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EveningChin

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**Rant ahead**

Ok so every summer I go work at the open pit coal mines in my home town. They hire on summer students to allow their other employees to take as much time off as they want so they can spend time with their kids and having their own summer holiday. Its a great job and a simple way to only work half a month and earn $15,000 in three months.

Well it used to be that a parent had to work at the mine for you to be hired, but now most of the employee's children have either graduated or are too young so they are hiring other people. Which is great because I can get my friends really awesome jobs. I told a girl about this in the fall semester because we were hanging out alot and she actually seemed to be my friend. But this semester another friend of hers came back from a semester at see and I never here from her, except for once when she needed dice for a party. I was too drop off the dice but I wasn't to attend the party. I, of course, told her no. Now she knows through others that I have the applications and I got a text message from her saying, "Can I get that application soon?" no please or thank you, just snap too. :hair:

I really want to tell her that it isn't going to happen because of they way she has treated me but unfortunatly I'm still part of the theatre department. The one place where cliques help you get parts. If i tell she can go stick it, badness will ensue. But she plans on making copies and handing them out to all her friends who insist on excluding me.

I'm thinking that I will white out the address and insist on making all those who want to hand in applications come through me. I hate being used but I also hate going back on my word. :realmad:


And just for funsies a dancing wooly thing. :woolie:
 
With a little creative copying, you could always change the address they're to be mailed to, like the local McDonalds, or other minimum wage jobs!
 
Oh lovely. Theatre politics. I definitely do *not* miss those. I was a tech in college so I didn't have to worry about being liked enough for parts. (Nobody wanted to run props or do crew unless it was a last resort, so I usually got my pick of the backstage jobs. :D ) My instinct is to say something very adult that rhymes with "pluck fur", but you need to keep things on an even keel, which would make my knee jerk response kind of stupid.

I like the 'no address' idea, personally, or at least warn whoever gets the applications that X has exhibited behavior that makes you think less of her as a person/not team player material. I wouldn't do anything to *openly* sabotage her or her cronies, but just letting her have a chance at that job without actually doing anything to earn it is counterproductive to what you need to do within your major, to say nothing of selling yourself short as a person. (You definitely deserve better than "Oh, give me **** and go away.")
 
I would just say that the company changed their mind and they aren't taking applications anymore. Worth a shot eh? SHe MAY think you're lying, but scrrrew her!
 
If it was me, I'd tell her, "Oh, I never received any note from you that you were still interested, so I handed the applications out to other people. Sorry."
 
I told her that I wouldn't be handing them out for all the reasons she exhibited but didn't say that it was her. I then gave her the number of the guy who handles hiring a the mine. I then called him (he's a good friend of the family and I've know him for years.) and explained the situation. If they hire them its cool but I don't want to be associated with them on the mine site.
 
Yup, I was going to say exactly what Liz did. Sorry - they aren't doing it. Can't help you.

Hopefully your friend at the mine won't help her.
 
Augh... I've been through this.
Believe me, it's not worth your time. Later on in life, you will see that these people are not even worth sneezing on if they were on fire. (There's another saying that is a little harsher... you get it though).
 
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