500$? No thanks.

This woman was rejected 30 times. She has been easily qualified for many of the positions, overqualified for some. She got so discouraged that she eventually asked to become a ticket taker, and was once again rejected. Finally, the Padres contact her saying that they have an interest in her, but only if she drops $500 to attend what sounds exactly like a job fair.

In my mind, she did the right thing in calling the organization out for how they had been treating her.

(Yes, Brandon Wood’s actual first name is Richard. No wonder he chose to go with Brandon.)

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Than two observations:

1) If you are about to finish your juris doctorate in law, then you pretty much have earned FU credentials over getting a ticket office job (which is pretty much the most thankless, least glamorous position in any organization).

2) She’s pretty. And as much as I loathe to offer this observation, it’s never-the-less important . . . the deck remains stacked against attractive women in pro sports . . . especially baseball. It’s still a boys club and many charged with hiring will worry that a) she will be a distraction in the office and b) she’s a cleat-chaser – especially if she has applied as many times as has been reported.

Apparently Craig doesn’t watch much porn. I’ve seen things much bigger than foot . . . not that I watch much or anything . . .

:-0

However, as someone who actually sifted through applications and conducted hiring interviews at the Winter Meetings . . . paperlions is take is pretty much dead-on correct.

My only concern with charging $500 for a job fair is that a residual effect might be that you are excluding people who don’t have that kind of money to lay down on a job bet – but who would otherwise run through a wall for you.

It’s not easy to get a sense of how hard someone will work for little pay within the scope of a 10-15 minute interview. We would typically have 2 people conduct interviews, identify the finalists for the position and sometimes have them hang out one night with our contingent to get a sense of them in a more casual setting.

Which is amazing, since 90% of them are fuck-awful at it.

Craig, your writing reminds me of how Mitt Romney would sound performing a reading of 50 Shades of Grey on stage.

Sounds to me like this was sent to all rejected employees, she being one of them. Not a big deal, imo. But I can see why she did not like it

….So Craig, how’d you get your gig? Jedi mind tricks? Litigation threats? Made the executives watch the movie “Critters” until they gave in to your demands?