Children's Place (the latest, greatest and inbetween for this one...)

Today is April 27th 2013 a Saturday. I interviewed for CP at the CB mall near us. First of all I have NEVER interviewed for this store. I did apply in 2011 for them they have gone to online app's like so many stores. I did not get interviewed back then but I got interviewed today. My interview first of all was supposed to be at 1:30pm, but the manager went to lunch so it wasnt until 2. I made do sitting in the mall and then walking around the store. Noting how much bigger this store is then the one I used to work at. Finally I got to meet the manager. Shes a nice lady and I really enjoyed this interview. I hope I didnt talk too much. I had a few interesting questions. One where she asked me how often in the past 6 months have I used an unauthorized discount at a store. I told her never because that isnt right I wouldnt do that. I did get to explain about LL policy on that one. Also was odd when she asked me which store of all I worked at had the most volumn in money. Unsure if telling her why I left my last CP was a good idea. Also unsure if I should have told her the baby whisperer story but I was trying to win her over because that is what I was called by a customer at the last CP I worked at. Interesting was she told me I could wear what I wanted to the job including what I wearing now "you can wear that cute outfit you wearing now". Um I didnt know it was cute till then just a plain old black nice pants, nice shoes, and my purple shirt my typical interview outfit. Back when I worked for CP a whole 5 years ago (my record of that may be gone for good after 5 years it usually is gone from the system) we had to wear black shirts, black shoes and black pants. We can wear jeans, nice shirts and solid shoes. Also she said to me "you have a lot of experience." I always wonder if you can have TOO much experience for retail. I have over 9 years. If I worked this year all year it will be 10! Not solid working mind you but still... I will know by next Fri if I get it. Its not many hours 0 to 20hrs on calls. That is what I had when I left CP and it was like 0 for a solid 5 weeks till I realized I wasnt really working at the job I wasnt even on the sheet anymore so I assumned... ________________________________________________________________________________ I interviewed for CP in AZ at the Arizona Mills Mall in Tempe. I dont know the month nor the date but it was sometime in 2011 Summer of. I dont think it was winter 2010 I am unsure for sure but pretty sure it was 2011. First of all I had a bit too much sugar going into the interview. I will admit that now. Otherwise I wouldnt have committed so much on the way they now dress, headsets, or the size of the store. The size I managed to mention more than once. Yeah thats not a good sign to do that. Its an outlet mall so its different the regular CP stores. But they dress the same. I know I liked her and she seemed to like me. But the lack of holding back I think is what cost me this interview and job. Oh well I did try! ______________________________________________________________________________ March 2008 I interviewed for the job at the Cool Springs Galleria in Franklin, TN. This is the first and only time I worked for CP. I interviewed with the assistant manager. She seemed to like me. She wanted a hard worker not afraid to climb ladders. I felt bad telling her I wasnt afraid of those even though I have a small height issue that I realized around that time. Yeah.

Since I got hired on I can tell you about the job a little bit (although most of this will come out in my retail memoir someday). A few days after my interview it was a good one I felt. She was okay with me working evenings, not on Tuesdays or Thursdays. That was my two big things. I was in school at the time and working at Borders Books. So I needed a second job for extra hours to make ends meet and CP in the end fulfilled that. The manager called me and said they wanted to take me on. I had to think about it. No other jobs were offering and i needed more work so I took it eventually.

I didnt like but didnt mind the black out fit. I usually kept my black pants on under my work pants for my other job when I worked both. I would walk from the bookstore to the mall about a thirty minute walk but not bad. I would then usually just do stock. I will never understand why I was only put on register even though I was trained I was only used on register about 3 times total. I stocked the clothes (something I got to talk about today) and helped with the fitting room (another thing talked about). I got to be there for the crazy sales sometimes. I got lots of call in shifts there towards the end. I went from 3 shifts a week maybe 1 or 2 call ins to just call ins and finally in August end of and September I was not on the schedule 5 weeks in a row. I would call to see if I was people there who didnt know me would be who is this. My name wasnt on there so I wasnt even on the schedule. I never quit really. I just was let go without knowing I assumned. I stopped checking and noone got back to me. I usually dont talk about CP unless its a clothing store job I want because the lack of time there and an ending left so open. (never done this before nor after ending a job) __________________________________________________________________________________________________ I like clothing stores btw that are for kids. I dont usually try for regular stores because they want you to be buying their clothes and I'm not into fashion. I do apply for those (as you will see in soon interviews) but I like kids best and the 2 times I have worked for kids clothes I enjoyed it a lot because I got to help moms with kids and I love kids!