What do you make of this job situation?

If you do take the job, there is no reason you can’t keep looking for another one.

And this time of year decent paying part time jobs are hard to come by in university towns.

@WestRiverrat Looking for a job while I’m at school from 8–3:30 five days a week has been nearly impossible. Doing it when I’m working nights and weekends…yeah, I just don’t have the time for it. Between school and work, filling out applications is something I don’t want to stress about.

They probably aren’t hiring a whole slew of new people for just one store, unless they had exceptionally severe criminal activity, such as organized looting and / or embezzlement with management abetting the crimes. Especially, management positions are often hired in groups, then run through training, where some will wash out or find other employment anyway, and the ones who complete the training will then go on a rotation among several stores to get more experience in different departments and with different managers and teams of employees. Some will wash out there, too.

Finally, they will have a small cadre of more-or-less experienced “assistant managers”, and they will work them like dogs, where more will find other jobs more to their liking. After many months – maybe even years – as various store managers retire or leave for other reasons, other store managers will be rotated into positions and stores that they like better, and finally one or two assistant managers will be promoted to the least desired stores in the district or region.

As for the other positions and people that were “let go”, it may have been something as simple as institution of a neglected drug screening across all employees (say, if accidents had been increasing recently, or the tests simply hadn’t been done in a long time and people got sloppy), and a relatively larger “catch” of lower-level (maybe even management) people were caught up in that and fired all at once.

The chain may also be expanding. Some businesses are, even in this economy.

Since you’re only interested in part-time work anyway, and assuming you’re a good egg, I wouldn’t hesitate a moment if I were you and an attractive offer were made.

Good luck in your new job!

I’m sorry to say:
Car dealerships are not great places to work. They tend to go through staff like water. They notoriously treat their staff badly, pay poorly and tend to keep piling on the work due to the constant turn-over.

If Lowe’s calls, take the job!

Otherwise waitress, bartend, clean homes/banks, or find something else.

@SpatzieLover I actually know someone who works for this particular dealership. They’re good people and the pay is pretty decent. Most of the people there have been there years. Unfortunately, the serving jobs just didn’t work out. And I’d prefer a steady paycheck so I don’t have to constantly stress about making enough tips. I did apply to a bunch of restaurants though. Nothing. I thought about the cleaning thing, more like banks/companies rather than homes, but I could never find any companies hiring.

If only “find something else” was as easy as it sounds. It’s never taken me this much time to find a job—ever. So frustrating. If I do get the offer from Lowe’s, I’m definitely taking it. It’s definitely better than nothing.

@livelaughlove21 Are there any temp agencies in your area that are hiring?

I live in a college town. When I worked at the theater we would have a lot of people that wanted drop down to a shift a week because school was starting. We would tell them to move along.

So maybe they needed to replace a lot of people that are starting school and the person you talked to worded it poorly.

I worked for a security Co a few years ago, and our job was to do security checks for (large chain store) and we once discovered an organized theft ring that included 18 store employees including the store Manager, assistant manager, and three department heads. They all got fired the same day. So their could be a logical reason for a bulk hire.

Sometimes you just have a bad run of luck hiring.