Thursday, August 22, 2002
This week's adventure: Finding a job in Austin.
Apparently, I can't. I've applied to several of the 15 million local Starbucks, as well as other coffee shops, only to hear one of three things:
1. No, we're not hiring.
2. We'll get back with you in two weeks or so, when the fall rush hits.
3. My manager isn't here; can you call back later?
Well, I have called back, and I swear, it's like these people are deliberately avoiding me. It's insane. Given my three years of experience, along with my delightful answer to the "what do you like about coffee" question, you'd think that the manager of at least one of these places would be sapient enough to decide that I might be a good employee. Jeez, they wouldn't even need to train me.
My current plan is to be politely persistent until I get definite yes-or-no answers from the the few places that were hiring immediately. After that, I'll check with the "two weeks" places. And if that fails... well, then I'll have to branch out into other work.
I draw the line at McDonald's.
And now for another one of those fun tests that don't really mean anything:
Take the Polygeek Quiz at Thudfactor.com
You are 46% geek 
You are a geek liaison, which means you go both ways. You can hang out with normal people or you can hang out with geeks which means you often have geeks as friends and/or have a job where you have to mediate between geeks and normal people. This is an important role and one of which you should be proud. In fact, you can make a good deal of money as a translator.
Normal: Tell our geek we need him to work this weekend.
You [to Geek]: We need more than that, Scotty. You'll have to stay until you can squeeze more outta them engines!
Geek [to You]: I'm givin' her all she's got, Captain, but we need more dilithium crystals!
You [to Normal]: He wants to know if he gets overtime.
Hm. I thought I would at least score 50%.
| 5:50 PM |
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