Piff Poff

I hate it!!! I've been sending off resume's by the bucket load, had a couple of interviews but nothings coming up - Interview yesterday, we need someone that can speak clearly...I honestly do not mumble.

Just a little vent, thanks for listening.

scrubbedexpat091

Looking for a job is just about the most frustrating thing on this planet in my view. So much work for what at the time seems like so little gain.

What kind of work are looking for?


Hang in there.

ann m

It's horrible, and time goes so slowly when all you want is an answer, one way or the other.

Can you do the Canadian thing and leverage any contacts? You know - know someone in the know!

Best wishes - it's pants - but then all of a sudden something will happen and you will be squeaking with delight at a job offer.

Shard

Sorry, can you repeat that...?

withabix

Just correcting you there. I've lost count of the number of times I ask for something clearly and at normal speaking speed (ie not Fast Canadian) in a shop and the assistant looks at me dumbfounded as if I'm speaking in a foreign language.

Eh?

JamesM

Slow down the applications. Spend a little more time on them.

Remember it's not personal.

Enjoy the time off.

Go for runs. Read some books and embrace the day because when it's gone it's gone and you are going to more than likely spend many days working in the future.

Piff Poff

Thanks for the replies guys. Humpf.

My contacts are in retail - I NEED out of retail. I want some sort of entry level (because I don't need anything more stressful) Administration, I have qualifications and experience - including Canadian in this field but the last 8 years have been retail.

I'm tailoring my cover letter to each job.

I've been off work since January as I had a surgery with a lengthy recovery, I am all recovered and have had a holiday too. I've read I think 50 books. I am now painting the baseboards and window frames.

I've even applied at timmies and for a job burger flipping but didn't get those because I don't want to work weekends and evenings. (or maybe because my accents too hard to understand )

I'm bored now.

caretaker

Talk to Mandymoochops and see if she's making enough re-purposed furniture for you to run a pop-up store. She'll understand you!

Zoe Bell

temp agencies?

Most of our admin staff here got temp agency to permanent job route

itsasmallworld

I would really like to know what is wrong with the way I say "one medium latte please". No one in Tims understands my simple request until I have said it 4 or 5 times. I even change the way I pronounce the "a" sound.

Piff Poff

I've sent a resume into a temp agency and nothing, I will the week after next go in person to the agencies in town.

OMG. the time I ordered 2 dozen doghnuts. I mean seriously, how hard can it be? That's what they sell. It went on and on. 24 doghnuts, two boxes of doghnuts. I don't go to Tims unless hubby is in the car and he can order stuff now. We maybe go twice a year.

haggis88

I don't think it's your accent at Timmies

Once, i asked for 40 timbits....

the guy said...huh?

i said..."Fawrdy Timbids please." Thinking this brown fellow couldn't understand English unless it was spoken in a Canadian accent.

His reply "sorry, we don't do 40, only 10, 20 or 50"

I looked at him and said, "so what's 2x20?"

The blank stare was unbearable after about 10 seconds, so I said, "Wow, just give me 50 then"

scilly

maybe they have been trained to use the ounce size??

I had the same problem at Starbucks ............. until I realised many of their staff expected you to say 12 oz, 16 oz, etc

Or are they wondering if you mean you want "medium roast" coffee?

Try ordering a small medium coffee to get a blank look

We use only independent coffee shops, unless we are absolutely desperate and can't find any. They do understand small, medium etc ........... plus many will have marked examples visible to show the size, so you can just point to the size you want.

I do prefer to use the independents ............. coffees better, atmosphere better, chairs usually much more comfortable

Tim's is no good to me ........... I only drink soy latte, and I am not being pretentious. I am dairy intolerant, but can't drink black coffee. Soy milk put cold in hot coffee curdles ............. hence soy latte. Tim's does not do "non dairy". Starbucks was one of the first mass chains to offer non-dairy on a regular basis ............ except at their small "express stores", where specialty coffees are usually made in a machine.

scrubbedexpat091

I have the same experience with temp agencies, I have sent resumes and applied to jobs to virtually all of them in 2 different countries, in several states and provinces over 15 years and I am still waiting for a call from one....lol

I give Tim's a break, the workers are mostly Filipino and probably have never heard a Tim Bit or a double double until they end up in a Tim's in Canada with virtually no training.


As for accents as mentioned above, they are harder for us North American's to understand then some realize, different accents are easier then others and lots of variables involved.

But accents can be hard. Its not just British though, I can generally understand English (I guess? Not sure of official type) but I do have some trouble with Scottish and Irish, Australian's and New Zealand are not much of an issue.

But I can have trouble with French Canadian accents as well as Boston, and New Yorkers.

All depends on how thick the accent is more then anything else.

Shard

Are you Geordie? Can just imagine the rising falling intonation would stump them.

Wye aye Mon...one meeeeedjium laaaaate like...pleese