THE BORE
General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: The Fake Shemp on October 03, 2008, 11:36:31 AM
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Update: Offered a job! 12% salary increase over previous employer. Just got to fill out some paperwork and stuff to make it official!
I'm not quite sure how it went! Will find out by Monday, I guess.
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So you're doing phone sex? :-*
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good luck!
i'm still waiting to hear from my last interview a week ago. i've consigned myself to the fate that i probably didn't get it, but i wish they'd let me know one way or another
i have another interview next thursday, and a former boss called me after hearing that i was out of the company which fired him (to bring in the person who ultimately fired me). it would be a poop job for less money, but it would be income while i try to leverage something in nyc.
in other news, i will be able to make rent this month. woo
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Thats a pretty long interview
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Usually thats good. If you sucked they would have tried to end it earlier than that.
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Yeah, without wanting you to get too confident, it sounds pretty good for you.
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I know length is pretty good, but I feel pessimistic about the whole ordeal. The guy was a real ball buster and I gave one Palin-esque ramble at one point. I think I even said, "We had to shore up our econom- it's all about job creation!"
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I hope you stayed away from the "Dang it" and "Goshdarnit"'s!
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I'm still depressed that Willco got fired from GameStop, because that means the chances of him getting transferred to a KY store are zero now.
I was totally hoping that we could TAG TEAM SOME BITCHES.
BUY THE GAMESTOP CARD AND GET A FREE EB ACCOUNT LOLZ
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Well, that's the way the cookie crumbles.
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:cookiem
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Got an offer. Just waiting on the paperwork.
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What's the job? Stop being so nebulous.
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Congrats Willco! You weren't out of work long. Where's the new job?
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I got a job too
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Where are you going to work now? I mean which region and not the specific company.
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EVILBORE has become JOBBORE
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I am still jobless. :'(
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Well, I meant that Eric and Will have to make a thread every time they have an interview. :P
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I got a job too
I think in your line of work, they're called "tricks"
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I am still jobless. :'(
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3252/2909916228_fb49541480_t.jpg)
:rock
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when they teach you the proper way to flip the burger remember: its all in the wrist
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Possible candidates for Willco's new mystery job:
* Spearheading a Five Guys expansion as the new "Sixth Guy"
* Token Jew in Eastern Motors commercials
* Manservant, masseur, and cabana boy to Arch Campbell
* "The Wire" tour guide, shepherding terrified white tourists through the neighborhoods where the hit HBO show was filmed
* Evil sidekick and boy ward to Matthew Lesko
* Saiontz & Kirk & Federman
* The Phantom of the AFI Silver
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* Token Jew in Eastern Motors commercials
Please be this one, please be this one, please be this one, please be this one...
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* Saiontz & Kirk & Federman
:lol
The offer was from Hollywood Video. There was some talk of secret corporate hijinks going on, but instead, I opted to take a "conversion store". Basically, one Store Manager runs both the GameCrazy and Hollywood Video operations.
I was definitely not too keen just going straight to the competition, but after speaking to the DM, I felt like it'd be a good fit. They've restructured senior management and company direction drastically within the past year, so it's not the same company that was run so haphazardly.
The plus side is I get a discount on games and movies, I get to rent movies a week before they come out, I will see a good increase in salary and I'm being brought on with the full intention of being developed as a multi-unit (read: District) manager. The workload seems to be a lot, lot less too.
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Isn't Hollywood Video in really bad shape? A bunch of them died in LA.
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I'm still jobless.
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They filed for Chapter 11 like a year ago, but they're past all the ugliness and liquidating. All the senior management is gone from that reign, as well. They're working on actually incorporating all their brands, restructuring the stores entirely with a different sales focus and expanding.
There's a good chance you can see them under a new brand and go public sometime down the line.
The end result is that they'll be more like FYE than awkwardly run entities loosely tied together and rental-focused. They will still do new release and videogame rentals, but their focus will be more on DVD sales (used and new), HD content, videogame sales and trade-ins.
It's definitely a ground floor situation, but I like their new focus and merchandising efforts.
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I'm still jobless.
Stand in front of Home Depot and see if you get any job offers.
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I just canceled my other two interviews and formally pulled my name from a job offer.
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Congrats on the new job.
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well.. at least its not blockbuster.
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Shoulda went with the Matthew Lesko gig.
Assuming it isn't a secret, which HV/GZ? G-town?
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Most likely.
I'll have to undergo some new, comprehensive management training (the emphasis on standardized training and strict hiring protocol is new to me) at another location than the home store I am placed in.
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what's g-town
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They filed for Chapter 11 like a year ago, but they're past all the ugliness and liquidating. All the senior management is gone from that reign, as well. They're working on actually incorporating all their brands, restructuring the stores entirely with a different sales focus and expanding.
There's a good chance you can see them under a new brand and go public sometime down the line.
The end result is that they'll be more like FYE than awkwardly run entities loosely tied together and rental-focused. They will still do new release and videogame rentals, but their focus will be more on DVD sales (used and new), HD content, videogame sales and trade-ins.
It's definitely a ground floor situation, but I like their new focus and merchandising efforts.
Sounds cool, wish there was one around here.
is it gonna be overpriced like FYE?
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Nah. Iron Man was available for sale for like $15 or $16. They're going to be affordable.
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Job Security :rock
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You're like an angry dolphin.
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You're like an angry dolphin.
droz when are we going to go drink somewhere where we are almost guaranteed to get raped by hillbillies?
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So you're doing phone sex? :-*
:lol
Congrats, Willco!!
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You're like an angry dolphin.
droz when are we going to go drink somewhere where we are almost guaranteed to get raped by hillbillies?
as soon as I get over my fear of meeting people from the world wide tubes irl
then we can Thelma & Louise our way into a hillbilly rape pit
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I hope more Hollywood Videos open in Charlotte. My gf and I cleaned out three stores last year at about $1 a dvd when they went bankrupt. It was awesome, I still haven't watched 1/3rd of them. Best money spent, ever.