Tuesday, April 25th 2017 in I Need A New Job

Writers note: all names are changed to nicknames to protect myself… nobody is innocent here

Because this is clearly how you should behave at work, specifically in front of the person who gets to decide whether you get the job or not.

Eager Beaver: Oh my god, you need to see this. [hands me her phone]
Me: [watches weird ‘music video’ of Veggies Tales song]
Eager Beaver: Isn’t that the most adorable thing ever?
Me: [shrugging] It’s cute… I just don’t care for heavy use of acronyms.
Eager Beaver: What do you mean?
Me: I hate how ‘chat speak’ and the internet have made almost every word just a letter. I don’t see that it saves you that much time, and I really don’t like having to decipher every message I get. My aunt uses the number 4 instead of the word ‘for’ all the time, drives me nuts. I especially disliked it when people started shortening words like jealous into ‘jelly’ and probably into ‘prolly’.
Eager Beaver: Well I’m a gamer so I use it all the time.
Me: It’s just a personal quirk of mine. I don’t hate people who use it, it just gives me a little angry noise in my head when I get texts full of it.
Eager Beaver: I guess everybody has their own personal pet peeves.
Me: Of course. That’s just one of mine.
Eager Beaver: Like for instance… I hate the way you dress.
Me: [blink]
Eager Beaver: I just want to dress you. Every time I see your tattoo I just want to run over and yank your shirt down.
Me: Uh…
Eager Beaver: Yesterday I even saw the tag from your underwear sticking out. I guess this is what happens when you and your mom own a clothing store, you just can’t stand it when people dress terribly.
Me: [internally laughing my brains out] I see.

Everybody wonders why I didn’t slam her down right then and there. I tell them all the same thing; I want to see all she has to offer. Everybody here works on their own, and I need to know what kind of personality they have and what might be an obvious red flag.

I’d say attacking your supervisor/trainer on a personal level on just your fourth day constitutes a pretty harsh red flag. I mean, I’ve been laughing about it ever since and have turned the “I hate the way you dress” comment into a running joke with others, but that’s not really the point. The point is that…

…she needs a new job.