Applying for a job

I have never ever had a problem finding a job in my life.  My attitude is......................  if you want work, you will find work.  It may not be the job that you want but as far as I am concerned there is work around for anyone who wants it.  I sit every morning watching 'Jeremy Kyle' (because I'm working in the evenings at the moment) thinking, 'why don't these people just accept whatever job they can get?'.

However, I'm now beginning to think that finding a job may not be as easy as it once was.  I'm looking for a part time job.  Maximum 20 hours a week.  I have hand delivered my CV to 20 cafes/shops in my local area.  I have applied for at least 20 more jobs.  I have applied to work in well known supermarkets and department stores.

Nobody seems to want me.

And yet...................  I don't know why?  ................I look at some of the people (OK a lot of the people) that work in the places that I've applied to and think.................. how come you've managed to get a job here and I can't?  Fat, rude, stains all over their clothes/uniforms, greasy hair, dirty nails (and this was in a Bakers shop).

I'm applying for 'minimum wage' jobs.  Minimum wage jobs are not 'rocket science.'  But these days it would appear that minimum wage jobs have their workers over a barrel so to speak.  The actual job might only be for 12 hours a week but one has to be 'flexible' as to when one can work.  Ie, the last job I applied for; I had to be available 6 days a week between the hours of 8.30am and 6pm so my 12 hours a week could be any time within those hours???  Duh?!!!  Some of us actually have a life!!!  But I didn't even manage to get an interview anyway because no one seems to want a middle age woman with loads of life experience.

BUT................... what is annoying me more than anything is the fact that hardly any employers bother to reply to applicants that they're not interested in. Most of the jobs that I have applied for have been on the 'Indeed' job site or the 'Gumtree' job site.  They post these adverts that are all nicey, nicey, saying such stuff as, 'Send us your CV and someone will be in touch.'  It is sooo, soooo, soooo, misleading.  They should just say, 'Send us your CV, we won't look at it and we won't bother acknowledging it and if we do actually invite you for an interview it will because your covering letter sounded OK,'

Well, as far as I'm concerned anyone can make a covering letter sound wonderful but if employers ask for a CV then why don't they actually bother to read it so that they have some idea of who they're actually interviewing?

Take my latest interview for example - receptionist in a hairdressers.  Applied for via Gumtree.  Got an email asking if I could attend an interview.  I replied asking if I should bring anything with me.  Hairdresser said to bring my CV (which I'd already attached to the application form).  Arrived at the said place and time 5 mins prior to interview.  Very young colleague told interviewer I was there (she was blow drying someone's hair at the time) so I was given a coffee and told she was running a bit late.  Personally I think she just took one look at me and thought, 'OMG, we don't want a middle aged woman working here.'

I was kept waiting for half an hour.  Actually I do have a life and have other things to do. 

And then the interview lasted all of 5 mins.  Probably not even that long!

It wasn't even an interview.  In less than 5 mins the interviewer managed to say 7 times; 'this job isn't for everyone, you'll be on your feet all day.'  She didn't ask me one single question about the position I was applying for or any previous experience I had or anything?????

I really felt like saying, 'You don't want someone my age do you?'  Even though I thought I looked quite respectable.  I'd done my hair, done my make-up, shaved everywhere, & had staggered to the interview in heels and smart clothes.  Obviously I didn't because I was trying to be the 'bigger person'.  But seriously?  If she'd bothered to read my CV in the first place then she could have worked out that I was old and not invited me to an interview in the first place.

She said she had other people to interview two days later and would text me.  Have I had a text or any other form of communication from her?  Of course I haven't.....................

..............But actually, I don't care because I really wouldn't want to work for anyone who didn't have the politeness or decency to do what they say they're going to do.

To me................... it's only politeness to let someone know that they haven't got a job that they have applied for and have been 'interviewed' for. 

Obviously these days........................  some people have absolutely no manners at all??!!