Ardred and I were leaving a local chain italian restaurant a few nights ago to go see Hitchhiker. As we were leaving, I saw a guy, tall, clean cut, maybe 18 with a large mountain dew bottle, spitting his chew-nasty into it. Now, this is disgusting, but not all that uncommon, sadly.
Then, this nasty cancerous fool looks at the manager-type guy he’s been talking to. They shake hands and I realize… he’s holding an application in his hands. This kid is on an interview (to be a server, I would guess) and he’s CHEWING TOBACCO.
Obviously, this guy was watching this season of The Apprentice, but somehow misinterpreted Trump’s (and Carolyn’s, and George’s, and the other contestants’) “oh yuck” reaction to the practice.
The guys who worked in the kitchen of a restaurant I used to work at chewed all the time. They’d just be walking around the restaurant with a big chew and it was pretty obvious. I don’t really have anything against chewing but a restaurant isn’t the best place to be doing that in. Also my boss didn’t even care.
Bad judgement, all around. I would do everything possible to not let on that I’d even had a drag from a cigarette before an interview, never mind spitting…
:eek: I would have seriosu doubts about consuming anything from any business that has such employees. Yuck!
Luckily over here, there are very few people that chew so I don’t have to vomit too often.
And if I hae a job interview, I avoid cigarettes like the plague until I get home. I purposely cross the street to avoid a smoker so I don’t smell like stale smoke.
Once again…YUCK!
On a side note, the Times mentioned this yesterday, entitled Naked Interview
“A man who stripped naked to interview a 25 year old woman for a job claimed that it was part of his “tough interviewing technique”, Glasgow Sherriff Court was told. Saeed Akbar, 35, pleaded guilty to committing a breach of the peace and was placed on the sex offender’s register. Sentencing was deferred.”
