No Prompting This week

[polgara_5]

So last week, instead of writing my super fun prompts, I got stock doing not-super fun budgeting stuff when my program decided to stop showing my register. *rolls eyes* I had to create a whole new file and of course nothing would cross over. I still don't have everything inputed, but I can at least see how much money I have and will have (or rather not have) in future days with my recurring bills/budget etc.

*pouts*

So instead of taking new prompts this week, I'll just write up the ones from last week.

On the work front, got three lovely ladies hired. The boss lady wants me to try and hire men, but like I keep telling her, they gotta apply first and then not be an asshat second. Seriously, one guy I interviewed this week told me he liked to keep his weekends free. *jaw drop* Dude, you realize this is retail, right? No wonder Kmart was giving you crap hours. You have crap availibility. Then the idiot told me that the shirt he was wearing wasn't his first choice, but he had spent the night at a friend's house and didn't have time to go home and change... His interview was at 4:30pm. (clothing came up because i work at the Gap, and part of the interview process was them picking out two outfits that best fit their personal style) Dude was a serious asshat. *sigh* Hopefully gonna hire a few more, but my pickings are getting rather slim.

Comments

[avamclean.livejournal.com]

When I worked retail, electronics, we had the exact opposite problem. Finding women who knew enough or wanted a position outside Customer Service/Cashier. *shakes head*

To this day I still don't understand people wearing jeans to an interview. Regardless of where you'll be working.

[polgara-5.livejournal.com]

The jeans thing doesn't bother me overly much since denim is 25% of our profit. But they need to be styled nicely and in a trendy fashion in order for me to not think they just rolled out of bed. However, the three girls I hired, they were all nicely dressed. One wore a skirt and blazer, another dress pants and a cute top, and the last a suit. *grins*

Plus, they were of the intelligent sort who could talk to people, understood appropriateness of clothes and how to sell them. Even the girl who had no retail experience whatsoever was at least able to relate to me during the roll playing section of the interview. There were small selling points she didn't do, but i can teach that. Teaching how to relate, not so easy

And yes, Gap has a roll playing section in the interview process. Seriously, takes an hour for a part time sales associate position. However, since I adopted this method, I seem to screen out the okay they could do people and just get the I really want this person on my team people. :)

[avamclean.livejournal.com]

An hour? Wow. Ours were about 15 minutes unless I was interested in the person and then they got the completely random questions like: How do they get the Ms on the M&M and so on.

Those were fun times. :)