My poor sister is a manager at a retail store.

[xiphias]

She's terribly understaffed, so she's going in to work on her day off. She IS trying to hire more people, but her standards are so high. She requires basic intelligence, some competence, literacy, and a non-flatlined EEG from her employees, and, of the last fifty applications she's gotten, two people made the cut.

"So, one person showed up, and had a resume. And I was all impressed, because, hey, a resume! Her last job was at 'Holliday inn express.' Only the 'h' capitalized, and with two l's in 'Holiday'. And, c'mon -- you're at a freakin' computer. SPELLCHECK! I mean, it doesn't catch everything, but it would have caught THAT."

Comments

[mathwhiz78.livejournal.com]

your poor sister... what's she paying? =)

~mike~

[janetmiles.livejournal.com]

I admire your user icon.

[gingicat]

I perked up myself, and then remembered his sister isn't local.

[mathwhiz78.livejournal.com]

Neither am I... I live in Cleveland.

[hfcougar.livejournal.com]

Bah, me too. I need summer work and I don't want to think too hard right now.

(Sadly, my "not thinking too hard" still seems to be way above many others' "I'm giving all she's got Captain, she canna take any more!")

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Dunno, but she's in Florida.

[mathwhiz78.livejournal.com]

Ohio. Florida. Nah, too much of a commute.

[theletterelle.livejournal.com]

Hey, where in Florida? We'll be in Orlando in a few months... :)

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Orlando area, as a matter of fact.

A question for your sister, if you'd ask.

[dakiwiboid.livejournal.com]

I'm seriously underemployed at present, working just three days. If I tried to move over from temp secretary work into retail, where I have no experience, could I get a job, allowing for the fact that I'm 52, literate, and intelligent?

Re: A question for your sister, if you'd ask.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

The people that she IS hiring are pretty close to that demographic.

Re: A question for your sister, if you'd ask.

[(Anonymous)]

Age does not matter. Literate and INTELLIGENT!!??? WOW that's my dream come true :) Just remember retail IS physically draining. You need to be able to stand on your feet for 8-10 hours (although part time retail is a little less). More importantly, you need to be able to deal with idiots who want to yell at you, have no idea what's going on and want to take their bad day out on you. And you need to do it, not only with a smile on your face, but without punching them. If you think you can do that, then your primed for retail :)

[supergee.livejournal.com]

She lives in a country that doesn't do a good job of training its Dull Normals.

[(Anonymous)]

We also don't pay anything that anyone can live on. We average $6.15/hour - $6.20/hour. It wasn't horrible when the min. wage was $5.15, but when the min. wage went up by a dollar, we didn't raise our hiring rate at all...

[vvalkyri.livejournal.com]

I took my mom to the MVA yesterday. The pamphelet from the 29th light infantry division had 1 spelling error, 2 grammatical errors, and a couple of spacing problems.

[jhitchin.livejournal.com]

Recently, I had the dubious pleasure of proofreading s transcript of a movie that was transcribed by someone who is in college. The same college I graduated from, interestingly enough. It is so full of spelling errors, grammatical problems (not related to the dialogue) and usage mistakes that I nearly wept for the English language.

[beardedone.livejournal.com]

I hope they weren't an English major in college.