Once again I am blogging away when I should be going to bed.  It has been a very stressful past two weeks at work.  The kind of weeks where you want to pull your hair out or get into a really big fight with someone on purpose.  I have the sign up stating that we are now hiring again which I hate because of all the idiots I have to deal with.  They really need to have classes in high school on how to go about getting a job because most seem to have no clue why they are not called in for an interview. These are a few examples of the applicants we have had in the past.

On the sign saying we are hiring I also state that you must be able to work any time slot and any day.  I always get a bunch of applicants that do not want to work nights or weekends.  Ive been with the company 14 yrs.  The employee that acts as my asst. manager has been with the company 17 yrs.  We both work nights and weekends and some one just walking in is not getting better shifts than us.  I had one guy tell me he could work anything and after working two weeks informed me that he could no longer work nights.  I informed him that he would no longer be working then.  I guess he thought if he was already working that he could pull it off. Sorry.

I have applicants that cant even spell deli right.  I had one applicant put down that she was a wacheris at her former job.  That's a waitress if you couldn't figure it out.  I have had applicants who have had a different job every 3 months and have listed the reason for leaving each was being fired.

I have had them drop off their application and  start telling me their history like I was interviewing them right then and there.  I had one girl call and when I answered the phone "Dena speaking",  she said"I put my application in and was wondering what my chances of getting hired were."  Since she gave no name and she was just a voice on the phone, not good.  I have had them come up to me while I was off the clock and trying to do my shopping to start spouting all their great job skills.

The employees that I have had for years are great.  They know to tell anyone calling or stopping in to check on their application that if I am interested I will call them.  We also tell them that we do a police background check.  That weeds out a lot of them.

They really do need classes on how to conduct yourself in the real work of work and that annoying the hiring manager every day or on her own time is not going to get you hired.  And if you are not good at spelling use a dictionary or spell check.

Really Good Day

  Just had a really nice day today.  The sun was shining and it wasnt too cold outside.  I cleaned up the house from one end to the other.  I even cleaned the three large windows in the living room inside and out.  I had to drag the ladder around out side to do it but sun shining in nice clean windows was worth it.

I love having my computer in the kitchen window.  I can watch the birds at the feeders and all across the fields by the house.  I love my new camera.  The above pic was taken from behind my desk and through the window to the feeder outside.  I tried to get a pic of a ladderback woodpecker but all I could see was a big furry head so I took the big furry heads pic instead.  This is Thomas O'Malley and he loves having the desk there as well because he gets to get attention and watch the birdies too.

Why is it every Sun I am still up at this time when I know I get up at four on Mon.  Its even going to be worst this time thanks to the time change.  I gotta go to bed.

  Are you a glass half full or glass half empty type of person?  Are people born with one disposition or the other or do they learn to be one or the other?  Do optimists always end up married to pessimists? I consider myself to be a glass half full optimist.  Of course I married a pessimist.  I wouldnt call him a glass half full type because he goes beyond that.  He doesnt have a glass half full,  he doesnt even have a glass.
  Of course that means we get grouchy at each other because I get tired of the rain cloud that he has hanging over his head and he thinks Im Pollyanna and naive.
   Im not too sure what this post is for other than people are who they are and you should love them despite that.:P