So did I get it or not?

I want to start this off with a back story my mom had bugging me to get a job for awhile. I was only 15 and I did not want to go through the trouble of having to get a workers permit because you know that’s wayyyyyyy to much work. It was more of I just really did not want to get a job and have to pay for my own stuff because that’s no fun. So finally like a month before my 16th birthday I got two different job applications. One of them was at a laundromat and the other was a grocery store. Lets just say it took me like 2 and a half weeks to apply to both because I really didn’t want to work but my mom kept on bugging me.

Finally, I told my mom that I really did not want to work at a laundromat and then I just decided never to turn in my application (responsible right?). So finally a week before my birthday, I turned in my application to the grocery store. The next day I got a call back to set up my interview surprisingly I was kind of excited till I found out our only available day that matched both of our schedules was the morning of my birthday. I was so upset because I didn’t even want the job in the first place, but you know I had to go for the interview on my birthday. I bugged my mom every single day till my birthday if I could cancel my interview. I swear to you I used every single excuse in the book you could think of. Like it was my birthday and I really shouldn’t have to do the interview on my birthday or even the night before I acted like I was sick and my mom had the audacity to say “if i’m to sick to go to my interview I am too sick to celebrate my birthday”. I was furious that she was actually making me go. Let me fast forward to the next day, I was getting ready for my interview I swear to you I was so nervous getting ready for it I thought I was going to throw up. We started our drive there and I was no joke crying because I was so scared and I really didn’t want to go.

We get to the grocery store that i’m applying to and I procrastinate actually going until my mom finally yells at me to get out and just go in.  So I got out went in and went to the front counter where I got my application an employee brought me out back and upstairs to where the owners office is. My interview went as typical as you think it would with the questions of “why do you want to work here” “what are you looking to get out of this job” also discussing what hours I could work and which hours I could not work. Everything went great in my opinion till the end. We were getting down into him telling me how to store works and if I got hired what positions I would work and what the job entailed. At the end I was waiting to hear if I got the job or not so I kind of blurted out without thinking “so did I get the job or not.” I was so embarrassed and so flabbergasted that I had actually just said that to the owner of the store I was trying to work at. What happened next surprised me he laughed and said yes, so when can you start. I was mind blown after I just came off as rude he hired me.

If we fast forward to me working there I told all of the managers and a few coworkers what I had said in my interview it became a big joke at the grocery of me saying “so did I get the job or not.” I guess me asking it made for a pretty funny joke. I’d like to think I would still of got hired if I didn’t ask if I got the job or not but even though it was the most embarrassing and most rude question I have ever asked it made for a pretty good story to tell. Fast forward to the end of the summer I quit the job because it was actually the worst job ever and I had a better opportunity at Dunkin Donuts. Also funny thing is about the owner of the grocery store was never nice to me again after the interview maybe he didn’t actually think it was funny and maybe it was fake laugh. To this day we will never know.  Another few things you can learn from this is be patient and don’t just want the answers to everything right away somethings take time. Even though this went well for me asking such a question could of prevented from getting the job so just be patient. Also simply just think before you think.

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