Applying for a supermarket job

I am a 'ranting middle aged spinster'.

I am 57 years old and have a lot of 'life experience' in the job industry.  The jobs that I have had over the last 45 years have ranged from delivering newspapers (when I was 13 years old) to being a primary school teacher, being a manager of a hotel, inspecting holiday let properties to ensure they were up to 'Visit Britain' standards, being an office administrator/PA and a whole host of other stuff.

Over the years I've done various other jobs - barmaid, shop assistant, waitress, usherette, catering assistant.  I've done a lot of different jobs during the 57 years of my life.

What I haven't done................ is work in a supermarket.  But honestly how hard can it be?  In my experience 'supermarket staff' aren't interested in the customer at all.  When I go to my local supermarket no one is available to help me, and if I do actually ask for help; I just get told - 'go to customer services.'

Mmmmmmm....................... applying for a 10 hour a week , temporary job in a well known supermarket is not easy.

I have just spent well over an hour applying for this job.  Couldn't just attach my very fabulous CV('because we only accept applications via our application form') so had to plough through loads of stuff.  Haven't a clue about the exact date that I started work in 1981 and actually does it really matter.  What the f***???  What is actually relevant?  What do employers want?  For Gods sake - It's 10 hrs a week refilling a few shelves.  How hard can it be?

BUT.......................  I've been rejected..................

As soon as I'd spent 'forever' filling in an online application form for a proxy little job in 'a well known supermarket', I immediately got a reply saying, 'You have not met the minimum criteria in our screening process.'  Seriously?????  Maybe I shouldn't have said that I'd clean up spilt yogurt -  Obviously that would require a H&S professional with rubber gloves and a few H&S boards set up via the spilt yogurt area.

This whole trying to get a job thing is a joke.

What the f*** is 'minimum criteria' on a screening process?

Aims, objectives, targets, goals??

OK, I might be 'old' but actually I have got a lot of 'life experience'.  All I want is a interesting little job for a max of 20 hours a week.

.................Without all the aims, objective, targets, goals...................

It's a supermarket - The job is either being a check out person or being a stocking shelves person.  For Gods sake supermarkets, get real.................. 

Whatever happened to good old fashioned common sense???