#it’s just a pt barista position but damn i need this job

[fuck-customers]

Why the fuck is it such a huge god damn SECRET to tell me if there's a uniform/dresscode/etc in the interview?

Had one of those interviews about a year ago at a store I really loved (frequent shopper) where at the end knew I was hired unoffically... and kinda had an idea that workers wore black/white. At the end when the person asked me if I had any questions I asked if there was a dresscode for the position and was told "Oh, haha!! Don't worry about it- we'll get to it during your orientation, anything else?" So I was something like, "oh okay, but it's like black, right?" and they go "kinda yeah" and moves on.

......... um NO bitch this is a pt-min wage job if I have to BUY clothes that are a certain color/length/style/etc I NEED to know that before I'm hired. It might not be a big deal to you hiring person with your manager's salary.... but I can't (and won't????) buy an entire new wardrobe to work at your store, 10hr/wk, for 9$/hr. I wouldn't classify that experience as necessarily shady... and I didn't think much on it until after I left (I had heart eyes the entire time, for the chance to work at my fav store lol)... but wtf man, what's an interview for if not to find out about the job??

Needless to say I was offered and turned down the job, but funny story.... cut to a little while ago I was sitting at a *$ kisok during a break chatting to the barista (we've kinda become aquantiences by default bc I always go there for free wifi+caffiene on my breaks lol) and it was dead there and they were cleaning a table and commented on my name tag which says where I work and they told me they also were offered a job there, went in for orientation and got SENT HOME FROM ORIENTATION because they came in nice black jeans/colorful professional shirt and it wasn't in the dress code (B bottoms + b or w top- NOT EVEN THAT BAD?????) but they were NEVER TOLD the dress code. The kicker? After they were sent home to change and came back it was literally 20 minutes in the manager's office with the door closed just doing hiring paperwork and then they got to go home and didn't have an actual shift scheduled until the next 2 weeks (after the current schedule finished) (and they quit and got hired at *$ before their first shift even happened). We spent my entire 30 minute shift basically shit-talking this store for sending them home to change only to sit in a closed office. 

Like wtf... how hard it is to tell someone what the dress code is. I feel bad for the people who actually work there because who knows how other things are run in that store.  The store I work in now has a dress code that's pretty much the same and I'm pretty sure it was the first thing the hiring person told me when I sat down for the interview (they literally asked me if the dresscode was okay lol).

[qualitypaperbeard-blog]

Frerard Fics - Pt. One

🌟 Aquarium

- | NC-17 | As a marine specialist at one of New Jersey’s aquariums, Frank’s faced with somebody that fears everything he loves. When he finds Gerard in one of the shark walk-through tunnels hyperventilating, he knows that for some reason he has to help. Through a series of lunch dates at the aquarium and pet fish named Jack and Ianto, Gerard opens up about his irrational fears as the other man listens patiently. Frank’s aim was to conquer Gerard’s fears but instead, finds himself conquering his heart. | Four Chapters, Epilogue

- Favorite Frerard fic. It’s well written and extremely immersive. 

No Experience Necessary

- | R | Gerard accidentally lands a job at a pizza store and even though the pay is shit, the guys he works with are pretty cool. Soon he’s made all the friends he missed out on in high school and he actually has something to do on a Friday night. Everything's great until he realizes he’s got a hard-on for his cute punk workmate Frank, who is, in all likelihood, straight. | Three Chapters

- Kinda weird - but I loved it so, so much. Frank is a cute punk, let's be real.

Hand Tools and Hellos

- | R |  Gerard just needs someone to finish building his house. Enter Frank, the young, handsome contractor that Gerard certainly doesn't mind keeping an eye on as plumbing goes in and carpets are installed. | One Chapter

This Is Us

- | NC-17 |  Two bestfriends loose their virginity to each other. In a little sweet, a little awkward way. | One Chapter

The Neighbor

- | NC-17 |  Frank’s been living in this run down but fairly priced apartment barely six months when he moves in. He saunters in to the elevator one Sunday afternoon carrying a torn paint splattered box and smiles at Frank through dark sunglasses. | One Chapter

🌟 Buy Handmade

- | Adult |  He knows something else is going to happen; his life isn't always going to be this. He just doesn't know what has to happen for that change to come, for him to wake up and become an artist with an Etsy page and a home studio, and to never have to see a cubicle again. | Two Chapters

Take a Picture, It'll Last Longer

- | R |  A classic tale of boy meets boy, boy photographs boy naked, boy and boy hook up afterward. | One Chapter

🌟 Falling For You

- | NC-17 |  It’s those little things that suggest to Gerard he is well and truly fallen in love with his colleague, Frank. | One Chapter

Of Star Wars and Highschool

- | NC-17 |  Mikey pushes his glasses up on his nose. “And you haven’t asked him out yet because…?” he says while tipping his lunch out on to the grass. Gerard picks up an apple and rubs it against his trousers, shrugging before handing it back to his younger brother. “You’re an idiot? Yes, I think that’s it.” Mikey answers for him. | One Chapter

🌟 By The Book

- | NC-17 | Frank Iero, the new English teacher, starts a teachers' book club. Wackiness (and dubious literary analysis) ensues. | One Chapter

🌟 On the Midtown Direct

- | Explicit | Gerard Way has a system: a system for managing his life as a city architect, a system for being a single man living in a house in Jersey he still thinks of as his grandmother's and not his own, a system for finding one of the four solo seats in each car on the train into Manhattan every morning. He likes his system. It works. | One Chapter and an epilogue.

On Measuring Life With Coffee Spoons

- | R |  “Venti mocha frappuccino, no whipped cream,” Frank said with a grin. Gerard noticed he was wearing the nametag with the little blue vampire drawn next to the K. It was Gerard’s favorite. Barista!AU featuring socially awkward! Gerard and trying-too-hard! Frank. | One Chapter

Sting

- | R |  Gerard hates when Mrs. James asks him to tutor other (worse) kids in art, but if he wants to keep his sanctuary, he'll have to. Hopefully this Frank kid isn't as stupid as he seems. | Three Chapters

🌟 F is for Frank

- | R |  Frank can't even cook mac and cheese. How can he possibly live up to being a father? Maybe the new preschool teacher can help. | Three Chapters

Something Better

- | NC-17 |  "We all have to take jobs we don't like sometimes, you know?" | Two Chapters

Skeleton Records

- | M | Gerard has a crush on the hot guy at the record store. | One Chapter. Short.

Strange Steps

- | NC-17 | Gerard wanted nothing more than to make it through the rest of the senior year of high school unscathed. He was fine with being invisible. Really. The only real highlights of his life were hanging out with Ray, working on the comic book with Mikey, and weekly dance lessons with his grandma and all of her crazy old friends. But then Frank Iero (popular, pretty Frank Iero with his stupid hair and stupid sunglasses who didn't even remember that they had gym class together Freshman year when they were both awkward losers) showed up at the studio one day. And then wouldn't leave him alone. Apparently there was one thing Frank Iero wasn't good at - dancing. And he wanted Gerard to teach him. Gerard wasn't sure his life could get any worse, but, well, this was coming pretty damn close. | Four Chapters

🌟 Black Market Blood

- | Explicit | Frank's so fucking freaky he's potentially wigging out a fucking vampire. Vampire!Gee and Human!Frank | One Chapter

🌟 Conclusions

- | NC-17 | The fic in which Frank is looking for a housemate and Gerard's possibly the coolest person to live with. As the title goes, both men have a few incorrect conclusions. | One Chapter

Food for Thought

- | PG-13 | So, okay, Gerard has a crush on the hot guy who works at Subway. No big deal. | One Chapter

🌟 In A Pretty How Town

- | Explicit | Single dad Frank Iero moves with his son to a new town. Everyone is nice, but the mayor, Gerard Way, is positively too good to be true. | One Chapter

  Cover to Cover

- | Explicit |  You've Got Mail AU. Frank owns The Shop Around The Corner, which specializes in classic and rare books, and Gerard is opening up a large branch of Way Books & Café down the street. They meet online and fall in love. | Four Chapters

- Ayy I didn't even finish this one :^)))

The Knitting Kind

| PG-13 | An AU in which Gerard is afraid of knitting needles instead of the regular kind and has the hots for a tiny, tattooed art store employee with a fondness for knitting. | 2,756 words

Snap A Shot With The Lens

| PG-13 | Frank looked up from the wooden table, eyes wide as he caught sight of a dark haired, pale skinned man; a pretty dark haired, pale skinned man with warm hazel eyes and a small pixie nose; it couldn’t be the model, it just couldn’t, his luck wasn’t that good and Frank was certain that somebody would have snapped this guy up straight away if he was. | 3,032 words

And A Partridge In A Pear Tree

| PG-13 | The Twelve Days of Christmas done the way a budding photojournalist with a crush on his high school art teacher would. | 2,101 words

🌟 Affairs of the Pocket

| PG-13 | Frank gets in a fight and has to work at a thrift store doing community service. There, he meets his co-worker Elena's elusive grandson, Gerard Way. | 18,370 words

If I Cut Off Your Arms...

| R | It’s stormy outside. The house is cold and empty, Gerard’s drowsy and confused and it’s all Frank Iero’s fault. | One Chapter

It's Not Easy Being Green

| R | Frank lives 1.5 miles away from Saint Peter’s High School for Catholic boys. He can walk that distance in just under twenty five minutes, and run it in just over fifteen – ten if he cuts through fields and gardens without stopping or getting caught. | One Chapter

Late Bloomer

| R | Fresh out of high school, Gerard has spent the last four years trying to crush his inconvenient boy-liking issues. He isn't expecting a family wedding, and the hot punk kid he's forced into rooming with, to pop his bubble of denial, but Frank knows what he wants. What will it take for Gerard to admit that he does, too? | 24,553 words

🌟 Is This It

| NC-17 | While taking a semester off from SVA, Gerard checks Frank's twitter and jumps to the conclusion that Frank's cheating. Gerard's logical reaction to this is to hole up in his mom's basement. | ~4,500 words

;; i’ll have a part two out eventually :^)))