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2013/06/10 23:06:07
sharke
I think this even beats the guy last year who said "currently I am training to become a clown."
 

2013/06/10 23:10:11
Linear Phase
Wowzers......
2013/06/10 23:24:27
Rain
Blind ambition...
2013/06/10 23:30:05
craigb
1 point for honesty
0 points for being hireable
2013/06/10 23:50:50
Rain
Reminds me of the part w/ all those job interviews in Step Bothers. :P
 

2013/06/11 00:40:38
trimph1

 
I actually had a few of those!!
2013/06/11 00:40:55
trimph1
double post
2013/06/11 00:41:18
sharke
To be honest most of the job applications I get depress the hell out of me. It's like today's younger generation (aka the "Millenials") have no idea whatsoever how to present themselves to a prospective employer. To be fair, these aren't official applications where they fill out a form, they're just people emailing me to ask if they can have an interview. But their emails are usually full of spelling mistakes, or they write in that horrible SMS text shorthand (plz msg me if ur hiring) or they use a non-respectable email address ("joeythebongmonster@aol.com") or they have no idea how to sell themselves as a valuable employee ("I can work Mondays, Tuesday afternoons, Wednesday mornings, all day Friday and sometimes have a free Saturday afternoon. I may need the occasional day off at short notice if my agent calls me in for an audition"). 
 
 
2013/06/11 01:08:12
Rain
sharke
But their emails are usually full of spelling mistakes, or they write in that horrible SMS text shorthand (plz msg me if ur hiring) or they use a non-respectable email address ("joeythebongmonster@aol.com") or they have no idea how to sell themselves as a valuable employee ("I can work Mondays, Tuesday afternoons, Wednesday mornings, all day Friday and sometimes have a free Saturday afternoon. I may need the occasional day off at short notice if my agent calls me in for an audition"). 
 
 




I had a few of them under my indirect supervision in a call center. I remember one of them in particular who refused to go to the bathroom during his breaks because it was HIS time.
 
He'd walk back in from his 15 break - not a minute earlier -  log in and place his line hold and walk right out to go to the bathroom, wasting 4 or 5 minutes. Sometimes I'd walk out to go to the front desk and catch him on the phone.
 
I think they finally managed to gather enough material to fire him after he posted pictures of himself basically grabbing his butt at work with the comment "Hard at work at (office name)" or after he called in sick one morning but posted pictures of the wild party they had the night before on his Facebook. 
 
These kids can't imagine the consequences of their actions because they never had to suffer those consequences. The guy I mention above had made Facebook-friends with almost everyone in the office, including a few girls from HR and his direct supervisor, giving them full access to everything he posted on FB. 
 
A lot of older folks have missed a shift in their life because of a wild party, but they were bright enough not to take pics and bring them in the office.
2013/06/11 09:35:03
spacey
A couple of decades ago I had plans to build a car that required me to learn
how to work with fiberglass.
I located a business that made fiberglass hot-tubs and whatever else so I
went to take the tests/application.
A lady came in the room and man...she was ruff and just a real pain...runnin her
jaws about this and that and then left to get the paperwork for all of us to test during
which time I found out she was the owner.
She came back in and growled, "now don't lie because we'll be able to tell! and on and on.."...I lied on
every question and left...first one out.
They never called me (lied about phone number too lol) and I never got to build that car. I decided to build a '69 Chevelle SS...and did.
 
 
 
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