alexanderlambert

Job interview today went very well. Technically a re-interview, as the corporate office finally decided that the appropriate response to having more cash registers than cashiers (and all of them part-time) as the holiday rush neared was to rewrite their entire hiring procedure, requiring all current applicants to start over from step one.

So there I sat, chatting amicably with the same manager who interviewed me three months ago, while he copies the answers from my December application booklet to my March application booklet. Sign, date, initial, and go for another pre-employment drug test while he gets the rest of the re-interviewees in to fill out their booklets too, so that he can file his hiring report with the corporate office and they can finally let him hire enough cashiers to not have managers manning registers just to keep the store treading water.

So now, I wait for the bureaucracy to get into gear. But I'm not worried. Because I happen to know from my last job that the standard pre-employment drug test needed for federal contractors (such as the bus company, when it was hired to provide transport for US Army reserve units to/from training facilities) costs the employer around $80 an applicant, so I wouldn't have been pre-authorized if he wasn't serious about getting me on board.

In summary, I'm one step closer to becoming a professional zombieproofing facilitator. ::joking grin::