PSA- DON'T WORK AT MOONS IF YOU ARE A COLLEGE STUDENT!!!
Bit of a rant/ramble but needed to get the word out to help other college kids applying to the 'witchy' stores near Essex.
I moved 7+ hrs away from my home after visiting a month ago to apartment/job hunt, since I got accepted into SSU for the fall term. One of the places that seemed very interested in me was moons. I was very upfront with them that YES I am available to work full-time during summer-november (all of the busy season), though I MIGHT need to switch to part-time afterwards depending on how school is going/midterms/finals, etc. I let them know this when I walked in, and with the owner a month later when they scheduled my interview 2 days after I moved.
I should have known this would be a problem considering most of the interview was me letting the owner know that I've worked in much more stressful and fast-paced environments before, working 3-5 jobs at once when in high school (I did online high school), and convincing her that yes, going to college soon does not inherently make me an unreliable employee.
Skip to 2 weeks later, an hour before my shift ends my 2 managers pull me into the back to have 'the talk'. They said that they had to let me go not because of my performance, but because they "had gotten a lot of applicants and found someone more experienced with more availability". The owner who was on the same shift magically disappeared for this conversation as well.
To me, it read as "we needed a warm body to fill
a spot on the schedule until we can guarantee someone better with no other goals but to work for us- for pennies above minimum wage- permanently."
It's just depressing because I finally felt like I had a routine, and I truly did enjoy talking with my coworkers which helps when everything else is so new. Also, I am very grateful I have enough savings to float on for a few months, but some people don't have that luxury. Especially young, dumb@ss college kids like myself who find it difficult to plan ahead.
When you move to a new city, expecting to have a job lined up and having it pulled from under you, that can ABSOLUTELY ruin someone's life over. Not the morals I expected a small business that relies on their community to have... but most likely I'm just extremely salty about it :/
Side note: They wanted all of their employees to come in 10 minutes earlier than their scheduled shift every day but they had no manual/digital clock-in system. Free labor, anyone??
Anyways, I'm back out into the job market now :,) any tips would be greatly appreciated, I might end up working at an Aldi or Costco if they ever let me in.