Guest Employer Fail #1

Just so no one gets the idea that all the employers fail when dealing with me and me only, I'm going to retell a gem that happened to a girlfriend of a friend of mine. She's still in school, in her senior year, but recently purchased a car and needs a steady part-time job to help pay for it.

So she goes and starts applying everywhere. Ross. Target. Walmart. You name it. Despite the positions' meager appeal, she gets no replies. Zero, over the course of six months. That in and of itself is highly ridiculous. But, get this. At one point, she sees that the local movie theater is hiring, so she submits an application, marking that she'd do anything, including serve as a janitor, if it meant a paycheck of some sorts. She finally gets an interview, and goes to talk with a manager.

He asks her what kind of hours she's looking for, and she informs him that as a full-time student, she can obviously only make it when she doesn't have class, but she can work as much as needed on the weekends. He immediately tells her that that isn't acceptable, because they require that someone be available to work every weekday. She gets rather confused, in part because the listing stated that part-time positions were available, and in part because he's being very hostile despite her reasonable situation, and starts trying to bargain or reason with him. She asks about working full-time over the course of later shifts and weekends. No. She asks if it would be possible to get a friend to also sign on to the same job, thus splitting their hours to cover all of the shifts the manager wants covered. No. In the end she gives up and starts to pleadingly ask him to realize that she's a full-time student and that she wants to work, but just can't actually come in during the first shift every day because she has classes. He stops being hostile for a minute, and asks her about her major. Marine biology. And then he delivers the hammer: "Oh, well, you can always come back for a position with us after you graduate."

Yeah, because they have dolphins at the movie theater.