just turned down install job at best buy

[mike75356 10+ year member]

That sucks //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif

 

[Flipx99 5,000+ posts]

I cab't work in **** near any retail..nor am I allowed to explain what I do at my other job. Classified job + management retail...

 

[pwnt by pat 10+ year member]

silver: probably not

phildapimp89: the pc shop was a chain but the store I work for broke off. There's three employees including myself... I didn't need trained, in fact, I schooled them on some things (and I'm 18)

photocrazy8 and yne721: in order to be considered, you have to have previos work experience. Little/no experience in technical positions = no job

Jintar: what do you "do"?

Flipx99: awesome

 

[yne721 10+ year member]

silver: probably notphildapimp89: the pc shop was a chain but the store I work for broke off. There's three employees including myself... I didn't need trained, in fact, I schooled them on some things (and I'm 18)

photocrazy8 and yne721: in order to be considered, you have to have previos work experience. Little/no experience in technical positions = no job

Jintar: what do you "do"?

Flipx99: awesome

i could be wrong, but i'd like to think that this isn't only the SECOND job he's applied for in his entire life, meaning he should have more than one reference.

in the five years i've been able to be employed, i've managed to get more than one job in the two fields i work.

i have 3 references as an automotive painter, so when i apply at new shops, if i'm worried about a reference someone might give me, i have two more shops to choose from...

and in the off season i work at restaurants, serving and bartending, and i have about 8 different references to choose from there...

but seeing as how i don't fully know the situation, maybe the place he works at currently IS his only reference in that field. but since they offered him a job, they know he's semi-knowledgable(sp) in the field...

in my case - 11 references, and most job apps only have fields to fill in for 3 previous employers..

 

[pwnt by pat 10+ year member]

i could be wrong, but i'd like to think that this isn't only the SECOND job he's applied for in his entire life, meaning he should have more than one reference.
in the five years i've been able to be employed, i've managed to get more than one job in the two fields i work.

i have 3 references as an automotive painter, so when i apply at new shops, if i'm worried about a reference someone might give me, i have two more shops to choose from...

and in the off season i work at restaurants, serving and bartending, and i have about 8 different references to choose from there...

but seeing as how i don't fully know the situation, maybe the place he works at currently IS his only reference in that field. but since they offered him a job, they know he's semi-knowledgable(sp) in the field...

in my case - 11 references, and most job apps only have fields to fill in for 3 previous employers..

I got my first car in mid july 04. My currrent situation was that beforehand, nobody I could walk to called me becasue of no work experience. I couldn't get rides anywhere due to the parental situation. no ride + can't walk = no work

I couldn't get a car sooner because I had to wait for the divorce situation to clear. I had ~3.5k stored away but my father put a clause on the account that I couldn't use the money unless I was 21 or had to use it for school, or he had his lawyer change the clause. It took a while to get him to let me use it to buy a car.

employment history:

august (first week) 2004 - feb 2005 Pizza Hut

Sep 2004- present, computer repair shop

 

[yne721 10+ year member]

I got my first car in mid july 04. My currrent situation was that beforehand, nobody I could walk to called me becasue of no work experience. I couldn't get rides anywhere due to the parental situation. no ride + can't walk = no work
I couldn't get a car sooner because I had to wait for the divorce situation to clear. I had ~3.5k stored away but my father put a clause on the account that I couldn't use the money unless I was 21 or had to use it for school, or he had his lawyer change the clause. It took a while to get him to let me use it to buy a car.

employment history:

august (first week) 2004 - feb 2005 Pizza Hut

Sep 2004- present, computer repair shop

that sucks

 

[THUNDERBIRD 10+ year member]

f that there is a guy that works at the BB by my house who is tone of the 2 best installers they have and he works a rep for pioneer,

 

[Boomin_tahoe 5,000+ posts]

AKA "evesdropping". If so and so worked at a company making parts and decided one day that he wanted another job at another comapny and that company makes the same parts, he's more than likely to not get hired on. Against a lot of company rules up here in WA.

 

[Silver 10+ year member]

Just thought I'd let you all know.

I love playing the electric keyboards and singing into the mic at best buy.

A guy gave me a dollar once.

 

[soundstreamer 10+ year member]

Just thought I'd let you all know.
I love playing the electric keyboards and singing into the mic at best buy.

A guy gave me a dollar once.

sweet

 

[soundstreamer 10+ year member]

...in the five years i've been able to be employed...

...in my case - 11 references, and most job apps only have fields to fill in for 3 previous employers..

when you show on your application that you only keep jobs somewhere around 2-6 months, it looks bad on your behalf. time in between jobs also looks bad. i don't check references when people come by, so lying would work out better than the truth in shady cases. i ask the person, face to face, if they have any experience in the field and if they have a driver's license. yes and yes will usually get them a job.

(i have 2 references in the last 11yrs btw)

 

[yne721 10+ year member]

when you show on your application that you only keep jobs somewhere around 2-6 months, it looks bad on your behalf. time in between jobs also looks bad. i don't check references when people come by, so lying would work out better than the truth in shady cases. i ask the person, face to face, if they have any experience in the field and if they have a driver's license. yes and yes will usually get them a job.(i have 2 references in the last 11yrs btw)

i have to go where the money is as far as the restaurants go..

as for automotive painting, i live in detroit, so even though i'm union, it's seasonal, if one shop calls me before the one i worked last year, their loss, they can't expect me to sit around all summer waiting for their call.