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Originally Posted by tarteheart
You know I want more details! ;D Are you going to apply for freelance, or just keep applying for permanent at other locations?
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I'm too lazy to type it all out again so here's what I told a girl in the LJ comm with added details. =)
I went in Friday (seeing as how it has been a month since the one manager promised to call) I've been in a few times and she's always been gone or busy in the back. So I'm there and I found out I just missed her and the other manager from the counter manager (who has nothing to do with the hiring process.) I was told to come back in an hour/hour and a half and I asked if they had the next round of interviews yet she said they had just had them the day before (come to find out later it wasn't the group one I'm waiting for, but MA's at the counter applying for more hours) so I left for awhile and came back and spoke with my fav. MA who was showing me stuff when the managers got back. They saw me and acknowledged me and said they'd be with me in a second (we were by the back room) so I'm waiting there still talking with my fav. MA and we move back over to the counter and I waited. About 15 minutes went by and my MA went to go see what was going on, they were talking with another MA, no biggie. Awhile (at least another 20-30 minutes) went by and the other MA was back out on the floor so my MA went back for me again. She comes back and looks kinda upset. she told me she went back there and told them I was still waiting and they said "She's still here? we thought she left" and told her to tell me they'll be making calls on Monday. She told them I had already had both interviews and that I was wondering about the group interview and they ignored her. My MA told me she's known two people who've come to apply (last Dec.) who never got a call back at all. It just makes me upset that they didn't even come out to talk to me, I was there a long time (after they got back).
Today I get the call and the manager tells me that my retail experience is not sufficient and I should go to another counter and rack up some experience because I've only had one job (the one I'm currently at) So I explained to her that doing that would require a pay cut and I was willing to do that for MAC because I really wanted to work for them. =/ I asked if she'd consider me for freelance and she said there were no openings for freelance so I guess that's a no. She also had apologized for the other day saying that they were getting things ready for phone calls today which is complete BS, she could have spent 2 seconds to talk to me instead of hiding in the back. I mean everything she told me on the phone could have/should have been told to me when she was supposed to call in a week not over a month (close to 6 weeks) or heck, if it was the experience thing why couln't they have told me at the end of my interview? Then she complimented my portfolio and said she'd keep it on file (but I'm sure it's in the trash.) I'm just so dissapointed with how this whole thing was handled, when I went in last I was told that the next interview was the group and they hadn't set that up yet. Now I find out they're hiring without it...odd. So yeah, I'm probably just bitter =/ (I'm really not, I just wanted this job so badly and everything seemed SO perfect at my interview!)
and about going to another line first, who's to say they'll hire me with no experience and even if I do get hired do I stay on for 6 months? a year? three? and then just up and leave to MAC? that seems sort of wrong, why would they want someone who'll flake on another job and not stick with it? Not only that, I'd feel badly leaving another company just to work for MAC. I'm 25 I'm looking for a career I don't want to bounce around from job to job.
I will try again although the Nordstroms I applied at (after the Macy's one) was shot down after filling out the on-line aplication a week after I filled it out, probably because of the lack of retail experience. And the only other MAC won't open until January (or so I'm told) I just feel like quitting. As much as I LOVE applying make-up I just don't think I have the endurance to put a few more years in other places to perhaps get shot down by MAC again. I know it's retail and I KNOW I can sell, I've turned many people onto MAC over the years and even got people to buy things just because they liked everything on my eyes.
I'm going to school to be a teacher. I have a year left. My passion has always been theater, music and make-up (mostly application in theater) and each one of those dreams has been shot down in one way or another. I picked teaching because it was "safe" not because I have this burning passion to be a teacher, although I think I'd make an ok one =) it just wasn't my dream. And now the last of my dreams are done with, I'll just focus on teaching for now and try again in January when the MAC opens. Although I'm not sure I can handle being shot down again...
Sorry for the novel.
Wish me luck!!!
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