So I didn't get the Chapters job due to the fact that they found someone "better suited to the job". It sucks a lot when you begin to suspect that everyone's better than you. In every way!
Anyway, the day after I found out that I wouldn't be working with prestigious Chapters, I got a phone call from an ice cream shop that I'd faxed my resume to. It's called Marble Slab Creamery, and it's not actually open yet. So when they called, they asked me to meet them at the Blendz Coffee. However, there are like 5 Blendz Coffees downtown, and I went to the wrong one at first. You know how people make fun of there being a Starbucks on every corner? That's Blendz Coffee in downtown Victoria.
So anyway, I realize I'm at the wrong coffee shop about 10 minutes before the interview is supposed to start, so I boot it down to the one that's practically on top to the soon-to-be ice cream store. I wait, and wait, and wait.....and wait....and at exactly 2:00 (the time of the interview) a guy drives up in his van and gets my attention. He calls my name and then tells me he's gotta go find someone first. Then he asks if I want to get in the van with him. I politely declined while thinking, "My momma didn't raise no fool".
So he drives away, and I sit there, and wait, and wait, and wait....Just when I was starting to think that I was part of some failed abduction plot, the guy shows up again, and sits down like nothing happened. This is 15 minutes after the time we were supposed to have started the interview.
When he finally starts the interview, all he says is, "Tell me about yourself" he doesn't actually ask me any questions, he just wants to hear what I have to say about myself. He then tells me that he'll be paying me $6.50 and hour (as per the training wages) and that if I want to make more, I'll have to work at it. If somebody knows the deal with the training wages, can you please fill me in, cuz I was under the impression that that after a certain amount of work experience in any job, they couldn't pay you the training wages any more.
And throughout the entire "interview" this guy mumbled, and kept looking off to the side as if there was somebody behind the pillar giving him cues or something. It didn't help that we were outside, and therefore, also had to deal with the street noise. It was a really weird interview in general.
It was a neat idea for an ice cream store though. What happens is the customer chooses their ice cream. Then the ice cream artist (?) takes the ice cream to a marble slab, and the customer asks for what they want in it (as in Smarties, sprinkles, chocolate chips, etc). Then it's all folded into the ice cream, and put in a cone.
It's a cool idea, but I don't think I'd work there for $6.50 and hour. And I'm not even guaranteed the job yet.
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