Bombadil ([info]pleinweb) wrote,
2005-08-31 13:31:00
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Dilemma of the interview...

Okay here's the story...

I had two interviews yesterday: one was for being a night stocker at HEB, a local grocery store, it was my third interview with them and they called to hire me today. I have not yet returned the call. The other was for Fry's Electronics as a daytime stocker. I have one more interview with Fry's today. I would prefer to work at the latter but I don't want to shoot myself in the foot with the former. How do I handle this? Do I:

A) Call HEB before I go on the Fry's interview and ask them to give me a night to think it over, or some such baloney...
B) Not call HEB until I get back from the Fry's interview and have some inkling of how it goes (at which point, btw, the person I need to talk to at HEB will have gone home.)
C) Call HEB at once and let them know that I am interested but I need to see how this other final interview goes, first.

I'm having a real hard time because honesty tells me to be up front, but this is one of those cases that it seems to be detrimental to my success (And I have had so little success in this particular area for so long).

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[info]snowy_owlet

August 31 2005, 18:41:54 UTC 6 years ago

A or B.

[info]pleinweb

August 31 2005, 19:03:34 UTC 6 years ago

Let me rephrase.

I know it should be A or B, but which do you think would be wiser?

[info]snowy_owlet

August 31 2005, 19:35:39 UTC 6 years ago

B!

Also, *HUGS*

[info]pleinweb

August 31 2005, 19:55:27 UTC 6 years ago

Thanks! I think that, as much as I want to go with A, I can't pull it off successfully today so I'm going with the safer B.

Thanks for the advice.

[info]snowy_owlet

August 31 2005, 20:01:53 UTC 6 years ago

That's what I'm here for! Semi-sensical advice and comic relief.

[info]nobeautyqueene

August 31 2005, 19:05:08 UTC 6 years ago

Do you need a job, any job, RIGHT NOW? If the worst-case happens (HEB decides not to hire you because they are stupid and the Fry's interview goes boom), is it going to be a huge problem?

If not, I'd say you have little to lose by asking HEB to give you overnight to think about it.

[info]nobeautyqueene

August 31 2005, 19:08:26 UTC 6 years ago

Oh, I'm unemployed, so here's your grain of salt. :)

(Good luck to you, too.)

[info]pleinweb

August 31 2005, 19:09:59 UTC 6 years ago

I've been looking, hard, for a job for over a year with little fortune, so anything should be good right now.

[info]nobeautyqueene

August 31 2005, 19:41:09 UTC 6 years ago

You're probably too nice and honest to accept the job from HEB, then tell them something has come up if Fry's makes you an offer, huh?

[info]pleinweb

August 31 2005, 19:54:35 UTC 6 years ago

Yeah, I guess I am. But is it any nicer to pretend I haven't listened to the message yet, just so I can go do what I want to do, first?

Thanks for the advice. It all helps.
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