dominanefret

I turned off the ability for people to friend request me. Not because I don't want to be anyone's friend, not because I'm a snob, but because I had gotten a pile of 55 friend requests in the last two months all from people I have never heard of and never interacted with. It is a pain in the ass sifting through them all of the time, checking regularly to see if it is actually someone I know and want to be friends with only to discover that it isn't. I never want to decline the request every time I get one, and sometimes I'll sign on and have three or four new friend requests that I didn't have the last time I got on. So instead I end up letting them pile up and suddenly I have 55 requests I have to look through to see if I missed anyone I actually do know, and then erase all of them.

This doesn't mean I won't be your friend if I like you. Or even if you think I am cool and want to be my friend although we haven't interacted much. Just message me and say "hey, I want to be your friend!" if we haven't interacted much, or at all, just add a little note along with that explaining why you want to be my friend. If you put the effort in to asking me, I'll probably send you a request, since I assume that the girl collectors and hopefuls that just go around requesting tons of people when their set goes in to MR aren't going to want to put the effort in to messaging me.

And you don't even have to message me. You can just leave a comment on my journal saying "hey, lets be friends!"

Alright, done with that.

So, I have my fancy schmancy new computer. Well, when I went in, the guy who helped me - his name is Chris, and he's super cute - told me that I should apply for a job there, because I seem really cool and he thinks I'd fit in really well. At first I was super skeptical, because I am new to the Mac world and figured they'd only want long time Mac users and hardcore Apple enthusiasts, but when I went in the next time to pick up a sleeve and a mouse and he told me I should apply again, I figure "why the hell not?"

So I did, and what do you know? I got an interview.

Let me tell you... the process for applying/attaining an interview at the Apple store is..... thorough.

1. You go online and submit a cover letter, a text version of your resume, and upload a formatted version of your resume. Which they send to the store you selected when you went online, and put up for any Apple store in the area to see.

2.Then if anyone is interested, you get an email. That email invites you to an "invitation only" hiring seminar, which you have to RSVP to via email. In that email you have to RSVP, write why you want to work for the Apple store, state if you want to work full or part time, and write out any "significant" time you would need off in the next nine months. Then you have to go to a link they give you to fill out the actual job application. Which is basically filling out, in electronic format, the exact same information you put in your resume, except including how much you made at your previous jobs, their phone numbers, if you are over 18 and legally able to work in the United States, your references, and if you've ever committed a felony.

3. So then I am invited not to a job interview, but a "hiring seminar" which I am told will "last at least two hours" and to "feel free to dress business casual."

Several things....

A. The store that responded and to which I am attending this "hiring seminar" at on Sunday, is not in fact the store closest to me and the store I submitted my resume directly to. It is a store 16 miles away, as opposed to 1.5 miles away. It's worse than that. Between 6:30am and 9:00am the ONLY way to get there is hov only, and between 4:30 and 7:00pm the ONLY way to get home is hov only. So if I was schedule to work any shift that started before 9:15 or so, or got out between 4:30 and 7:00, I'd have to take the metro. Which would mean paying metro fare and parking. All of those times in question being peak metro hours and thus more expensive.

B. WHAT THE FUCK does "business casual" mean for an Apple Store? Everyone at the store near me has piercings and is covered in tattoos, has flippy indie/hipster or crazy colored hair, and wears low slung skinny jeans, some funky belt, and chucks under their Apple shirt. I have no bloody clue what to wear to this thing.


The B&W print of the something-or-another's tattoo.
Kodak T-Max 400, f3.5 1/125, printed f8 and 12 seconds. Left side dodged for a few seconds, by just waving three fingers over the areas that needed it.