something rotten in the meat?
Establishment: Philadelphia’s Steaks & Hoagies
Location: Sellwood
So this crappy place - well, it’s good if you like lame interiors and way too much bread with your hoagie - has had a Help Wanted sign in the window for over 4 weeks. It’s just a minimum wage, part time job that any retard can do. I turned in an application four weeks ago, interviewed with both managers, on two seperate occasions, they said they loved me and I was near the top of the list and that I’d hear back from them within a week. Great, I thought. I wouldn’t consider myself completely retarded, but I’d be very happy with a fairly brainless job at the moment. Next week comes, no call. I call them and they say they’ll know the week after that. Again, same thing. I call again, and same story. Wait another week. And another. This has gone on for 4 weeks. Every week they say they’ll know by the next week and they say they’ll call you. They never do. They also never take down the Help Wanted sign. How many applicants do they need?
Now, I know it’s a job for retards, but do the two managers (who are not, by the way, the two owners - they’re on vacation), do the two managers have to also be retarded? How difficult is it to just make a decision and hire someone already? It’s just one position they’re looking to fill. Or at least they claim to be. Maybe it’s one of those scams where their business is sucking at the moment so they put the sign in the window to get people thru the door and make it look like they’ve got customers.
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I agree with Michael. I don’t understand why you would call people a retard? I would never hire you, ever! You need to grow up.
I love how everyone is so shocked that I would dare call someone a retard, yet they don’t hesitate to call me an a-hole. Oh sweet irony. Regardless, I clearly made a poor case for myself in that first post. So I’m the a-hole of the week. I can accept that. (and if you come to my place, I will make you an Amazing cheesesteak) But in all seriousness, if I had left out the childish name calling, maybe my point would’ve been better taken. And that is that far too many businesses are treating applicants like dirt. Sure, if you’re unemployed you’ve got lots of time, but I wish managers would make the tiniest effort to be clear about their plans. Some do, of course. But I’m surprised how many say they’ll make a decision, or do that or do this, by a certain date, and then they never do. I guess I can chalk that up to the stressful restaurant biz, but it still sucks. And Philly’s was particularly egregious in that they were really stringing us along, saying clearly they’d call in a week, and repeating that line every week with apparently no concern for the applicants. Ah well, we’ve all been through it. Steven, (post above) you don’t have to ever hire me, but if you’re actually in a position to hire anybody, please be considerate with your applicants time. Without a steady paycheck, it’s about all we’ve got.
never mind your comments which you pepper throughout about everyone there being ‘a retard’ you come off as a true ‘a-hole’. why do you care so much? sounds to me like you must be fairly unemployable if you’re clinging to this thread so tightly, gauging from your post i bet its true.