Today, I walked into Starbucks for a job application. I asked the manager if they were hiring, as I really need a job. He looked me up and down and replied, "NO!" There was a 'Now hiring' sign in the window. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, after being recently laid off at work due to "cutbacks", I went job searching around town. During my drive, I cruised past my old workplace and saw a "now hiring" sign in their window. FML
Today, I went to a job interview. I really needed the job to keep my apartment. As I was being interviewed, the manager looked past me and stared off into space. There goes the job and my apartment. FML
Today, while going around trying to find a job, a manager came up to ask me, "Are you looking to work here?" I nodded happily, hoping this would be the end of my search. She looked me up and down, saw I had a jacket on to hide my tattoos and said, "Sorry, I can't hire heroin addicts." FML
Today, I applied for a job at a local store. As I walked out the door, I heard the manager read it out loud and everybody else laugh. FML
Today, desperate for work, I went into a shop and asked the owner if he had any spare jobs to fill. He looked me up and down and sneered, "Yes, but not for people like... you." FML
Today, I had a job interview. The moment I walked into the room, the interviewer said, "OK, I will interview you, but there is no way I'm hiring you." FML
Today, I was desperately handing out resumes. I came to my local grocery store and asked for a job application, the customer service rep told me all she needed was my resume. I smiled and gave it to her only to see her read it, laugh and put it straight in the garbage as I walked out. FML
Today, I went to Starbucks to get coffee. The employees told me that there was no more coffee. I started cursing at them and told them that I am in a really big hurry, and that I need coffee every day. They had been yelling back the whole time. Little did I realize, they were saying April Fool's. FML
Today, I got fired after three days at my new job. They told me it was because of downsizing. They were still interviewing people and had a help wanted sign in the window. FML
Today, I went to an interview for a job at a company I've applied for numerous times this year. When I showed up at the interview room, I found it was a vacant office. I called and confirmed the address. I guess this was my hint to stop applying. FML
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sonofskam 0
WHAT A DICK. You should go back, ask for a drink and throw it at him.
BJacobs 0
#4 - re-read the fml verrry carefully alot of places have those up and just never take them down even when they don't need people.... like the kfc near my place that has the rusted, crooked sign near the drive through.
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lifeluvinchica 0
#6 is right. you could sue him for that if you really wanted to. but it really wouldn't be worth it. you should go back there and ask to speak to the manager and tell him what happen, maybe the guy will get fired lol
ohdear_katg 2
Too bad the manager that the OP talked to is either going to be there or since managers are usually friends the next manager will blow the complaint off.
interventions 1
11- but it was the manager who did that.....
lovesyndrome 0
Well, I work at Starbucks, and I think we have a sign on the door that says we're hiring, but it's always been there, so it's not something we think about. Thing is, before the recession, we always took applications, but now that the economy is bad, all of the Starbucks I know, including my store, fired a lot of people in the last month. So now we tell everyone we're not hiring, because we really aren't hiring.
FYLnotFML 0
I have a very hard time believing this, mainly because no one is going to just flat out tell you no, every single time i have gone in asking for applications even if they arent hiring, they always say something like, "We aren't currently hiring at this moment, but if you would like to fill out an application we can keep it on file for the future." So in other words I'm calling 100% BULLSHIT!
sugar45879 0
actually... in regards to #6 the only protected rights are gender, age, pregnancy, right to form a union, disabilities, race... only 11 states have made it illegal to fire under sexual orientation. you can only sue if it's protected by a law, unless you live/work in a right to work state... if it's employment at will then it's totally legal... maybe not fair, but legal. that is crappy though! i would be so pissed if that happened to me! you could def. complain though. i would.
allie2590 31
Maybe you weren't dressed properly.
hsmiles 0
You probably didn't make the best impression.
ari_fml_fml 0
although it is required to say that we are "always" hiring, no starbucks in the nation is hiring due to the economy. your life doesn't suck that badly.
ZING_MASTER 0
MOCHA ZING!!!
thisismyname_fml 1
#6. etc, you cannot go around just suing people. Seriously, everyone thinks they can just sue for god damned everything these days. They only way this would be even close to being lawsuit worthy would be if he legit said "I will not hire you because you are (racial slur) and I don't hire (racial slurs)". It's so stupid that everyone just assumes everything that happens to them is because of their race or their gender or whatever. #10 is right, you probably didn't look the part. In high school I had a lip ring and I always took it out for interviews and such things. If you don't dress right when you're trying to get the job, they will assume you won't dress right for work. I used to work at a restaurant and when we were hiring a 16 year old girl came in for an application while she was wearing Corona pajama pants. Pajama pants. With beer logos on them. When she wasn't even legally old enough to smoke. We desperately needed summer help and my manager told her we weren't hiring, and I think he made the right call.