Okay, so my workplace is currently hiring for christmas, and i swear, i’m about to flip my shit. I work at a variety discount store, which happens to be quite a large retail chain in Australia. While being a uni student, I hold the highest possible position with part time availabilities- I am a Team Leader. This means that as well as my regular duties as a member of staff, I am a supervisor, and in the absence of a manager, I complete other duties as well. There are only two Team Leaders in my store, the other being a mother in her 40s; and is the oldest member of staff that we have. My manager is 26, and our 2IC is 19; one year older than myself.

Now, fortunately for me, interviews were conducted over the two days that my shifts take place, so i was lucky to be able to sit in for most of the interviews, and also run a couple of them. My manager has been complaining non-stop, that we have too many girls (we only have 3 male staff members) and we need to hire more boys for stock processing. Then he goes ahead and interviews a bunch of kids, some first year uni students and some in high school. After collectively deciding (The manager, the 2IC and myself) that we liked one boy and two girls, I got my friend an interview. He did well, despite his nerves, and I know that he is perfectly capable and fits the exact role that we are trying to fill. So that was it, we had two boys and two girls that we liked, and were likely to hire.

So today being my day off, I sat back to attempt to write my comms essay, when I get a weird feeling. I texted my manager to ask how the final interview was, when he tells me he in fact added another interview; so he had interviewed a further 2 girls today. We already have two girls who we rated an 8/10, and he kept saying we needed more male staff to help with stock processing… then he goes ahead and interviews two more girls; girls who are both high school students, without work experience, and no offence, looked like absolute YS’s. W

Someone tell me what these girls could offer us? None of these girls look like they could lift a bloody brick- how are they going to move boxes and heavy stock in store? Without work experience, how are they going to merchandise?! AND HOW ARE THEY GOING TO WORK A DECENT AMOUNT OF HOURS IF THEY AREN’T AVAILABLE DURING SCHOOL HOURS?! TELL ME THAT?!

I hope to God, that not all managers are absolute pill dropping, desperate losers who don’t give a shit about their jobs and only think about themselves, and more specifically, how to fulfil their personal “needs”.

RANT OVER.