understood how that would be difficult.
He also said i may be moved around doing different tasks when it is slow which is fine with me. He didn't want someone that would then complain "this isn't what i was hired for and etc".
He also said that there are a lot of people that work there that have family members working there also and if you have a problem with something, I am to go to him. He is my boss. I am not to go to my significate other in a different department and complain to them and then they complain to a different department and then he is the last to hear about it. He said he talked a lot about that because it has happened frequently.
But besides that they are a very teamwork oriented business and he wants someone that would say what ever is best for the company and not complain. He said they want to get as big as Nike or Underarmer. He also asked if i would want to go back to teaching I said not for a while.
I asked him about benefits. After 4 months they will pay half and then after a year they pay all. He said he liked the data entry on my resume.
He asked my age, which i was a little taken back about but told him. He said so your wild years are over (wild years? I don't think i had wild years) and you're like me settling down and focusing on your goals. That's when he asked if i was married and saw my ring and said he should have known, I told him that Andy doesn't wear his ring so that might be why he didn't know he was married. He said that he wasn't a ring guy either.
He said that he knows people in interviews don't like to ask about price. But he said that the price will not stay the same. Depending on the season, and how good a job I do it can change. He told me it was $10. Is that what i was expecting. I said yes i knew that was how much but that the other jobs that i've been looking at have been $9, $10 and they were farther away, not in Morris, and then he was like oh you live in Morris, oh i see here...(looks at resume, see's street name) So this job would be close to home for you.
He said that he was interested in me and that he will interview a few more to get a sample size and he will let me know in a week or so.
So there it is. I can't believe that he did not know that I was Andy's wife...similar last names? I'm not sure how he still has my resume if i sent it in May and he put an ad in the paper recently and had a small pile of them. He also mentioned that some of the resumes he was looking at were people saying that had like 25 years warehouse experience and that they are going to be expecting a certain wage, that they are not going to be able to give them, he said he doesn't put the wage on the ads in the newspaper because of that.
Also when i mentioned that Andy was my husband he said well you won't be working with him, which is good, and that his wife works in another department in Boombah. And that it didn't mean we couldn't go out to lunch or drive in together.
When i was leaving he said that maybe he should do more research on the people he's interviewing. I think he was a little embarrassed about not remembering I was Andy's wife.
I guess Andy saw me leaving Tony's office, i felt like a bobble head in there, just nodding to everything he said, which there was nothing else i could do. And there were windows so i felt like people were watching me. I'm sure I did fine. I hope I get a call soon! I should have asked about dress attire but i think i can get that info from Tim....oh and what are the hours.