Personal Narrative: Working In The Workplace
The idea of working had been on my mind for a while, I had a job at Dairy Queen, but it was November going into December so not very many people wanted ice cream, they used employees who needed the hours more than me, so I was out of work until Spring Break. My long-time friend, Abby Minshew, had been looking for a job ever since summer. She waited until after Cross Country to look again, and had shifted her focus from hosting at restaurants and retail to what she wanted to do in the future. She wants to be a geriatric nurse and ended up looking at nearby retirement homes. She applied online to a few, and some of them never got back to her.
One day at lunch, I asked her about her search, and she told me that she found a place called Waltonwood …show more content…
After Abby talked to Kushbir, I asked if Waltonwood was still hiring. This look of smugness shot across her face, she replied “Yes, we are hiring, stay here, I’ll get someone to interview you right now.” Abby and I looked at each other and were full of joy. We were separated briefly after that when Nick came to take me to a computer to do the questionnaire.
This questionnaire is the weirdest thing I have ever taken. Some of the questions on there were okay, but most of them asked me if I slapped people or used any kind of drug. They tried to trick me by changing up the wording on some of the questions, it was 75 prompts asking the same two things. Also, you have to get a perfect score on it or else they won’t talk to you, and I’ve heard stories about people trying to get in who were perfectly normal, that didn’t get to the interview because of this thing.
I passed! So I got to talk to Nick, which was super easy. Abby told me he liked running, so I emphasized that I liked it too. He told me I got the job, but I applied to the wrong Waltonwood, so he had to fix it in the system. He led me back to Kushbir, who told me the next steps in order to start training, all of which Abby and I did together. I am so grateful to have her as a friend, and I wouldn’t have this job without
One day at lunch, I asked her about her search, and she told me that she found a place called Waltonwood …show more content…
After Abby talked to Kushbir, I asked if Waltonwood was still hiring. This look of smugness shot across her face, she replied “Yes, we are hiring, stay here, I’ll get someone to interview you right now.” Abby and I looked at each other and were full of joy. We were separated briefly after that when Nick came to take me to a computer to do the questionnaire.
This questionnaire is the weirdest thing I have ever taken. Some of the questions on there were okay, but most of them asked me if I slapped people or used any kind of drug. They tried to trick me by changing up the wording on some of the questions, it was 75 prompts asking the same two things. Also, you have to get a perfect score on it or else they won’t talk to you, and I’ve heard stories about people trying to get in who were perfectly normal, that didn’t get to the interview because of this thing.
I passed! So I got to talk to Nick, which was super easy. Abby told me he liked running, so I emphasized that I liked it too. He told me I got the job, but I applied to the wrong Waltonwood, so he had to fix it in the system. He led me back to Kushbir, who told me the next steps in order to start training, all of which Abby and I did together. I am so grateful to have her as a friend, and I wouldn’t have this job without