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Not sure if this belongs in Sightings, or here...
Myself, our new hire, and our manager were working today when this lady on a cell phone comes up. She is wearing a dress with a neckline down to her belly button, her cleavage is covered in stretch marks, and her hair was really greasy (and her brown roots were showing). She covers the mouthpiece on the phone and whispers (I had to ask her to repeat herself) "Can I have an application?" So I give her one, and she pauses to continue her conversation, then looks at me again and whispers, "Can I have a pen?" So I give her one, not wanting to interrupt her oh-so-important conversation with the fact that, as a potential employee, she already has three strikes against her (her sloppy appearance, not giving us - potential employers - her full attention, and filling out her applications while standing at our counter).
She fills out the front of her application, goes to do the back, then asks us if we have a phonebook she can use to "look up addresses." I oblige, mostly because she's amusing the hell out of me at this point and I really want to see how her app. turns out. She spends the next 10 minutes filling out the rest.
Our new hire pulls me aside after said 10 minutes, and asks if we should ask her to leave. I say, if she's filling out the application, no. New girl then says, "Look at her, she's done with it!" And lo and behold, this lady has set the application aside and is using the phone book to fill out some other form she had with her (it did not look like an employment application).
She sat there and farted around for 10 more minutes. Then, I turn around, and she is gone. Application and phone book sitting on the counter. I reach for them, and a split second later the woman magically reappears around the corner of the kiosk and throws our pen onto the counter and then walks off without saying a damn thing.
It was weird, to say the least. As an aside, her application sucked balls. Horrendous handwriting and tons of missing information.
The only explanation that seemed to fit is that maybe she's on state assistance, and has to fill out X number of applications to show that she "tried." Anyone know if you have to fill out a separate form when you do that, like what she had?
Myself, our new hire, and our manager were working today when this lady on a cell phone comes up. She is wearing a dress with a neckline down to her belly button, her cleavage is covered in stretch marks, and her hair was really greasy (and her brown roots were showing). She covers the mouthpiece on the phone and whispers (I had to ask her to repeat herself) "Can I have an application?" So I give her one, and she pauses to continue her conversation, then looks at me again and whispers, "Can I have a pen?" So I give her one, not wanting to interrupt her oh-so-important conversation with the fact that, as a potential employee, she already has three strikes against her (her sloppy appearance, not giving us - potential employers - her full attention, and filling out her applications while standing at our counter).
She fills out the front of her application, goes to do the back, then asks us if we have a phonebook she can use to "look up addresses." I oblige, mostly because she's amusing the hell out of me at this point and I really want to see how her app. turns out. She spends the next 10 minutes filling out the rest.
Our new hire pulls me aside after said 10 minutes, and asks if we should ask her to leave. I say, if she's filling out the application, no. New girl then says, "Look at her, she's done with it!" And lo and behold, this lady has set the application aside and is using the phone book to fill out some other form she had with her (it did not look like an employment application).
She sat there and farted around for 10 more minutes. Then, I turn around, and she is gone. Application and phone book sitting on the counter. I reach for them, and a split second later the woman magically reappears around the corner of the kiosk and throws our pen onto the counter and then walks off without saying a damn thing.
It was weird, to say the least. As an aside, her application sucked balls. Horrendous handwriting and tons of missing information.
The only explanation that seemed to fit is that maybe she's on state assistance, and has to fill out X number of applications to show that she "tried." Anyone know if you have to fill out a separate form when you do that, like what she had?
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