Stupid Hiring Stories

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nosuchsoul

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Okay, tis the season for holiday hiring, where sadly I have to hire all those people who could not pull it together to get a regular job, or some kid who has never had a job before. Slim pickings sure, but I have to do it. I am hiring holiday help for a Video Game store, so I do not expect a college degree or a suit, just show up dressed nicely and clean and I will consider your other points, tie wearing or not.

First bad one told me during the job interview that even though people think he will, he does not act like an N-word. You can guess his race, he used this twice. He then proceeded to use cuss words in describing his last boss. Also told me of a situation where his co-wrokers asked why he did NOT beat up a customer he had a problem with. We didn't hire him. He was in his mid-twenties, not a kid. Dressed nicely though!

The next guy showed up wearing jeans, wearing TWO collared shirts, one as a undershirt, neither of which he buttoned up past the third button. Oh yeah, he had red shoes with his blue jeans. The interview went ok so I very clearly asked him to wait OUTSIDE for ten minutes so I could discuss his interview with the other manager. He then walked over to the XBOX display system and started playing. I then reminded him he needed to leave so I could talk to the other manager. When he came back, the other manager interviewed him and when they were done, the other manager asked him to wait so he could talk to me, the kid walked out of the store and we never saw him again, good riddance.

One other one showed up for his job interview EARLY, but even though I was with a customer, he cut in line while I was talking to a customer, kept on saying "hello" until I acknowledged him, and then told me he was here for a job interview. I told him I was with a customer right now, and then I got a blank stare from him, and he remained at the counter blocking the customers!!!! We didn't hire him!

Last one was the best. Kid shows up, wearing jeans and old ugly tennis shoes. I did not take too many points from him for this, since he was jsut some kid, probably 17-18, and may not have had nice clothes. However I did take offense from the hat he wore in his interview, which had beer bottle caps glued onto it. He was also wary of working too many hours. I asked if he had school or another job, no, he was a skater and liked to skate. He needed time to skate he said! And no, he was not a pro, lol.

This was at a different store, but one guy, a day after we hired him goes into his new work with his friend. His friend steals something, sets off the alarm and runs away to...............his friends car! The new guy was his ride. We ended up firing the new guy because "it just wasn't working out." Your friends are a reflection of yourself!

But oh yeah! How could I forget! One guy during the interview for a manager position told us frequently during the interview (manager positions require two interviewers) that this was the low point of his life, that he was so desperate that he was willing to work at a video game store. And that he wanted to let us know that he would be quitting with little notice if he got a "real" job again. Dude! You gotta at least lie to us! How are you smart enough to get a REAL job if you can't even pull the rug over video game store managers, lol. The guy was in his thirties and we are in our twenties, but yeah. we do not want to be working here ten years from now, but we certainly didn't say that during the interview! lol.




Any of you guys have a good story about hiring? lol, it sucks.
 
lol, man, you've got some winners there. Seriously though, it's not that hard to make yourself look good in an interview. Dress at least semi nice (no jeans and no t-shirt), get a nice haircut if you haven't had one in a while, and for goodness sake, make sure you have deoderant/cologne/perfume on. While I've never hired anyone, I've been to places where I was waiting for my interview and the other person interviewing smelled like he had just gone dumpster diving! Other than that, don't say anything stupid in your interview and at the very least, you haven't been eliminated from the list of candidates.

Speaking of interviews, I just went in for an interview today. Man I need this new job. My current one is too damn far (64 miles each way).
 
Not so much as getting to hire people since I'm an associate (I actually don't wanna be promoted right now) but reading some of the apps amuse me.

I love it when people can't seem to spell their own name or the hours they want are just crazy. Had one where the guy had only from 6:30 pm to close on the weekdays to work. No point in hiring him.

I was annoyed at some of the guys we had over the holidays though, it seems that some of them didn't know the alphabet at all.
 
i had an interview a few months ago when i was looking for a job. there were a couple of boss ladies, and they were asking me typical job generic questions like "why should we hire you" blah blah.

anyway, then a lady asks me, and im sure this was on the sheet she was reading from, "if you could be any animal what would you be?"

well, i answered honestly and replied, "penguin. i think theyre funny."

well i didnt get the job, even though i was more than qualified and looked like einstein compared to some of the chimps i saw walking around the office. i guess i should have said tiger or lion or bear or something... but hey, she asked and i like penguins.
 
I did interviews for a short time during my internship at a retail place and I had a young woman who was shocked that we would fire and possibly prosecute someone who stole from the company. I'm not supposed to offer any opinions during the interviews, but I couldn't help but ask her what we thought we should do in those situations. I don't recall her answer, but by that point I had written her off because she was either to naive or stupid to work in a retail environment.
 
The only reason I got my job is because they were desperate. I was told this two months after my hire, by a manager who had become a close friend, when I was awarded Regional All-Star (quarterly award) out of nearly 150 stores.

I suck at interviews, I get too nervous. In my opinion they're poor reflections of a candidate's qualification, unless the job involves being in a new environment every day.
 
It's funny how many jobs I've gotten with a firm handshake. I've walked into interviews for jobs I've been horribly underqualified for or jobs I have no experience with and I've aced the interview because of a nice suit, a nice handshake and the ability to look someone in the eye when I talk to them. I have no idea where the hell some people learned to take interviews but I'm glad my parents taught me one good thing in this world.
 
Haha, yeah, I usually give them my berkeley.edu email address. I figure that's about as professional as I can get when it comes to email addresses.

We're not supposed to look at people's applications but we do it anyway. One time, we received a cover letter that was so obvious it was a template that the applicant didn't even bother to fill out the blanks:

Dear [name of manager]
blah blah blah
Sincerely,
[your name]

I also heard that another store got an application filled out with lipstick. Finally, there was this girl who seemed to have a lot of work experience except that in every single box that asked, "Why did you leave?", she wrote "fired". You must be quite talented to have been fired from every single job you've ever had, haha.
 
Geez, what is happening to the kids of today. When I was 16 looking for my first job, I would have killed to work in a place like that, but ended up in a resturant instead. It seamed like everyone at my school had a job, and I went to a pretty ritzy high school. Now, you cant even pay a 16 y/o to work. My 20 y/o brother refuses to go back to school. He makes $10 which pays his truck payment, insurance, and keeps his nights and weekends free for his punk band, which sucks btw. Its really gonna suck for him when my parents kick him out.
 
Are you saying resturant work is bad? I've applied to so many resturants, only got one interview, and didn't get the job, mostly because I didn't have any resturant experience (even though it was just for a busser position at a casual place).

I'd still love to get in an entry level resturant position, just so I could work my way into serving. A friend of mine is able to pay her rent, tuition, car insurance, food, all on about 20 hours a week at a casual pizza place... then again, boobs probably triple tips.
 
You guys will love this one... my hiring story for K-Mart.

This old 80 year old woman calls me up, her voice is like gravel rubbing on sandpaper. "XXX, THIS IS XXX FROM K-MART, ARE YOU STILL INTERESTED IN THAT JOB!!, CALL US BACK".

Ok, kind of weird... so I go for an interview, the lady dosen't even have any of my papers ready, like the application I filled out. It took her roughly ten minutes to find it, and the whole time she pretty much ignored me, because she didn't know how to work the damn computer. Finally, everything gets squared away, she tells me to come back Tuesday for orientation.

I go back Tuesday... here comes the fun part. I go to orientation, she tells me "Oh, we're not having orientation today, we hired more people and we're going to do it all at the same time". I'm pretty dumbfounded and shocked, since I never received a phone call, she told me "Oh, I must have just forgot". Since my girlfriend at the time had my car and was about 30 min away, I had to walk home in my nice clothes, about a 1 - 2 hour walk.

I show up for orientation, and she's looking over my stuff one more time, and I hear her talking to herself... she's like "Ok, you already passed the drug test, everything is ok". I never TOOK a drug test, they never even mentioned one!! I forgot to mention, also, every time she saw me, she kept calling me Jake, which isn't my name... no matter how many times I corrected her, I was still Jake. Stupid bitch.

So I figured it out - why are so many K-Mart employees seemingly stupid? K-Mart dosen't require a drug test to get hired... the ONLY time you have to take one is if you hurt yourself on the job, then they require one for worker's comp.
 
[quote name='Koggit']then again, boobs probably triple tips.[/quote]

well, duh. Sex sells. It's the whole basis of the Hooters chain. Guys will pay more money to be served by young hot well endowed chicks than some old lady or college dude at the diner. The hotter the chick and the more she seems into the group, the higher the tip.
 
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