Can someone explain this please?
I have been applying for jobs since Labor Day. And until yesterday, I had only been asked to interview twice. Jobs that my experience, training, and abilities make me perfect for never returned a phone call, responded to a fax, or even asked for an application. I couldn't even get them to say "F off lady." Nothing. Like I didn't exist.
Then yesterday, I just walk into a few stores and ask if they need seasonal to full time help. No retail experience. Just took a shot in the dark, before Lane Electric leaves me in the dark. Yesterday I was offered a job, and asked to interview for another. Today, a woman who said that she would not be able to review my application until next week or later called me today and asked for an interview tomorrow.(Hallmark)
They all seem really impressed, and not to sound like a snob, but they should be. I am a very polite, customer focused, dependable, hard working, and genuinely nice person. I have customer service skills that would put Mother Teresa to shame. And it is not that I feel that retail is below me. I feel that anyone who has a job is my equal in the job world. We all need each other to get the things we want, be it a fair trial or a fast cheeseburger. No ones title makes them better than anyone else. So that isn't the issue. I think with my skills minimum wage is an insult, but it is for a lot of people in a lot of jobs. You have to start somewhere, and sometimes you have to take what you can get, even if it means going back to where you started.
My point is this: how did the other companies I applied with miss what the retail industry got? How is it that the business that my resume and training were designed for failed to recognize my potential, let alone my unarguable ability/skills. It just blows me away. Really, the only things that attracted me to those jobs first were pay and my history in those fields. I would like working retail as much as sitting at a desk. I have people skills, and those transfer anywhere.
So even more so today, than yesterday (see blog below), I focus on the fact that everything happens for a reason. (And before you say it mom, I doubt it is so I can meet the perfect man :)) There is undoubtedly a reason why I am being brought into retail. Maybe because I hate the mall so much and God has issues with that. Or maybe so I can get a total fix on people watching. Or maybe a swarm of terrorist will try to take over the mall, and Bruce Willis and I will be all that stands between the customers and total destruction! Who knows, what ever it is, I accept it, I just wish it was while Corey is at school, rather than at home with out me! (Before anyone calls CPS, he will have sitters)
Ok, done venting, thanks for listening.
Then yesterday, I just walk into a few stores and ask if they need seasonal to full time help. No retail experience. Just took a shot in the dark, before Lane Electric leaves me in the dark. Yesterday I was offered a job, and asked to interview for another. Today, a woman who said that she would not be able to review my application until next week or later called me today and asked for an interview tomorrow.(Hallmark)
They all seem really impressed, and not to sound like a snob, but they should be. I am a very polite, customer focused, dependable, hard working, and genuinely nice person. I have customer service skills that would put Mother Teresa to shame. And it is not that I feel that retail is below me. I feel that anyone who has a job is my equal in the job world. We all need each other to get the things we want, be it a fair trial or a fast cheeseburger. No ones title makes them better than anyone else. So that isn't the issue. I think with my skills minimum wage is an insult, but it is for a lot of people in a lot of jobs. You have to start somewhere, and sometimes you have to take what you can get, even if it means going back to where you started.
My point is this: how did the other companies I applied with miss what the retail industry got? How is it that the business that my resume and training were designed for failed to recognize my potential, let alone my unarguable ability/skills. It just blows me away. Really, the only things that attracted me to those jobs first were pay and my history in those fields. I would like working retail as much as sitting at a desk. I have people skills, and those transfer anywhere.
So even more so today, than yesterday (see blog below), I focus on the fact that everything happens for a reason. (And before you say it mom, I doubt it is so I can meet the perfect man :)) There is undoubtedly a reason why I am being brought into retail. Maybe because I hate the mall so much and God has issues with that. Or maybe so I can get a total fix on people watching. Or maybe a swarm of terrorist will try to take over the mall, and Bruce Willis and I will be all that stands between the customers and total destruction! Who knows, what ever it is, I accept it, I just wish it was while Corey is at school, rather than at home with out me! (Before anyone calls CPS, he will have sitters)
Ok, done venting, thanks for listening.
posted by Cindy at 2:56 PM
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