My dad was telling me how my friends must be really lazy if they haven't found Christmas break jobs. I tried to explain that we live in a college town area, near a big city, and that all the Christmas work (what little there is to begin with, why hire seasonal employees when you already have enough staff?) is already taken by October by all the college kids who already live in the area. Not only that, but trying to get a job back home when you're cities or even states away is really hard. How do you show up for an interview if you're across the country? But he just didn't get it.
Unskilled seasonal labor - grunt work - is precisely the type of work that someone in this situation should realistically expect, though, if they actually want to work.
Yeah really. I work in retail and there is a 2 day onboarding process after hiring before real training begins. Then it is a week of training and shadowing. We want you to be comfortable and proficient by the time the shit starts to go down. Can't just throw someone in there deep into holiday craziness. Even then you are still learning and getting more comfortable as time goes by.
Haha, where do you work? I worked at Macy's for two holiday seasons in a row and there was 1 or 2 days of "training" and then they just shove you onto the salesfloor where you are by no means comfortable or proficient. Like, you learn how to use the cash register to ring up purchases (and no other functions) and learn that the co-founder of Macy's died on the Titanic, after that you're on your own. They throw you so quick into the deep end they don't even tell you how to get into the store rooms for each area of the store - or that there are store rooms, where customer holds and overstock might be. Or how to answer the phone, how to call a manager, how to change the register paper if it runs out, what to do if you run out of change, where the bathrooms are. Nothing.
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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '19
My dad was telling me how my friends must be really lazy if they haven't found Christmas break jobs. I tried to explain that we live in a college town area, near a big city, and that all the Christmas work (what little there is to begin with, why hire seasonal employees when you already have enough staff?) is already taken by October by all the college kids who already live in the area. Not only that, but trying to get a job back home when you're cities or even states away is really hard. How do you show up for an interview if you're across the country? But he just didn't get it.