Job Interview

[chaliren]

Manpower (a temporary placement agency) called me yesterday with a long-term clerical position they needed to fill working for a company that does background checks. It sounded interesting so I said sure. What I also heard but failed to process* was the phrase "temp-to-hire" even though they asked for my resume and I sent it to them. I had an

Comments

[samwibatt]

Well done! Oddly, turning down job interviews is a very hard thing to do, just because it's so flattering that they'd be considering hiring little old me. It's not a situation where you'd expect it to be hard, but it is, so I applaud your having done so.

I had an interview once long ago when I needed a dorky student job, and applied for one called “Data Entry” up at the University. Good, thought I, they'll lock me in a closet and cause me to type numbers all day, give me six bucks an hour for doing it, and I can go home every evening and forget all about it. So I spruced up, washed and even conditioned my over-a-foot-long ponytail, put on the tab-collar shirt, the cardigan and the slacks (not wanting to look TOO natty). I went to the interview and it became clear that the real job of a “Data Entry” person was to tell irate students that they'd waited too long to drop their classes and couldn't have their tuition money back. The last straw was the sidelong glance at the ponytail and “And we...ahem...have certain standards of personal

[unspeakablevorn]

What he said. Only, without the story attached.

also, Sam! You dipasseared! I miss you!

Vorn

[kazriko]

Definitely. That's customer disservice rather than data entry. :)