Crazy about Candy oh wait...Candy CRAZE gotcha!

I am unsure totally if this store is ANYWHERE else in the USA but here you go. It was called "Candy Craze" and it was located at "The Cool Springs Galleria" in Franklin, TN.

Looking for a second job to go with my job at Borders and to work with me going to school at nice twice a week I started to apply for jobs at the mall. From Borders I could walk to the mall in about 30min to 45min it wasn't that big a deal for me to do this. In fact eventually I did get a job at the mall and walked there from Borders. But this was different.

The managers (and I mean both as in two talked to me) were very rude. Up front they were shocked and told me that I had *walked* that far from one place to another and didn't have a car. They pretty much mad fun of me for having to walk and had done so.

I am unsure if they even really asked me a lot of questions. Except can I keep the floors clean, etc. I knew the store well enough as my kiosk was in the mall at the holidays and I had even stopped in sometimes for a little snack. So don't get me wrong I knew the store and I knew I could do the job.

But when ANYONE has EVER made fun of me during an interview I haven't gotten the job. And it would be pointless if I had because who wants that to be your job for weeks, months, years when they make fun of you before you even start?

Needless to say I didn't get the job and who cares. Mean ladies who cares if someone WALKS to work from another job. Its not a crime and I shouldn't have been made fun of for such a thing in the first place!

Production Assistant...the job I was trained to do!

Thought it would be fun to do a job interview here for a job I went to school twice for. I am still sad about this one. I swear when I found out I didn't get it I cried a lot! One day soon I hope please?!

Not too long after my interview for my internship with FOX in TN I tried for a PA job. Those are the kind that are just below everyone but above internship. Kind of like internship but paid. You help out with stuff all over where needed. Those are considered "entry level" for the biz I want to break into.

I was super nervous. My school had closed and I was working with the CSB in GA by then. But they knew about the close and even told me another PA they had currently came from CSB so they knew the school. The guy liked me. He showed me the ropes asked me some questions and told me he would get back to me next few days.

When he wasn't calling I called him. I left him a message and finally he got back to me and told me he had filled it with someone else. It broke my heart and I cried.

I haven't been able to find any more to apply for or even if I have they don't call me. But someday soon I will break in PA job or something else...

Just another bookstore not from here...Bookmans

This blog is about an interview at Bookmans which was as far as I know only located in Arizona but I am unsure.

Desperate for a job I started to look out of places I normally tried for. So I applied at this bookstore in Arizona. It was not just a bookstore (a used bookstore) but they had a café, and they sold some other kinds of things like records, cds, etc. It was almost like a used everything store. But I loved it. The smell of old books. It was a classic store I didn't really buy stuff in but loved for its looks alone. They had two in Arizona I applied for the one near us in Mesa. There was another one in Phoenix (if you want proof they exist visit: http://www.bookmans.com )

There are few interviews I can say went as well as this one. I really was tired but I was okay. The manager liked me so much the interview was more like a conversation and it went on for a long time. We talked of course about the job but he seemed to click with me. I was 100% positive I had nailed this one!

Of course I hadn't. It didn't lead me to a job it led me to nothing. I guess my being tired and A.D.D. had kicked in and ruined it again. Or the manager thought I was TOO much like him and he didn't want someone like that around. Either way I didn't get the job. If its more like a conversation then an interview heads up its probably not happening. Lesson I learned that day!

Since this was the first of many times I thought I had nailed the interview it really put me through the loop. I realized that I didn't know what a good interview was. Most I don't get but sometimes you really think you got it and I did and I didn't. I realized how wrong I was and how I might never know if I got the job anymore from this point on...

My first & last regular clothing store job...Charlotte Russe

I have only one time interviewed at a clothing store like this. I think maybe another time but this was by far the biggest group interview I have ever seen and the worst I have ever been to!

Charolotte Russe is the trendy teen clothing store pretty much in every mall possible out there or I have seen. As a teen I used to shop there sometimes but not often. Mostly because the clothes were not cheap and my family was not rich. But I liked shopping there when they had sales. When I was in my 20's I used to come in while I worked another job on my breaks to look at their pj's and other things on sale. I probably bought jewelry there here and there even sun glasses maybe once or twice. So I did shop at that store. Its just been a while!

I am not a stylish person but I think I could be if I wanted to be. Either way I was one of at least 15 people interviewing the day this happened. We lived in AZ it took place at the outlet mall Arizona Mills. They gathered our HUGE group in the food court. We took up probably 25% of the food court doing this all in our chairs gathered in the circle.

Most of the girls were skinny and the *type* to shop there and work there. A few were like me, fashionable sure, dressed nice, but not skinny enough to wear the clothes.

The first part of the interview wasn't as much as questions as it was about what the job would be like. In fact I think its possible I spoke one time when we each had to say our names or something.

Then comes the kicker. Half way through the interview they call names. If our name isn't called (or was called I cant recall) they tell us they have our applications on file and we can go home. I don't even realize till its happened they are separating out who they want and who they don't.

Next thing you know it, they have kept about 10 of the people there (So I am guessing there were at least 20 plus of us) and are gathering them together closer in chairs to talk better. I can see from where I am on the other side of the food court, waiting for my ride that they have just separated out the non-skinny's from the skinnys and those without fashion in their outfits to go home and not even get a shot. Because we didn't fit their type!

I watched them talk for a good 15 or more minutes after we had been let go. I knew I wasn't getting the job I wasn't even getting a real chance. All cause I didn't fit the type. I think that is mean and wrong. Its not the first time some clothing store thought I wouldn't fit in so they didn't hire me. I think its wrong to stereo type people like that. I cried a little from it but I got over it.

From time to time I will still apply to clothing store jobs. Usually ones like Wet Seal where I have seen non-skinny girls or Victoria Secrets cause I almost got a job there. But never ever again will I apply to Charolette Russe. A place I once shopped at but never again...