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Ive just got rejected by McDonalds - feel so crap

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NeedASaturdayJob · 11/01/2019 11:01

I need a weekend job and have applied to Next and McD and they have both turned me away at application stage. I feel really shit. Granted I dont have experience in retail but I've mainly worked in admin but I know my skills are transferable. Just feel like a total loser.

I really need a job on the weekend as we need some money. Ive just had a baby and i can't go back to work due to childcare costs.

What am I doing wrong? Do they just want school/ college kids? I know they are probably in high demand but I've tried applying to so many. Ive tried the local supermarkets but only Tesco had a suitable job which I have applied for but Im not holding my hopes even for an interview.

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NeedASaturdayJob · 13/01/2020 22:19

This was my thread that's been resurrected from a year ago!

Wow looking back at what is writen, I'd totally forgotten now crap I felt not being able to find a weekend job. My circumstances have really changed.

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BoswellsBollocks · 13/01/2020 22:42

@NeedASaturdayJob

Glad to hear things got better for you. What are up to now?

NeedASaturdayJob · 13/01/2020 23:33

BoswellsBollocks thank you!

Well, I stayed on at the call centre but then my DH had to stop working and quit his job. I then joined an agency and started working ft to provide for the family. After a few months my DH was able to get back to working again and found something really flexible. I applied for a permanent job doing admin at my local university and have been working there since August. I'm still at the call centre at weekends on zero hours so only work there when they are desparate for staff.

If you'd told me when I started this thread, that this is what will happen, id never believed it. The tough time with my DH and his ill health was a blessing in disguise but sure as hell didn't feel like it at the time.

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Dowser · 13/01/2020 23:44

What todo..my dil never even got an interview...no chance to show how bright and enthusiastic she is..with a good background in retail etc

It hurt, especially as her 16 year old son with no experience walked straight into a job.
Definitely it seems about paying a low wage to a youngster.
He was cooking on his first shift 😱

Helpfullilly · 14/01/2020 00:07

If it's perhaps about lack of retail or customer service related experience, could you volunteer briefly with a charity shop in position where you are sometimes on the tills, as well as responsible for things like window displays, and stock?

I've found that voluntary experience I built up has sometimes helped me get paid positions I would not have otherwise been able to.

Also, sometimes pure networking and persistence will get you a lead.

It might not be practical and take too long to pay off, but do you have any hobbies you could make a little extra money from? If you are good at sowing, crafts, baking, gardening, with Photoshop or jewellery making say? I know women who have made small businesses out of their creative hobbies and passions which give them flexibility with children/child care.

chocolateteapot20 · 14/01/2020 02:08

As someone who spent my entire twenties being rejected for jobs because I was "overqualified", I sympathise (I temped for a long time and then ended up in the NHS for a long time, which was a very good fit - they're the biggest employer in the UK, and new jobs are advertised all the time on the NHS jobs website. Even where I live, which is a very poor West Country town, in the last week alone there've been about a dozen part-time reception and admin/secretarial posts advertised. For health reasons I'm not in a position to work outside the home at the moment but I'm hoping to work back up to it and despite all the issues the NHS would be high up my list to investigate, especially having worked for them previously).

I used to get thoroughly exasperated by the overqualified feedback; I still needed to eat, no matter what my educational background. So many of the managers interviewing me had no clue what it was like to graduate into a recession (the last one, not this one), mostly they'd gone into their jobs at 16 and been ever so secure, so they thought. I do wonder how many of them are now facing redundancy and the reality of the high street.

So much depends on the local market - if you live somewhere like the north east where unemployment is very, very high, it's going to be much, much harder to get a job, any job, than if you're in an affluent market town somewhere where many people already have "professional" jobs or inherited wealth and don't need part-time work, so the competition is far less. So it could have been that you just weren't a good fit for that particular branch at that particular time, but don't give up.

Where I live the main weekend posts I've seen advertised have included estate agents' receptionists, care work, and, seasonally, hotel work (bar work and restaurant and cinema work and jobs in places like Costa etc all year round. Some of our coffee shops don't advertise in the paper or online though, they just put cards up in their windows to say Help Wanted.). Very occasionally things like weekend library assistants will get advertised, though they really are like gold dust these days.

Good luck, and don't give up - if you want a bit of encouragement go and look up the story of Johnny Cash, who sold electronic devices door-to-door for years before he became a professional singer. His take on salesmanship is really worth looking at.

chocolateteapot20 · 14/01/2020 02:11

Doh - have just realised it was a thread from a year ago originally! So glad things improved a bit for you. (This time last year my circumstances were also really, really dire. Now they're just, you know, normal life bad!!) Grin

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