You’ve worked 2 jobs your entire 25 years of life, each one for 5+ years and you’re loyal with great references. I’ve had 9 jobs and haven’t worked more than 2 years at any of them, I too am 25. You’ve always had trouble obtaining a new job. We both applied to the same job… I got the job, you didn’t.
Although you’ve admitted that job interviews are not your strong point, you were absolutely shocked when I got the job over you. I can successfully conduct myself in an interview and don’t get nervous the way you do, and can clearly demonstrate my strong points. Then you have the nerve to tell me I have this phony ‘superficial charm’ that slowly disappears after I’ve been doing a job long enough. You even bet x amount of money that I’ll quit within a year, without a 2-week notice, if I don’t get a raise. Out of the 9 jobs I’ve had, I’ve only quit 2 jobs on the spot because I was treated like absolute shit. We’re no longer friends anymore because you keep insisting you would have been the better pick because you’re harder working and more loyal and reliable because your resume says you’ve worked at jobs for long periods of time, and I just act in my interview and don’t genuinely care about the job. Don’t be bitter with me just because you go into stammers during interviews (I’ve overheard several of your phone interviews during the 2 years we’ve lived together) and I’m cool as a cucumber. I know you’re a good worker, but you need better interview skills. And just because I left a few jobs on bad terms doesn’t mean I’m not a good long term fit for any company. I am sick of you and everyone else telling me my ability to woo the interviewer is the only reason why I’d get a job in the first place. Um, it is possible for someone to be good at interviews and be the ideal fit! —Suck it Up
This article appears in May 19-25, 2011.
Bedeck yourself with garlic cloves, dab a little holy water behind each ear, arm yourself with a nice sharp pointy stick and ram it through this emotional vampire’s chest before it sucks every last drop of serotonin from you and leaves you a dry withered husk. There will be a lifetime of opportunities for employment to kill your spirit; monday morning quarterbacks and embittered also-rans don’t deserve the chance.
Hmm. Maybe the person the OP is talking about is the person that came into my place of work the other day. She came in, looking terrified. I said hello and she said nothing and looked around still terrified. I asked her if she was looking for someone and she just slowly walked over to my desk, like she was possibly stepping on mines or something, clutching her Dollarama bag for dear life then murmured, “I want to drop off my resume.” I took it and said I’d give it to my boss and then she darted out. Yeeah. First impressions matter and some people think they can show up to pass in a resume or application in dirty sweat pants or drunk with their friends because it’s not like it’s an interview or anything. I did feel quite bad for this woman though. Yes, she was a woman, seemed to be about 40ish and I tried to be as nice as I could but she was still terrified. I’ve been there! But when I was 16 … Interviewing skills are a skill like any other, be thankful you have them OP :)! I find it helps for me to pretend or put my mind in “I don’t care mode” like try to tell myself I don’t care about getting this job and this silly interview isn’t anything. It always works :D! I’m always so calm and don’t get all choked up!
Lolz, Ivan.
OB, you’ll have to learn how not to let things like this bother you.
You could always offer to help this person practice their interview skills.
“You could always offer to help this person practice their interview skills.”
That sounds like a porn story.
You have a kinky mind Melectric, I like that 🙂
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Congrats OP. I’d be using the other applicants downfalls against them also 🙂
Yeah because you’d need all the help you can get and offering a blow job and bum hole fuck after hours on citadel hill likely isn’t gonna cut the mustard.
hmmmm, i’m trying to see the o.p’s point here, but am having a hard time doing so. the other dude is loyal and a long term worker, whereas the op., is a job hopper, with no plans to stay more than a year or two.
and the interviews, well there is the kicker, you con the person doing it, and other guy is a shrinker. yup, you are indeed a piece of work o.p., although, by your own mouth, a short term one. me, i would hire the other person over you in a minute. why? because i would hope to not have to train another asshole, like you, in 6 months or so.
I guess that dates back to when I was 12/13 Huge. I mean Hugo. My friends and I would always fill out mad libs at lunch and recess and the words we would usually choose were:
Nouns: dick, vagina, ass, clit, dildo, vibrator, thong, cervix, whip, etc.
Verbs: Fuck, tickle, chuck, arouse, penetrate, etc.
Adjectives: Horny, massive, disease-infested, smelly, tiny, hot, gross, etc.
You get the picture ;D. And from then on we just kind of looked at the world a little differently. I was resistant to using such words at first, I would always try to chuck in window, pencil, rock, laugh or whatever normal words but they always turned out much more funny with the ‘bad’ words haha. Now I’m just a dirty-minded mess.
Nine jobs in ten years? You must have great interview skills for the employer to overlook that OP. You guys remind me of the tortoise and the hare (OP=hare). You slickly get off the mark while the other guy stumbles and bumbles at first. However, the other guy has stamina and you lose interest easily. We know how the story ends. Food for thought.
And we wouldn’t have it any other way, mel. 😉
What’s wrong with working 9 jobs in 10 years? Almost every job I worked in the last 4 years, I’ve either been laid off because the lack of work, or because they went bankrupt. Each one of them provided excellent references.
It’s almost necessary in this economic climate, the only way you will get a raise is if you find a job that pays higher. Job loyalty? Yeah, ok. Maybe 50 years ago when people would be hired right out of university into a full time stable career. Today? You got to be fucking kidding.
Maybe some people can do the exact same thing for a longer period of time. There’s nothing wrong with losing interest in something and moving on. If you think of your job as the daily grind, and despite how mundane it is you never let it go, that’s your deal but don’t harp on people who want to enjoy their life.
If that’s the way he enjoys life, more power to him but if I was his potential employer, that would concern me. OP quit two jobs and left on bad terms on others (not sure how many) out of nine, in ten years.
On the upside, he’s a youngen at 25 so he’s got time to turn things.